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  • Chernobyl Prayer

    A Chronicle of the Future

    by Svetlana Alexievich ...
    Translated by Arch Tait, Anna Gunin ...
    Series series Russian Literature
    From Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature: a devastating human history of the Chernobyl reactor disaster, now in an emotive new translation.First there is the voice of the firefighter’s wife, who was kept from going to her husband because he was a dangerous radioactive object. Then the voice of an old woman unable to see why she has to leave her farm and her village. ... Read more

    Was $21.99 USD Now $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Charismatic Public Speaking

    by Sergey Shipunov ...
    Translated by Arch Tait ...
    This book will teach you how to become a lively, successful, and charismatic public speaker. Here you will find a fresh and entertaining explanation of virtually every aspect of public speaking: how to overcome stage fright, making eye contact, working on the voice, using pauses, questions, and gestures, avoiding parasitic words, how to face the public, acting skills, debating, storytelling, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Russian Diary

    A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Death in Putin's Russia

    by Anna Politkovskaya ...
    Translated by Arch Tait ...
    “Anna Politkovskaya defined the human conscience. Her relentless pursuit of the truth in the face of danger and darkness testifies to her distinguished place in journalism—and humanity. This book deserves to be widely read.”—Christiane AmanpourAnna Politkovskaya, one of Russia’s most fearless journalists, was gunned down in a contract killing in Moscow in the fall of 2006. Just before her death, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The New Russia

    by Mikhail Gorbachev ...
    Translated by Arch Tait ...
    After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has been in the past 25 years. Putin’s motives, his reasons for seeking confrontation with the West, remain for many a mystery. Not for Mikhail Gorbachev. In this new work, Russia’s elder statesman draws on his wealth of knowledge and experience to reveal the development of Putin’s regime and ... Read more

    $14.00 USD

  • Defending the Motherland

    The Soviet Women Who Fought Hitler's Aces

    by Lyuba Vinogradova ...
    Translated by Dr Arch Tait ...
    Plucked from every background, and led by an N.K.V.D. Major, the new recruits who boarded a train in Moscow on 16th October 1941 to go to war had much in common with millions of others across the world. What made the 586th Fighter Regiment, the 587th Heavy-bomber Regiment and the 588th Regiment of light night-bombers unique was their gender: the Soviet Union was creating the first all-female ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Incredible Events in Women's Cell Number 3

    by Kira Yarmysh ...
    Translated by Arch Tait ...
    The startling, vivid debut novel by Alexei Navalny’s press secretary, following a woman who is arrested at an anti-corruption rally in Moscow and sentenced to ten days in a special detention center, where she shares a cell with five other women from all walks of lifeThe Incredible Events in Women’s Cell Number 3 is the debut novel by Kira Yarmysh that follows a young woman, Anya, who is arrested ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Baize-Covered Table with Decanter

    by Vladimir Makanin ...
    Translated by Arch Tait ...
    Vladimir Makanin, was the great Russian chronicler of post-Soviet society, the new Russia that is seeking to expand and bringing new terror to the world today. With taut psychological depth, wry humor, caricature, and surreal fantasy, Makanin explores the roots of that society, including inside his own head.The hero of Baize-Covered Table undergoes a searching bureaucratic 'investigation', that ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Woods

    by Vladimir Bibikhin ...
    Translated by Arch Tait ...
    Series series New Russian Thought
    In our modern, urbanized societies, our engagement with the natural world often seems distant and superficial. Human life is now far removed from its prehistoric origins, when humans dwelt deep within the forests and depended on them for their survival.In this important book, Vladimir Bibikhin, one of Russia’s most influential twentieth-century philosophers, argues that, although most humans now ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Comrade Kerensky

    by Boris Kolonitskii ...
    Translated by Arch Tait ...
    Series series New Russian Thought
    As one of the heroes of the 1917 February Revolution and then Prime Minister at the head of the Provisional Government, Alexander Kerensky was passionately, even fanatically, lauded as a leader during his brief political reign. Symbolic artefacts – sculptures, badges and medals - featuring his likeness abounded. Streets were renamed after him, his speeches were quoted on gravestones and literary ... Read more

    Was $28.00 USD Now $20.00 USD

  • 1990

    Russians Remember a Turning Point

    by Irina Prokhorova, Dr Arch Tait ...
    Translated by Dr Arch Tait ...
    Although 1989 and 1991 witnessed more spectacular events, 1990 was a year of embryonic change in Russia: Article 6 of the constitution was abolished, and with it the Party's monopoly on political power. This fascinating collection of documentary evidence crystalises the aspirations of the Russian people in the days before Communism finally fell.It charts - among many other social developments - ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Day Will Pass Away

    The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard: 1935-1936

    by Ivan Chistyakov ...
    Translated by Arch Tait ...
    A rare first-person testimony of the hardships of a Soviet labor camp—long suppressed—that will become a cornerstone of understanding the Soviet Union.Originally written in a couple of humble exercise books, which were anonymously donated to the Memorial Human Rights Centre in Moscow, this remarkable diary is one of the few first-person accounts to survive the sprawling Soviet prison system.At the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Leningrad 1941 - 42

    Morality in a City under Siege

    by Sergey Yarov ...
    Translated by Arch Tait ...
    This book recounts one of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century: the siege of Leningrad. It is based on the searing testimony of eyewitnesses, some of whom managed to survive, while others were to die in streets devastated by bombing, in icy houses, or the endless bread queues. All of them, nevertheless, wanted to pass on to us the story of the torments they endured, their stoicism, ... Read more

    $20.00 USD