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London: Collins and Harvill press, 1967. Binding: Hardcover, dust jacket Pages: 383 In February 1966 the outstanding Soviet literary critic Andrey Sinyavsky and his friend Yuli Daniel, a well known translator, were sentenced to force labour at a sensational trial in Moscow for having published abroad, under their pen names Abram Tertz and Nicolai Arzhak, works which were alleged to be slanderous and subversive. Access to the courtroom was severely restricted and the proceedings received only scant and one-sided treatment in the Soviet press, but in the months after the trail a full verbatim record of what took place in court began to circulate clandestinely in the Soviet Union. A copy of this record reached the West, by undisclosed channels, and is the central feature of this book which also includes the texts of some remarkable appeals and protests which have been made by Soviet intellectuals in a unprecedented display of solidarity with their two condemned colleagues.' (Quote from inside front… Read More

Penguin Books, 2014. New Book. Paperback. 400 pp. In tracing the roots of this family--his own family--Laskin captures the epic sweep of the twentieth century. A modern-day scribe, Laskin honors the traditions, the lives, and the choices of his ancestors: revolutionaries and entrepreneurs, scholars and farmers, tycoons and truck drivers. The Family is a deeply personal, dramatic, and emotional account of people caught in a cataclysmic time in world history. A century and a half ago, a Torah scribe and his wife raised six children in a yeshivatown at the western fringe of the Russian empire. Bound by their customs and ancient faith, the pious couple expected their sons and daughter to carry family traditions into future generations. But the social and political crises of our time decreed otherwise. The torrent of history took the scribe's family down three very different roads. One branch immigrated to America and founded the fabulously successful Maidenform Bra Company; another went to Palestine… Read More

1981. Hardcover 211 pp., ills. Boris Kustodiev lived in the XIX - XX cent., a remarkable figure of Russian Realism and Art Nouveau. Full biography and famous works.

Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022. New Book. Paperback. 288 pp. For many the Russian Revolution of 1917 was a symbol of hope. In the eyes of its critics, however, Soviet authoritarianism and the horrors of the gulags have led to the revolution becoming synonymous with oppression, threatening to forever taint the very idea of socialism. The experience of Georgia, which declared its independence from Russia in 1918, tells a different story. In this riveting history, Eric Lee explores the little-known saga of the country's experiment in democratic socialism, detailing the epic, turbulent events of this forgotten chapter in revolutionary history. Along the way, we are introduced to a remarkable cast of characters - among them the men and women who strove for a more inclusive vision of socialism that featured multi-party elections, freedom of speech and assembly, a free press and a civil society grounded in trade unions and cooperatives. Though the Georgian Democratic Republic lasted for just three years… Read More

Cherry Orchard Books, 2021. New Book. Paperback. 220 pp. "Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour is more ambitious than the average memoir. It's informed by Galina's and her parents' lessons on the value of art and culture and enriched by Alëna's beautifully constructed images and Galina's poetry." - Herb Randall, LA Review of Books Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour is a heartfelt mother-and-daughter memoir about three generations of women and their fight to leave Soviet Russia. A mother is a dissident, a refusenik, and a prisoner in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) in the 1970s and '80s. Her daughter, eleven years old, is left without a family. A grandmother is in the USA, waiting for her daughter and granddaughter and not knowing if she'll ever see them again. "I am fine," the three of them write to each other in their letters. How can you be "fine" when you have to fight to survive? When you must be silent? When the place that you love turns against you? Told from the dual points of view, this memoir… Read More

iUniverse, 2013. New Book. Paperback 178 pages The Masquerade, a treasured four-act play by Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov, is a classic work of Russian romanticism. In 1830s St. Petersburg, aristocrat Arbenin and Nina, his wife, attend a masked ball. In a tragic case of mistaken identity, Arbenin convinces himself that his wife is romantically involved with Prince Zvezdich. Arbenin is tragically blinded by jealousy and pride, and then a disaster happens... A celebration and examination of a classic work from the Golden Age of Russian culture, the first poetic translation by Russian American professor Alfred E. Karpovich brings The Masquerade to a new, English-speaking audience. A work of great importance, this drama examines the collision between true love and the societal prejudice of honor and dignity. In translation, it casts an inquisitive eye at the state of human dignity in the twenty-first century.

