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- Our enemies will vanish : the Russian invasion and Ukraine's war of independence / by Trofimov, Yaroslav,author.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index."Yaroslav Trofimov, the Ukrainian chief foreign-affairs correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, offers an eyewitness account of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine"--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Trofimov, Yaroslav.; Russian Invasion of Ukraine, 2022.; Russian Invasion of Ukraine, 2022;
- Blood on the snow : the Russian Revolution 1914-1924 / by Service, Robert,1947-author.;
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-379) and index.In Blood on the Snow, Robert Service returns to the subject that has formed the backbone of his long and distinguished career: the Russian Revolution.
- Stories / by Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich,1860-1904.; Pevear, Richard,1943-; Volokhonsky, Larissa.;
- Subjects: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904; Short stories, Russian.;
- © c2000., Bantam Books,
- The fourth man : the hunt for a KGB spy at the top of the CIA and the rise of Putin's Russia / by Baer, Robert,author.;
- A former CIA officer reveals the never-before-told story of the post-Cold War hunt for a KGB spy in the top ranks of the CIA, led by three women who squared off against a man who could have been the most damaging spy in U.S. history.
- Subjects: United States. Central Intelligence Agency.; Espionage, Russian; Intelligence service;
- Overreach : the inside story of Putin's war against Ukraine / by Matthews, Owen,author.;
- Includes bibliographical references.The Russo-Ukrainian War is the most serious geopolitical crisis since World War II--and yet at the heart of the conflict is a mystery. Vladimir Putin lurched from a calculating, subtle master of opportunity to a reckless gambler, putting his regime--and Russia itself--at risk of destruction. Why? Drawing on over 25 years' experience working in Moscow, journalist Owen Matthews provides the answer. He takes us inside the COVID bubble where Putin conceived his invasion plans in a fog of nationalist fantasy and bad information--and into the inner circle around Ukrainian president and unexpected war hero Volodimir Zelensky. Using the testimonies of captured Russian conscripts and the last journalists in besieged Mariupol, Overreach uncovers what unfolded on the ground, while interviews with Putin's close network pull back the curtain on the decision-making process inside the Kremlin. With its panoramic view, Overreach is the authoritative, unmissable account of the conflict that shocked Europe to its core.
- Subjects: Ukraine Conflict, 2014-;
- Death is our business : Russian mercenaries and the new era of private warfare / by Lechner, John,author.;
- Featuring exclusive interviews with over 30 of its members, 'Death is Our Business' is the shocking inside story of how the Wagner Group rose to make private military companies inextricable from Russia's anti-Western foreign strategy.
- Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Prigozhin, Yevgeny, 1961-2023.; Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952-; Mercenary troops; Private military companies;
- Obezʹi͡anka-vorchun / by Lang, Suzanne.; Lang, Max,1982-;
- Subjects: Picture books.; Mood (Psychology); Chimpanzees; Animals; Friendship;
- The stolen heart / by Kurkov, Andreĭ,author.; Dralyuk, Boris,translator.; translation of:Kurkov, Andreĭ.Serdce ne mjaso.English.;
- "In the follow-up to The Silver Bone, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2024, Samson Kolechko must rescue his kidnapped fiancée while investigating the illegal sale of meat in lawless 1920s Kyiv- based on a real-life case. Samson Kolechko and his colleague have been dispatched to investigate the illegal sale of meat. How selling cuts of one's own livestock qualifies as a crime eludes the young investigator, but an order is an order, and, at the insistence of the secret police officer assigned to "reinforce" the Lybid police station, Samson vows to do his very best. But just as Samson is beginning to dig into the very meat of this case, his live-in fiancée Nadezhda is abducted by striking railway workers who object to the census she's carrying out. Complicating matters, the police station has been infiltrated by a mysterious thief, a deadly tram accident-which may have been premeditated-disrupts the city, and, to top it all, the culprit from Samson's "silver bone" investigation may have resurfaced. Against this backdrop, it's no wonder the "meat case" takes a backseat. Yet, despite the rising danger, the detective cannot let himself be distracted from his dogged pursuit of the seemingly mundane matter of the meat sellers, for ultimately his fate, and Nadezhda's too, rests on it"--
- Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Black market; Detectives; Man-woman relationships; Missing persons; Police; Women statisticians;
- House of Trump, House of Putin : the untold story of Donald Trump and the Russian mafia / by Unger, Craig,author.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subjects: Trump, Donald, 1946-; Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952-; United States. President (2017- : Trump); Political science.;
- After the Romanovs : Russian exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque through revolution and war / by Rappaport, Helen,author.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index."From Helen Rappaport, the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes After the Romanovs, the story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought freedom and refuge in the City of Light. Paris has always been a city of cultural excellence, fine wine and food and the latest fashions. But it has also been a place of refuge for those fleeing persecution, never more so than before and after the Russian Revolution and the fall of the Romanov dynasty. For years, Russian aristocrats had enjoyed all Belle Époque Paris had to offer, spending lavishly when they visited. It was a place of artistic experimentation such as Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. But the brutality of the Bolshevik takeover forced Russians of all types to flee their homeland, sometimes leaving with only the clothes on their backs. Arriving in Paris, former princes could be seen driving taxicabs, while their wives who could sew worked for the fashion houses, their unique Russian style serving as inspiration for designers like Coco Chanel. Talented intellectuals, artists, poets, philosophers and writers struggled in exile, eking out a living at menial jobs. Some, like Bunin, Chagall and Stravinsky, encountered great success in the same Paris that welcomed Americans like Fitzgerald and Hemingway. Political activists sought to overthrow the Bolshevik regime from afar, while double agents plotted espionage and assassination from both sides. Others became trapped in a cycle of poverty and their all-consuming homesickness for Russia, the homeland they had been forced to abandon. This is their story"--
- Subjects: Exiles; Political refugees; Russians; Russians; Russians; Russians;
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