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All Things Russia

Description: The purpose of this list is to compile the best books (non-fiction or fiction) about Russian history, culture, politics, society, etc.

Members: 8 participating members (show all)

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1
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
10,966 members, 178 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: bookworm148 (1), Bretzky1 (3), pomonomo2003 (18)

Score: 8.98

2
The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
24,459 members, 276 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (1), aulsmith (2)

Score: 7.36

4
The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia
by Peter Hopkirk
1,535 members, 32 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: Luchtpint (1), pomonomo2003 (32)

Score: 5.68

5
Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
by Orlando Figes
1,505 members, 12 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: robnavsr (2), Bretzky1 (10)

Score: 5.61

6
Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
10,348 members, 133 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (3), Bretzky1 (11)

Score: 5.24

7
KGB: The Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents
by John Barron
201 members, 1 review
3.35 stars (3.35 stars)

Lists: Luchtpint (3), robnavsr (17)

Score: 5.01

8
Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
31,982 members, 543 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (3), Bretzky1 (20)

Score: 4.93

9
The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
13,553 members, 142 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (1)

Score: 4

10
Dancer
by Colum McCann
769 members, 22 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 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.

12
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
23,467 members, 375 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (2)

Score: 3.36

13
Michael Strogoff
by Jules Verne
1,450 members, 19 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (2)

Score: 3.36

14
Setting the East Ablaze : Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia
by Peter Hopkirk
304 members, 7 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: Luchtpint (2)

Score: 3.36

16
A History of Russia
by Nicholas V. Riasanovsky
810 members, 8 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: robnavsr (3)

Score: 3.04

17
My Disillusionment in Russia
by Emma Goldman
95 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
1,943 members, 25 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: aulsmith (4)

Score: 2.83

19
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
by David Remnick
1,029 members, 14 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (4)

Score: 2.83

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

Lists: asurbanipal (4)

Score: 2.83

23
Imperium
by Ryszard Kapuściński
907 members, 20 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (5)

Score: 2.68

24
Putin’s Russia
by Anna Politkovskaya
560 members, 17 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
290 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
73 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
29 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 Dostoyevsky
36,346 members, 413 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (7)

Score: 2.46

32
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
by William Taubman
532 members, 6 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: robnavsr (7)

Score: 2.46

33
White on Black
by Ruben Gallego
102 members, 3 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (7)

Score: 2.46

35
The Russian Revolution
by Richard Pipes
349 members, 3 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: robnavsr (8)

Score: 2.38

36
The Artamonov Business
by Maxim Gorky
229 members, 4 reviews
3.4 stars (3.4 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (8)

Score: 2.38

37
Russian Studies
by Leonard Schapiro
42 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
387 members, 4 reviews
4.31 stars (4.31 stars)

Lists: pomonomo2003 (9)

Score: 2.31

40
Memoirs
by Mikhail Gorbachev
107 members, 0 reviews
2.83 stars (2.83 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (9)

Score: 2.31

41
Towers of Stone: The Battle of Wills in Chechnya
by Wojciech Jagielski
32 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
263 members, 2 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: robnavsr (10)

Score: 2.25

43
White Fever: A Journey to the Frozen Heart of Siberia
by Jacek Hugo-Bader
76 members, 2 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 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
286 members, 2 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: robnavsr (11)

Score: 2.2

47
Kolyma Diaries: A Journey into Russia's Haunted Hinterland
by Jacek Hugo-Bader
39 members, 1 review
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (11)

Score: 2.2

48
Fathers and Sons
by Ivan Turgenev
7,282 members, 107 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (12)

Score: 2.15

49
Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia
by David Remnick
224 members, 2 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: robnavsr (12)

Score: 2.15

50
Road to Revolution: A Century of Russian Radicalism
by Avrahm Yarmolinsky
61 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
27 members, 2 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (12)

Score: 2.15

52
Second-hand Time
by Svetlana Alexievich
1,039 members, 46 reviews
4.37 stars (4.37 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (13)

Score: 2.11

53
Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams
by David K. Shipler
239 members, 1 review
3.13 stars (3.13 stars)

Lists: robnavsr (13)

