Russia

Adam B. Ulam / Lenin and the Bolsheviks (Vintage Paperback)

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Alexander Solzenhitsyn - Cancer Ward - Vintage Penguin PB - 1974

Reprint edition, Penguin UK, 1974, first UK edition was 1968, although written in Russian, it had not at that stage been published in Russia. Translated by Nicholas Bethell & Daniel Berg.  Fade to...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn - We Never Make Mistakes ( 2 Novellas) - Vintage 1974 Edition , ( Originally 1963)

First published in 1963, this is a reprint paperback edition, 1974 published by Sphere UK .  Translated from the original Russian by Paul Blackstock Condition - good - Light tanning to page block...

Amor Towles / A Gentleman in Moscow (Large Paperback)

When, in 1922, thirty-year-old Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, he is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel near the Kremlin. An...

Andrew Jack / Inside Putin's Russia (Hardback)

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Anton Chehov - Three Plays ( The Cherry Orchard| Three Sisters | Ivanov ) Translated by Elisaveta Fen - Penguin Classics PB 1956

Paperback, 1956 reprint of the 1951 original. Penguin code L19excellent condition, light tanning only

Bill Browder / Red Notice : How I Became Putin's No. 1 Enemy

 I have to assume that there is a very real chance that Putin or members of his regime will have me killed some day. If I'm killed, you will know who did it. When my enemies read this book, they will...

Boris Akunin / The Death of Achilles : Erast Fandorin 4 (Hardback)

  International intrigue, professional rivalry, the criminal underworld of nineteenth-century Moscow, and an irresistible femme fatale: if Erast Fandorin was hoping for a quiet homecoming, he is...

Boris Pasternak - The Last Summer - Vintage Penguin PB - 1970

 English translation by George Reavey, with an Introduction by Lydia Slater. Penguin Modern Classics Edition, 1970, originally 1959. Previous owners name and date on inside front cover. 

Catherine Belton / Putin's People

 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An outstanding expose of Putin and his criminal pals ... [A] long-awaited, must read book' SUNDAY TIMES'Books about modern Russia abound ... Belton has surpassed them all...

Conor O'Clery / Melting Snow : An Irishman in Moscow (Hardback) - JOURNALISM

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Conor O'Clery / The Shoemaker and his Daughter

   O'Clery takes us into the hidden heart of Soviet Russia... An arresting and evocative story.' Keggie Carew, author of Dadland'A tour de force ... Love, politics, murder, wars, and the fracturing...

Daniel Kalder / Lost Cosmonaut (Large Paperback)

PB 2006 Lost Cosmonaut documents Daniel Kalder's travels in the bizarre and mysterious worlds of Russia's ethnic republics. Obsessed with a quest he never fully understands, Kalder boldly goes where...

Edward Topol / Dermo! (Large Paperback)

Dermo!: The Real Russian Tolstoy Never Used

Eugenie Fraser / The House by the Dvina: A Russian Childhood

Episodes as romantic and dramatic as any in fiction fill this gripping story of a life in Russia before, during, and immediately after the Revolution The riveting story of two families separated in...

Garry Kasparov / Winter Is Coming (Large Paperback)

Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped The stunning story of Russia’s slide back into a dictatorship—and how the West is

Heidi Blake / From Russia with Blood (Large Paperback)

The Kremlin's Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin's Secret War on the West The untold story of how Russia refined the art and science of targeted assassination  “A compe

Helen Rappaport / Ekaterinburg

 A vivid and compelling account of the final thirteen days of the Romanovs, counting down to the last, tense hours of their lives.On 4 July 1918, a new commandant took control of a closely guarded...

John Sweeney / Killer in the Kremlin: The Explosive Account of Putin's Reign of Terror (Large Paperback)

 A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, exposing the events that led to his invasion of Ukraine and his assault on Europe.

Julia Phillips / Disappearing Earth (Hardback)

One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern tip of Russia, two girls – sisters, ages eight and eleven – go missing. The police investigation that follows...

