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.
1
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
14,503 members
231 reviews
4
4 Members
pomonomo2003, Bretzky1, bookworm148, Kulikovo1380
2
The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
34,418 members
394 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
aulsmith, Bretzky1, Kulikovo1380
3
Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
by Orlando Figes
1,987 members
18 reviews
4.1
3 Members
Bretzky1, robnavsr, Kulikovo1380
5
Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
14,842 members
188 reviews
4.1
3 Members
aulsmith, Bretzky1, Kulikovo1380
6
KGB: The Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents
by John Barron
275 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
3 Members
Luchtpint, robnavsr, Kulikovo1380
7
The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia
by Peter Hopkirk
2,110 members
40 reviews
4.2
2 Members
pomonomo2003, Luchtpint
8
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
33,509 members
510 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
Bretzky1, Kulikovo1380
9
A Course in Russian History: The Seventeenth Century
by V. O. Kliuchevskii
15 members
4
2 Members
robnavsr, Kulikovo1380
10
A History of Russia
by Nicholas V. Riasanovsky
1,068 members
12 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
robnavsr, Kulikovo1380
11
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
by Svetlana Alexievich
2,906 members
98 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
hipdeep
12
The Romanovs: The Final Chapter
by Robert K. Massie
1,421 members
16 reviews
4
Member
dara85
13
Dancer
by Colum McCann
954 members
29 reviews
3.8
Member
aulsmith
Explanations
aulsmith: I didn't find the entire story very interesting, but the descriptions of life in the Soviet Era were very good.
14
Brisbane
by Eugene Vodolazkin
63 members
10 reviews
4
Member
editorplough
17
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
51,608 members
576 reviews
4.2
2 Members
Bretzky1, Kulikovo1380
18
The Russian Revolution
by Richard Pipes
521 members
5 reviews
4.2
2 Members
robnavsr, Kulikovo1380
19
Setting the East Ablaze : Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia
by Peter Hopkirk
420 members
9 reviews
4.1
Member
Luchtpint
21
The art and architecture of medieval Russia
by Arthur Voyce
15 members
Member
Kulikovo1380
22
Darkness at Noon
by Arthur Koestler
5,969 members
121 reviews
4
2 Members
pomonomo2003, Kulikovo1380
23
My Disillusionment in Russia
by Emma Goldman
155 members
3 reviews
4
Member
pomonomo2003
24
Ten Days that Shook the World
by John Reed
2,866 members
43 reviews
3.9
Member
aulsmith
25
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
by David Remnick
1,450 members
18 reviews
4.2
Member
Bretzky1
26
Chief Culprit: Stalin's Grand Design to Start World War II
by Viktor Suvorov
55 members
2 reviews
4
Member
Kulikovo1380
28
Putin’s Russia
by Anna Politkovskaya
763 members
21 reviews
3.9
Member
robnavsr
29
The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretative History of Russian Culture
by James H. Billington
520 members
3 reviews
3.8
Member
pomonomo2003
30
We Now Know: rethinking Cold War history
by John Lewis Gaddis
381 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
Bretzky1
31
The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings, 1947-2005
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
162 members
1 review
½ 4.5
Member
Kulikovo1380
32
Red Plenty: Industry! Progress! Abundance! Inside the Fifties Soviet Dream
by Francis Spufford
976 members
34 reviews
4.1
Member
robnavsr
33
Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended
by Jack Matlock
116 members
1 review
½ 4.5
Member
Bretzky1
34
Let the blood of man not flow
by Mikhailo Stelmakh
4 members
Member
Kulikovo1380
35
Conservative Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Russia
by Edward C. Thaden
3 members
3
Member
pomonomo2003
36
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
by William Taubman
734 members
6 reviews
4.1
Member
robnavsr
38
Loosestrife city
by Aleksandr Suslov
3 members
Member
Kulikovo1380
39
The August Coup: The Truth and the Lessons
by Mikhail S. Gorbachev
150 members
1 review
3.1
Member
Kulikovo1380
40
Russian Studies
by Leonard Schapiro
60 members
1 review
½ 2.5
Member
pomonomo2003
41
Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin
by George F. Kennan
518 members
8 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
pomonomo2003
42
KGB: The Inside Story of Its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev
by Christopher Andrew
480 members
2 reviews
3.8
Member
robnavsr
43
Memoirs
by Mikhail Gorbachev
170 members
2.9
Member
Bretzky1
44
