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Facing Fear: The History of an Emotion in Global Perspective by Michael Laffan 9780691153605
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63Fear is ubiquitous but slippery. It has been defined as a purely biological reality, derided as an excuse for cowardice, attacked as a force for social control, and even denigrated as an unnatural... -
The Other Solzhenitsyn: Telling the Truth about a Misunderstood Writer and Thinker by Daniel J Mahoney 9781587316173
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £16.37The great Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) is widely recognized as one of the most consequential human beings of the twentieth century. Through his writings and moral witness, he... -
Stalin's Romeo Spy: The Remarkable Rise and Fall of the KGB's Most Daring Operative by Emil Draitser 9780810126640
Booksplease Price: £30.96Sailor, painter, doctor, lawyer, polyglot, and writer, Dmitri Bystrolyotov (1901 - 75) led a life that might seem far-fetched for a spy novel, yet here the truth is stranger than fiction. The result... -
Al-Qur'an: A Contemporary Translation by Ahmed Ali 9780691074993
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.05This bilingual edition of the Qur'an, the Holy Book of Islam, was first published in the United States in 1988. Ahmed Ali, the distinguished Pakistani novelist, poet, critic, and diplomat, presents... -
Dostoevsky's Democracy by Nancy Ruttenburg 9780691146645
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Dostoevsky's Democracy offers a major reinterpretation of the life and work of the great Russian writer by closely reexamining the crucial transitional period between the early works of the 1840s and... -
The Writer as Migrant by Ha Jin
Booksplease Price: £13.00As a teenager during China's Cultural Revolution, Ha Jin served as an uneducated soldier in the People's Liberation Army. Thirty years later, a resident of the United States, he won the National Book... -
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Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir by Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky 9780199742660 [USED COPY]
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £2.94The searing accounts of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniia Ginsberg and Varlam Shalamov opened the world's eyes to the terrors of the Soviet Gulag. But not until now has there been a memoir of life... -
Jacques, the Frenchman: Memories of the Gulag by Jacques Rossi 9781487524067
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04Jacques Rossi is one of Stalin's most well-known victims. Author of The Gulag Handbook, a fascinating encyclopedia of the Soviet forced labor camps, Rossi spent twenty years in interrogation, prison,... -
Jacques, the Frenchman: Memories of the Gulag by Jacques Rossi 9781487506049
RRP: £66.00Booksplease Price: £53.75Jacques Rossi is one of Stalin's most well-known victims. Author of The Gulag Handbook, a fascinating encyclopedia of the Soviet forced labor camps, Rossi spent twenty years in interrogation, prison,... -
Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society by Steven A. Barnes 9780691151120
Booksplease Price: £49.91Death and Redemption offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the role of the Gulag--the Soviet Union's vast system of forced-labor camps, internal exile, and prisons--in Soviet society. Soviet... -
The Notes: Ronald Reagan's Private Collection of Stories and Wisdom by Ronald Reagan 9780062065148
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.83Ronald Reagan's "The Notes" is a fascinating window into the mind of the fortieth U.S. President and the writers and thinkers to whom he turned for advice, inspiration, humor, and hope. Collected by... -
Mapping St. Petersburg: Imperial Text and Cityshape by Julie A. Buckler
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.65Pushkin's palaces or Dostoevsky's slums? Many a modern-day visitor to St. Petersburg has one or, more likely, both of these images in mind when setting foot in this stage set-like setting for some of... -
The Uses of Literature: Life in the Socialist Chinese Literary System by Perry Link
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.37Why do people in socialist China read and write literary works? Earlier studies in Western Sinology have approached Chinese texts from the socialist era as portraits of society, as keys to the... -
The Shape of Apocalypse in Modern Russian Fiction by David M. Bethea
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.73David Bethea examines the distinctly Russian view of the "end" of history in five major works of modern Russian fiction. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest... -
Hagiography and Modern Russian Literature by Margaret Ziolkowski 9780691604657
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63The heritage of medieval hagiography, the diverse and voluminous literature devoted to saints, was much more important in nineteenth-century Russia than is often recognized. Although scholars have... -
Mikhail Sholokhov and His Art by Herman Ermolaev 9780691614595
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.07Treating Sholokhov's art and life against the Soviet political background, the author considers the episodes in his life that influenced his writing and then shows how one-sided commitment to party... -
The Soviet Gulag: Evidence, Interpretation and Comparison by Michael David-Fox
Booksplease Price: £56.08Before the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent archival revolution, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's famous "literary investigation" The Gulag Archipelago was the most authoritative overview of... -
Return from the Archipelago: Narratives of Gulag Survivors by Leona Toker
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £29.26"This is a ground-breaking book on a subject of capital importance, and I think [it] should start a debate about modern literature with a rich potential for further development." -Michael... -
The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin by Caryl Emerson 9780691050492
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.93Among Western critics, Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) needs no introduction. His name has been invoked in literary and cultural studies across the ideological spectrum, from old-fashioned humanist to... -
The Final Act: The Helsinki Accords and the Transformation of the Cold War by Michael Cotey Morgan 9780691176062
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £28.91The first in-depth account of the historic diplomatic agreement that served as a blueprint for ending the Cold War The Helsinki Final Act was a watershed of the Cold War. Signed by thirty-five... -
