Soviet politician and opposition leader Boris Yeltsin discusses his early life, political career, family, rise to power in the Communist party, relationship with Gorbachev, and the inner workings of Soviet politics

Product Description: Reissued to tie in with a new production of Flight adapted by Ron Hutchinson and performed at the Olivier, Royal National TheatreMikhail Bulgakov was one of the Soviet Union's finest playwrights, whose work was often at odds with the Soviet State...read more

Product Description: Part autobiography, part fiction, this early work by the author of The Master and Margarita shows a master at the dawn of his craft, and a nation divided by centuries of unequal progress.In 1916 a 25-year-old, newly qualified doctor named Mikhail Bulgakov was posted to the remote Russian countryside...read more

Product Description: Unavailable for twenty years, this harrowing allegory of obedience to authority is esteemed as “one of the defining literary texts of the post-Stalin period.” (The Guardian)Set in a remote Siberian depot immediately following the demolition of one of the gulag’s notorious camps and the emancipation of its prisoners, Faithful Ruslan is an embittered cri de coeur from a writer whose circumstances obliged him to resist the violence of arbitrary power...read more

Lyrical prose records a young Russian exile's recollections of his first love affair

The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow, accompanied by two demons, a naked girl and a huge black cat. When he leaves, the asylums are full and the forces of law and order in disarray. Only the Master, a man devoted to truth, and Margarita, the woman he loves, remain undiminished.

Featuring illuminating memoirs from three generations of Russian emigrees, this mosaic of testimonies provides a portrait of pre- and post-revolutionary Russia

Product Description: This work sums up Eisenstein's theoretical concepts of the aesthetics of cinema.

Product Description: A new edition of the Russian Nobelist's collection of novellas, short stories, and prose poems Stories and Prose Poems collects twenty-two works of wide-ranging style and character from the Nobel Prize–winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, whose shorter pieces showcase the extraordinary mastery of language that places him among the greatest Russian prose writers of the twentieth century...read more

The carefree world of the Turkin family is suddenly shattered by the revolutionary struggles which engulf Kiev