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Masha Gessen
Putin’s bestselling biographer reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy.
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Anatoly Kuznetsov,A Anatoli
An internationally acclaimed documentary novel that describes one of the largest single mass executions of the Holocaust from an author who witnessed it.
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This work examines the ways in which Russian intellectuals are finding new identities in the present social and political maelstrom. Through a series of individual stories, it shows their quest…
The story of Pussy Riot, punk icons and Russian dissenters, and the untold story of their infamous trial and on-going global significance
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A brave and revelatory account of how a small-minded, low-level KGB operative came to control the world’s largest country and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress, making…
The only book you need to read to understand the events of the past four years in Trump’s America, from the prize-winning Russian-American New Yorker writer.
This is a story of 20th-century Russia through the lives of two extraordinary women.
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The facts of the tragedy are established: On April 15, 2013, two homemade bombs fashioned from pressure cookers exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people…
When genetic testing revealed that Masha Gessen had the dreaded BRCA1 genetic mutation–the same mutation made famous recently by Angelina Jolie, which predisposes women to ovarian and breast cancer –…
The sweeping, revelatory history of post-Soviet Russia from the great dissident exile.
An analysis of the destruction the Trump administration has waged on our institutions, the cultural norms we hoped would save us, and our very sense of identity –
The story of the Jews in twentieth-century Russia as told through the history of the Soviet solution to the Jewish question, in which, in 1929, the Soviet Union declared the…
In this absorbing portrait, Gessen relates the experiences of her two grandmothers, both Russian Jews who survived the atrocities inflicted by Hitler and Stalin during World War II, showing how…
A thrilling account of an utterly brilliant and utterly eccentric Russian mathematician which sheds a rare light on the unique burden of genius
'A luminous study' Luke Harding, Guardian 'Courageous and shocking' Katy Guest, Books of the Year, Independent on Sunday
How did a small-minded, low-level KGB operative come to control the world's…
A chilling and unflinching portrait of one of the most fearsome figures in world politics. Boris Yeltsin and his cronies thought they could mold Vladimir Putin in their own image…
A haunting literary and visual journey deep into Russia’s past - and present.
The Gulag was a monstrous network of labor camps that held and killed millions of prisoners from…
Misha Friedman
A collaboration between a National Book Award winning journalist and a prize-winning photographer on the queer-resistance theater troupe
From the acclaimed author of The Man Without a Face, the previously untold story of the Jews in twentieth-century Russia that reveals the complex, strange, and heart-wrenching truth behind the…
Yevgeny Zamyatin
In English. Translated from the Russian.
