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Remembering Katyn by Alexander Etkind 9780745655765
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80Katyn- the Soviet massacre of over 21,000 Polish prisoners in 1940 - has come to be remembered as Stalin's emblematic mass murder, an event obscured by one of the most extensive cover-ups in history... -
Remembering Katyn by Alexander Etkind 9780745655772
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.09Katyn- the Soviet massacre of over 21,000 Polish prisoners in 1940 - has come to be remembered as Stalin's emblematic mass murder, an event obscured by one of the most extensive cover-ups in history... -
Eros Of The Impossible: The History Of Psychoanalysis In Russia by Alexander Etkind
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.54This book reflects the complex fabric of history of Russian involvement in psychoanalysis. It focuses on the life and work of individuals and presents more general explorations of particular eras in... -
Warped Mourning: Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied by Alexander Etkind 9780804773935
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36After Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union dismantled the enormous system of terror and torture that he had created. But there has never been any Russian ban on former party functionaries, nor... -
Warped Mourning: Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied by Alexander Etkind
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.39After Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union dismantled the enormous system of terror and torture that he had created. But there has never been any Russian ban on former party functionaries, nor... -
Internal Colonization: Russia's Imperial Experience by Alexander Etkind 9780745651293
Booksplease Price: £61.35This book gives a radically new reading of Russia's cultural history. Alexander Etkind traces how the Russian Empire conquered foreign territories and domesticated its own heartlands, thereby... -
Russia Against Modernity Alexander Etkind (Central European University, Vienna) 9781509556588
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Putin's war is a "special operation" against modernity. The invasion has been directed against Ukraine, but the war has a broader target: the modern world of climate awareness, energy transition and... -
Roads Not Taken: An Intellectual Biography of William C. Bullitt by Alexander Etkind 9780822965039
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £21.10William Christian Bullitt (1891-1967) was the most cosmopolitan U.S. diplomat of his time. Voted "most brilliant" in his class at Yale, he wrote novels, plays, essays, and coauthored a controversial... -
Internal Colonization: Russia's Imperial Experience Alexander Etkind (King's College, Cambridge) 9780745651309
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.74This book gives a radically new reading of Russia's cultural history. Alexander Etkind traces how the Russian Empire conquered foreign territories and domesticated its own heartlands, thereby... -
Nature's Evil: A Cultural History of Natural Resources Alexander Etkind (King's College, Cambridge) 9781509547586
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £43.10This bold and wide-ranging book views the history of humankind through the prism of natural resources - how we acquire them, use them, value them, trade them, exploit them. History needs a cast of... -
Cultural Forms of Protest in Russia by Birgit Beumers 9780367874148
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £39.58Alongside the Arab Spring, the 'Occupy' anti-capitalist movements in the West, and the events on the Maidan in Kiev, Russia has had its own protest movements, notably the political protests of... -
Russia Against Modernity by A Etkind 9781509556571
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £29.30Putin's war is a "special operation" against modernity. The invasion has been directed against Ukraine, but the war has a broader target: the modern world of climate awareness, energy transition and... -
Nature's Evil: A Cultural History of Natural Resou rces by A Etkind
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.88This bold and wide-ranging book views the history of humankind through the prism of natural resources - how we acquire them, use them, value them, trade them, exploit them. History needs a cast of... -
Russia Before the Full-Scale War: Vol. II: Memories, Ideologies and Politics, 1991–2021 Felix Riefer 9783838220451
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £32.75For Europe, the 24th of February 2022 marked a historic turning point. Until then, many decision-makers and commentators did not understand that developments in post-communist Russia can lead to the... -
The Emergence of Russian Liberalism: Alexander Kunitsyn in Context, 1783-1840 by Julia Berest 9780230111738
Booksplease Price: £46.28A fresh perspective on the history of Russian liberalism through the life and work of Alexander Kunitsyn, a teacher and philosopher of natural law, whose academic and journalistic writings... -
Revisionist Revolution in Vygotsky Studies: The State of the Art Anton Yasnitsky (Independent Researcher, Canada) 9781138929692
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £50.19Revisionist Revolution in Vygotsky Studies brings together recent critical investigations which examine historical and textual inaccuracies associated with received understandings of Vygotsky's work... -
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... -
Fuel and Power: Energy, Trade, and Russian Foreign Relations from Lenin to Putin Jeronim Perović 9781009449144
Booksplease Price: £27.58This is a very timely study of Russia's development into a global energy power from the Russian Revolution to the present day. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, Russia emerged not only as a... -
Fuel and Power: Energy, Trade, and Russian Foreign Relations from Lenin to Putin Jeronim Perović 9781009449106
Booksplease Price: £80.73This is a very timely study of Russia's development into a global energy power from the Russian Revolution to the present day. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, Russia emerged not only as a... -
