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A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924 (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as russian-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 6,000 ratings — published 1996
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as russian-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 29,919 ratings — published 1967
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as russian-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 108,472 ratings — published 2011
The Romanovs, 1613-1918 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as russian-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 16,488 ratings — published 2016
Peter the Great: His Life and World (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as russian-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 23,124 ratings — published 1980
Gulag: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as russian-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 13,922 ratings — published 2003
The Romanovs: The Final Chapter (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as russian-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,751 ratings — published 1995
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as russian-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,214 ratings — published 2003
Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as russian-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,421 ratings — published 2002
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
by (shelved 89 times as russian-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 35,041 ratings — published 1973
The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as russian-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 24,566 ratings — published 2014
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as russian-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,376 ratings — published 1994
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as russian-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 9,468 ratings — published 2017
Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as russian-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,791 ratings — published 2014
The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as russian-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,195 ratings — published 2007
Ten Days that Shook the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as russian-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 7,917 ratings — published 1919
Young Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as russian-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 7,774 ratings — published 2007
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as russian-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 66,049 ratings — published 2019
The Crimean War: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as russian-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,219 ratings — published 2010
Revolutionary Russia, 1891 - 1991: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as russian-history)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,176 ratings — published 2014
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as russian-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,334 ratings — published 2012
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as russian-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 368,319 ratings — published 1869
Stalin: Waiting for Hitler 1929-1941 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as russian-history)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,680 ratings — published 2017
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as russian-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 20,002 ratings — published 2010
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 49 times as russian-history)
avg rating 4.46 — 22,222 ratings — published 2013
The Russian Revolution 1917-1932 (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as russian-history)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,664 ratings — published 1982
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as russian-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 41,730 ratings — published 1998
The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 45 times as russian-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,238 ratings — published 2009
October: The Story of the Russian Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as russian-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,878 ratings — published 2017
The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as russian-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,512 ratings — published 1992
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as russian-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 125,974 ratings — published 1962
Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as russian-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,813 ratings — published 2012
Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as russian-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,911 ratings — published 2022
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as russian-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 675,620 ratings — published 2016
The Russian Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as russian-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 965 ratings — published 1990
Lenin the Dictator (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 38 times as russian-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,810 ratings — published 2017
History of the Russian Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as russian-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,959 ratings — published 1931
Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as russian-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,082 ratings — published 2016
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as russian-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,410 ratings — published 2021
The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as russian-history)
avg rating 3.82 — 12,099 ratings — published 2010
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as russian-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,736 ratings — published 2003
The Story of Russia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as russian-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,838 ratings — published 2022
Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as russian-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,345 ratings — published 1999
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as russian-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 7,072 ratings — published 2017
The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as russian-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,978 ratings — published 2014
Russia: A 1000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as russian-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,625 ratings — published 2011
A History of Russia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as russian-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,047 ratings — published 1962
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as russian-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 65,323 ratings — published 1997
Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as russian-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,012 ratings — published 2005
The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as russian-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 902 ratings — published 1986
“Some of my other judgements were sadly wrong. Russia has not yet lost its imperial itch. Putin's brutal invasion of Ukraine has postponed for many decades the prospect that Russia will become the modern democratic state at peace with its neighbours, which so many courageous Russians had fought so hard to create. But no people should ever be written off beyond redemption. I hang on to the golden image of the firebird which fleets through the dark forests of the Russian folklore to symbolise the hope that Russia will see better days.”
― Russia: Myths and Realities: The History of a Country with an Unpredictable Past
― Russia: Myths and Realities: The History of a Country with an Unpredictable Past
“Not only had his wife Anna made Dostoyevsky’s creations possible, but, in a way, Anna was the [female] ideal behind his creations.”
― The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky
― The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky
