1801-1917

A biography of Dostoevsky covering the six most productive years of his literary career, during which time he wrote Crime and punishment, The idiot, and The devils.

In three parts, first, the text of the novel which portrays a new type of hero, a "nihilist," who would represent the values of the younger generation, revealing the full breadth of 19th century Russia, second, a selection of Turgenev's letters, and third, sixteen critical essays on the novel.

Ivan Turgenev's nineteenth-century Russian novel of generational conflict during a period of social revolution.

Chronicles the history of the Russian royal family from 1818 until the end of its reign in 1959.

Examines issues spanning 150 years in Russian and Soviet history, analyzing questions and presenting excerpts from sources on ideologies and regimes, political parties, repression and terror, agriculture and industry, the social classes, war, and other topics.

Examines Russia's imperial past from the reign of Peter the Great to the overthrow of the czar in 1917.

Prince Myshkin finds himself at the center of a violent love triangle in which a notorious woman and a beautiful young girl become rivals for his affections, setting the stage for extortion, scandal, and murder.

In a dual narrative that pits the heights of human ambition and achievement against the supremacy of nature, Stephan Talty tells the story of a mighty ruler and a tiny microbe, antagonists whose struggle would shape the modern world. --from publisher descriptioin.