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Fear
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Anatoli Rybakov
Continuing the saga begun in Children of the Arbat, here is a sweeping vision of the former Soviet Union in the Stalin era. From Siberia to the Arbat, "enemies of the state" are disappearing--taken away to prison camps or the firing squads. Young Sasha, returning after three years in exile, faces the madness of the Great Purge.
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St. Petersburg: A Cultural History
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Solomon Volkov, Antonina W Bouis (Translator)
the city of St. Petersburg became the center of liberal opposition to the dominating power of the state, whether czarist or communist. Acclaimed Russian historian and emigre Volkov writes the definitive "cultural biography" of that famed city, sharply detailing the well-known figures of the arts whose works are now part of the permanent fabric of ...
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Beauty in Exile: The Artists, Models, and Nobility Who Fled the Russian Revolution and Influenced the World of Fashion
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Aleksandr Vasil'ev, Alexandre Vassilieu, Antonina W Bouis (Translator)
In this extravagantly illustrated volume, Alexandre Vassiliev, a Russian-born costume and set designer, explores the ways in which exiled Russian artists and aristocrats influenced the American and European fashion scenes during the early- and mid-20th century. Her subjects include Serge Diaghilev, Anna Pavlova, Erté, George Hoyningen-Huene, and ...
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In Search of Melancholy Baby
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Vasilii Pavlovich Aksenov, Vassily Aksyonov
This celebrated Russian emigre novelist chronicles his encounter with America; through his eyes readers see the psyche, the landscape and the cultural life of the United States. Contains a new postscript on Gorbachev.
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Dust and Ashes
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Anatoli Rybakov, Antonina W. Bouis (Translator)
The concluding volume of Rybakov's trilogy, this novel examines Russia under Stalin.
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Putin's Russia
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Lilia Shevtsova, Antonina W Bouis (Translator)
On December 31, 1999, ailing political maverick Boris Yeltsin abruptly handed the country's leadership over to the virtually unknown former intelligence officer Vladimir Putin. The new Kremlin boss represented both continuity and change. While he was linked with the past, he also signified a sharp break from it. With Putin's ascent to power, ...
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A Letter for Daria
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Ekaterina Gordeeva, Antonina W Bouis
In this wise and loving book, Olympic gold medal-winning skater Ekaterina Gordeeva talks to her young daughter, Daria, about the strength of family life and tradition as well as about a mother's hopes for her daughter. Illustrated with wonderful photos and Daria's drawings, this is a special book that mothers and daughters will want to share with ...
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Fatal Half Measures: The Culture of Democracy in the Soviet Union
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Antonina W Bouis (Editor)
In essays and poetry, the author reveals the growth of his own intellectual and artistic development, and that of his contemporaries and the cultural and social pressures they continually confronted. He defends his theory that "perestroika" has been quietly underway since the death of Stalin.
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The World of Andrei Sakharov: A Russian Physicist's Path to Freedom
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Gennady Gorelik, Antonina W Bouis
How did Andrei Sakharov, a theoretical physicist and the acknowledged father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, become a human rights activist and the first Russian to win the Nobel Peace Prize? In his later years, Sakharov noted in his diary that he was "simply a man with an unusual fate." To understand this deceptively straightforward statement by an ...
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I, Maya Plisetskaya
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Ms. Maya Plisetskaya, Antonina W Bouis (Narrator), Tim Scholl (Foreword by)
Maya Plisetskaya, one of the world's foremost dancers, rose to become a prima ballerina of Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet after an early life filled with tragedy and loss. In this spirited memoir, Plisetskaya reflects on her personal and professional odyssey, presenting a unique view of the life of a Soviet artist during the troubled period from the late ...
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The uncertainty principle
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Dmitrii Bilenkin
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The Intimate Diary of a Russian Woman: My Search for Meaning in the Midst of My Country's Upheaval
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Elena Romine, Antonina W Bouis (Translator)
A moving, personal account of everyday struggles in post-glasnost Russia. Romine gives a tribute to her generation of Russians and their emotional struggles in a time that may now seem only to have changed for the worse. Born and educated in Moscow, Romine now lives in the U.S. and lectures about changes in the Soviet Union.
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Danilov, the Violist
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Vladimir Orlov, Antonina W Bouis (Translator)
An entertaining and whimsical novel from the Soviet Union about the misadventures of a half-demon violist sent to wreak havoc on Earth.
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Forever Nineteen
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Grigory Baklanov, Antonina W Bouis (Translator)
The experiences of a nineteen-year-old Soviet lieutenant on the front during World War II as he defends his Russian homeland from the Nazis.
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Intergirl: The Russian Export Girl
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Vladimir Kunin, Antonina W Bouis (Translator)
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The Time Wanderers
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Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky, Antonina W. Bouis (Translator)
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We Were Not Like Other People
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Ephraim Sevela, Efraim Sevela, Antonina W Bouis (Translator)
Separated from his family when the Germans invade Russia during World War II, a young boy learns to fend for himself and earn a living whenever and however he can.
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First Love
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Mikhail Roshchin, Antonina W. Bouis (Translator)
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Woman with a Movie Camera: My Life as a Russian Filmmaker
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Marina Evseevna Goldovskaia, Antonina W Bouis (Translator), Professor Robert Rosen (Foreword by)
Marina Goldovskaya is one of Russia's best-known documentary filmmakers. The first woman in Russia (and possibly the world) to combine being a director, writer, cinematographer, and producer, Goldovskaya has made over thirty documentary films and more than one hundred programs for Russian, European, Japanese, and American television. Her work, ...
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First Draft
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Nika Turbina, Nina Bouis (Translator), Antonina W Bouis (Translator)
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From Russia to the West
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Nathan Milstein, Solomon Volkov, Antonina W. Bouis (Translator)
Anecdotal, witty and thoroughly opinionated, From Russia to the West relates an autobiographical journey no other musician of Milstein's rank has ever recorded--from prerevolutionary Russia to the Berlin of the '20s, Paris of the '30s and over the years since as a peripatetic performer known and lovedt hroughout the West. 16 pages of black-and ...
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Epicenter of Peace
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Nursultan Nazarbaev; Editor-Kenneth J. Zita; Translator-Antonina W. Bouis
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Balanchine's Tchaikovsky
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Solomon Volkov, Antonina W Bouis (Translator)
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Almost at the End
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Antonina W Bouis (Translator), John Ashbery (Foreword by)
Alternating brilliant poetry and prose, Yevtushenko juxtaposes his public persona with his private world in these meditations on love, literature, film, children, the Grand Canyon, Hitler, and more. Yevtushenko will go on a 26-city American tour from November 1986-Janurary 1987.
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A Crate of Vodka: An Insider View on the 20 Years That Shaped Modern Russia
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Alfred Kokh, Ph.D., Igor Svinarenko, Antonina W Bouis (Translator)
"Brezhnev died in 1982, and in 2001 terrorists bombed New York and Washington. In between, in 1991, a great empire collapsed. All those events fit into our slice of time, exactly twenty years, like vodka bottles in a crate." In the course of a series of conversations, the authors revisit, in an original give-and-take, the last twenty years of ...
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