Best Russian History Books (550 books)

This is a list of the greatest Russian history books. Open to all periods of Russian history.

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1	Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty by Robert K. Massie 4.23 avg rating — 29,782 ratings score: 7,835, and 79 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 4.33 avg rating — 34,580 ratings score: 6,285, and 64 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie 3.94 avg rating — 108,181 ratings score: 5,549, and 57 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie 4.15 avg rating — 23,040 ratings score: 5,220, and 53 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum 4.28 avg rating — 13,571 ratings score: 4,264, and 44 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924 by Orlando Figes 4.37 avg rating — 5,912 ratings score: 4,260, and 44 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 by Antony Beevor 4.33 avg rating — 41,163 ratings score: 3,770, and 40 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes 4.24 avg rating — 4,380 ratings score: 3,467, and 36 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore (Goodreads Author) 4.15 avg rating — 13,051 ratings score: 3,084, and 32 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia by Orlando Figes 4.26 avg rating — 3,164 ratings score: 2,137, and 23 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick 4.26 avg rating — 5,326 ratings score: 2,118, and 23 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	The Romanovs: The Final Chapter by Robert K. Massie 4.02 avg rating — 7,707 ratings score: 2,038, and 23 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II by Edvard Radzinsky 4.08 avg rating — 4,495 ratings score: 1,889, and 20 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945 by Catherine Merridale 4.07 avg rating — 3,975 ratings score: 1,625, and 17 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	The Great Terror: A Reassessment by Robert Conquest 4.14 avg rating — 1,203 ratings score: 1,535, and 17 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad by Harrison E. Salisbury 4.18 avg rating — 3,875 ratings score: 1,511, and 16 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy by Douglas Smith 4.08 avg rating — 1,801 ratings score: 1,469, and 16 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Journey into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg 4.41 avg rating — 4,794 ratings score: 1,423, and 15 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	A History of Russia by Nicholas V. Riasanovsky 3.99 avg rating — 1,038 ratings score: 1,344, and 14 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder (Goodreads Author) 4.39 avg rating — 19,666 ratings score: 1,343, and 15 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk 4.33 avg rating — 9,094 ratings score: 1,337, and 15 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine by Robert Conquest 4.15 avg rating — 894 ratings score: 1,330, and 15 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	The Romanovs, 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore (Goodreads Author) 4.02 avg rating — 16,250 ratings score: 1,329, and 15 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Catherine the Great by Henri Troyat 4.09 avg rating — 3,058 ratings score: 1,253, and 14 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s by Sheila Fitzpatrick 3.93 avg rating — 1,329 ratings score: 1,154, and 13 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive History of Russian Culture by James H. Billington 4.09 avg rating — 394 ratings score: 1,149, and 13 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Ivan the Terrible by Henri Troyat 3.90 avg rating — 621 ratings score: 1,123, and 12 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army by Vasily Grossman 4.19 avg rating — 3,676 ratings score: 1,116, and 12 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 by Stephen Kotkin 4.01 avg rating — 4,719 ratings score: 1,085, and 12 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Stalin by Edvard Radzinsky 4.07 avg rating — 1,890 ratings score: 914, and 10 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Stalin by Robert Service 3.95 avg rating — 1,830 ratings score: 909, and 10 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 3.98 avg rating — 124,811 ratings score: 906, and 10 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia by Tim Tzouliadis 4.36 avg rating — 1,125 ratings score: 837, and 10 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	Russia: A 1000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East by Martin Sixsmith 4.17 avg rating — 1,616 ratings score: 818, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power by Virginia Rounding (Goodreads Author) 4.02 avg rating — 1,444 ratings score: 814, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives by Alan Bullock 4.18 avg rating — 2,746 ratings score: 798, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	Russian Thinkers by Isaiah Berlin 4.29 avg rating — 810 ratings score: 783, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel by John Scott 3.72 avg rating — 660 ratings score: 743, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	The Rasputin File by Edvard Radzinsky 3.85 avg rating — 1,879 ratings score: 742, and 10 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Ivan the Terrible by Isabel de Madariaga 3.48 avg rating — 225 ratings score: 735, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Stalin: Waiting for Hitler 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin 4.46 avg rating — 1,644 ratings score: 735, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Ivan the Terrible by Robert Payne 3.97 avg rating — 324 ratings score: 731, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	Great Catherine: The Life of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia by Carolly Erickson 3.84 avg rating — 1,398 ratings score: 727, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum 4.39 avg rating — 9,270 ratings score: 705, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	The Last Empress: The Life and Times of Alexandra Feodorovna, Tsarina of Russia by Greg King 4.16 avg rating — 448 ratings score: 639, and 8 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	The Fate of the Romanovs by Greg King 4.08 avg rating — 899 ratings score: 637, and 8 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	Potemkin: Catherine the Great's Imperial Partner by Simon Sebag Montefiore (Goodreads Author) 4.11 avg rating — 931 ratings score: 605, and 8 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore (Goodreads Author) 3.97 avg rating — 7,713 ratings score: 584, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Twenty Letters To A Friend by Svetlana Alliluyeva 3.85 avg rating — 570 ratings score: 577, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	Letters from Russia by Astolphe de Custine 4.09 avg rating — 474 ratings score: 565, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	The Shadow of the Winter Palace: Russia's Drift to Revolution 1825-1917 by Edward Crankshaw 3.86 avg rating — 218 ratings score: 549, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 – A World on the Edge by Helen Rappaport (Goodreads Author) 3.94 avg rating — 1,509 ratings score: 542, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag by Janusz Bardach 4.35 avg rating — 892 ratings score: 538, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	The Russian Revolution 1917-1932 by Sheila Fitzpatrick 3.74 avg rating — 2,615 ratings score: 534, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz 4.24 avg rating — 21,826 ratings score: 526, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	Within the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg 4.61 avg rating — 420 ratings score: 479, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	The Memoirs of Catherine the Great by Catherine II 3.85 avg rating — 516 ratings score: 478, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	A History of Russia: From Peter the Great to Gorbachev by Mark D. Steinberg 3.98 avg rating — 807 ratings score: 478, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	Tolstoy: A Russian Life by Rosamund Bartlett 4.17 avg rating — 759 ratings score: 477, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	The Russians by Hedrick Smith 4.01 avg rating — 793 ratings score: 465, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	A Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories of History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars, Popes, and Emperors by Michael Farquhar (Goodreads Author) 3.83 avg rating — 4,570 ratings score: 461, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	Alexandra: The Last Tsarina by Carolly Erickson 3.94 avg rating — 1,796 ratings score: 457, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
63	Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization by Stephen Kotkin 4.16 avg rating — 396 ratings score: 453, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	Land of the Firebird: The Beauty of Old Russia by Suzanne Massie 4.19 avg rating — 489 ratings score: 451, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
65	The House by the Dvina: A Russian Childhood by Eugenie Fraser 4.17 avg rating — 651 ratings score: 450, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
66	Pavlovsk : The Life of a Russian Palace by Suzanne Massie 4.24 avg rating — 63 ratings score: 449, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
67	Revolutionary Russia, 1891 - 1991: A History by Orlando Figes 4.04 avg rating — 3,136 ratings score: 445, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
68	Russia Under the Old Regime by Richard Pipes 4.07 avg rating — 531 ratings score: 438, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
69	Lord and Peasant in Russia from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century by Jerome Blum 3.92 avg rating — 39 ratings score: 428, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
70	The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg by Helen Rappaport (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 6,200 ratings score: 425, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
71	The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939 by J. Arch Getty 4.01 avg rating — 207 ratings score: 423, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
72	Alix and Nicky: The Passion of the Last Tsar and Tsarina by Virginia Rounding (Goodreads Author) 3.82 avg rating — 725 ratings score: 418, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
72	The Gulag Archipelago, Volume Three by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 4.54 avg rating — 2,611 ratings score: 418, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
74	The Road to Stalingrad: Stalin`s War with Germany by John Erickson 4.02 avg rating — 227 ratings score: 405, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
75	The Magical Chorus: A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn by Solomon Volkov 3.88 avg rating — 239 ratings score: 404, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
76	Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich 4.46 avg rating — 21,819 ratings score: 403, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
77	My Past and Thoughts by Alexander Herzen 4.20 avg rating — 393 ratings score: 400, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
78	The Conquest of a Continent: Siberia and the Russians by W. Bruce Lincoln 4.16 avg rating — 94 ratings score: 391, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
79	The Romanovs: Autocrats of All the Russias by W. Bruce Lincoln 4.12 avg rating — 507 ratings score: 386, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
80	Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson 4.35 avg rating — 6,469 ratings score: 381, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
81	War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 4.17 avg rating — 364,837 ratings score: 378, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
82	Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia by Anne Garrels 3.95 avg rating — 2,430 ratings score: 376, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
83	The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II by Andrew Nagorski 3.75 avg rating — 521 ratings score: 374, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
84	The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy 4.24 avg rating — 1,948 ratings score: 373, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
85	Russian Civil War by Evan Mawdsley 3.68 avg rating — 254 ratings score: 372, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
86	Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum 4.08 avg rating — 7,273 ratings score: 371, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
87	Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel by Anatoly Kuznetsov 4.43 avg rating — 2,719 ratings score: 370, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
88	War's Unwomanly Face by Svetlana Alexievich 4.51 avg rating — 38,872 ratings score: 363, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
89	The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra by Helen Rappaport (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 24,373 ratings score: 362, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
90	The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800 by Jay Winik 4.08 avg rating — 2,028 ratings score: 361, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
91	The Court of the Last Tsar: Pomp, Power and Pageantry in the Reign of Nicholas II by Greg King 4.14 avg rating — 377 ratings score: 355, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
92	The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia by David King 4.46 avg rating — 327 ratings score: 354, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
93	Cursed Days: Diary of a Revolution by Ivan Bunin 4.19 avg rating — 1,508 ratings score: 352, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
94	Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy, Vol. 2: From Alexander II to the Abdication of Nicholas II by Richard S. Wortman 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings score: 348, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
95	The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen 4.19 avg rating — 7,030 ratings score: 346, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
96	The Bloody White Baron by James Palmer 3.61 avg rating — 1,136 ratings score: 342, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
97	August 1914 (The Red Wheel, #1) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 3.94 avg rating — 2,821 ratings score: 338, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
98	The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War by James Graham Wilson (Goodreads Author) 3.63 avg rating — 111 ratings score: 326, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
99	The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 4.35 avg rating — 13,833 ratings score: 321, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
100	Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs by Douglas Smith 3.91 avg rating — 2,061 ratings score: 312, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars