History Books

An original reading of the Russian Revolution, examining it not as a single event but as a hundred-year cycle of violence in pursuit of utopian dreams.

National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson delivers a brilliant and riveting account of the Siege of Leningrad and the role played by Soviet Russian composer DmitriHI Shostakovich and his Leningrad Symphony

A travel guide through one of the best minds of the Beat Generation, Allen Ginsberg’s journals are more tour de force than diaries, charting his poetry, political antics, and high-profile encounters behind the Iron Curtain at the height of the Cold War.

A harrowing account of how one of America's most Iconic television show was exported to Russia in the post-Soviet tumultuous 90s.

The Story of a Life beings from Paustovsky’s Ukrainian youth, as his family is destitute, to his time as a World War I paramedic , then a journalist during the Russia revolution, His prose are energetic and lyrical filled with love of the natural world

Diaghilev’s Empire is an impeccably researched and daring reassessment of the phenomenon of the Ballets Russes and the Russian Revolution in twentieth-century art and culture.

An enthralling, definitive new history of the Bolshoi Ballet, where visionary performances onstage compete with political machinations backstage.

A vivid tour of history and culture through Russian cuisine from celebrated food scholar Darra Goldstein.

An enchanting masterpiece that explores the making of one of the world's most vibrant civilizations.

Cabbage and Caviar places Russian food and drink in the context of Russian history and shows off the incredible (and largely unknown) variety of Russian food.

1917 is an excellent diverse collection of literary responses to one of the most impactful events in modern world history -- the Russian Revolution.

An unforgettable journey through Central Asia -- one of the most mysterious and history-laden regions of the world.