The Archaeology of Anxiety: The Russian Silver Age and Its Legacy by Galina Rylkova
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £42.05The "Silver Age" (c. 1890-1917) has been one of the most intensely studied topics in Russian literary studies, and for years scholars have been struggling with its precise definition. Firmly... -
Blowing up Ukraine Yuri Felshtinsky 9781783342754
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.55A detailed, gripping and urgent account of Russia's persistent attempts to reclaim Ukraine over more than two decades, culminating in the 2022 invasion. This book offers a comprehensive history,... -
Protest in Putin's Russia by Mischa Gabowitsch 9780745696256
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.35The Russian protests, sparked by the 2011 Duma election, have been widely portrayed as a colourful but inconsequential middle-class rebellion, confined to Moscow and organized by an unpopular... -
Protest in Putin's Russia Mischa Gabowitsch 9780745696263
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.89The Russian protests, sparked by the 2011 Duma election, have been widely portrayed as a colourful but inconsequential middle-class rebellion, confined to Moscow and organized by an unpopular... -
Rethinking the Gulag: Identities, Sources, Legacies by Alan Barenberg 9780253059611
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48The Soviet Gulag was one of the largest, most complex, and deadliest systems of incarceration in the 20th century. What lessons can we learn from its network of labor camps and prisons and exile... -
Rethinking the Gulag: Identities, Sources, Legacies by Alan Barenberg
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.82The Soviet Gulag was one of the largest, most complex, and deadliest systems of incarceration in the 20th century. What lessons can we learn from its network of labor camps and prisons and exile... -
Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists: Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip by Lisa A. Kirschenbaum 9781316518465
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.61In 1935, two Soviet satirists, Ilia Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, undertook a 10,000 mile American road trip from New York to Hollywood and back accompanied only by their guide and chauffeur, a gregarious... -
Music from a Speeding Train: Jewish Literature in Post-Revolution Russia by Harriet Murav
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £49.10Music from a Speeding Train explores the uniquely Jewish space created by Jewish authors working within the limitations of the Soviet cultural system. It situates Russian- and Yiddish- language... -
Nabokov, Perversely by Eric Naiman
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.05In an original and provocative reading of Vladimir Nabokov's work and the pleasures and perils to which its readers are subjected, Eric Naiman explores the significance and consequences of Nabokov's... -
The Phoenix of Philosophy: Russian Thought of the Late Soviet Period (1953-1991) by Professor Mikhail Epstein 9781501376245
Booksplease Price: £34.84This groundbreaking work by one of the world's foremost theoreticians of Russian literature, culture, and thought gives for the first time an extensive and detailed examination of the development of... -
Russia's Lost Reformation: Peasants, Millennialism, and Radical Sects in Southern Russia and Ukraine, 1830-1917 by Sergei I. Zhuk 9780801879159
RRP: £48.50Booksplease Price: £35.95Radical Protestant Christianity became widespread in rural parts of southern Russia and Ukraine in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Russia's Lost Reformation: Peasants, Millennialism,... -
Keeping Faith with the Party: Communist Believers Return from the Gulag by Nanci Adler 9780253223791
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47How is it that some prisoners of the Soviet gulag-many of them falsely convicted-emerged from the camps maintaining their loyalty to the party that was responsible for their internment? In camp, they... -
The Return of the Russian Leviathan Sergei Medvedev (Higher School of Economics, Moscow) 9781509536054
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.95Winner of the 2020 Pushkin House Book Prize Russia's relationship with its neighbours and with the West has worsened dramatically in recent years. Under Vladimir Putin's leadership, the country has... -
The Return of the Russian Leviathan Sergei Medvedev (Higher School of Economics, Moscow) 9781509536047
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.35Winner of the 2020 Pushkin House Book Prize Russia's relationship with its neighbours and with the West has worsened dramatically in recent years. Under Vladimir Putin's leadership, the country has... -
Russia Starts Here: Real Lives in the Ruins of Empire by Howard Amos 9781472991362
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.88'A different level of insight to anything I've read for a long time about Russia.' - Sophy Roberts, author of The Lost Pianos of Siberia'Exquisitely observed.. Full of empathy, Amos refuses easy... -
Russia Starts Here: Real Lives in the Ruins of Empire Howard Amos 9781472991348
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24'A different level of insight to anything I've read for a long time about Russia.' - Sophy Roberts, author of The Lost Pianos of Siberia'Exquisitely observed.. Full of empathy, Amos refuses easy... -
Russia Starts Here: Real Lives in the Ruins of Empire - Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Prize 2025 Howard Amos 9781472991331
Booksplease Price: £10.86SHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE PRIZE 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE SALTIRES DEBUT NON-FICTION PRIZE 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE SHERBORNE PRIZE FOR TRAVEL WRITING 2026'compelling' FINANCIAL TIMES'piercingly... -
It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway: Russia and the Communist Past by David Satter 9780300192377
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £19.00A veteran writer on Russia and the Soviet Union explains why Russia refuses to draw from the lessons of its past and what this portends for the future Russia today is haunted by deeds that have not...