Ryssland

A thrilling new biography of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky—composer of some of the world’s most popular orchestral and theatrical music  “A lively, argumentative and thoughtful …

Winner of the Costa Biography AwardWhat makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his wife's death? When did the killing start? Based on …

â??As a writer, Carrère is straight berserkâ?? Junot DíazIn this non-fiction novel â?? road trip, confession, and erotic tour de force â?? Emmanuel Carrère pursues two consuming …

Among the most influential social forces of the 20th century, modern communism rests firmly on philosophical, political, and economic underpinnings developed by Lenin. This …

Vladimir Sorokin är tillbaka med en ny halsbrytande roman. När han sätter fart finns ingenting heligt, allra minst ryskheten - men ryssarna själva har lärt sig att älska honom, och …

'Certain to become the definitive work' DOUGLAS SMITH'Elegantly written and magisterially researched' ROBERT SERVICE'Masterful . . . a chilling lesson' VLADISLAV ZUBOKThe …

En anonym hjälte i tiden för mig var den man som klättrade upp på Dzerzjinskijstatyn för att surra fast en vajer som hängde ner från en lyftkran; han klättrade upp där, fäste …

This is the first English translation, by Thomas Allan Smith, of Philosophy of the Name (Filosofiia imeni). Sergii Bulgakov (1871–1944) wrote the book in response to a theological …

A small, non-Slavic country located far from the Soviet capital, Georgia has been more closely linked with the Ottoman and Persian empires than with Russia for most of its history. …

'This is not solely an addendum to the previous volumes, but stands well on its own. The book's physical and emotional core lies in the Baldaev drawings, which are ethnographic, …