For fans of fairy tales and the literary supernatural: a unique collection of Russian short stories from the last 200 ye
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From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story ha
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Russia, once compared to a giant sphinx, is often considered in the Anglophone world an alien culture, often threatening
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Although younger than most European theatrical traditions, the Russian professional theater has generated an exciting bo
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In an event acknowledged to be a watershed in modern Russian cultural history, the elite of Russian intellectual life ga
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The gypsies of Russia and the part they have played in both Soviet and Post-Soviet society.
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Andrei Sinyavsky wrote Strolls with Pushkin while confined to a Soviet labor camp, smuggling the pages out a few at a ti
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This lively and provocative look at the tension between economics and politics examines why so many mistakes in economic
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