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    ‘A Seditious and Sinister Tribe'

    Donald Rayfield

    The first history in English for over 100 years of the Crimean Tatars.

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    Understanding Chekhov: A Critical Study of Chekhov’s Prose and Drama

    Donald Rayfield

    This book is designed to enhance the understanding of those who read Chekhov’s stories or watch his plays. It reveals the levels of meaning and intention, the interpretations that author…

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    Stalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him

    Donald Rayfield

    Stalin did not act alone. The mass executions, the mock trials, the betrayals and purges, the jailings and secret torture that ravaged the Soviet Union during the three decades of…

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    Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya and the Wood Demon

    Donald Rayfield

    Uncle Vania is Chekhov’s best loved and perhaps his best composed play, yet this is the first book to be solely devoted to it in any language. Donald Rayfield brings…

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    The Literature of Georgia: A History

    Donald Rayfield

    The first comprehensive and objective history of the literature of Georgia, revealed to be unique among those of the former Byzantine and Russian empires, both in its quality and its…

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    Stalin and His Hangmen: An Authoritative Portrait of a Tyrant and Those Who Served Him

    Donald Rayfield

    Stalin, like Hitler and other tyrants, won and held power because he had collaborators - hangmen. Drawing on newly released archival material, Donald Rayfield gives us a fuller and more…

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    The Cherry Orchard: Catastrophe and Comedy

    Donald Rayfield

    Series Editor: Robert Lecker, McGill University Written in an easy-to-read, accessible style by teachers with years of classroom experience, Masterwork Studies are guides to the literary works most frequently studied…

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    Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia

    Donald Rayfield

    Georgia is the most Western-looking state in today’s Near or Middle East. This book begins with the first intimations of the existence of Georgians in ancient Anatolia and ends with…

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    The Literature of Georgia: A History

    Donald Rayfield

    The first comprehensive and objective history of the literature of Georgia, revealed to be unique among those of the former Byzantine and Russian empires, both in its quality and its…

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    Understanding Chekhov: A Critical Study Of Chekhov’S Prose And Drama

    Donald Rayfield

    Of all Russian writers, Chekhov is one of the best liked and most easily appreciated. Yet he is also one of the most elusive. Here Donald Rayfield reveals the layers…

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    Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia

    Donald Rayfield

    Now available in paperback, this is the first comprehensive history of Georgia for decades, focusing not only on the post-Soviet era but on the full sweep of its turbulent past.

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    Sketches of the Criminal World: Further Kolyma Stories

    Varlam Shalamov,Donald Rayfield

    Translation of: Sobranie sochineniaei v 6 + 1 tomakh.

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    Manaschi

    Hamid Ismailov

    A former radio-presenter wrongly interprets one of his dreams and thinks that he has been initiated into the world of spirits as a manaschi, one of the Kyrgyz bards and…

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    Kolyma Stories

    Donald Rayfield,Varlam Shalamov

    Life in a Russian gulag, based on the author’s own years in the Gulag, chronicled in an epic masterpiece.

    A masterpiece of Gulag literature, the complete Kolyma Stories is a…

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    Dead Souls

    Nikolai Gogol

    A biting satire of social pretensions and pomposity, Dead Souls, here presented in a brand new translation, is part of Alma Classics Evergreens series of popular classics.

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    The Garnett Book of Russian Verse: A Treasury of Russian Poets from 1730 to 1996

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    Testimony

    Literary Memoirs of the Soviet/Ukrainian poet Semyon Izrailevich Lipkin

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    The Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-91

    Anton Chekhov

    Tells the tale of a boy’s journey to a new school in Kiev, travelling through majestic landscapes towards an unknown destiny. ‘Gusev’ depicts an ocean voyage, where the sea takes…

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    Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

    Nikolai Leskov,Robert; Donald Chandler; Rayfield

    In this powerful and brutal short story that forms the basis of the Shostakovich opera and found here in a new translation, Leskov demonstrates the enduring truth of the Shakespearean…

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    Unveiling Vazha Pshavela

    Vazha Pshavela, Manana Antelidze, Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili

    9 lyrics by Georgian Vazha Pshavela (1861-1915), Georgian original and English verse translation; 3 longer poems in Donald Rayfield's translation (first published 1978). Foreword by Donald Rayfield, stories about Vazha…

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