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  • Chernobyl Prayer

    A Chronicle of the Future

    by Svetlana Alexievich ...
    Translated by Arch Tait, Anna Gunin ...
    Series series Russian Literature
    From Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature: a devastating human history of the Chernobyl reactor disaster, now in an emotive new translation.First there is the voice of the firefighter’s wife, who was kept from going to her husband because he was a dangerous radioactive object. Then the voice of an old woman unable to see why she has to leave her farm and her village. ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Incredible Events in Women's Cell Number 3

    by Kira Yarmysh ...
    Translated by Arch Tait ...
    The startling, vivid debut novel by Alexei Navalny’s press secretary, following a woman who is arrested at an anti-corruption rally in Moscow and sentenced to ten days in a special detention center, where she shares a cell with five other women from all walks of lifeThe Incredible Events in Women’s Cell Number 3 is the debut novel by Kira Yarmysh that follows a young woman, Anya, who is arrested ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Charismatic Public Speaking

    by Sergey Shipunov ...
    Translated by Arch Tait ...
    This book will teach you how to become a lively, successful, and charismatic public speaker. Here you will find a fresh and entertaining explanation of virtually every aspect of public speaking: how to overcome stage fright, making eye contact, working on the voice, using pauses, questions, and gestures, avoiding parasitic words, how to face the public, acting skills, debating, storytelling, ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nothing but the Truth

    Selected Dispatches

    by Anna Politkovskaya ...
    Translated by Dr Arch Tait ...
    From the author of the internationally acclaimed Putin's Russia and A Russian Diary.Until her murder in October 2006, Anna Politkovskaya wrote for the Russian newspaper Novaya gazeta, winning international fame for her reporting on the Chechen wars and, more generally, on Russian politics and state corruption. Nothing But the Truth is a definitive collection of Anna Politkovskaya's best writings: ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The New Russia

    by Mikhail Gorbachev ...
    Translated by Arch Tait ...
    After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has been in the past 25 years. Putin’s motives, his reasons for seeking confrontation with the West, remain for many a mystery. Not for Mikhail Gorbachev. In this new work, Russia’s elder statesman draws on his wealth of knowledge and experience to reveal the development of Putin’s regime and ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Baize-Covered Table with Decanter

    by Vladimir Makanin ...
    Translated by Arch Tait ...
    Vladimir Makanin, was the great Russian chronicler of post-Soviet society, the new Russia that is seeking to expand and bringing new terror to the world today. With taut psychological depth, wry humor, caricature, and surreal fantasy, Makanin explores the roots of that society, including inside his own head.The hero of Baize-Covered Table undergoes a searching bureaucratic 'investigation', that ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Comrade Kerensky

    by Boris Kolonitskii ...
    Translated by Arch Tait ...
    Series series New Russian Thought
    As one of the heroes of the 1917 February Revolution and then Prime Minister at the head of the Provisional Government, Alexander Kerensky was passionately, even fanatically, lauded as a leader during his brief political reign. Symbolic artefacts – sculptures, badges and medals - featuring his likeness abounded. Streets were renamed after him, his speeches were quoted on gravestones and literary ... Read more

    Was $27.99 CAD Now $22.99 CAD

  • The Woods

    by Vladimir Bibikhin ...
    Translated by Arch Tait ...
    Series series New Russian Thought
    In our modern, urbanized societies, our engagement with the natural world often seems distant and superficial. Human life is now far removed from its prehistoric origins, when humans dwelt deep within the forests and depended on them for their survival.In this important book, Vladimir Bibikhin, one of Russia’s most influential twentieth-century philosophers, argues that, although most humans now ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • 1990

    Russians Remember a Turning Point

    by Irina Prokhorova, Dr Arch Tait ...
    Translated by Dr Arch Tait ...
    Although 1989 and 1991 witnessed more spectacular events, 1990 was a year of embryonic change in Russia: Article 6 of the constitution was abolished, and with it the Party's monopoly on political power. This fascinating collection of documentary evidence crystalises the aspirations of the Russian people in the days before Communism finally fell.It charts - among many other social developments - ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard

    by Ivan Chistyakov ...
    Translated by The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard Arch Tait ...
    In the archives of the Memorial International Human Rights Centre in Moscow is an extraordinary diary, a rare first-person testimony of a commander of guards in a Soviet labour camp.Ivan Chistyakov was sent to the Gulag in 1935, where he worked at the Baikal-Amur Corrective Labour Camp for over a year. Life at the Gulag was anathema to Chistyakov, a cultured Muscovite with a nostalgia for pre ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Leningrad 1941 - 42

    Morality in a City under Siege

    by Sergey Yarov ...
    Translated by Arch Tait ...
    This book recounts one of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century: the siege of Leningrad. It is based on the searing testimony of eyewitnesses, some of whom managed to survive, while others were to die in streets devastated by bombing, in icy houses, or the endless bread queues. All of them, nevertheless, wanted to pass on to us the story of the torments they endured, their stoicism, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Incredible Events in Women's Cell Number 3

    A Novel

    by Kira Yarmysh ...
    Narrated by Suzie Althens ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 22 min

    The Incredible Events in Women's Cell Number 3 is the debut novel by Kira Yarmysh that follows a young woman, Anya, who is arrested at a Moscow anti-corruption rally, and, under false charges, sentenced to a ten-day stretch at a special detention center.In a large barren room furnished only with communal bunkbeds, Anya meets her cellmates: five ordinary Russian women arrested on petty charges. ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD