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All Things Russia

Description: The purpose of this list is to compile the best books (non-fiction or fiction) about Russian history, culture, politics, society, etc.

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1

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

13,234 members

205 reviews

4

4 Members: pomonomo2003, Bretzky1, bookworm148, Kulikovo1380

2

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

30,259 members

336 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1, Kulikovo1380

3

Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia

by Orlando Figes

1,840 members

17 reviews

4.1

3 Members: Bretzky1, robnavsr, Kulikovo1380

4

A History of Russia, Vol. 1: To 1917 (Anthem Series on Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies)

by Walter G. Moss

89 members

3.8

2 Members: Bretzky1, robnavsr

5

Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

12,902 members

157 reviews

4.1

3 Members: aulsmith, Bretzky1, Kulikovo1380

6

KGB: The Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents

253 members

1 review

½ 3.6

3 Members: Luchtpint, robnavsr, Kulikovo1380

7

The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia

by Peter Hopkirk

1,901 members

37 reviews

4.2

2 Members: pomonomo2003, Luchtpint

8

29,578 members

453 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: Bretzky1, Kulikovo1380

9

A Course in Russian History: The Seventeenth Century

by V. O. Kliuchevskii

12 members

4

2 Members: robnavsr, Kulikovo1380

10

A History of Russia

by Nicholas V. Riasanovsky

978 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: robnavsr, Kulikovo1380

11

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

by Svetlana Alexievich

2,430 members

83 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: hipdeep

12

The Romanovs: The Final Chapter

by Robert K. Massie

1,282 members

15 reviews

4

Member: dara85

13

by Colum McCann

892 members

26 reviews

3.8

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: I didn't find the entire story very interesting, but the descriptions of life in the Soviet Era were very good.

14

by Eugene Vodolazkin

47 members

9 reviews

4

Member: editorplough

15

The Foreign Policy of Russia: Changing Systems, Enduring Interests

by Robert H. Donaldson

25 members

½ 4.5

Member: Kulikovo1380

16

The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB

by Christopher Andrew

806 members

10 reviews

3.9

2 Members: robnavsr, Kulikovo1380

17

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

45,317 members

491 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: Bretzky1, Kulikovo1380

18

The Russian Revolution

by Richard Pipes

459 members

5 reviews

4.2

2 Members: robnavsr, Kulikovo1380

19

Setting the East Ablaze : Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia

by Peter Hopkirk

389 members

8 reviews

4.1

Member: Luchtpint

20

Last War of the World-Island: The Geopolitics of Contemporary Russia

by Alexander Dugin

23 members

Member: pomonomo2003

21

The art and architecture of medieval Russia

by Arthur Voyce

14 members

Member: Kulikovo1380

22

Darkness at Noon

by Arthur Koestler

5,483 members

104 reviews

4

2 Members: pomonomo2003, Kulikovo1380

23

My Disillusionment in Russia

by Emma Goldman

129 members

3 reviews

4

Member: pomonomo2003

24

Ten Days that Shook the World

2,521 members

35 reviews

3.8

Member: aulsmith

25

Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire

by David Remnick

1,290 members

16 reviews

4.2

Member: Bretzky1

26

Chief Culprit: Stalin's Grand Design to Start World War II (Blue Jacket Bks)

by Viktor Suvorov

48 members

2 reviews

4

Member: Kulikovo1380

27

COMING TO TERMS WITH SOVIET REGIME: THE CHANGING SIGN MOVEMENT AMONG RUSSIAN EMIGRES IN THE EARLY 1920S

by Hilde Hardeman

1 member

3

Member: pomonomo2003

28

Putin’s Russia

by Anna Politkovskaya

706 members

21 reviews

3.9

Member: robnavsr

29

The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretative History of Russian Culture

