The House by the Dvina: A Russian Childhood (Fraser Eugenie)(Paperback)

The House by the Dvina: A Russian Childhood (Fraser Eugenie)(Paperback)

Episodes as romantic and dramatic as any in fiction fill this gripping story of a life in Russia before, during, and immediately after the RevolutionThe riveting story of two families separated in culture and geography but bound together by a Russian-Scottish marriage includes the purchase by the

My History - A Memoir of Growing Up (Fraser Lady Antonia)(Paperback / softback)

The childhood and early life memoir of Antonia Fraser, one of our finest narrative

House of Trump, House of Putin - The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia (Unger Craig)(Paperback / softback)

Blue Above the Chimneys (Fraser Christine Marion)(Paperback / softback)

The wild childhood of a Glasgow tenement urchin Born during the Second World War in Glasgow, Christine Fraser was her mother's eighth child. Growing up with her siblings in a tiny flat, Christine lived an impoverished life but never once cared, until she was struck down by a terrible

Greyfriars House (Fraser Emma)(Paperback)

Secrets will be uncovered . . . 'I was absolutely gripped . . . the atmospheric setting of Greyfriars intertwined with the grim reality of the war camps of Singapore was inspirational.'Linda Finlay 'A thought-provoking and atmospheric read.'Evie Grace An epic, sweeping drama about a family with

The Return of the Russian Leviathan (Medvedev Sergei)(Paperback)

Winner of the 2020 Pushkin House Book Prize Russia's relationship with its neighbours and with the West has worsened dramatically in recent years. Under Vladimir Putin's leadership, the country has annexed Crimea, begun a war in Eastern Ukraine, used chemical weapons on the streets of the UK and

The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution (Slezkine Yuri)(Pevná vazba)

On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of

The Summer House Party (Fraser Caro)(Paperback)

Affairs, lusts and a sudden death thread through this hugely evocative multi-generational tale set in a grand country house in

Russian Conservatism (Robinson Paul)(Paperback)

Russian Conservatism examines the history of Russian conservative thought from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. Robinson charts the contributions made by philosophers, politicians, and others during the Imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet periods. Looking at cultural,

The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution (Slezkine Yuri)(Paperback)

The epic story of an enormous Soviet apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destructionThe House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Grossman's Life and

Journey Into the Whirlwind (Ginzburg Eugenia)(Paperback)

Journey into the Whirlwind is Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg's courageous memoir of her harrowing eighteen-year odyssey through the Soviet Union's prisons and labor camps.By the late 1930s, Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg had been a loyal and very active member of the Communist Party for many years. Yet

Into the Whirlwind (Ginzburg Eugenia)(Paperback / softback)

The Moon Rises from the Ganges: My Journey Through Asian Acting Techniques (Barba Eugenio)(Paperback)

A collection of texts by Eugenio Barba reconstructing the history of his relationships with the Asian classical theatres. Interweaving stories of journeys, meetings, anecdotes, reflections and technical descriptions, the author exposes the phases and changes in a passion that covers the fifty years

The Mayflower: The Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America (Fraser Rebecca)(Paperback)

From acclaimed historian and biographer Rebecca Fraser comes a vivid narrative history of the Mayflower and of the Winslow family, who traveled to America in search of a new world.'There is nothing sleep-inducing about the chronicle crafted by Ms. Fraser...There is more to the Pilgrims' story--more

The Russian Revolution (Moorehead Alan)(Paperback)

The Russian Revolution dismantled the ancient Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union. The Russian Empire collapsed with the abdication of Emperor Nicholas II and the old regime was replaced in February 1917. In the second revolution that October, the Provisional Government was

The Russian Revolution (Fitzpatrick Sheila)(Paperback)

The Russian Revolution had a decisive impact on the history of the twentieth century. In the years following the collapse of the Soviet regime and the opening of its archives, it has become possible to step back and see the full picture. Starting with an overview of the roots of the revolution,

Former People - The Destruction of the Russian Aristocracy (Smith Douglas)(Paperback / softback)

The last great untold story of the Russian

Russian Formalist Criticism: Four Essays, Second Edition (Lemon Lee T.)(Paperback)

The Russian formalists emerged from the Russian Revolution with ideas about the independence of literature. They enjoyed that independence until Stalin shut them down. By then, however, they had produced essays that remain among the best defenses ever written for both literature and its theory

History of the Russian Revolution (Trotsky Leon)(Paperback)

The definitive account of the Russian Revolution, by Leon Trotsky, its leader and key

The Nutritional Psychology of Childhood (Drewett Robert)(Paperback)

The Nutritional Psychology of Childhood is a systematic account of research on the psychological aspects of nutrition in children from birth to adolescence. It deals with two major themes: the development of eating and the effects of malnutrition on the developing child. Robert Drewett discusses

The History of the Russian Revolution to Brest-Litovsk (Trotsky Leon)(Paperback)

The Russian October Revolution, for the first time, placed power in the hands of the working class and changed the course of world history. A succinct first-hand account, this text was written to answer the distortions of bourgeois apologists and reformists, and arm the revolutionary workers of

Summer House (Willett Marcia)(Paperback / softback)

In the small inlaid wooden box, Matt's mother had kept all his childhood memories. But her marriage is threatened when her husband refuses to live so far from his practice. Meanwhile, Matt begins to discovers the strange and tragic secret which has affected his whole life

Lectures on Russian Literature (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback)

The author's observations on the great nineteenth-century Russian writers-Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorky, Tolstoy, and Turgenev. 'This volume... never once fails to instruct and stimulate. This is a great Russian talking of great Russians' (Anthony Burgess). Edited and with an Introduction by

Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms (Bone Eugenia)(Paperback)

In Mycophilia, accomplished food writer and cookbook author Eugenia Bone examines the role of fungi as exotic delicacy, curative, poison, and hallucinogen, and ultimately discovers that a greater understanding of fungi is key to facing challenges of the 21st century.Whether one's interest in