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And Quiet Flows the Donby Mikhail Aleksandrovich SholokhovISBN 1589633431 (1-58963-343-1)
Softcover, Fredonia Books
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The Battle That Shook Europe: Poltava and the Birth of the Russian Empireby Peter EnglundISBN 1860648479 (1-86064-847-9)
Softcover, I B Tauris & Co Ltd
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Beyond Memory: The Crimean Tatars' Deportation and Returnby Greta Lynn UehlingISBN 1403962642 (1-4039-6264-2)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Borderland: A Journey through the History of Ukraineby Anna ReidISBN 0813337925 (0-8133-3792-5)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Cossacks: An Illustrated Historyby John UreISBN 158567138X (1-58567-138-X)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Dead Soulsby Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, Constance Black Garnett, Jeffrey MeyersISBN 1593080921 (1-59308-092-1)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Souls'Book summary:Gogol's tale of a dismissed civil servant turned unscrupulous confidence man is the most essentially Russian of all the great novels in Russian literature. With its rich and ebullient language, ironic twists, and cast of comedic characters, Dead Souls (1842) stands as one of the most dazzling and poetic masterpieces of the nineteenth century. This brilliant new translation by Christopher English is complemented by a superb introductory essay by the pre-eminent Gogol scholar, Robert Maguire. [via]
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Dead Soulsby Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky, Nikolai Vasilevich GogolISBN 1400043190 (1-4000-4319-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Souls'Book summary:A socially adept newcomer fluidly inserts himself into an unnamed Russian town, conquering first the drinkers, then the dignitaries. All find him amiable, estimable, agreeable. But what exactly is Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov up to?--something that will soon throw the town "into utter perplexity."
After more than a week of entertainment and "passing the time, as they say, very pleasantly," he gets down to business--heading off to call on some landowners. More pleasantries ensue before Chichikov reveals his bizarre plan. He'd like to buy the souls of peasants who have died since the last census. The first landowner looks carefully to see if he's mad, but spots no outward signs. In fact, the scheme is innovative but by no means bonkers. Even though Chichikov will be taxed on the supposed serfs, he will be able to count them as his property and gain the reputation of a gentleman owner. His first victim is happy to give up his souls for free--less tax burden for him. The second, however, knows Chichikov must be up to something, and the third has his servants rough him up. Nonetheless, he prospers.
Dead Souls is a feverish anatomy of Russian society (the book was first published in 1842) and human wiles. Its author tosses off thousands of sublime epigrams--including, "However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man," and is equally adept at yearning satire: "Where is he," Gogol interrupts the action, "who, in the native tongue of our Russian soul, could speak to us this all-powerful word: forward? who, knowing all the forces and qualities, and all the depths of our nature, could, by one magic gesture, point the Russian man towards a lofty life?" Flannery O'Connor, another writer of dark genius, declared Gogol "necessary along with the light." Though he was hardly the first to envision property as theft, his blend of comic, fantastic moralism is sui generis.--Kerry Fried [via]
Death & the Penguinby Andrey KurkovISBN 1860469450 (1-86046-945-0)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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Death and the Penguinby Andrey Kurkov, George BirdISBN 1860468357 (1-86046-835-7)
Softcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death and the Penguin'Book summary:The publication of Death and the Penguin, Andrey Kurkov's debut novel, heralds a unique new voice in post-soviet satire. Set in the Ukraine in the years immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union, this dark, deadpan tale chronicles the journalistic career of Victor, who shares a flat with Misha, his depressed Penguin, rescued from the under-funded zoo in Kiev. Victor is asked to write obelisks, obituaries, for a prominent city paper about notable figures in the community, and quickly transforms himself from struggling writer to wealthy journalist. It soon becomes apparent that there is a more sinister motive at play, and Victor finds himself descending in a Kafkaesque realm of suspicion and unease.
