The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive History of Russian Culture
7 best books like The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive History of Russian Culture (James H. Billington): Cry, the Beloved Country, Orientalism, Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War, The Mueller Report: Presented with Related Materials by The Washington Post, The Complete Short Novels, Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933, Shadow of the Galilean
Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa’s history, was an immediate worldwide bestseller in 1948. Alan Paton’s impassioned novel about a black man’s country under white man’s law is a work of searing beauty.
Cry, the beloved country, for the...
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic.
In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism"...
Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
| Author | Svetlana Alexievich |
| ISBN | 0393336867 |
Winner of the Nobel Prize: “For her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.” —Swedish Academy, Nobel Prize citation
From 1979 to 1989 a million Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed 50,000 casualties—and the youth and...
The Mueller Report: Presented with Related Materials by The Washington Post
| Author | The Washington Post |
| ISBN | 1982129735 |
The only book with exclusive analysis by the Pulitzer Prize–winning staff of The Washington Post, and the most complete and authoritative available.
Read the findings of the Special Counsel’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, complete with accompanying...
Anton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels. Here, brought together in one volume for the first time, in a masterly new translation by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
The...
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933
| Author | Anne Applebaum |
| ISBN | 0771009305 |
The momentous new book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Iron Curtain. In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth century. With unprecedented...
| Author | Gerd Theißen |
| ISBN | 0800620577 |
I'm not sure what to say about this book. I read it for a class and found it interesting but also rather uninspiring. On the plus side, I appreciated Theissen's efforts to render historical information in the form of a novel. It was certainly a nice alternative to the usual class reading. On the negative...
