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The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and int...
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The Gulag Archipelago: The Authorized Abridgement
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The official, one-volume edition, authorized by Solzhenitsyn “BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY” —Time The Nobel Prize winner’s towering m...
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Without the Banya We Would Perish: A History of the Russian Bathhouse
HardcoverOriginal price $74.00Original price $74.00 - Original price $74.00Original price $74.00Current price $68.99$68.99 - $68.99Current price $68.99| /When so much in Russia has changed, the banya remains. For over one thousand years Russians of every economic class, political party, and social ...
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Opposing Jim Crow: African Americans and the Soviet Indictment of U.S. Racism, 1928-1937
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /Before the Nazis came to power in Germany, Soviet officials labeled the United States the most racist country in the world. Photographs, children...
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After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Notes From Your BooksellerHelen Rappaport’s vast and detailed knowledge of 18th- and early 19th-century imperial and revolutionary Russian histor...
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The House of Hemp and Butter: A History of Old Riga
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Founded as an ecclesiastical center, trading hub, and intended capital of a feudal state, Riga was Old Livonia's greatest city and its indispensa...
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The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance...
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Outlaw Music in Russia: The Rise of an Unlikely Genre
HardcoverOriginal price $89.95 - Original price $89.95Original price $89.95$112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /The Russian shanson can be heard across the country today, on radio and television shows, at mass events like political rallies, and even at the Kr...
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Red Closet: The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR
HardcoverOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Based on unique and previously undiscovered sources, this is the first book to tell the story of the oppression of LBGT people in the USSR.Product ...
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Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power, and Putinism
HardcoverOriginal price $79.95 - Original price $79.95Original price $79.95$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /In the two decades after the turn of the millennium, Vladimir Putin's control over Russian politics and society grew at a steady pace. As the West ...
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Border Conditions: Russian-Speaking Latvians Between World Orders
HardcoverOriginal price $56.95 - Original price $56.95Original price $56.95$74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /Border Conditions combines history and memory studies with literary and cultural studies to examine lives at the limits of contemporary Europe: R...
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /A New York Times Best Book of the Year A Time Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals f...
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The Story of Russia
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern Russia and its wars with Ukraine, with its neighb...
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Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$152.99$152.99 - $152.99Current price $152.99| /Gleaning for Communism is a historical ethnography of the property regime upon which Soviet legal scholars legislated a large modern state as a hou...
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Russian Colonization of Alaska: From Heyday to Sale, 1818-1867
HardcoverOriginal price $70.00 - Original price $70.00Original price $70.00$89.99$89.99 - $89.99Current price $89.99| /In this third volume of Russian Colonization of Alaska, Andrei Val'terovich Grinëv examines the final period in the history of Russian America, fr...
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Cold War Radio: The Russian Broadcasts of the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Cold War Radio is a fascinating look at how the United States waged the Cold War through the international broadcasting of Voice of America (VOA) a...
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Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons from Five Revolutionary Women
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The lives of five socialist women and their legacy for modern-day feminists Red Valkyries explores the history of socialist feminism in Eastern Eur...
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The Kingdom of Rye: A Brief History of Russian Food Volume 77
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Celebrated food scholar Darra Goldstein takes readers on a vivid tour of history and culture through Russian cuisine. The Kingdom of Rye unearths t...
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Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples: Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia
HardcoverOriginal price $54.95 - Original price $54.95Original price $54.95$72.99$72.99 - $72.99Current price $72.99| /Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples examines the racialization of identities and its impact on mixed couples and families in Soviet Central...
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Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society
PaperbackOriginal price $53.00 - Original price $53.00Original price $53.00$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /Death and Redemption offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the role of the Gulag—the Soviet Union's vast system of forced-labor camps, interna...
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Encyclopedia of Russian and Slavic Myth and Legend
HardcoverOriginal price $79.00 - Original price $79.00Original price $79.00$99.99$99.99 - $99.99Current price $99.99| /This volume offers the first comprehensive guide in English to the myth and legend of the Russian Empire and other Slavic countries and peoples.T...
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Dictatorship of Sex: Lifestyle Advice for the Soviet Masses
PaperbackOriginal price $45.95 - Original price $45.95Original price $45.95$61.99$61.99 - $61.99Current price $61.99| /The Dictatorship of Sex explores the attempts to define and control sexual behavior in the years following the Russian Revolution. It is the firs...
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Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia, where even dictatorship is a reality show Professional killers with the soul...
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The Story of Russia
HardcoverOriginal price $38.99Original price $38.99 - Original price $38.99Original price $38.99Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /"This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern Russia and its wars with Ukraine, with its neighb...
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