Score: 2.11

54
American Communism and Soviet Russia
by Theodore Draper
42 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
387 members, 4 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: pomonomo2003 (14)

Score: 2.07

57
The consolations of the forest : alone in a cabin on the Siberian taiga
by Sylvain Tesson
318 members, 18 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (14)

Score: 2.07

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

Lists: robnavsr (14)

Score: 2.07

59
"One Hell of a Gamble": Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964
by Aleksandr Fursenko
198 members, 3 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (14)

Score: 2.07

60
Darkness at Noon
by Arthur Koestler
4,557 members, 84 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: pomonomo2003 (15)

Score: 2.03

62
Goodnight, Mister Lenin
by Tiziano Terzani
133 members, 0 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (15)

Score: 2.03

63
One Point Safe
by Andrew Cockburn
52 members, 0 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (15)

Score: 2.03

65
In Siberia
by Colin Thubron
709 members, 13 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (16)

Score: 2

66
History of the Russian Revolution
by Leon Trotsky
691 members, 8 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: pomonomo2003 (16)

Score: 2

67
Nicholas I: Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias
by W. Bruce Lincoln
66 members, 4 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (16)

Score: 2

68
What Is to Be Done?: Burning Questions of Our Movement
by V. I. Lenin
543 members, 6 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: pomonomo2003 (17)

Score: 1.97

69
Russia: A Journey to the Heart of a Land and its People
by Jonathan Dimbleby
139 members, 4 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (17)

Score: 1.97

70
Peter the Great Transforms Russia (Problems in European Civilization)
by James Cracraft
78 members, 0 reviews
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (17)

Score: 1.97

71
Nothing is True and Everything is Possible
by Peter Pomerantsev
528 members, 29 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (18)

Score: 1.94

72
Red Victory: A History of the Russian Civil War
by W. Bruce Lincoln
202 members, 1 review
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: robnavsr (18)

Score: 1.94

74
Russka
by Edward Rutherfurd
1,948 members, 26 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (19)

Score: 1.92

75
The Seagull / Uncle Vanya / Three Sisters / The Cherry Orchard
by Anton Chekhov
985 members, 3 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (19)

Score: 1.92

76
Let History Judge
by Roy Medvedev
234 members, 2 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Lists: pomonomo2003 (19)

Score: 1.92

77
Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856
by Trevor Royle
192 members, 1 review
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: robnavsr (19)

Score: 1.92

78
Russia: People and Empire, 1552-1917
by Geoffrey A. Hosking
193 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
63 members, 1 review
2.33 stars (2.33 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (20)

Score: 1.89

81
Cancer Ward
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
3,052 members, 43 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (21)

Score: 1.87

82
Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History
by Catherine Merridale
245 members, 15 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: robnavsr (21)

Score: 1.87

83
Lenin's Last Struggle
by Moshe Lewin
67 members, 1 review
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: pomonomo2003 (21)

Score: 1.87

84
Ghosts of Afghanistan: The Haunted Battleground
by Jonathan Steele
41 members, 0 reviews
3.63 stars (3.63 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (21)

Score: 1.87

85
Demons
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
6,431 members, 59 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (22)

Score: 1.85

88
Home of the Gentry
by Ivan Turgenev
678 members, 14 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (23)

Score: 1.83

89
Conversations with Stalin
by Milovan Djilas
295 members, 8 reviews
3.46 stars (3.46 stars)

Lists: pomonomo2003 (23)

Score: 1.83

90
Empire of the Czar
by Astolphe de Custine
176 members, 0 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: robnavsr (23)

Score: 1.83

91
Dead Souls
by Nikolai Gogol
7,713 members, 106 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (24)

Score: 1.81

92
Nicholas II: Last of the Tsars
by Marc Ferro
161 members, 2 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Lists: robnavsr (24)

Score: 1.81

94
The inspector
by Nikolai Gogol
795 members, 7 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (25)

Score: 1.79

95
Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire
by Victor Sebestyen
190 members, 3 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: robnavsr (25)

Score: 1.79

97
Oblomov
by Ivan Goncharov
2,826 members, 58 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: asurbanipal (26)

Score: 1.77

98
St. Petersburg : a cultural history
by Solomon Volkov
155 members, 2 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: robnavsr (26)

Score: 1.77

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