1,088円 Paolo Mancosu continues an investigation he began in his 2013 book Inside the Zhivago Storm, which the New York Book Review of Books described as "a tour de force of literary detection worthy of a scholarly Sherlock Holmes". In this book Mancosu extends his detective work by reconstructing the ne...

1,549円 Today's Russia, also known as the Russian Federation, is often viewed as less powerful than the Soviet Union of the past. When stacked against other major nations in the present, however, the new Russia is a formidable if flawed player. Russia: What Everyone Needs to Know® provides fundamental in...

1,780円 SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TELEGRAPH AND EVENING STANDARD '[The] centenary will prompt a raft of books on the Russian Revolution. They will be hard pushed to better this highly original, exhaustively researched and superbly constructed account.' Saul David, Daily Telegraph 'A gripping,...

1,122円 Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

1,122円 South eastern Russia is a vast stunning landscape with a beautiful and intricate cultures. This book looks into superstition and cultures of the Mordvin and Khazar kingdoms. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasin...

4,814円 Bringing together an impressive cast of well-respected scholars in the field of modern Russian studies, Russian History through the Senses investigates life in Russia from 1700 to the present day via the senses. It examines past experiences of taste, touch, smell, sight and sound to capture a viv...

748円 Augustus Montague Summers (1880 – 1948) was an English clergyman and author most famous for his studies on vampires, witches and werewolvesーall of which he believed to be very much real. He also wrote the first English translation of the infamous 15th-century witch hunter's manual, the “Malleus ...

1,780円 One hundred years after the Russian Revolution the Soviet Union remains the most extraordinary, yet tragic, attempt to create a society beyond capitalism. Yet its history was one that for a long time proved impossible to write. In The Soviet Century, Moshe Lewin follows this history in all its co...

451円 Young Leo is a historical story based on family legend. It describes the adventures of a young Jewish boy named Leo. In the 1880’s, when Leo was twelve years old, a series of events occurred that caused him to travel throughout the Crimean peninsula in search of his mother. During his journey thr...

3,600円 "Ein Pogrom kann man nach Belieben machen – mit zehn Opfern oder mit zehntausend, ganz nach Wunsch." Fürst Sergej D. Urusov in der russischen Staatsduma, 1906 Russland war das Land der Pogrome, so sah es zumindest die europäische Öffentlichkeit um 1900. Deshalb bürgerte sich auch in den meisten S...

3,973円 Described by theater critics as one of the twentieth century’s greatest talents, Benjamin Zuskin (1899–1952) was a star of the Moscow State Jewish Theater. In writing The Travels of Benjamin Zuskin, his daughter, Ala Zuskin Perelman, has rescued from oblivion his story and that of the theater in ...

633円 In the third year of the First World War, The Russian Empire experienced a year of revolutionary turmoil that saw the fall of the emperor, Tsar Nicholas II. This was followed by the creation of an interim government which in turn was overthrown by an extreme revolutionary socialist regime in Octo...