Russian History

The history of Russia begins with that of the Eastern Slavs and the Finno-Ugric peoples.

Various states have existed in this region, including the Garðaríki ("the realm of towns"), Kievan Rus', Muscovy, Russia, the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation.
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Patriot: A Memoir
The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
The Story of Russia
The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962
The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
The Shortest History of the Soviet Union
The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War
Stalin's War: A New History of World War II
Killer in the Kremlin: The Explosive Account of Putin's Reign of Terror
Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921
Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West
Putin: His Life and Times
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
The Romanovs, 1613-1918
Peter the Great: His Life and World
Gulag: A History
The Romanovs: The Final Chapter
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
Catherine the Great by Robert K. MassieSophie - A Most Unlikely Empress by Jacqueline HinesMen on White Horses by Annette MotleyEmpress of the Night by Eva Stachniak
Catherine the Great
4 books — 6 voters
The Lost Crown by Sarah  MillerAnastasia by Carolyn MeyerThe Diary of Olga Romanov by Helen AzarThe Romanov Sisters by Helen RappaportAnastasia's Album by Hugh Brewster
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Historical Nonfiction 2018
217 books — 51 voters
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking by Anya von BremzenThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovNatasha's Dance by Orlando FigesEastern Approaches by Fitzroy MacleanMoscow, 1937 by Karl Schlögel
America and Russia 1937
23 books — 3 voters

Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. MassieThe Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynCatherine the Great by Robert K. MassiePeter the Great by Robert K. MassieGulag by Anne Applebaum
Best Russian History Books
550 books — 385 voters
A People's Tragedy by Orlando FigesThe Russian Revolution by Richard PipesMemoirs of a Revolutionary by Victor SergeThe Whisperers by Orlando FigesRevolutionary Russia, 1891 - 1991 by Orlando Figes
Russian Revolution 1917
46 books — 12 voters


Henri Troyat
در اینجا، او کاترین را از اینکه غرق تجمل و خوشگذرانی شده سرزنش می کند و می گوید:(( شما دیگر جز به زر و زیور و آرایش نمی اندیشید. به طبیعت اصیل خود برگردید. نبوغ شما برای کارهای بزرگ زاده شده در حالی که شما آن را در این بچه بازی ها تلف می کنید. شرط می بندم که از وقتی که وارد روسیه شده اید کتابی به دست نگرفته اید!)) و از او قول می گیرد که هر چه زودتر کتاب های: زندگی سیسرون،پلوتارک و ملاحظاتی درباره ی علل عظمت و سقوط رومی ها اثر منتسکیو را مطالعه کند.
Henri Troyat, Catherine the Great

Russians like the rest of us prefer to believe that their history has progressed in a straight and positive line. They explain away troubling events such as brutal reigns of Ivan the Terrible or Stalin as necessary stages on the path to greatness.
Rodric Braithwaite, Russia: Myths and Realities: The History of a Country with an Unpredictable Past

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