This strange, thoughtful and gentle novel will leave the reader satisfied and perplexed at its conclusion. Kurkov seems to question whether Victor or the Penguin is lonelier and more out of place in his environment. The Death in the title is ever present, though not in an oppressive way, but this also makes one want to question Victor's belief that a long hard life is better than a quick death. Many comparisons will undoubtedly be made between Kurkov's novel and the writing of other authors from the former Soviet republics to make it to print in the United Kingdom. Certainly it's fair to say that this belongs to the tradition of Russian satire made well known in this country by writers such as Mikhail Bulgakov and Venedikt Yarofeev. It is also interesting to read this alongside the works of contemporaries such as Evgenev Popov and Viktor Pelevin. However, where Pelevin drifts off into the fantastical and esoteric, Kurkov keeps it deadpan and very real. It is important to remember that many of the strange events that occur in this book are grounded in fact: amals really were given away by Kiev zoo--truth is often stranger than fiction. --Iain Robinson [via]
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Decision in the Ukraine, Summer 1943: II. SS and III. Panzerkorpsby George M. NipeISBN 0921991355 (0-921991-35-5)
Hardcover, J.J. Fedorowicz Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Decision in the Ukraine, Summer 1943: II. SS and III. Panzerkorps'Book summary:Decision in the Ukraine (George M. Nipe, Jr.) Hard cover, small format (9"x6"), 390 pages, 75 photographs and 29 maps and orders of battle. For the first time in English, the full story of the crucial battles on the Mius River by the 6. Armee and the successful counterattack spearheaded by the II. SS-Panzer-Korps, consisting of "Das Reich" and "Totenkopf". Also covered in detail are the offensives after Kursk in July/August 1943. The author uses many primary sources and conveys the action in vivid detail. [via]
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The Devil Who Tamed Herby Johanna LindseyISBN 1416537309 (1-4165-3730-9)
Hardcover, Pocket Books
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The Devil's Alternativeby Frederick ForsythISBN 0552115002 (0-552-11500-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Devil's Alternative'Book summary:Russia faces famine. The soviets are forced to pin their hopes for survival on the u.s. But as the kgb and the cia watch in horror, the rescue of a ukrainian freedom fighter from the black sea unleashes savagery that endangers peace--and plunges leaders from washington to moscow into a web of overwhelming intrigue, terror, and suspense. Only two lovers can save the world from nuclear destruction. Yet every way out means certain death. And the countdown has already begun [via]
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Dilemmas of Independence: Ukraine After Totalitarianismby Alexander J. MotylISBN 0876091311 (0-87609-131-1)
Softcover, Brookings Inst Pr
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Double Crossingby Eve TalISBN 0938317946 (0-938317-94-6)
Hardcover, Cinco Puntos Pr
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Dynamo: Triumph and Tragedy in Nazi-Occupied Kievby Andy DouganISBN 1592284671 (1-59228-467-1)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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Eggs Beautiful: How to Make Ukrainian Easter Eggsby Johanna LuciowISBN 0960250239 (0-9602502-3-9)
Softcover, Ukranian Gift Shop
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Everything Is Illuminatedby Jonathan Safran FoerISBN 0060529709 (0-06-052970-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Everything Is Illuminated'Book summary:The simplest thing would be to describe Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer's accomplished debut, as a novel about the Holocaust. It is, but that really fails to do justice to the sheer ambition of this book. The main story is a grimly familiar one. A young Jewish American--who just happens to be called Jonathan Safran Foer--travels to the Ukraine in the hope of finding the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. He is aided in his search by Alex Perchov, a naïve Ukrainian translator, Alex's grandfather (also called Alex), and a flatulent mongrel dog named Sammy Davis Jr. Jr. On their journey through Eastern Europe's obliterated landscape they unearth facts about the Nazi atrocities and the extent of Ukrainian complicity that have implications for Perchov as well as Safran Foer. This narrative is not, however, recounted from (the character) Jonathan Safran Foer's perspective. It is relayed through a series of letters that Alex sends to Foer. These are written in the kind of broken Russo-English normally reserved for Bond villains or Latka from Taxi. Interspersed between these letters are fragments of a novel by Safran Foer--a wonderfully imagined, almost magical realist, account of life in the shtetl before the Nazis destroyed it. These are in turn commented on by Alex, creating an additional metafictional angle to the tale.
