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  • To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement

    by Benjamin Nathans ...
    **WINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZEWinner of the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize • Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize****A "riveting history" (Wall Street Journal) of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR and still provides a model of opposition in Putin’s Russia—and beyond“A book about a past time that is very much a book for our time. . . . A story from which ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • When We Cease to Understand the World

    by Benjamin Labatut ...
    Translated by Adrian Nathan West ...
    **One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2021Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize and the 2021 National Book Award for Translated LiteratureA fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining.**When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Beyond the Pale

    The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia

    by Benjamin Nathans ...
    Series Book 45 - Studies on the History of Society and Culture
    A surprising number of Jews lived, literally and figuratively, "beyond the Pale" of Jewish Settlement in tsarist Russia during the half-century before the Revolution of 1917. Thanks to the availability of long-closed Russian archives, along with a wide range of other sources, Benjamin Nathans reinterprets the history of the Russian-Jewish encounter.In the wake of Russia's "Great Reforms," Nathans ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • From Europe's East to the Middle East

    Israel's Russian and Polish Lineages

    Edited by Benjamin Nathans, Taro Tsurumi, Kenneth Moss ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    The overwhelming majority of Jews who laid the foundations of the Israeli state during the first half of the twentieth century came from the Polish lands and the Russian Empire. This is a fact widely known, yet its implications for the history of Israel and the Middle East and, reciprocally, for the history of what was once the demographic heartland of the Jewish diaspora remain surprisingly ill ... Read more

    $78.39 CAD

  • The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs, Letters & Essays on Art, Religion and Politics

    Novels to Essays: Art, Faith & Society

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Translated by Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude, Constance Garnett, Benjamin R. Tucker, Leo Wiener, Nathan Haskell Dole, C. J. Hogarth, R. Nisbat Bain, Isabel Hapgood, George Calderon, Constantine Popoff, V. Tchertkoff ...
    This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs, Letters & Essays on Art, Religion and Politics" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Introduction Leo Tolstoy: Short Biography Novels Anna Karenina War and Peace The Death of Ivan Ilyich Childhood Boyhood Youth The Cossacks Resurrection Family ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause

    The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement

    by Benjamin Nathans ...
    Narrated by Rich Miller ...

    Unabridged

    23 hours 55 min

    A gripping history of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR—and still provides a model of opposition in Putin’s RussiaBeginning in the 1960s, the Soviet Union was unexpectedly confronted by a dissident movement that captured the world’s imagination. Demanding that the Kremlin obey its own laws, an improbable band of Soviet citizens held unauthorized public gatherings, ... Read more

    $42.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anarchism

    A Conceptual Approach

    Edited by Benjamin Franks, Nathan Jun, Leonard Williams ...
    Anarchism is by far the least broadly understood ideology and the least studied academically. Though highly influential, both historically and in terms of recent social movements, anarchism is regularly dismissed. Anarchism: A Conceptual Approach is a welcome addition to this growing field, which is widely debated but poorly understood.Occupying a distinctive position in the study of anarchist ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • From Europe's East to the Middle East

    Israel's Russian and Polish Lineages

    Edited by Kenneth Moss, Benjamin Nathans, Taro Tsurumi ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    The overwhelming majority of Jews who laid the foundations of the Israeli state during the first half of the twentieth century came from the Polish lands and the Russian Empire. This is a fact widely known, yet its implications for the history of Israel and the Middle East and, reciprocally, for the history of what was once the demographic heartland of the Jewish diaspora remain surprisingly ill ... Read more

    $96.79 CAD

  • Benjamin Nathan Tuggle: Adventurer

    General George Washington and the American Revolution

    by Benjamin Nathan Tuggle ...
    Benjamin Nathan Tuggle thinks hes like any other twelve-year-old growing up in eastern Kentucky in 1976until he learns he can travel back in time. Now his love of American history is more than just book knowledge; he actively participates in it.In his newest adventure, Ben travels back to the year 1778 and the American Revolution. He visits with Martha Washington at Mount Vernon, where he sees the ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Handbook of Culture and Economic Behavior

    by Nathan Nunn, Leonard Wantchekon, Benjamin Enke, Paola Giuliano ...
    Series Book 1 - Handbook of Culture and Economic Behavior
    Handbook of Culture and Economic Behavior, Volume One, the latest release in this series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of interesting topics such as Understanding the Cultural Foundation of Psychology, Ethnographic Records, Folklore, and AI, On the Measurement of Social Heterogeneity, The Global Variation in Economic ... Read more

    $132.79 CAD

  • Africans in Exile

    Mobility, Law, and Identity

    Edited by Nathan Riley Carpenter, Benjamin N. Lawrance ...
    Series series Framing the Global
    "This rich volume will interest scholars and students of Africa, the African diaspora, world history, legal history, and international affairs." —Lorelle Semley, author of To Be Free and French: Citizenship in France's Atlantic EmpireThe enforced removal of individuals has long been a political tool used by African states to create generations of asylum seekers, refugees, and fugitives. Historians ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Altruist in Politics

    by Benjamin Nathan Cardozo ...
    There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them; and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion. The cause of such phenomena is not far to seek. “It used to appear to me, ” writes Count ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD