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Dead Souls by Donald Rayfield
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07A mysterious stranger named Chichikov arrives in a small provincial Russian town and proceeds to visit a succession of landowners, making each of them an unusual and somewhat macabre proposition. He... -
Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia by Donald Rayfield 9781789140590
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $24.51Georgia is the most Western-looking state in today's Near or Middle East and, despite having one of the longest, most turbulent histories in the Christian or Near Eastern world, no proper history of... -
Stalin and His Hangmen: An Authoritative Portrait of a Tyrant and Those Who Served Him by Donald Rayfield
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $18.56Stalin, like Hitler and other tyrants, won and held power because he had collaborators - hangmen. Drawing on newly released archival material, Donald Rayfield gives us a fuller and more colourful... -
The Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-91 by Anton Chekhov
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37The Steppe and Other Stories 1887-91 is a collection that reveals Anton Chekhov's evolution from a novice writer to a master of short narrative form. This Penguin Classics edition is translated by... -
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov 9781603843096
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10Drawn from Sharon Marie Carnicke's volume of Chekhov, Four Plays and Three Jokes (Hackett), this edition of The Cherry Orchard features Carnicke's groundbreaking translation of a play that has been... -
Distant Freedom: Essay on Chekhov Jacques Ranciere 9781509567355
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.89Chekhov's fiction offers a subtle yet powerful message: another life is possible. Something can always happen to our lives - a possibility that breaks the monotony of servitude and points to a... -
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 9780198709718
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.58'One death, in exchange for thousands of lives - it's simple arithmetic!' A new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (1866). The impoverished student Raskolnikov... -
Fathers and Sons by Tatyana Tolstaya
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons explores the ageless conflict between generations through a period in Russian history when a new generation of revolutionary intellectuals threatened the state. This... -
Manaschi by Hamid Ismailov 9781911284574
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92In his latest tragicomedy Hamid Ismailov interrogates the intersection between tradition and modernity. A former radio-presenter wrongly interprets one of his dreams and thinks that he has been... -
Crime and Punishment: (OWC Hardback) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $16.23'One death, in exchange for thousands of lives - it's simple arithmetic!' A new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (1866). The impoverished student Raskolnikov... -
The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard by Ivan Chistyakov 9781783782574
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08In the archives of the Memorial International Human Rights Centre in Moscow is an extraordinary diary, a rare first-person testimony of a commander of guards in a Soviet labour camp. Ivan... -
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $15.79Winner of the Duff Cooper and Lionel Gelber prizesIn 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating ... -
The Collected Tales Of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai Gogol
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.37Collected here are Gogol's finest tales - from the demon-haunted 'St John's Eve' to the strange surrealism of 'The Nose', from the heart-rending trials of the copyist in 'The Overcoat' to those of... -
History of the Caucasus: Volume 1: At the Crossroads of Empires by Christoph Baumer
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $35.85"Magnificent [and] wondrous." The Spectator "Rich and illuminating." Literary Review "Phenomenally accurate." History Today "Stunning." The Morning Star "Sweeping." The New European "A... -
The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin by Steven Lee Myers
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75The epic tale of Vladimir Putin's path to power, as he emerged from obscurity to become one of the world's most important and dangerous leaders.Former New York Times Moscow Bureau Chief Steven Lee... -
Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History by Catherine Merridale
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08WINNER OF THE WOLFSON PRIZE 2013HERALD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014The extraordinary story of the Kremlin - from prize-winning author and historian Catherine MerridaleBoth beautiful and profoundly... -
Catherine & Diderot: The Empress, the Philosopher, and the Fate of the Enlightenment by Robert Zaretsky
RRP: $32.09Booksplease Price: $28.07A dual biography crafted around the famous encounter between the French philosopher who wrote about power and the Russian empress who wielded it with great aplomb.In October 1773, after a grueling... -
The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars by Daniel Beer
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08WINNER OF THE CUNDHILL HISTORY PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2017, THE PUSHKIN HOUSE RUSSIAN BOOK PRIZE 2017 AND THE LONGMAN-HISTORY TODAY BOOK PRIZE 2017THE TIMES, SPECTATOR,... -
Young Stalin Simon Sebag Montefiore 9781474614825
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07Winner 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 revelatory research,... -
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Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore 9780753823798 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.27Winner 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 revelatory research,... -
The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry by Robert Chandler
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski. In the late eighteenth and early...