L. N. Tolstoy / War and Peace Vol.1 (Vintage Paperback)

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Leo Tolstoy / Anna Karenina

  Anna Karenina is the heart-wrenching tale of a woman who recklessly throws away everything she has for a passionate affair with a young soldier. Beautiful, popular, wife to a wealthy man and...

Leo Tolstoy / War and Peace 1 (Vintage Paperback)

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Leo Tolstoy / War and Peace 2 (Vintage Paperback)

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Lermontov - A Hero Of Our Time - PB (Translated by Paul Foote) Penguin Classic 1982

'After all that - how, you might wonder, could one not become a fatalist?' Lermontov's hero, Pechorin, is a young army officer posted to the Caucasus, where his adventures - amorous and reckless - do...

Lionel Kochan / The Making of Modern Russia (Vintage Paperback)

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Marcus Wheeler - The Oxford Russian-English Dictionary - HB Revised 1978

Hardcover in dustjacket, originally published in 1972, this is a 1978 revision with corrections.  Note that this is Russian to English only ( ie not the reverse ) and is aimed at someone with a basic...

Mark Urban / The Skripal Files: Putin, Poison and the New Spy War (Large Paperback)

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Martin McCauley / The Longman Companion To Russia Since 1914 (Large Paperback)

This new Companion , by a leading historian of Russian and Soviet history, covers the period 1914 to the modern day taking in the twilight years of Tsarist Russia, communist Russia and new Russia...

Masha Gessen / The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

Putin's bestselling biographer reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy.Hailed for her "fearless indictment of the most...

Masha Gessen / The Man Without a Face (Large Paperback)

Since coming to power in 1999, Vladimir Putin has ruthlessly seized control of media, exiled or killed political rivals and dismantled Russia's fragile electoral system, transforming Russia once more...

Masha Gessen / The Man without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

A chilling and unflinching portrait of one of the most fearsome figures in world politics.In 1999, the "Family" surrounding Boris Yeltsin went looking for a successor to the ailing and increasingly...

Mikhail Khodorkovsky / The Russia Conundrum

'I'm a fairly calm fellow; I don't usually get het up about things. But I was, let's say, concerned when I tuned into the Moscow Echo radio station and heard that the Kremlin had put a price on my...

Oxford Publishing - Oxford Russian Dictionary - HB

A large format desk dictionary, Russian to English and English to Russian. 

Raisa Gorbachev / I Hope: Reminiscences and Reflections (Hardback)

The First Lady of the USSR recalls her ch

Roy D. Laird / Soviet Communism and Agrarian Revolution (Vintage Paperback)

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Simon Morrison / Bolshoi Confidential (Large Paperback)

Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today

Simon Sebag Montefiore / The Romanovs : 1613-1918

 The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did...

Steve LeVine / Putin's Labyrinth

"A riveting look at today's Russia under the leadership of Vladimir Putin."-The Kingston Observer In Putin's Labyrinth, acclaimed journalist Steve LeVine, who lived in and reported from the former...

Steven Lee Myers / The New Tsar

In this account of Vladimir Putin's rise from obscurity to power, the former New York Times Moscow bureau chief explains how the Russian leader established his popularity by restoring order after the...

Suzanne Massie / Pavlovsk: The Life of a Russian Palace (Coffee Table Book)

During the 900-day siege of Leningrad, Pavlovsk, the 18th-century Russian palace, built by Catherine the Great's daughter-in-law, was burned to the ground. This book tells the story of various...

Terence Wade / Using Russian Vocabulary (Coffee Table Book)

  Provides the student of Russian with an in-depth, structured approach to the learning of vocabulary. Containing over 5000 words, it can be used for intermediate and advanced undergraduate courses,...

Tom Rob Smith / Child 44

1953. In Stalin's Soviet Union, crime does not exist. But still millions live in fear. The mere suspicion of disloyalty to the State, the wrong word at the wrong time, can send an innocent person to...

William Craig / Enemy at the Gates : The Battle for Stalingrad

 Stalingrad, one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare, cost the lives of nearly two million men and women. It was perhaps the single most important engagement of World War II and...