Books - Recently Published

How Russia Got That Way

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 05:00:00 GMT

A fast-paced crash course in Russian history, from Norsemen to Navalny, that explores the ways the Kremlin uses history to achieve its ends.

Far & Away ~ Tales from Rural Russia

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 06:00:00 GMT

33 original stories about modern (and not so modern) life in rural Russia.

Dostoyevsky Bilingual

Wed, 01 May 2024 05:00:00 GMT

Bilingual series of short, lesser known, but highly significant works that show the traditional view of Dostoyevsky as a dour, intense, philosophical writer to be unnecessarily one-sided.

A Taste of Chekhov

Sat, 24 Dec 2022 06:00:00 GMT

This compact volume is an introduction to the works of Chekhov the master storyteller, via nine stories spanning the last twenty years of his life.

Steppe

Fri, 15 Jul 2022 05:00:00 GMT

This is the work that made Chekhov, launching his career as a writer and playwright of national and international renown. Retranslated and updated, this new bilingual edition is a super way to improve your Russian.

White Magic

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 05:00:00 GMT

The thirteen tales in this volume – all written by Russian émigrés, writers who fled their native country in the early twentieth century – contain a fair dose of magic and mysticism, of terror and the supernatural. There are Petersburg revenants, grief-stricken avengers, Lithuanian vampires, flying skeletons, murders and duels, and even a ghostly Edgar Allen Poe.

The Samovar Murders

Fri, 01 Nov 2019 06:00:00 GMT

The murder of a poet is always more than a murder. When a famous writer is brutally stabbed on the campus of Moscow’s Lumumba University, the son of a recently deposed African president confesses, and the case assumes political implications that no one wants any part of.

Resilience ~ The Russian Version (Переживем)

Fri, 17 Aug 2018 05:00:00 GMT

Call it resilience, grit, or just perseverance – it takes a special sort of person to have survived the last 100 years of Russian and Soviet history.

Resilience: Life Stories of Centenarians Born in the Year of Revolution

Mon, 05 Mar 2018 06:00:00 GMT

Call it resilience, grit, or just perseverance – it takes a special sort of person to have survived the last 100 years of Russian and Soviet history.

Woe From Wit (bilingual)

Tue, 20 Jun 2017 05:00:00 GMT

One of the most famous works of Russian literature, the four-act comedy in verse Woe from Wit skewers staid, nineteenth century Russian society, and it positively teems with “winged phrases” that are essential colloquialisms for students of Russian and Russian culture.