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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. ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Russian History"

Patriot: A Memoir
Rasputin: The Downfall of the Romanovs
Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921
The Story of Russia
The Oak and the Larch: A Forest History of Russia and Its Empires
The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin's Greatest Enemy
Overreach
The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962
The Shortest History of the Soviet Union
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine
The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
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Russian History Books

A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
The Romanovs, 1613-1918
Peter the Great: His Life and World
Gulag: A History
The Romanovs: The Final Chapter
Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
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
Young Stalin
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Lists

The Kitchen Boy by Robert AlexanderRomanov by Nadine BrandesThe Lost Crown by Sarah MillerAnastasia and Her Sisters by Carolyn MeyerLast Waltz by Judith Welsh
Romanov Fiction that Should be Made into Movies
11 books — 11 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
224 books — 58 voters

Catherine the Great by Robert K. MassieSophie - A Most Unlikely Empress by Jacqueline HinesEmpress of the Night by Eva StachniakMen on White Horses by Annette Motley
Catherine the Great
4 books — 5 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 MacleanThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth Pastor
America and Russia 1937
24 books — 4 voters

I Love My Doctor, But... by Lawrence W. GoldPerestroika by Harpal BrarAnother View of Stalin by Ludo MartensEconomic Problems of Socialism in the U.S.S.R. by Joseph StalinSoviet Democracy by Pat Sloan
The Stalin Society
14 books — 8 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


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Quotes Tagged “Russian History”

Melanie Brown
“ A history book comes alive when told by someone who was really there! ”
― Melanie Brown, The Broken Balalaika: Based on a True Story During the Cold War
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“ Our president understands that he who controls history controls the future. - Sergei Korovin ”
― Daniel Silva, The Defector
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Videos Tagged “Russian History”

Birth of the Cold War: The Rise of the Nuclear Superpowers
Birth of the Cold War: The Rise of the Nuclear Superpowers
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