Books

Based on extensive research and drawing on archives that were until recently inaccessible, Kristina Krasnyanskaya and Alexander Semenov document seven decades of interior design in the Soviet Union.

“Elegantly written and magisterially researched” (Robert Service, author of A History of Modern Russia), the definitive story behind the self-destruction of the autocratic Romanov dynasty, by the world’s foremost expert.

Featuring over 150 kiosks, this photobook provides previously unseen documentation of the remaining modernist booths that witnessed the socio-political transformation of Eastern Europe at the end of the 20th century

Through five chapters containing more than 150 photographs, the book documents the mass-produced, yet diverse play equipment installed in the communal spaces of socialist-era housing estates.

Brutal East is a kit of illustrated cut-out paper models, celebrating the post-war architecture of central and eastern Europe, that allows you to playfully explore and reconstruct some of the most controversial edifices erected behind the Iron Curtain.

This engaging book allows readers to explore and learn about the brutalist architecture erected in the former Eastern Bloc, and build some of their most intriguing edifices, from the massive housing estates in Moscow to the brutal skyline of Tbilisi.

The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs.

Before the War in the Skies, before the map of Tsaretsvo was sliced in two and divided, birds and humans lived in peace. To save her sister, Olga will need her wits, her cunning—and even her magic. Fantasy fiction for middle grades.

An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet Union

Grandma’s artwork—a special set of nesting dolls—shows Anyiaka that what’s on the outside doesn’t always tell the whole story, and that her family’s beauty and inner strength have deep roots that have been growing within each of them for generations.

Featuring more than 95 recipes for winter eating and entertaining, from soups and stews to melted cheese, pasta, pies, and dessert plus warming hot beverages, this book provides all the inspiration you will need.

This book presents the results of in-depth research and extensive travels in former Soviet space. Its prime focus is the impact of space exploration on everyday life in its pioneering age between the late 1950s and the 1980s.