Recovering Politics, Civilization, and the Soul: Essays on Pierre Manent and Roger Scruton by Daniel J Mahoney
Booksplease Price: £16.75The Western inheritance is under sustained theoretical and practical assault. Legitimate self-criticism has given way to nihilistic self-loathing and cultural, moral, and political repudiation is the... -
Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir by Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky 9780199934867
Booksplease Price: £33.39The searing accounts of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniia Ginsberg and Varlam Shalamov opened the world's eyes to the terrors of the Soviet Gulag. But not until now has there been a memoir of life... -
The Final Act: The Helsinki Accords and the Transformation of the Cold War by Michael Cotey Morgan
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69The definitive account of the historic diplomatic agreement that provided a blueprint for ending the Cold WarThe Helsinki Final Act was a watershed of the Cold War. Signed by thirty-five European and... -
The End of the Russian Imperial Army: The Old Army and the Soldiers' Revolt (March-April, 1917) by Allan K. Wildman 9780691616247
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £54.45Allan Wildman presents the first detailed study of the Army's collapse under the strains of war and of the front soldiers' efforts to participate in the Revolution. Originally published in 1980. ... -
Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: The Russian Soul in the West by David P. Deavel
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £71.37These essays will interest readers familiar with the work of Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and are a great starting point for those eager for an introduction to the great Russian's work. ... -
Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: The Russian Soul in the West by David P. Deavel 9780268108267
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £27.09These essays will interest readers familiar with the work of Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and are a great starting point for those eager for an introduction to the great Russian's work. ... -
Plays of Impasse: Contemporary Drama Set in Confining Institutions by Charles Rosen 9780691613260
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £50.43This work probes the structure and significance of the increasingly numerous and highly visible plays set in contemporary society's dead ends the hospitals, insane asylums, prisons, and military... -
The Zero Hour: Glasnost and Soviet Cinema in Transition by Andrew Horton
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.43Now faced with the "zero hour" created by a new freedom of expression and the dramatic breakup of the Soviet Union, Soviet cinema has recently become one of the most interesting in the world,... -
Sergey Prokofiev and His World by Simon Morrison
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.65Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953), arguably the most popular composer of the twentieth century, led a life of triumph and tragedy. The story of his prodigious childhood in tsarist Russia, maturation in... -
The Rise of Russia and the Fall of the Soviet Empire by John B. Dunlop 9780691001739
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £49.89This is the first work to set one of the great bloodless revolutions of the twentieth century in its proper historical context. John Dunlop pays particular attention to Yeltsin's role in opposing the... -
The Matiushin Case Oleg Pavlov 9781908276360
Booksplease Price: £11.14The Matiushin Case is one of the darkest and most powerful works of fiction to appear in Russian in the last twenty years. Deriving, like Captain of the Steppe (And Other Stories, 2013), from the... -
Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia by Timothy Frye 9780691212463
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Looking beyond Putin to understand how today's Russia actually worksMedia and public discussion tends to understand Russian politics as a direct reflection of Vladimir Putin's seeming omnipotence or... -
Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia by Timothy Frye
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.05Looking beyond Putin to understand how today's Russia actually worksMedia and public discussion tends to understand Russian politics as a direct reflection of Vladimir Putin's seeming omnipotence or... -
Technology and Society under Lenin and Stalin: Origins of the Soviet Technical Intelligentsia, 1917-1941 by Kendall E. Bailes 9780691605753
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.37From the Soviet technical intelligentsia emerged more than three quarters of recent Politburo members, including Brezhnev, Kosygin, and Podgorny. The largest single group of dissenters, including... -
The Helsinki Effect: International Norms, Human Rights, and the Demise of Communism by Daniel C. Thomas 9780691048598
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.63Human rights norms do matter. Those established by the Helsinki Final Act contributed directly to the demise of communism in the former East bloc, contends Daniel Thomas. This book counters those... -
The Loss and Recovery of Truth: Selected Writings by Gerhart Niemeyer 9781587314728
Booksplease Price: £48.10That the United States is currently in the midst of a serious crisis, even an ideological civil war, which is part of the general and prolonged crisis of Western civilization is obvious to any... -
Between Prison and Freedom: Memoir of a Soviet Dissident Alexander Podrabinek 9780268209650
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £23.67This thrilling memoir documents the early life of Russian journalist and human rights activist Alexander Podrabinek as he and other dissidents fearlessly fought against the Soviet Union. Between... -
The Persistence of the Ideological Lie by Daniel Mahoney 9781641773737
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £15.50The Ideological Lie, as Solzhenitsyn calls it, was born when modern revolutionaries replaced the age-old distinction between good and evil with the illusory distinction between progress and reaction... -
The New Adventures of Helen: Magical Tales by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £9.88"One of Russia's best living writers . . . Her tales inhabit a borderline between this world and the next." -The New York Times At first glance, the stories in The New Adventures of Helen seems... -
The Statesman as Thinker: Portraits of Greatness, Courage, and Moderation by Daniel J. Mahoney
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.81In his newest book, Daniel J. Mahoney offers refreshing historical antidotes to the displays of despotism in today's political arena."A brilliantly written and researched tribute to the pantheon of...