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Wartime Letters: London and Moscow 1941-1945

Kathleen Harriman

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Rasputin: And the Downfall of the Romanovs

Antony Beevor

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The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin’ ...

Josh Ireland

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A Kingdom and a Village: A One-Thousand-Year History of Moscow ...

Simon Morrison

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Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991 ...

Mark B. Smith

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The Successor: Boris Nemtsov, Vladimir Putin and the Decline of Modern ...

Mikhail Fishman

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The Essential Anna Politkovskaya

Anna Politkovskaia

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The Return of Russia: From Yeltsin to Putin, the Story of a Vengeful K ...

James Rodgers

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Farewell to Russia: A Journey Through the Former USSR ...

Joe Luc Barnes

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When the Hogarth Press published Gorky's book of apercus in 1920, it could hardly have been to greater acclaim: according to Leonard Woolf, 'it makes one hear, see, feel Tolstoy... as if one... read more

Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev

Maxim Gorky

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A lively, slim account of the moral upheavals that rocked the Biedermeier sensibilities of Kant's birthplace (later the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad).

A Scandal in Königsberg

Christopher Clark

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Retells the startling story of 'Dunsterforce', the bunch of loons under Lionel Dunsterville whom the British government authorised to go to the Caspian after WW1 to stop the Bolsheviks, secu... read more

Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World W ...

Nick Higham

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The author pays tribute to the merchant seamen of many countries, as well as the Allied navies, who experienced the harrowing dangers of the Arctic convoys supporting the essential Soviet wa... read more

The Battle of the Arctic: The Maritime Epic of World War Two ...

Hugh Sebag-Montefiore

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With an apt nod to Vasily Grossman in its subtitle, this offbeat memoir doubles as a treatise on the dangers of totalitarianism. From the annexation of Crimea in 2014, when Alyokhina was re... read more

Political Girl: Life and Fate in Russia

Maria Alyokhina

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Kurkov's third war diary - after the invasion and siege of the previous two - is a meditation on conflict as an habitual, everyday reality. Professional clowns take up arms, traditional sold... read more

Three Years On Fire: The Destruction of Ukraine

Andrey Kurkov

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In 1741, Vitus Bering was shipwrecked off Kamchatka and the surviving crew began to devour the noble herbivore that became known as Steller's sea cow: it was hunted to extinction within thir... read more

Beasts of the Sea

Iida Turpeinen

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From one of the foremost historians of the Soviet Union, here is a sizzling murder story set during Stalin's construction of the Moscow underground.

Moscow Underground

Catherine Merridale

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The contentious history of Arctic cartography and the going in search of the ends of the earth.

Mapping the North: Myth, Exploration, Encounter

Charlotta Forss

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Religious beauties from the Eastern Orthodox church from the mid C17th to the early C20th: with scholarly notes.

Russian Icons: The Oleg Kushnirskiy Collection

Anna Ivannikova

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Tolstoy loathed the ballet and thought it should be got rid of... Here is a fascinating, scholarly book on the aesthetics of Russian ballet from the mid-C19th to the mid-C20th, both conserva... read more

Impossible Project: The Story of Russian Ballet and Its Survival ...

Daria Khitrova

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A backwards look at her younger self in the early years of perestroika. Groskop's voice is wry and funny, her memoir of her student days in Russia and Ukraine fresh and zestful: hopes and... read more

One Ukrainian Summer

Viv Groskop

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A backwards look at her younger self in the early years of perestroika. Groskop's voice is wry and funny, her memoir of her student days in Russia and Ukraine fresh and zestful: hopes and... read more

One Ukrainian Summer

Viv Groskop

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The vicissitudes of the Amur tiger and the successes of the bilateral conservation efforts, by the expert on endangered species in northern Asia and author of Owls of the Eastern Ice.

Tigers Between Empires: The Journey to Save the Siberian Tiger from Ex ...

Jonathan C. Slaght

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Larissa Salmina was a wild child of the USSR who rose to be Keeper of Italian Drawings at the Hermitage by her mid twenties; Francis Haskell was a distinguished, deracinated Cambridge art hi... read more

Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent

Iain Pears

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The author's mother was a teacher who became a human rights investigator during the war in Chechnya, and was murdered by Russian-backed forces when her daughter was fifteen. Injustice and im... read more

Please Live: The Chechen Wars, My Mother and Me

Lana Estemirova

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The Maude translation from Everyman. Edna O'Brien loved this.

Resurrection

Leo Tolstoy

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Edited by the author of the ingenious thriller Untraceable. Includes lesser-known modern writers as well as Nabokov, Mandelstam, Gogol et al.

Defiant Voices: Russian Short Stories from the 19th to the 21st Centur ...

Sergei Lebedev

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A Russian folktale about a boy who finds a magic ring and tries to win the hand of a princess. For ages 5-8.

The Magic Ring

Boris Shergin

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Deep-cover players of the waiting game for influence and action.

The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infi ...

Shaun Walker

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Sociable, intriguing and entertaining: Princess Juliane-Henriette-Ulrike of Saxe-Coburg escaped her early, abusive marriage to the Grand Duke Konstantin to live in Germany and Switzerland. H... read more

The Rebel Romanov

Helen Rappaport

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How do you write music to serve the socialist state? Yet that is what a generation of Russian composers had to do. Some produced superb music; many more suffered terribly in the Gulag.

The Sound of Utopia: Musicians in the Time of Stalin ...

Michel Krielaars

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The Decembrists are often referred to in passing in other books on Russian history, as if they were not really serious. But they were important, and their story is fascinating and moving.

The First Russian Revolution: The Decembrist Revolt of 1825 ...

Susanna Rabow-Edling

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A compulsive political thriller that takes us deep into the Kremlin and the psychology of authoritarianism: at its heart is Putin's chief spin-doctor, the still centre of a delirious propaga... read more

The Wizard of the Kremlin

Giuliano da Empoli

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A sequel to The Morning Star, partly set in Russia.

The Wolves of Eternity

Karl Ove Knausgaard

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Twenty-seven remarkable people, including Mikhail Baryshnikov, Hannah Arendt, Gidon Kremer, Romain Gary, Mark Rothko, Arvo Pärt: their stories interwoven with the historical, ethnic and pol... read more

Baltic Souls: Fate in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania ...

Jan Brokken

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The February 1917 Revolution and Tsar Nicholas's doomed failure to reform: a close and riveting account.

The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Roman ...

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

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