SLAVIC STUDIES 2010 Here Is a Round-Up of the Penguin Group (USA)’S Great Selection of Slavic Studies Titles

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) SLAVIC STUDIES 2010 Here is a round-up of the Penguin Group (USA)’s great selection of Slavic Studies titles. Click on the 13-digit ISBN to get more information on each title. Examination and personal copy forms are available at the back of the catalog. For personal service, adoption assistance, and complimentary exam copies, sign up for our College Faculty Info Service at http://www.penguin.com/facinfo TABLE OF CONTENTS RUSSIAN HISTORY ......................................2 EASTERN EUROPEAN LITERATURE .............. 12 EASTERN EUROPEAN HISTORY .....................4 CONTEMPORARY VOICES ........................... 13 RUSSIAN LITERATURE .................................6 REFERENCE & ANTHOLOGIES ..................... 14 EARLY PERIOD .....................................................6 COLLEGE FACULTY INFORMATION SERVICE ... 15 NINETEENTH CENTURY ........................................6 TWENTIETH CENTURY ..........................................9 SCHOOL & PERSONAL COPY ORDER FORM ... 17 TWENTY FIRST CENTURY ................................... 10 EXAMINATION COPY ORDER FORM ............. 18 POETRY ............................................................. 11 RUSSIAN HISTORY Antony Beevor William Craig STALINGRAD ENEMY AT THE GATES The Fateful Siege 1942-1943 The Battle for Stalingrad “Certainly the best narrative of the battle yet to appear “Craig has written a classic account of the Stalingrad and is not likely to be surpassed in our time.”—John Kee- epic—here is the drama, the terror, the horror and the gan. “Superb…Beevor combines a soldier’s understand- heroism of the greatest military encounter of our time.” ing of war’s realities with the narrative techniques of a —Harrison E. Salisbury. B/w photographs. novelist.”—Orlando Figes. Penguin • 472 pp. • 978-0-14-200000-7 • $16.00 Penguin • 560 pp. • 978-0-14-028458-4 • $18.00 Samuel Johnson Prize; the Wolfson History Prize; Pete Earley the Hawthornden Prize f COMRADE J THE MYSTERY OF OLGA CHEKHOVA The Untold Secrets of Russia’s Master Spy “A fascinating spy story…and a compelling investigation in America After the End of the Cold War that at last unveils the Second World War’s most bewilder- The remarkable story of the man who ran Russia’s post- ing International Woman of Mystery.”—Evening Standard Cold War spy program in America—and worked as a dou- (London). “His painstaking work clears away historical ble agent for the FBI. “Fascinating.”—Library Journal. gossip and shows how ingeniously Olga played powerful Berkeley • 352 pp. • 978-0-425-22562-2 • $15.00 figures off against each other to survive the revolution, the war, and Stalin’s purges.”—The New Yorker. Photos. Orlando Figes Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-303596-1 • $15.00 A PEOPLE’S TRAGEDY The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 Lesley Chamberlain “Will stand for some time as a standard of historical MOTHERLAND scholarship.”—The New York Times Book Review. “A soul- A Philosophical History of Russia stirring reassessment of the Russian Revolution…certain “A valiant, fascinating and intellectually rigorous attempt to become one of the seminal studies.”—The Philadelphia to make sense of an extremely difficult subject.”—Sunday Inquirer. Illustrations. Telegraph (London). Penguin • 1,024 pp. • 978-0-14-024364-2 • $25.00 Overlook • 352 pp. • 978-1-58567-965-2 • $18.95 Henry Wolfson History Prize Robert Conquest John Lewis Gaddis STALIN THE COLD WAR Breaker of Nations A New History “A superb portrait. Briskly written, authoritative yet not “Offers trenchant summaries of complex historical issues, pedantic, filled with interesting anecdotes…fascinating new angles on old controversies, and fresh ways of reading.”—The New York Times Book Review. thinking.”—William Taubman. “A succinct, crisply argued Penguin • 384 pp. • 978-0-14-016953-9 • $17.00 account of the Soviet-American conflict that…synthe- sizes the mountain of archival material that began appearing in the 1990’s. Energetically written and lucid.”—The New York Times. For instructions on requesting permission to photocopy Penguin Group (USA ) titles, for coursepacks and for general Penguin • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-303827-6 • $16.00 classroom use go to: www.penguin.com/permissions or call the Copyright Clearance Center at 978-750-8400. 2 f NEW OR FORTHCOMING SLAVIC STUDIES 2010 RUSSIAN HISTORY Michelle Goldberg Richard Overy f THE MEANS OF REPRODUCTION RUSSIA’S WAR Sex, Power, and Future of the World Recreates the Soviet Union’s apocalyptic struggle against “May be the most important book you’ll ever read about Germany during World War II, from the point of view of the future of the human race.”—Rick Perlstein. “A land- both troops and civilians. “Making excellent use of newly mark book.”—Jeff Sharlet. available Presidential archival material and K.G.B. collec- Penguin Press • 272 pp. • 978-1-59420-208-7 • $25.95 tions, Overy has written a penetrating and compassion- Penguin • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-311688-2 • $16.00 ate book.”