UK: Carcanet Press Ltd, 2014. New Book. Paperback. 160 pp. Edited by Peter France and Robyn Marsack. Bursting into print with an impassioned poem on the death of Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov attracted unfavorable attention from the authorities while enjoying a high reputation in literary circles and beyond. He was of Scottish descent, and this bilingual volume celebrates him with new translations by 14 translator-poets, mostly Scottish. Although Lermontov declared in one poem that he was "not Byron," he was greatly influenced by his reading of Byron and of Walter Scott. Having served in the Caucasus and taken part in dangerous engagements against the Chechens, like Pushkin he died in a duel of dubious legality. Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Mikhail Lermontov's birth, this book celebrates and showcases not only a great Russian writer, but also his Scottish heritage and the wealth of talent among the poets and translators of the United Kingdom and beyond.

London: Forgotten Books, 2020. New book. Binding: Paperback 46 pp. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. Any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Lector House, 2019. New Book. Paperback. 164 pages.

New York: Penguin Books, 2001. New book. Binding: Paperback 156 pp. The first example of the psychological novel in Russia, A Hero of Our Time influenced Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov, and other great nineteenth-century masters that followed. Its hero, Pechorin, is Byronic in his wasted gifts, his cynicism, and his desire for any kind of action-good or ill-that will stave off boredom. Outraging many critics when it was first published in 1840, A Hero of Our Time follows Pechorin as he embarks on an exciting adventure involving brigands, smugglers, soldiers, rivals, and lovers. This edition includes a new introduction, chronology, suggestions for further reading, maps, and full explanatory notes.

Москва: Каро, 2020. New Book. Paperback, 192 pp. This edition includes The Demon, Mtsyri, Song About the Merchant Kalashnikov and selected poetry written from 1831 to 1841. Переплет: Мягкий Страниц: 192 Предлагаем вниманию читателей сборник произведений великого русского писателя и поэта М. Ю. Лермонтова. В книгу вошли поэмы «Демон», «Мцыри», «Песня про купца Калашникова» и избранные стихотворения, написанные автором в период с 1831 по 1841 гг.

Penguin, 2003. Soft cover, 640 pp. Clarence Brown's marvelous collection introduces readers to the most resonant voices of twentieth-century Russia. It includes stories by Chekhov, Gorky, Bunin, Zamyatin, Babel, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and Voinovich; excerpts from Andrei Bely's Petersburg, Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, Boris Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago, and Sasha Solokov's A School for Fools; the complete text of Yuri Olesha's 1927 masterpiece Envy; and poetry by Alexander Blok, Anna Akhmatova, and Osip Mandelstam. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1967. Used. Paperback 213 pp. Through writings which range from studies of Chekhov's place in Russian literature and analyses of his plays and prose to selections from Stanislavsky's prompt book for The Three Sisters and a personal reminiscence by Maxim Gorky, Robert Louis Jackson presents a view of Chekhov as an artist of great philosophical depth whose art embodies the permanent ambiguity of human experience.

New York: N+ Books, 2017. New Book. Paperback 320 pp., illustrations Other Russias is the brilliant first collection of graphic journalism by artist and activist Victoria Lomasko. A fixture at Moscow's protests and political trials, Lomasko illuminates the inequality and injustice at the heart of contemporary Russian society and gives voice to Russia's many voiceless citizens. Not content to remain in the capital, she travels the country, visiting schools in dying villages; interviewing sex workers in foundering industrial towns; teaching children at juvenile prisons to draw, all while drawing their stories. Her portraits allow readers to see these people as more than words on paper and to see them as she does: with dignity, compassion, and love. Other Russias is an urgent and poignant work by a major talent.

Kyiv: Syayvo, 1928. 68 pp. 11,3x17,8 cm. In original illustrated publisher's wrappers. Loss of the pieces of the spine, occasional light stains on the front wrapper. Otherwise in a very good condition. Scarce. First edition. Translated from English. Original version published in 1912. The first Ukrainian translation of Jack London's novel 'The Scarlet Plague' with remarkable avant-garde wrapper design. The Ukrainian readers became first acquainted with Jack London's works in 1913, when the magazine Visnyk kul'tury i zhyttya [i.e. Herald of Culture and Life] printed the translation of London's Batar [i.e. Batard] by the writer and political activist Ivan Steshenko (1873-1918). After 1917, the Ukrainian press witnessed the publication of London's multiple writings, the number of which reached its peak by the late-1920s. During 1927-1932, the publishing house Syayvo [i.e. A Word] issued a twenty-seven brochure-size volume collection of Jack London's works. The publication was prepared by the… Read More