If all this sounds a little daunting, don't be put off; Safran Foer is an extremely funny as well as intelligent writer who combines some of the best Jewish folk yarns since Isaac Bashevis Singer with a quite heartbreaking meditation on love, friendship, and loss. --Travis Elborough, Amazon.co.uk [via]
Festive Ukrainian Cookingby Marta Pisetska FarleyISBN 0822936461 (0-8229-3646-1)
Hardcover, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr
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The Fixerby Bernard MalamudISBN 0881037990 (0-88103-799-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fixer'Book summary:A classic that won Malamud both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
"The Fixer (1966) is Bernard Malamud's best-known and most acclaimed novel -- one that makes manifest his roots in Russian fiction, especially that of Isaac Babel.
Set in Kiev in 1911 during a period of heightened anti-Semitism, the novel tells the story of Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman blamed for the brutal murder of a young Russian boy. Bok leaves his village to try his luck in Kiev, and after denying his Jewish identity, finds himself working for a member of the anti-Semitic Black Hundreds Society. When the boy is found nearly drained of blood in a cave, the Black Hundreds accuse the Jews of ritual murder. Arrested and imprisoned, Bok refuses to confess to a crime that he did not commit.
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The Fixer, the Natural, the Assistantby Bernard MalamudISBN 156731001X (1-56731-001-X)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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Folk Tales from the Soviet Union: The Caucasusby R BabloyanISBN 5050015626 (5-05-001562-6)
Hardcover, Raduga Publishers
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Folk Tales from the Soviet Union: The Caucasusby Mikhail Anikst, R Babloyan, M. ShumskaiaISBN 5050015596 (5-05-001559-6)
Hardcover, Raduga Publishers
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Gay & Lesbian Stats: A Pocket Guide of Facts and Figuresby Bennett L. Singer, David DeschampsISBN 1565841557 (1-56584-155-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gay & Lesbian Stats: A Pocket Guide of Facts and Figures'Book summary:Under sixteen headings ranging from Activism and Politics to Religion, Gay and Lesbian Stats delivers hundreds of salient facts, citing sources, that documents the current status of gay men and lesbians. This straightforward compendium of facts may be slim (just the right size for carrying around in a pocket) but it packs a wallop. [via]
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The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famineby Robert ConquestISBN 0195051807 (0-19-505180-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine'Book summary:The Harvest of Sorrow is the first full history of one of the most horrendous human tragedies of the 20th century. Between 1929 and 1932 the Soviet Communist Party struck a double blow at the Russian peasantry: dekulakization, the dispossession and deportation of millions of peasant families, and collectivization, the abolition of private ownership of land and the concentration of the remaining peasants in party-controlled "collective" farms. This was followed in 1932-33 by a "terror-famine," inflicted by the State on the collectivized peasants of the Ukraine and certain other areas by setting impossibly high grain quotas, removing every other source of food, and preventing help from outside--even from other areas of the Soviet Union--from reaching the starving populace. The death toll resulting from the actions described in this book was an estimated 14.5 million--more than the total number of deaths for all countries in World War I.
Ambitious, meticulously researched, and lucidly written, The Harvest of Sorrow is a deeply moving testament to those who died, and will register in the Western consciousness a sense of the dark side of this century's history. [via]More editions of The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine:
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Hippocrene Insider's Guide to Moscow, Leningrad and Kievby Yuri Fedosyuk, Iurii FedosiukISBN 087052805X (0-87052-805-X)
Softcover, Hippocrene Books
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Hippocrene Language and Travel Guide to Ukraineby Linda Hodges, George ChumakISBN 0781801354 (0-7818-0135-4)
Softcover, Hippocrene Books
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History of Ukrainian Costume: From the Scythian Period to the Late 17th CenturyISBN 0908480164 (0-908480-16-4)
Hardcover, Bayda Books
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A History of the Ukraineby Paul R. MagocsiISBN 0295975806 (0-295-97580-6)
Softcover, University of Washington Press
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A History of Ukraineby Paul Robert MagocsiISBN 0802078206 (0-8020-7820-6)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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History of the Makhnoust Movement 1918-1921by Peter ArshinerISBN 0900384409 (0-900384-40-9)
Softcover, Freedom Pr
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Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventoriesby Miriam WeinerISBN 0965650812 (0-9656508-1-2)
Hardcover, Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots
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Lonely Planet Ukraineby Not AvailableISBN 186450336X (1-86450-336-X)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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Matter Of Life And Deathby Andrei KurkovISBN 1843431041 (1-84343-104-1)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Memories of a Makhnovist Partisanby Ossip SebryISBN 1873605455 (1-873605-45-5)
Softcover, Sharply Library
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The Mittenby Jan BrettISBN 039921920X (0-399-21920-X)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mitten'Book summary:A Ukrainian boy named Nicki wants his grandmother Baba to knit snow-white mittens for him. She warns her grandson that a white mitten will be hard to find if he loses it in the snow, but of course he promptly does just that! What happens next is the surprising part, as a mole takes refuge in the lost mitten, then a rabbit, then a hedgehog, an owl, a badger, and a fox. If you think the mitten might be a wee bit stretched out at this point, just wait: "Then a big bear sniffed at the mitten. The animals were packed in tight, but the bear didn't care. He crawled in anyway." When a tiny mouse squeezes in, her whiskers tickle the bear's nose. He sneezes, and "Aaaaa-aaaaa-ca-chew!" all the animals fly out of their crocheted cave. As the mitten sails through the air, Nicki spots it, reclaims it, and takes it home to show his smiling Baba.