by James H. Billington

478 members

4 reviews

3.8

Member: pomonomo2003

30

We Now Know: rethinking Cold War history

by John Lewis Gaddis

345 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Bretzky1

31

The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings, 1947-2005

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

149 members

1 review

½ 4.4

Member: Kulikovo1380

32

Red Plenty: Industry! Progress! Abundance! Inside the Fifties Soviet Dream

by Francis Spufford

869 members

33 reviews

4.1

Member: robnavsr

33

Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended

by Jack Matlock

100 members

1 review

½ 4.3

Member: Bretzky1

34

Let the blood of man not flow

by Mikhailo Stelmakh

4 members

Member: Kulikovo1380

35

Conservative Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Russia

by Edward C. Thaden

2 members

3

Member: pomonomo2003

36

Khrushchev: The Man and His Era

by William Taubman

658 members

5 reviews

4.1

Member: robnavsr

37

Intelligentsia and Revolution: Russian Views of Bolshevism, 1917-1922

by Jane Burbank

17 members

3

Member: pomonomo2003

38

Loosestrife city

by Aleksandr Suslov

2 members

Member: Kulikovo1380

39

The August Coup: The Truth and the Lessons

by Mikhail S. Gorbachev

131 members

1 review

3.1

Member: Kulikovo1380

40

Russian Studies

by Leonard Schapiro

53 members

1 review

½ 2.5

Member: pomonomo2003

41

Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin

by George F. Kennan

459 members

6 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: pomonomo2003

42

KGB: The Inside Story of Its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev

by Christopher Andrew

414 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Member: robnavsr

43

by Mikhail Gorbachev

153 members

2.8

Member: Bretzky1

44

Medieval Russia; a source book, 900-1700

by Basil Dmytryshyn

72 members

1 review

4

Member: Kulikovo1380

45

The Romanovs: Autocrats of All the Russias

by W. Bruce Lincoln

321 members

2 reviews

4

Member: robnavsr

46

The File on the Tsar

by Anthony Summers

203 members

5 reviews

4

Member: Kulikovo1380

47

The Conscience of the Revolution

by Robert Vincent Daniels

28 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: pomonomo2003

48

Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War

by Rodric Braithwaite

348 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: robnavsr

49

Roots of Revolution: A History of the Populist and Socialist Movements in Nineteenth Century Russia

by Franco Venturi

142 members

1 review

4

Member: pomonomo2003

50

by Emil Schulthess

11 members

4

Member: Kulikovo1380

51

Fathers and Sons

by Ivan Turgenev

9,019 members

131 reviews

3.9

Member: Bretzky1

52

Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia

by David Remnick

267 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: robnavsr

53

Road to Revolution: A Century of Russian Radicalism

by Avrahm Yarmolinsky

80 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: pomonomo2003

54

The Mortal Danger: How Misconceptions About Russia Imperil the West

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

48 members

½ 3.5

Member: Kulikovo1380

55

Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams

by David K. Shipler

274 members

1 review

3.1

Member: robnavsr

56

Black Hundred: The Rise of the Extreme Right in Russia

by Walter Laqueur

68 members

1 review

3.9

Member: Kulikovo1380

57

American Communism and Soviet Russia

by Theodore Draper

53 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Member: pomonomo2003

58

The Third Section; police and society in Russia under Nicholas I

by Sidney Monas

8 members

4

Member: Bretzky1

59

The Revolution Betrayed

by Leon Trotsky

504 members

4 reviews

4.1

Member: pomonomo2003

60

Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War

by Chris Bellamy

312 members

3 reviews

4

Member: robnavsr

61

"One Hell of a Gamble": Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964

by Aleksandr Fursenko

255 members

4 reviews

4

Member: Bretzky1

62

Holy Women of Russia: The Lives of Five Orthodox Women Offer Spiritual Guidance for Today

by Brenda Meehan

79 members

4

Member: Kulikovo1380

63

With God in Russia: The Inspiring Classic Account of a Catholic Priest's Twenty-three Years in Soviet Prisons and Labor Camps

by Walter J. Ciszek

405 members

4 reviews

4.2

Member: robnavsr

64

by Andrew Cockburn

59 members

3.8

Member: Bretzky1

65

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

26 members

1 review

3

Member: Kulikovo1380

66

Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice

by Bill Browder

1,573 members

51 reviews

4.2

Member: robnavsr

67

History of the Russian Revolution

by Leon Trotsky

927 members

10 reviews

4.2

Member: pomonomo2003

68

Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March

by Adam Zamoyski

862 members

14 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: Kulikovo1380

69

Nicholas I: Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias

by W. Bruce Lincoln

77 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Bretzky1

70

The World Island: Eurasian Geopolitics and the Fate of the West (Praeger Security International)

by Alexandros Petersen

16 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: pomonomo2003,Kulikovo1380