Academic Studies Press, 2020. New Book. Paperback. 230 pp. She Animates examines the work of twelve female animation directors in the Soviet Union and Russia, who have long been overlooked by film scholars and historians. Our approach examines these directors within history, culture, and industrial practice in animation. In addition to making a case for including these women and their work in the annals of film and animation history, this volume also makes an argument for why their work should be considered part of the tradition of women's cinema. We offer textual analysis that focuses on the changing attitudes towards both the woman question and feminism by examining the films in light of the emergence and evolution of a Soviet female subjectivity that still informs women's cinema in Russia today.

London: Cornell University Press, 1975. Hardcover, dust jacket, 223 pp. Dust jacket tear To fill the void that resulted from the shattering of his Marxist beliefs, Andrei Sinyavsky invented Abram Tertz. Weaving together biography and keen literary insights, this book traces the metamorphosis of Sinyavsky, teacher and critic, into Tertz, clandestine writer of fantastical fiction. It reviews the crises in Soviet society before and after Stalin's death, and describes the loss of faith that precipitated Sinyavsky 's dual existence, ending with the writer's arrest, trial, and imprisonment in 1966. Sympathetic yet critical, Mr. Lourie treats all of Sinyavsky's pretrial writings. He discusses The Trial Begins, Thought Unaware, On Socialist Realism, The Fantastic Stories, and The Makepeace Experiment as works of art and as visible signs of complex and changing relationships. Each work is assessed in the context within which it was written, and is compared with other Russian works and with contemporary… Read More

Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy, 2014. New Book. Paperback. 496 pp. A science fiction thriller by the author of Night Watch, the hit novel that inspired two major motion pictures. Five months after the horrific accident that left him near death and worried that he'd never fly again, master-pilot Alex Romanov lands a new job: captaining the sleek passenger vessel Mirror. Alex is a spesh-a human who has been genetically modified to perform particular tasks. As a captain and pilot, Alex has a genetic imperative to care for passengers and crew-no matter what the cost. His first mission aboard Mirror is to ferry two representatives of the alien race Zzygou on a tour of human worlds. His task will not be an easy one, for aboard the craft are several speshes who have reason to hate the Others. Dark pasts, deadly secrets, and a stolen gel-crystal worth more than Alex's entire ship combine to challenge him at every turn. And as the tension escalates, it becomes apparent that greater forces are at work to… Read More

Harper Paperbacks, 2014. New Book. Paperback. 432 pp. The third book in the internationally bestselling Night Watch series. Set in contemporary Moscow, the Night Watch series tells the story of the Others, an ancient race of magicians, shape-shifters, vampires, and other supernatural beings that live among us, and swear allegiance to either the powers of Darkness, or the forces of Light. For the past 1000 years, the two sides have been locked in an uneasy truce, keeping their powers in balance as each side secretly plots to take the advantage for themselves. Twilight Watch returns to the perspective of Anton Gorodetsky, now married, with a daughter who has limitless potential as a Light Other, and an important destiny. When an ancient book of spells with the power to turn ordinary humans into Others, permanently destroying the balance between Light and Darkness, falls into the wrong hands, Anton and the Night Watch must join forces with the Day Watch to find the culprit and prevent total war. As… Read More

Harper Paperbacks, 2014. New Book. Paperback. 480 pp. The second book in the internationally bestselling Night Watch series. Set in contemporary Moscow, the Night Watch series tells the story of the Others, an ancient race of magicians, shape-shifters, vampires, and other supernatural beings that live among us, and swear allegiance to either the powers of Darkness, or the forces of Light. For the past 1000 years, the two sides have been locked in an uneasy truce, keeping their powers in balance as each side secretly plots to take the advantage for themselves. The forces of Darkness tasked with keeping the Light Others in check are the Day Watch. In Day Watch, we follow the Dark Others, including a young witch with the tragic misfortune of falling in love with a Light Other, a powerful warlock who struggles to understand his purpose in the war, and a top lieutenant who worries that Zabulon, the leader of the Day Watch, is planning to betray him. Meanwhile, a powerful artifact with the ability to… Read More