Jan Brett is the illustrator of many well-known folktales, fairy tales, and poems, such as Goldilocks and the Three Bears and The Owl and the Pussycat, by Edward Lear. Her special signature in her detailed artwork is the intricate borders, seen in this book as birch-bark panels with embroidered details and mitten-shaped vignettes offering additional insights into the story line. Brett is at her best when she illustrates animals, and the expressions on the faces of her creatures are a delight. She carefully researched the costumes, furniture, and house in this traditional Ukrainian tale--all are authentic. A fine story to read on a frosty night with a cup of hot chocolate, and if you ever get your fill of The Mitten, you can always try its delightfully original companion book, The Hat, winner of the 1998 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. (Ages 4 to 8) [via]
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Nestor Makhno Anarchy's Cossack: The Struggle for Free Soviets in the Ukraine 1917-1921by Alexandre Skirda, Paul SharkeyISBN 1902593685 (1-902593-68-5)
Softcover, A K Pr Distribution
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Nine Lives: Ethnic Conflict in the Polish-Ukranian Borderlandsby Julian Preece, Waldemar Lotnik, Neal AschersonISBN 1897959400 (1-897959-40-0)
Softcover, Interlink Pub Group Inc
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Ostfront: Hitler's War on Russia 1941-45by Charles WincheshterISBN 1855327112 (1-85532-711-2)
Hardcover, Osprey Pub Co
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Ostfront : Hitler's War on Russia, 1941-1945by Charles WinchesterISBN 1841760668 (1-84176-066-8)
Softcover, Osprey Publishing, Limited
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The Radetzky Marchby Joseph Roth, Nadine GordimerISBN 1585673269 (1-58567-326-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Radetzky March'Book summary:Joseph Roth's 1932 novel, The Radetzky March, starts with an accident that creates a dynasty. When an infantry lieutenant steps in front of a bullet intended for the young Franz Joseph, the Austro-Hungarian emperor rewards him with wealth, promotion, and a knighthood. Almost overnight, Joseph Trotta is "severed" from his ancestors, and his family is transformed from unremarkable soldiers and peasants living in the outer reaches of the empire to barons and high-ranking officials living near the imperial palace. As long as Franz Joseph is the Kaiser, their status is secure. But when Trotta happens upon a schoolbook account of the event that exaggerates his heroism, he is shaken:
He had been driven from the paradise of simple faith in Emperor and Virtue, Truth, and Justice, and, now fettered in silence and endurance, he may have realized that the stability of the world, the power of laws, and the glory of majesties were all based on deviousness.
