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
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
Best Books of the Romanov Sisters
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Books in Russian
93 books — 26 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
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

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
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve BrusatteI'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamaraFascism by Madeleine K. AlbrightEnlightenment Now by Steven PinkerChildren of Nazis by Tania Crasnianski
Historical Nonfiction 2018
217 books — 51 voters


Еще более жаркие дебаты ожидали меня в Клубе Армии и Флота. Его руководство считало само собой разумеющимся, что я буду проклинать Советскую Россию и предскажу неминуемый крах пятилетнему плану. От этого я отказался. Ничто не претит мне больше, нежели тот спектакль, когда русский изгнанник дает жажде возмездия за­глушить свою национальную гордость. В беседе с членами Клуба Армии и Флота я дал понять, что я прежде всего русский и лишь потом великий князь. Я, как мог, описал им неограниченные ресу ...more
Александр Михайлович Романов, Великий князь Александр Михайлович: Воспоминания. Мемуары.

But the glimmer of hope in Russia was not entirely extinguished by the atavism of the Putin years. The Japanese reinvented themselves in the 19th century and again after 1945, the Germans, the Spaniards and the Italians experimented with dictatorship and abandoned it. French, Spanish, German and Swedish armies terrorised Europe for centuries, then decided they preferred peace after all. The other Europeans gave up their empires and turned instead to liberal democracy. Only the most obstinate his ...more
Rodric Braithwaite, Russia: Myths and Realities: The History of a Country with an Unpredictable Past

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