Utopia's Discontents: Russian Émigrés and the Quest for Freedom, 1830s-1930s
By: Faith Hillis
4.53
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
In April 1917, Lenin arrived at Petrograd's Finland Station and set foot on Russian soil for the fi…
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1. The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569 - 1999
By: Timothy Snyder
4.30
Format: 367 pages, Paperback
Timothy Snyder traces the emergence of four rival modern nationalist ideologies from common medieva… read more
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- history
- russia
- nonfiction
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
- russia
- nonfiction
3. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
By: Milan Kundera , Michael Henry Heim
4.11
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a… read more
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"I want you to be weak. As weak as I am."-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
"Physical love is unthinkable without violence."-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
"Only the most naive of questions are truly serious."-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
"The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man."-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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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"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 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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"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
6. 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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"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
7. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
By: Walter Benjamin , Rodney Livingstone , Michael W. Jennings , Brigid Doherty , None , Howard Eiland , Thomas Y. Levin
4.02
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
Benjamin's famous 'Work of Art' essay sets out his boldest thoughts--on media and on culture in gen… read more
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- nonfiction
8. The Power of the Powerless
By: Václav Havel , John Keane
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
Designed as an introduction to emergency management, this book includes pieces on: social, politica… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
9. Orlando
By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more
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"Life and a lover"-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Thoughts are divine."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
10. On Anarchism
By: Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman
4.42
Format: 718 pages, Paperback
We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
11. 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
- russia
- nonfiction
12. 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
13. The Gift
By: Vladimir Nabokov , Michael Scammell , Dmitri Nabokov
3.33
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
The Giftis the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his native Russian and the crowning achievement … read more
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14. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
By: Serhii Plokhy
3.87
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political… read more
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15. Sketches from a Hunter's Album
By: Ivan Turgenev , Richard Freeborn
3.50
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Turgenev's first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches: the observations and anecdot… read more
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16. 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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17. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
By: Benedict Anderson
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more
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18. What Is to Be Done?
By: Vladimir Lenin , Robert Service , Joe Fineberg , George H. Hanna
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In What Is to Be Done?, Lenin in 1901 argues that the working class will not spontaneously become p… read more
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"Ancak kendine güveni olmayanlar, güvenilmez insanlarla bile olsa geçici ittifaklara girmekten korkar ve hiçbir politik parti bu tür ittifaklar olmadan var olamaz."-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?
"Ya burjuva ideolojisi ya da sosyalist ideoloji. Bunun ortası yok (çünkü insanlık "üçüncü" bir ideoloji yaratmış değildir; ayrıca genel olarak sınıfsal çelişkilerle parçalanmış bir toplumda, hiçbir za…"-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?
"We are marching in a compact group along a precipitous and difficult path, firmly holding each other by the hand. We are surrounded on all sides by enemies, and we have to advance almost constantly u…"-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?
"Rusya'da, hem 1870'li, hem de 1860'lı yıllarda (hatta 19. yüzyılın ilk yarısında) da grevler oldu ve bunlar makinelerin vb. "kendiliğinden" tahrip edilmesi vb. eşliğinde yaşanan grevlerdi. Bu "isyanl…"-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?
19. 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
20. Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more
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21. Stoner
By: John Williams , John McGahern
4.34
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming famil… read more
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"Annesi, hayatını sabırla kabullenmişti, katlanmak zorunda olduğu uzun bir anmışçasına."-John Williams, Stoner
"Within a month he knew that his marriage was a failure; within a year he stopped hoping that it would improve."-John Williams, Stoner
"But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before."-John Williams, Stoner
"While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time."-John Williams, Stoner
22. 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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23. The Habsburg Empire: A New History
By: Pieter M. Judson
4.16
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In a panoramic and pioneering reappraisal, Pieter Judson shows why the Habsburg Empire mattered so … read more
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24. Speak, Memory
By: Vladimir Nabokov
4.00
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
'Speak, memory' said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of en… read more
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25. 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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26. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
27. 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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28. 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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- russia
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29. Utopia's Discontents: Russian Émigrés and the Quest for Freedom, 1830s-1930s
By: Faith Hillis
4.53
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
In April 1917, Lenin arrived at Petrograd's Finland Station and set foot on Russian soil for the fi… read more
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- russia
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30. The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty
By: Natasha Wheatley
4.15
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
An intellectual history of sovereignty that reveals how the Habsburg Empire became a crucible for o… read more
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- nonfiction
31. The Balkans: Revolution, War, and Political Violence since 1878 (Zones of Violence)
By: Mark Biondich
3.60
Format: 402 pages, Hardcover
The Balkans has long been a place of encounter among different peoples, religions, and civilization… read more
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