A History of Russian Thought: From the Enlightenment to Marxism
By: Andrzej Walicki
4.23
Format: 476 pages, Paperback
A Stanford University Press classic.
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1. Heart of a Dog
By: Mikhail Bulgakov , Mirra Ginsburg , Michail Bulgakov
4.10
Format: 123 pages, Paperback
This satirical novel tells the story of the surgical transformation of a dog into a man, and is an … read more
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"A dog's spirit dies hard."-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
"One can find time for everything if one is never in a hurry."-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
"Why bother to learn to read when you can smell meat a mile away?"-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
"İki ayağını bir pabuca sokmayan herkes, her şey için zaman bulabilir."-Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
2. Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment (Modern Library Chronicles)
By: Jan Tomasz Gross , Stephen Kotkin
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history’s most miraculous occurrences, com… read more
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- history
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- russian history
3. The State and Revolution
By: Vladimir Lenin
4.24
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
1917-ci ilin avqust-sentyabr aylarında yazılan yaradıcı marksizmin bu görkəmli əsəri – “Dövlət və i… read more
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"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!"-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
"To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarianism, not only in parliamen…"-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
"We must also note that Engels is most definite in calling universal suffrage an instrument of bourgeois rule. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously summing up the long experience of German Social-De…"-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
"Take any parliamentary country, from America to Switzerland, from France to England, Norway and so forth - in these countries the real business of the 'state' is preformed behind the scenes and is ca…"-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
4. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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- philosophy
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"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
5. The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945
By: Saul Friedländer
4.24
Format: 870 pages, Hardcover
With The Years of Extermination, Saul Friedländer completes his major historical work on Nazi Germa… read more
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"Esa sensación de extrañeza me parece que refleja la percepción por parte de las desventuradas víctimas del régimen, al menos durante los años treinta, de una realidad tan absurda como ominosa, de un …"-Saul Friedländer, The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945
6. The Wretched of the Earth
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha
4.32
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more
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- nonfiction
"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
7. Napoleon: A Life
By: Andrew Roberts
4.23
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of… read more
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"I am very happy to see the enemy wish to avoid our coming to him. – Napoleon"-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
"I have beaten the Russian and Austrian army commanded by the two emperors. I am a little tired."-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
"His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives."-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life
8. Tao Te Ching
By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe
4.30
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more
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- history
"The heart that gives, gathers."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
9. Oblomov
By: Ivan Goncharov , Stephen Pearl , Galya Diment
4.12
Format: 586 pages, Paperback
Even though Ivan Goncharov wrote several books that were widely read and discussed during his lifet… read more
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"Now or never. To be or not to be!"-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
"Love was life's hardest school of all."-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
"You have a lunatic before you who has been infected by passion."-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
"The common herd of "burghers", those cattle, complete with horns, who turn millstones with their bare hands."-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
10. The Russian Revolution 1917-1932
By: Sheila Fitzpatrick
1.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
This provocative and eminently readable work looks at the many upheavals of the Russian Revolution … read more
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- history
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- russian history
11. The Brothers Karamazov
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky
4.37
Format: 796 pages, Paperback
The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry… read more
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- russia
"How good life is when one does something good and just!"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Forgive me... for my love - for ruining you with my love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
12. The Death of Ivan Ilych
By: Leo Tolstoy , Aylmer Maude
4.13
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of I… read more
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"If you look for the working classes in fiction, and especially English fiction, all you find is a hole."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"And the further he departed from childhood and the nearer he came to the present the more worthless and doubtful were the joys."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"In the depths of his heart he knew that he was dying but, so far from growing used to the idea, he simply did not and could not grasp it."-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
"It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!"-Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
13. Invisible Cities
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more
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14. The Trial
By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Edwin Muir , Willa Muir
3.95
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifyi… read more
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"But I’m not guilty,"-Franz Kafka, The Trial
"Asking questions were the most important thing."-Franz Kafka, The Trial
"It was very learned, but it didn't actually say anything."-Franz Kafka, The Trial
"The way she sits on my lap as if it were her proper place!"-Franz Kafka, The Trial
15. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.02
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
A short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in 1877. It begins with a man walking St. Petersburg's … read more
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"I want to suffer so that I may love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
"How anxiously I yearned for those I had forsake"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
"how anxiously I yearned for those I had forsaken."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
"أصبحت فجأة لا أغضب من الناس، بل ما عدت ألاحظ وجودهم."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
16. The Captain's Daughter
By: Alexander Pushkin , Robert Chandler
4.44
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Pushkin's version of the historical novel in the style of Walter Scott, this final prose work also … read more
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17. Theogony/Works and Days
By: Hesiod , None
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Hesiod, one of the oldest known Greek poets, stands out as the first personality in European litera… read more
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18. Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
By: Vladimir Lenin
4.23
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
'Globalisation' is the buzzword of the 1990s. VI Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitali… read more
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"Crises of every kind — economic crises more frequently, but not only these — in their turn increase very considerably the tendency towards concentration and monopoly."-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"At the basis of these swindles and manipulations lies socialised production; but the immense progress of humanity, which achieved this socialisation, goes to benefit the speculators."-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop…"-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"As long as capitalism remains what it is, surplus capital will never be utilised for the purpose of raising the standard of living of the masses in a given country, for this would mean a decline in p…"-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
19. The House of the Dead
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Ergin Altay
3.67
Format: 542 pages, Paperback
Accused of political subversion as a young man, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sentenced to four years of h… read more
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20. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
By: Peter Frankopan
3.77
Format: None pages,
From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and a… read more
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21. My Past and Thoughts: The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen
By: Constance Garnett , Dwight Macdonald , Alexander Herzen
3.75
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
Alexander Herzen's own brilliance and the extraordinary circumstances of his life combine to place … read more
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22. The Master and Margarita
By: Mikhail Bulgakov , None , Katherine Tiernan O'Connor , None
4.29
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece. An au… read more
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"Cowardice is the most terrible of vices."-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
"manuscripts don't burn" - "(рукописи не горят)"-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
"The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!"-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
"Злых людей нет на свете, есть только люди несчастливые."-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
23. Pnin
By: Vladimir Nabokov , David Lodge
4.00
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, Pninfeatures his funniest and most heart-rending charact… read more
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24. A History of Russian Thought: From the Enlightenment to Marxism
By: Andrzej Walicki
4.23
Format: 476 pages, Paperback
A Stanford University Press classic. read more
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25. A Journey from Saint Petersburg to Moscow
By: Aleksandr Radishchev
3.53
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
Наиболее известное произведение Александра Радищева (1749—1802). Опубликовано в мае 1790 года. Рома… read more
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