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The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
by Masha Gessen
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by Orlando Figes
Published Sep 2023
Read ReviewsFrom "the great storyteller of Russian history" (Financial Times), a brilliant account of the national mythologies and imperial ideologies that have shaped Russia's past and politics - essential reading for understanding the country today.
by Masha Gessen
Published Jun 2021
Read ReviewsA bestselling, National Book Award–winning journalist's bracing elucidation of our tumultuous times.
by Joshua Yaffa
Published May 2021
Read ReviewsFrom a leading journalist in Moscow and correspondent for The New Yorker, a groundbreaking portrait of modern Russia and the inner struggles of the people who sustain Vladimir Putin's rule.
by Helen Rappaport
Published Apr 2018
Read ReviewsFrom the bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters, Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye-witness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold.
by Rosemary Sullivan
Published Jun 2016
Read ReviewsA painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history's most monstrous dictatorsher father, Josef Stalin.
by Sergei Lebedev
Published Jan 2016
Read ReviewsA masterful novel about the search for the truth about a shadowy neighbor represents an epic attempt to rescue history from the brink of oblivion.
by Bill Browder
Published Oct 2015
Read ReviewsA real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young tax attorney, and his dangerous mission to expose the Kremlin's corruption.
All That Is Solid Melts into Air
by Darragh McKeon
Published Apr 2014
Read ReviewsA gripping end-of-empire novel charting the collapse of the Soviet Union through the focalpoint of the Chernobyl disaster.
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
by Anthony Marra
Published Feb 2014
Read ReviewsA brilliant debut novel that brings to life an abandoned hospital where a tough-minded doctor decides to harbor a hunted young girl, with powerful consequences.
by Francis Spufford
Published Feb 2012
Read ReviewsRed Plenty is history, it's fiction, it's as ambitious as Sputnik, as uncompromising as an Aeroflot flight attendant, and as different from what you were expecting as a glass of Soviet champagne.
by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Published Nov 2009
Read ReviewsIn the bestselling tradition of Doctor Zhivago and Sophie's Choice, a sweeping epic of Russia from the last days of the Tsars to today's age of oligarchs -- by the prizewinning author of Young Stalin.
by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Published Oct 2008
Read ReviewsA revelatory account that finally unveils the shadowy journey from obscurity to power of the Georgian cobblers son who became the Red Tsarthe man who, along with Hitler, remains the modern personification of evil.
by Carlotta Gall, Thomas de Waal
Published Jan 2000
Read ReviewsA combination of investigative journalism and historical overview that emphasizes the Chechens' role as the long-oppressed victims of Russian imperialism.
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