As World War I approaches and the monarchy's limitations become apparent, Trotta's son and grandson become even further removed from this paradise. They continue to follow the codes of honor and duty, though such behavioral guides become pointless, even burdensome, in a world shorn of simple faith in an emperor. Trotta's grandson Carl Joseph finds his military career overwhelmed by bad horsemanship, alcohol dependency, frivolous roulette and baccarat debts, and misguided love affairs--the kinds of flaws, he thinks, that are inevitable without the self-assurance and practical knowledge that he would have gained had he earned (rather than inherited) his position. Not long ago, he thinks wistfully, his family lived as peasants "in dwarfed huts, making their wives fertile by night and their fields by day." It is here that the Trottas' demise is at its most poignant, as the focus of the narrative shifts from the loss of status to the far more devastating loss of purpose.In both style and temperament, Roth's novel stands between the 19th and 20th centuries, and the three Trottas could be seen as part of a progression that stretches back to Tolstoy's Prince Andrei and looks ahead to the Mathieu of Sartre's Les Chemins de la Liberté trilogy. Although The Radetzky March illustrates why the monarchy was doomed, and isn't blind to the new nations and ideologies on the horizon, Roth is more interested in his characters' psychology than their politics. And their central difficulty--the bewildering meaninglessness that follows the dissolution of an ideal--has been a fundamental 20th-century dilemma. The Trottas are, in Roth's stunning phrase, "homesick for the Kaiser." One need only substitute "the Chairman" or "Marxism" or "God" to understand the novel's lasting resonance. --John Ponyicsanyi [via]
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Revolution in Orange: The Origins of Ukraine's Democratic Breakthroughby Anders Aslund, Michael McFaulISBN 0870032216 (0-87003-221-6)
Softcover, Brookings Inst Pr
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Robert Polidori: Zones of Exclusion, Pripyat and Chernobylby Robert Polidori, Elizabeth CulbertISBN 3882439211 (3-88243-921-1)
Hardcover, Steidl / Edition7L
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Robert Polidori: Zones of Exclusion, Pripyat and Chernobyl'Book summary:In the 11 days following the Chernobyl catastrophe on April 26, 1986, more than 116,000 people were permanently evacuated from the area surrounding the nuclear power plant. Declared unfit for human habitation, the Zones of Exclusion includes the towns of Pripyat (established in the 1970s to house workers) and Chernobyl. In May 2001, Robert Polidori photographed what was left behind in the this dead zone. His richly detailed images move from the burned-out control room of Reactor 4, where technicians staged the experiment that caused the disaster, to the unfinished apartment complexes, ransacked schools and abandoned nurseries that remain as evidence of those who once called Pripyat home. Nearby, trucks and tanks used in the cleanup efforts rest in an auto graveyard, some covered in lead shrouds and others robbed of parts. Houseboats and barges rust in the contaminated waters of the Pripyat River. Foliage grows over the sidewalks and hides the modest homes of Chernobyl. In his large-scale photographs, Polidori captures the faded colors and desolate atmosphere of these two towns, producing haunting documents that present the reader with a rare view of not just a disastrous event, but a place and the people who lived there. [via]
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A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainianby Marina LewyckaISBN 1594200440 (1-59420-044-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian'Book summary:[via]With this wise, tender, and deeply funny novel, Marina Lewycka takes her place alongside Zadie Smith and Monica Ali as a writer who can capture the unchanging verities of family. When an elderly and newly widowed Ukrainian immigrant announces his intention to remarry, his daughters must set aside their longtime feud to thwart him. For their fathers intended is a voluptuous old-country gold digger with a proclivity for green satin underwear and an appetite for the good life of the West. As the hostilities mount and family secrets spill out, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian combines sex, bitchiness, wit, and genuine warmth in its celebration of the pleasure of growing old disgracefully.
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Soviet Laughter, Soviet Tears: An American Couple's Six-Month Adventure in a Ukranian Villageby Ralph Dull, Christine DullISBN 0962803863 (0-9628038-6-3)
Hardcover, Stillmore Pr
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The Struggle Against the State and Other Essaysby Nestor Makhno, Alexandre SkirdaISBN 1873176783 (1-873176-78-3)
Hardcover, AK Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays'Book summary:A collection of essays and articles from the Ukranian revolutionary, Nestor Makhno, who fought against encroaching Bolshevik terror during the Russian Revolution. The Struggle Against the State and other Essays sheds valuable insight onto the man and the movement that bore his name.[via]More editions of The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays:
Taras Bul'Baby Nikolai Vasilevich GogolISBN 0460017403 (0-460-01740-3)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Taras Bul'Ba'Book summary:The First New Translation in Forty Years
Set sometime between the mid-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century, Gogols epic tale recounts both a bloody Cossack revolt against the Poles (led by the bold Taras Bulba of Ukrainian folk mythology) and the trials of Taras Bulbas two sons.
