Meduza in English Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Animal Farm and 1984
George Orwell
In “Animal Farm” and “1984,” the lifelong socialist George Orwell cautioned the British left about the danger of totalitarianism. Owen Boynton reviews Masha Karp’s new book tracing the Russian roots of Orwell’s novels that still speak to us today. https://t.co/u8AYU40Lbn
Hardcover, 2003
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy: My Confession; Critique of Dogmatic Theology
Leo Tolstoy
111 years ago, tomorrow on November 20, 1910, Leo Tolstoy died of pneumonia at a railway station outside Lipetsk. He was 82. Both the station and the local town are now named in his honor. Tolstoy wrote books. https://t.co/Ry1IUqSDrr
Hardcover, 2022
$39.95$19.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
1984: 75th Anniversary
George Orwell
In “Animal Farm” and “1984,” the lifelong socialist George Orwell cautioned the British left about the danger of totalitarianism. Owen Boynton reviews Masha Karp’s new book tracing the Russian roots of Orwell’s novels that still speak to us today. https://t.co/u8AYU40Lbn
Paperback, Mass Market, 1950
$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Wanted: Dead or Revived
Clay More
A look back at Russia's ban on Americans adopting Russian children — a measure that, in addition to leaving more Russian kids without families, turned the country's lawmakers into "clay that the Kremlin could mold into whatever it wanted" once and for all. https://t.co/wKKwBMsGAX
Out of stock

Stalin: Passage to Revolution
Ronald Grigor Suny
For the 70th anniversary of Joseph Stalin’s death, Meduza spoke to historian and Stalin biographer, Ronald Grigor Suny, about the Soviet autocrat’s rise to power, the 1930s Great Terror, the Holodomor in Ukraine, and the imperial aspects of the USSR. https://t.co/3Vj9fm8hNd
Paperback, 2022
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Moomin: Volume 2: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip
Tove Jansson
Moomin Characters, the Finnish branded goods company run by the heirs of the artist and writer Tove Jansson, has declined to renew or extend Moomin product licenses for partners in Russia. https://t.co/9X6uYTHH3V
Hardcover, 2007
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent
Dan Healey
There’s a new Russian translation now available of historian Dan Healey’s book “Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia.” He explained his research to Meduza and recalled the missed opportunities of the 1990s. https://t.co/MqPPaKuSND
Paperback, 2001
$49.00$24.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Animal Farm: 75th Anniversary Edition
George Orwell
In “Animal Farm” and “1984,” the lifelong socialist George Orwell cautioned the British left about the danger of totalitarianism. Owen Boynton reviews Masha Karp’s new book tracing the Russian roots of Orwell’s novels that still speak to us today. https://t.co/u8AYU40Lbn
Paperback, Mass Market, 2004
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Animal Farm: (Annotated Edition)
George Orwell
In “Animal Farm” and “1984,” the lifelong socialist George Orwell cautioned the British left about the danger of totalitarianism. Owen Boynton reviews Masha Karp’s new book tracing the Russian roots of Orwell’s novels that still speak to us today. https://t.co/u8AYU40Lbn
Out of stock

Animal Farm
George Orwell
In “Animal Farm” and “1984,” the lifelong socialist George Orwell cautioned the British left about the danger of totalitarianism. Owen Boynton reviews Masha Karp’s new book tracing the Russian roots of Orwell’s novels that still speak to us today. https://t.co/u8AYU40Lbn
Hardcover, 1990
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book