71

What Is to Be Done?: Burning Questions of Our Movement

790 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: pomonomo2003

72

Russian for Beginners

by Charles Duff

212 members

3.8

Member: Kulikovo1380

73

Peter the Great Transforms Russia (Problems in European Civilization)

by James Cracraft

90 members

½ 3.6

Member: Bretzky1

74

Red Victory: A History of the Russian Civil War

by W. Bruce Lincoln

249 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: robnavsr

75

High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis

93 members

½ 3.7

Member: Bretzky1

76

Why Lenin? Why Stalin? Why Gorbachev?: The Rise and Fall of the Soviet System

60 members

½ 2.4

Member: Kulikovo1380

77

by Edward Rutherfurd

2,318 members

32 reviews

3.8

Member: Bretzky1

78

Let History Judge

by Roy Medvedev

266 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: pomonomo2003

79

Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856

by Trevor Royle

234 members

1 review

3.9

Member: robnavsr

80

The Andropov File: The Life and Ideas of Yuri V. Andropov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

18 members

½ 3.3

Member: Kulikovo1380

81

39,407 members

634 reviews

4.1

Member: Bretzky1

82

Russia: People and Empire, 1552-1917

by Geoffrey A. Hosking

217 members

1 review

3.9

Member: robnavsr

83

A History of Russia

by Basil Dmytryshyn

22 members

3.8

Member: Kulikovo1380

84

Lenin, Trotsky, Germany and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: The Collapse of the World Revolution, November 1917-November 1918

by Yuri Felshtinsky

3 members

Member: pomonomo2003

85

Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History

by Catherine Merridale

317 members

16 reviews

3.8

Member: robnavsr

86

Lenin's Last Struggle

96 members

3 reviews

4

Member: pomonomo2003

87

Ghosts of Afghanistan: The Haunted Battleground

by Jonathan Steele

49 members

3.1

Member: Bretzky1

88

Absolute Zhirinovsky: A Transparent View of the Distinguished Russian Statesman

by Graham Frazer

10 members

3

Member: Kulikovo1380

89

Nicholas & Alexandra: The Last Imperial Family of Tsarist Russia

by George Sergei Vilinbakhov

213 members

2 reviews

4.2

Member: robnavsr

90

Godfather of the Kremlin: The Decline of Russia in the Age of Gangster Capitalism

by Paul Klebnikov

113 members

1 review

½ 4.3

Member: Kulikovo1380

91

Western Marxism and the Soviet Union: A Survey of Critical Theories and Debates Since 1917

by Marcel van der Linden

34 members

2 reviews

4

Member: pomonomo2003

92

Conversations with Stalin

by Milovan Djilas

371 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: pomonomo2003

93

Empire of the Czar

by Astolphe de Custine

223 members

4

Member: robnavsr

94

The Illusion: Soviet Soldiers in Hitler's Armies

by Jürgen Thorwald

21 members

5

Member: Kulikovo1380

95

Lectures on Russian literature

by Vladimir Nabokov

846 members

7 reviews

4.1

Member: Kulikovo1380

96

Nicholas II: Last of the Tsars

196 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: robnavsr

97

Grand Failure: The Birth and Death of Communism in the Twentieth Century

by Zbigniew Brzezinski

101 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: pomonomo2003

98

The Prophet Armed: Trotsky 1879-1921

by Isaac Deutscher

408 members

10 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: Kulikovo1380

99

Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire

by Victor Sebestyen

257 members

3 reviews

4

Member: robnavsr

100

Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938

by Stephen F. Cohen

220 members

3 reviews

4.1

Member: pomonomo2003

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