—The New York Times Book Review. Penguin paperback availible April 2010 Penguin • 432 pp. • 978-0-14-027169-0 • $17.00 Ian Kershaw Richard Pipes FATEFUL CHOICES RUSSIA UNDER THE OLD REGIME Ten Decisions that Changed the World 1940-1941 Second Edition Analyzes the series of related decisions by the leaders of “One of the finest books ever written on Russian the world’s major powers that decided the course and civilization.”—The Guardian (London). Maps. outcome of World War II. “An absolutely first-rate schol- Penguin • 384 pp. • 978-0-14-024768-8 • $17.00 arly study of a series of vital, inter-related political choices by one of the leading historians of the age.”—Tony Judt. S.M. Plokhy “Kershaw does an excellent job of synthesizing a great f YALTA deal of scholarship and thereby helping to further our The Price of Peace understanding of this epic struggle—as well as the role “In this insightful new book, S. M. Plokhy takes on per- of contingency in the making of history.”—The New York haps the most controversial and least understood sum- Times. B/w photos, maps. mit of modern times….The Big Three come to life in Penguin • 656 pp. • 978-0-14-311372-0 • $18.00 Plokhy’s telling, and the analysis is sober and strong.”— Jon Meacham, author of American Lion. “Yalta provides V. I. Lenin and important and timely corrective to the myths that THE STATE AND REVOLUTION have lasted far too long. His detailed and balanced Translated with an Introduction by Robert Service account should do much to correct the misunderstand- Penguin Classics • 192 pp. • 978-0-14-018435-8 • $14.00 ings and distortions.”—Antony Beevor. B/w photos. Viking • 448 pp. • 978-0-670-02141-3 • $29.95 Dominic Lieven f RUSSIA AGAINST NAPOLEON John Reed The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD A major new history of the Napoleonic wars based on a Introductions by A.J.P. Taylor and V. I. Lenin fresh examination of the Russian Military archives. “A Reed’s classic eyewitness account of the events in Lenin- monumental work…full of new material from the archives grad in November of 1917 “rises above every other con- and fresh insights.”—Orlando Figes. temporary record.”—George F. Kennan. Viking • 512 pp. • 978-0-670-02157-4 • $34.95 Penguin Classics • 368 pp. • 978-0-14-144212-9 • $12.00 Available April 2010 Norman Stone Fitzroy Maclean THE EASTERN FRONT, 1914-1917 EASTERN APPROACHES “It is very rare that a book remains a landmark in its field A classic account, originally published in 1949, of a young for twenty years. This is one example. It is still the best diplomat’s time in Russia before the Second World War. book on the Eastern Front.”—Orlando Figes. Penguin • 576 pp. • 978-0-14-013271-7 • $30.00 Penguin • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-026725-9 • $15.00 Roy Medvedev and Zhores Medvedev Leon Trotsky UNKNOWN STALIN f AN APPEAL TO THE TOILING, OPPRESSED His Life, Death and Legacy AND EXHAUSTED PEOPLES OF EUROPE Translated by Ellen Dahrendorf Penguin Great Ideas “One of the most remarkable books about Joseph Stalin I Penguin • 144 pp. • 978-0-14-104256-5 • $10.00 have read for many years….It is a behind-the-scenes story of what happened on a day-to-day basis inside the Kremlin.” Henri Troyat —The Washington Times. “Fascinating and innovative.” CATHERINE THE GREAT —Simon Sebag Montefiore. Translated by Joan Pinkham Overlook • 336 pp. • 978-1-58567-644-6 • $16.95 “Troyat chooses a theatrical approach full of surprises and suspense.”—Le Monde. Plume • 400 pp. • 978-0-452-01120-5 • $18.00 SLAVIC STUDIES 2010 f NEW OR FORTHCOMING 3 RUSSIAN HISTORY Tim Tzouliadis John Ure f THE FORSAKEN f THE COSSACKS An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia An Illustrated History The story of how thousands of Americans were lured to “An excellent introduction to the subject.”—The Daily Soviet Russia by the promise of jobs only to meet a tragic Telegraph (London). 105 full-color & 30 b/w illustrations. and largely forgotten end. “Tzouliadis’s clear, strong narra- Overlook • 260 pp. • 978-1-59020-212-8 • $24.95 tive discloses the terrible fates which awaited those—com- mitted communists and apolitical innocents alike—who Timothy Ware wandered into the Soviet sphere.”—The Financial Times. THE ORTHODOX CHURCH Penguin • 448 pp. • 978-0-14-311542-7 • $17.00 Revised Edition Describes the history of the Eastern Church over the last two thousand years. Map. Penguin • 368 pp. • 978-0-14-014656-1 • $17.00 EASTERN EUROPEAN HISTORY Norman Davies Zlata Filipović RISING ‘44 ZLATA’S DIARY The Battle for Warsaw A Child’s Life in Wartime Sarajevo “Powerful and compelling…Davies provides a gripping Introduction by the author account of the Rising, interspersing his narrative with “Conveys the bewilderment and horror of modern-day many first-person accounts that detail moments of hero- conflict.”—San Francisco Chronicle. “A graphic first-hand ism and of tragedy.”—The Boston Globe.

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