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All Things Russia

Members: 7 participating members (show all)

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1
The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
22,701 members, 252 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (1), aulsmith (2)

Score: 7.36

3
The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia
by Peter Hopkirk
1,422 members, 30 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: Luchtpint (1), pomonomo2003 (32)

Score: 5.68

4
Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
by Orlando Figes
1,390 members, 11 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: robnavsr (2), Bretzky1 (10)

Score: 5.61

5
Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
9,546 members, 113 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (3), Bretzky1 (11)

Score: 5.24

6
KGB: The Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents
by John Barron
190 members, 1 review
3.36 stars (3.36 stars)

Lists: Luchtpint (3), robnavsr (17)

Score: 5.01

7
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
10,233 members, 164 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (3), pomonomo2003 (18)

Score: 4.98

8
The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
12,519 members, 120 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (1)

Score: 4

9
Dancer
by Colum McCann
730 members, 20 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (1)

Score: 4

Explanations:

aulsmith (1): I didn't find the entire story very interesting, but the descriptions of life in the Soviet Era were very good.

11
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
21,664 members, 345 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (2)

Score: 3.36

12
Michael Strogoff
by Jules Verne
1,249 members, 11 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (2)

Score: 3.36

13
Setting the East Ablaze : Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia
by Peter Hopkirk
293 members, 6 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: Luchtpint (2)

Score: 3.36

15
Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
29,976 members, 512 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (3)

Score: 3.04

16
A History of Russia
by Nicholas V. Riasanovsky
754 members, 7 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: robnavsr (3)

Score: 3.04

17
My Disillusionment in Russia
by Emma Goldman
84 members, 2 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: pomonomo2003 (3)

Score: 3.04

18
Ten Days that Shook the World
by John Reed
1,759 members, 21 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (4)

Score: 2.83

19
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
by David Remnick
940 members, 13 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (4)

Score: 2.83

21
A Story About a Real Man
by Boris Polevoi
22 members, 0 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (4)

Score: 2.83

23
Imperium
by Ryszard Kapuściński
843 members, 20 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (5)

Score: 2.68

24
Putin’s Russia
by Anna Politkovskaja
527 members, 13 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: robnavsr (5)

Score: 2.68

26
We Now Know: rethinking Cold War history
by John Lewis Gaddis
282 members, 3 reviews
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (5)

Score: 2.68

28
Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended
by Jack Matlock
64 members, 1 review
4.33 stars (4.33 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (6)

Score: 2.56

29
Power Chess: Great Grandmaster Battles from Russia
by Paul Keres
24 members, 0 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (6)

Score: 2.56

30
Conservative Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Russia
by Edward C. Thaden
2 members, 0 reviews
3 stars (3 stars)

Lists: pomonomo2003 (6)

Score: 2.56

31
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
34,081 members, 391 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (7)

Score: 2.46

32
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
by William Taubman
495 members, 6 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: robnavsr (7)

Score: 2.46

33
White on Black
by Ruben Gallego
97 members, 4 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (7)

Score: 2.46

35
The Russian Revolution
by Richard Pipes
309 members, 2 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: robnavsr (8)

Score: 2.38

36
The Artamonov Business
by Maxim Gorky
217 members, 4 reviews
3.32 stars (3.32 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (8)

Score: 2.38

37
Russian Studies
by Leonard Schapiro
39 members, 1 review
2.5 stars (2.5 stars)

Lists: pomonomo2003 (8)

Score: 2.38

38
Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin
by George F. Kennan
372 members, 3 reviews
4.28 stars (4.28 stars)

Lists: pomonomo2003 (9)

Score: 2.31

40
Memoirs
by Mikhail Gorbachev
93 members, 0 reviews
2.94 stars (2.94 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (9)

Score: 2.31

41
Towers of Stone: The Battle of Wills in Chechnya
by Wojciech Jagielski
28 members, 0 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (9)

Score: 2.31

42
The Romanovs: Autocrats of All the Russias
by W. Bruce Lincoln
250 members, 2 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: robnavsr (10)

Score: 2.25

43
White Fever: A Journey to the Frozen Heart of Siberia
by Jacek Hugo-Bader
62 members, 0 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (10)

Score: 2.25

44
The Conscience of the Revolution
by Robert Vincent Daniels
22 members, 1 review
4.5 stars (4.5 stars)

Lists: pomonomo2003 (10)

Score: 2.25

45
Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War
by Rodric Braithwaite
256 members, 2 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: robnavsr (11)

Score: 2.2

47
Kolyma Diaries: A Journey into Russia's Haunted Hinterland
by Jacek Hugo-Bader
29 members, 1 review
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (11)

Score: 2.2

48
Fathers and Sons
by Ivan Turgenev
6,808 members, 101 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (12)

Score: 2.15

49
Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia
by David Remnick
210 members, 2 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: robnavsr (12)

Score: 2.15

50
Road to Revolution: A Century of Russian Radicalism
by Avrahm Yarmolinsky
58 members, 1 review
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Lists: pomonomo2003 (12)

