The Collected Tales

Written by Nikolai Gogol
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26969-0 (0-307-26969-8)

From the acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, and The Brothers Karamazov, a brilliant translation of Nikolai Gogol’s short fiction.

Collected here are Gogol’s finest tales—stories that combine the wide-eyed, credulous imagination of the peasant with the sardonic social criticism of the city dweller—allowing readers to experience anew the... Read more >

Uncivil Society
1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment
Written by Stephen Kotkin
Contribution by Jan Gross

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-64276-3 (0-679-64276-5)

Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history’s most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded–and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. Gross, drawing upon two decades of reflection, revisit this... Read more >

Putin's Labyrinth
Spies, Murder, and the Dark Heart of the New Russia
Written by Steve Levine

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7841-4 (0-8129-7841-2)

In Putin’s Labyrinth, acclaimed journalist Steve LeVine, who lived in and reported from the former Soviet Union for more than a decade, provides a gripping account of modern Russia. President Dmitri Medvedev and the country’s real power, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, are posing a resolute challenge to the West. In a... Read more >

The Last Station
A Novel of Tolstoy's Last Year
Written by Jay Parini

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38615-1 (0-307-38615-5)

Set in the last tumultuous years of Leo Tolstoy's life, The Last Station centers on the battle for his soul waged by his wife, Sofya Andreyevna, and his leading disciple, Vladimir Cherkov.

Torn between his professed doctrine of poverty and chastity and the reality of his enormous wealth, his thirteen children... Read more >

Koestler
The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic
Written by Michael Scammell

Format: Hardcover, 720 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: December 29, 2009
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-57630-5 (0-394-57630-6)

From award-winning author Michael Scammell comes a monumental achievement: the first authorized biography of Arthur Koestler, one of the most influential and controversial intellectuals of the twentieth century. Over a decade in the making, and based on new research and full access to its subject’s papers, Koestler is the definitive account... Read more >

Revolution 1989
The Fall of the Soviet Empire
Written by Victor Sebestyen

Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-42532-5 (0-375-42532-2)

From the author of Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution comes a revealing new account of the collapse of the Soviet Union’s European empire during months of largely peaceful revolution that profoundly changed the world.

At the start of 1989, six European nations were Soviet vassal states. By... Read more >

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

Written by Leo Tolstoy
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 17, 2009
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26881-5 (0-307-26881-0)

From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the best-selling, award-winning translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, comes a new, beautifully crafted, and eminently readable translation of Tolstoy’s most important short fiction.

Here are eleven incandescent stories from the mature author, some autobiographical, others moral parables, and all imaginative, transcendent, and evocatively... Read more >