History Books

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.

This saga of a courageous African-American family offers revealing insights on a little known episode in the history of Blacks in the Soviet Union in Stalin's time and beyond.

Paperback. Measures 9" x 6"

In September 1925, Sidney Reilly journeyed across the Russian frontier on a mission to overthrow the Bolsheviks and restore the Czar. He vanished without a trace. The circumstances surrounding his death remain a mystery. This classic autobiography reveals

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.

American Girls in Red Russia recounts the experiences of women who saved starving children from the Russian famine, worked on rural communes in Siberia, wrote for Moscow or New York newspapers, or performed on Soviet stages.

The Apartment: A Century of Russian History explains the true history of 20th-century Russia through the story of a Moscow family and their apartment. Readers witness how each generation lived alongside larger social and political changes in Russia.

This is the remarkable true story of a family surviving during one of the bleakest periods in Russian history.

A Soviet memoir that is equal parts refugee-coming-of-age story, feminist manifesto, and meditations on motherhood, displacement, gender politics, and art.

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.

A spellbinding journey through the global history of witchcraft, this volume follows the magickal tradition from its ancient roots to its modern incarnations.