As Robert Kaplan writes in his Introduction, [Taras Bulba] has a Kiplingesque gusto . . . that makes it a pleasure to read, but central to its theme is an unredemptive, darkly evil violence that is far beyond anything that Kipling ever touched on. We need more works like Taras Bulba to better understand the emotional wellsprings of the threat we face today in places like the Middle East and Central Asia. And the critic John Cournos has noted, A clue to all Russian realism may be found in a Russian critics observation about Gogol: Seldom has nature created a man so romantic in bent, yet so masterly in portraying all that is unromantic in life. But this statement does not cover the whole ground, for it is easy to see in almost all of Gogols work his free Cossack soul trying to break through the shell of sordid today like some ancient demon, essentially Dionysian. So that his works, true though they are to our life, are at once a reproach, a protest, and a challenge, ever calling for joy, ancient joy, that is no more with us. And they have all the joy and sadness of the Ukrainian songs he loved so much.
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Taras Bulba a Tale of the Cossacksby Nicolai V. Gogol, Isabel F. HapgoodISBN 1417905433 (1-4179-0543-3)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Ukraine During World War II: History and Its Aftermathby Yury BoshykISBN 0920862365 (0-920862-36-5)
Softcover, Canadian Inst of Ukranian Study Pr
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Ukraine's Orange Revolutionby Andrew WilsonISBN 0300112904 (0-300-11290-4)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Ukrainian Armies 1914-55by Peter Abbott, O. Rudenko, D. AdamenkoISBN 1841766682 (1-84176-668-2)
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Ukrainian Easter Eggs and How You Make ThemISBN 0960250204 (0-9602502-0-4)
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Ukrainian Nationalismby John A. ArmstrongISBN 0872877558 (0-87287-755-8)
Hardcover, Libraries Unltd Inc
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The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nationby Andrew WilsonISBN 0300093098 (0-300-09309-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Use of Living Space in Prehistory: Papers from a Session Held at the European Association of Archaeologists Sixth Annual Meeting in Lisbon 2000by European Association of Archaeologists, O. V. SmyntynaISBN 1841715891 (1-84171-589-1)
Hardcover, Archaeopress
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The White Guardby Mikhail Bulgakov, Viktor NekrasovISBN 0002619059 (0-00-261905-9)
Hardcover, Collins
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The White Guardby Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov, Michael GleenyISBN 0897332466 (0-89733-246-6)
Hardcover, Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited
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With Fire and Swordby Henryk SienkiewiczISBN 141010057X (1-4101-0057-X)
Softcover, Fredonia Books
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Softcover, Simon & Schuster - With Fire and Sword: ISBN 0870529749 (0-87052-974-9)
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Wolves Eat Dogsby Martin Cruz SmithISBN 0671775952 (0-671-77595-2)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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You Belong to Meby Johanna LindseyISBN 1568952139 (1-56895-213-9)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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La Garde Blanche: Nouvelles, Recits, Articles De Varietesby Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov, Francoise Flamant, Edith Scherrer, Jean-Louis ChavarotISBN 2070112993 (2-07-011299-3)
Hardcover, Gallimard
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Parlons Ukrainien: Langue Et Cultureby V. V. KoptilovISBN 2738433855 (2-7384-3385-5)
Hardcover, Harmattan
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Istoriia Makhnovskogo Dvizheniia (1918-1921)by P. Arshinov, Nestor Ivanovich Makhno, H. A. Kuzmenko, V. KriukovISBN 5300005851 (5-300-00585-1)
Hardcover, TERRA
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Taras Bulbaby Nikolai Gogol, Peter Constantine, Robert D. KaplanISBN 0679642552 (0-679-64255-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Poltava: Berattelsen Om En Armes Undergangby Peter EnglundISBN 9174868349 (91-7486-834-9)
Hardcover, Atlantis
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Radetzkymarsch: Romanby Joseph RothISBN 3423017155 (3-423-01715-5)
Hardcover, Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag
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