Score: 2.15

51
The Journals of a White Sea Wolf
by Mariusz Wilk
22 members, 2 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (12)

Score: 2.15

52
Second-hand Time
by Svetlana Alexievich
788 members, 40 reviews
4.33 stars (4.33 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (13)

Score: 2.11

53
Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams
by David K. Shipler
216 members, 1 review
3.05 stars (3.05 stars)

Lists: robnavsr (13)

Score: 2.11

54
American Communism and Soviet Russia
by Theodore Draper
41 members, 1 review
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Lists: pomonomo2003 (13)

Score: 2.11

55
The Third Section; police and society in Russia under Nicholas I
by Sidney Monas
7 members, 0 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (13)

Score: 2.11

56
The Revolution Betrayed
by Leon Trotsky
353 members, 4 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: pomonomo2003 (14)

Score: 2.07

57
The consolations of the forest : alone in a cabin on the Siberian taiga
by Sylvain Tesson
268 members, 17 reviews
3.52 stars (3.52 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (14)

Score: 2.07

58
Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War
by Chris Bellamy
223 members, 4 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: robnavsr (14)

Score: 2.07

59
One Point Safe
by Andrew Cockburn
46 members, 0 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (14)

Score: 2.07

60
Darkness at Noon
by Arthur Koestler
4,249 members, 72 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: pomonomo2003 (15)

Score: 2.03

62
Goodnight, Mister Lenin
by Tiziano Terzani
122 members, 0 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (15)

Score: 2.03

63
Nicholas I: Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias
by W. Bruce Lincoln
62 members, 4 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (15)

Score: 2.03

64
History of the Russian Revolution
by Leon Trotsky
717 members, 8 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: pomonomo2003 (16)

Score: 2

66
In Siberia
by Colin Thubron
671 members, 11 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (16)

Score: 2

68
What Is to Be Done?: Burning Questions of Our Movement
by V. I. Lenin
478 members, 4 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)

Lists: pomonomo2003 (17)

Score: 1.97

69
Russia: A Journey to the Heart of a Land and its People
by Jonathan Dimbleby
129 members, 4 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (17)

Score: 1.97

71
Russka
by Edward Rutherfurd
1,809 members, 24 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (18)

Score: 1.94

73
Red Victory: A History of the Russian Civil War
by W. Bruce Lincoln
185 members, 2 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: robnavsr (18)

Score: 1.94

74
The Sea Gull / The Cherry Orchard / Three Sisters / Uncle Vanya
by Anton Chekhov
943 members, 3 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (19)

Score: 1.92

75
Let History Judge
by Roy Medvedev
227 members, 2 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Lists: pomonomo2003 (19)

Score: 1.92

76
Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856
by Trevor Royle
177 members, 1 review
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: robnavsr (19)

Score: 1.92

77
Ghosts of Afghanistan: The Haunted Battleground
by Jonathan Steele
39 members, 0 reviews
3.63 stars (3.63 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (19)

Score: 1.92

78
Russia: People and Empire, 1552-1917
by Geoffrey A. Hosking
183 members, 1 review
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: robnavsr (20)

Score: 1.89

79
A Journey from Saint Petersburg to Moscow
by Aleksandr Nikolaevich Radishchev
53 members, 1 review
2.75 stars (2.75 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (20)

Score: 1.89

81
Cancer Ward
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
2,887 members, 39 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (21)

Score: 1.87

82
Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History
by Catherine Merridale
212 members, 15 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: robnavsr (21)

Score: 1.87

83
Lenin's Last Struggle
by Moshe Lewin
63 members, 1 review
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: pomonomo2003 (21)

Score: 1.87

84
Demons
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
5,918 members, 57 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (22)

Score: 1.85

87
Home of the Gentry
by Ivan Turgenev
611 members, 12 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (23)

Score: 1.83

88
Conversations with Stalin
by Milovan Djilas
278 members, 8 reviews
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Lists: pomonomo2003 (23)

Score: 1.83

89
Empire of the Czar
by Astolphe de Custine
167 members, 0 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: robnavsr (23)

Score: 1.83

90
Dead Souls
by Nikolai Gogol
7,160 members, 89 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (24)

Score: 1.81

91
Nicholas II: Last of the Tsars
by Marc Ferro
153 members, 2 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Lists: robnavsr (24)

Score: 1.81

93
The Government Inspector
by Nikolai Gogol
719 members, 6 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (25)

Score: 1.79

94
Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire
by Victor Sebestyen
159 members, 3 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

Lists: robnavsr (25)

Score: 1.79

96
Oblomov
by Ivan Goncharov
2,602 members, 54 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (26)

Score: 1.77

97
St. Petersburg : a cultural history
by Solomon Volkov
145 members, 2 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: robnavsr (26)

Score: 1.77

100
Betrayal: The Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939
by Wolfgang Leonhard
11 members, 0 reviews
3 stars (3 stars)

Lists: pomonomo2003 (27)

Score: 1.76

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