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The turning
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Gloria Whelan |
In the months leading up to the August 1991 coup attempt that resulted in the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union, a young dancer with the Kirov Ballet struggles to decide whether to defect whi… |
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Summer in Baden-Baden
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Leonid T͡Sypkin |
The narrator recounts his journey to Leningrad as the story of the 1867 travels of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his new wife, Anna Grigoryevna, also unfolds. |
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Pavlova's gift
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Maxine Trottier |
Summoned by the Czar to perform for his ailing son, Anna Pavlova, formerly the greatest ballerina in Russia, finds a special, mystical way to share her gift of dance. |
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The Madonna on the moon
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Rolf Bauerdick |
"November, 1957. The Soviets have just launched the Sputnik, and communism rules in Eastern Europe, but the village of Baia Luna, nestled in the Carpathian mountains, is a world unto itself, populate… |
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Kolyma stories
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Varlam Shalamov |
"Kolyma Stories is a masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, an epic array of short fictional tales reflecting the fifteen year that Varlam Shalamov spent in the Soviet Gulag. This is the first … |
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Dancer, daughter, traitor, spy
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Elizabeth Kiem |
After a harrowing defection to the United States in 1982, Russian teenager Marya and her father settle in Brooklyn, where Marya is drawn into a web of intrigue involving her gift of foresight, her mo… |
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The big green tent
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Li︠u︡dmila Ulit︠s︡kai︠a︡ |
An orphaned poet, a gifted pianist and a budding photographer meet in a mid-20th-century Moscow school and eventually embody the heroism, folly, compromise and hope of the Soviet dissident experience. |
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Radiant Terminus
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Antoine Volodine |
viii, 468 pages ; 22 cm |
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War and Peace
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Mary Sebag-Montefiore |
Leo Tolstoy's epic Russian classic, retold in just 64 pages. First published in 1869, this novel is one of the most famous books in the world, and this simple but atmospheric retelling now makes it a… |
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Us conductors
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Sean Michaels |
"In a finely woven series of flashbacks and correspondence, Lev Termen, the Russian scientist, inventor, and spy, tells the story of his life to his "one true love, " Clara Rockmore, the finest there… |
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All my fortunes
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Katie Flynn |
This book offers an epic love story set in England and Russia in the 1930s as two people overcome unbelievable hardship to be together from bestselling author Katie Flynn. 'Take care of Eva.' These w… |
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Under a blood red sky
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Kate Furnivall |
"Davinsky Labour Camp, Siberia, 1933: Sofia Morozova knows she has to escape. Only two things have sustained her through the bitter cold, aching hunger and hard labour: the prospect of one day walkin… |
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Timebomb
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Gerald Seymour |
"In 1992, after being fired from a top secret facility, a top KGB man buried a nuclear suitcase. Sixteen years later he has found a buyer for it. An exchange point in Eastern Europe is agreed upon. T… |
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The charm school
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Nelson De Mille |
Something very strange -- and sinister -- is going on in the Russian woods at Borodino. In a place called Mrs. Ivanova's Charm School, young KGB agents are being taught by American POW's how to be mo… |
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Раковый корпус
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Александр Исаевич Солженицын |
'There has been no such analysis of the corrupting power of the police state in Soviet literature'--Stuart Hood in the *Listener*
Solzhenitsyn, like Oleg Kostoglotov, the central character of this… |
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Собачье сердце
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Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков |
A superb comic masterpiece and fierce parable of the Russian Revolution by the author of The Master and Margarita. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ANDREY KURKOVA rich, successful Moscow professor befriend… |
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The Tristan betrayal
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Robert Ludlum |
Moscow --- a city under siege by hardcore Communists threatening to plunge the country back into Stalinist darkness. Into the heart of the firestorm, American ambassador Stephen Metcalfe has been sum… |
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The people's act of love
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James Meek |
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2005. 1919, Siberia. Deep in the unforgiving landscape a town lies under military rule, awaiting the remorseless assault of the Bolsheviks along the Trans-Siberian… |
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The wild children
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Felice Holman |
Left behind when his whole family is arrested by soldiers during the dark days following the Bolshevik Revolution, twelve-year-old Alex falls in with a gang of other desperate homeless children, but … |
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Sashenka
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Simon Sebag-Montefiore |
"It is over twenty years since beautiful, headstrong Sashenka Zeitlin slipped away from her family home to play her part in a dangerous game of conspiracy and intrigue. Now she is married to a rich a… |
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