Medieval Russia - A Source Book, 900-1700
by Basil Dmytryshyn
79 members
2 reviews
4
Member
Kulikovo1380
45
The Romanovs: Autocrats of All the Russias
by W. Bruce Lincoln
335 members
2 reviews
3.9
Member
robnavsr
46
The File on the Tsar
by Anthony Summers
214 members
5 reviews
3.9
Member
Kulikovo1380
47
The Conscience of the Revolution: Communist Opposition in Soviet Russia
by Robert Vincent Daniels
35 members
1 review
½ 4.5
Member
pomonomo2003
48
Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War
by Rodric Braithwaite
382 members
3 reviews
3.8
Member
robnavsr
50
Soviet Union
by Emil Schulthess
12 members
4
Member
Kulikovo1380
51
Fathers and Sons
by Ivan Turgenev
10,022 members
148 reviews
3.9
Member
Bretzky1
52
Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia
by David Remnick
282 members
3 reviews
3.8
Member
robnavsr
53
Road to Revolution: A Century of Russian Radicalism
by Avrahm Yarmolinsky
85 members
1 review
½ 3.5
Member
pomonomo2003
55
Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams
by David K. Shipler
298 members
1 review
3.1
Member
robnavsr
56
Black Hundred: The Rise of the Extreme Right in Russia
by Walter Laqueur
74 members
1 review
3.9
Member
Kulikovo1380
57
American Communism and Soviet Russia
by Theodore Draper
59 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
pomonomo2003
58
The Third Section: Police and Society in Russia under Nicholas I
by Sidney Monas
8 members
4
Member
Bretzky1
59
The Revolution Betrayed
by Leon Trotsky
565 members
4 reviews
4.1
Member
pomonomo2003
60
Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War
by Chris Bellamy
350 members
3 reviews
4.1
Member
robnavsr
61
One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964
by Aleksandr Fursenko
283 members
4 reviews
4
Member
Bretzky1
64
One Point Safe
by Andrew Cockburn
64 members
3.8
Member
Bretzky1
65
East and West
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
27 members
1 review
3
Member
Kulikovo1380
66
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
by Bill Browder
1,924 members
60 reviews
4.2
Member
robnavsr
67
History of the Russian Revolution
by Leon Trotsky
1,072 members
12 reviews
4.2
Member
pomonomo2003
68
Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March
by Adam Zamoyski
937 members
17 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
Kulikovo1380
69
Nicholas I: Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias
by W. Bruce Lincoln
84 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
Bretzky1
71
What Is to Be Done?: Burning Questions of Our Movement
by V. I. Lenin
944 members
11 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
pomonomo2003
72
Russian for Beginners
by Charles Duff
227 members
3.8
Member
Kulikovo1380
73
Peter the Great Transforms Russia (Problems in European Civilization)
by James Cracraft
97 members
1 review
½ 3.6
Member
Bretzky1
74
Red Victory: A History of the Russian Civil War, 1918-1921
by W. Bruce Lincoln
275 members
2 reviews
3.9
Member
robnavsr
75
High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis
by Max Frankel
99 members
½ 3.7
Member
Bretzky1
77
Russka
by Edward Rutherfurd
2,509 members
32 reviews
3.8
Member
Bretzky1
78
Let History Judge
by Roy Medvedev
296 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
pomonomo2003
79
Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856
by Trevor Royle
258 members
1 review
3.9
Member
robnavsr
81
Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
43,998 members
697 reviews
4.1
Member
Bretzky1
82
Russia: People and Empire, 1552-1917
by Geoffrey A. Hosking
235 members
1 review
4
Member
robnavsr
83
A History of Russia
by Basil Dmytryshyn
23 members
3.9
Member
Kulikovo1380
85
Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History
by Catherine Merridale
358 members
17 reviews
3.8
Member
robnavsr
86
Lenin's Last Struggle
by Moshe Lewin
116 members
3 reviews
4
Member
pomonomo2003
87
Ghosts of Afghanistan: The Haunted Battleground
by Jonathan Steele
59 members
3.1
Member
Bretzky1
89
Nicholas & Alexandra: The Last Imperial Family of Tsarist Russia
by George Sergei Vilinbakhov
232 members
2 reviews
4.2
Member
robnavsr
90
Godfather of the Kremlin: The Decline of Russia in the Age of Gangster Capitalism
by Paul Klebnikov
123 members
1 review
½ 4.3
Member
Kulikovo1380
92
Conversations with Stalin
by Milovan Djilas
410 members
8 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
pomonomo2003
93
Empire of the Czar
by Astolphe de Custine
243 members
3.8
Member
robnavsr
94
The Illusion: Soviet Soldiers in Hitler's Armies
by Jürgen Thorwald
21 members
5
Member
Kulikovo1380
95
Lectures on Russian Literature
by Vladimir Nabokov
949 members
8 reviews
4.1
Member
Kulikovo1380
96
Nicholas II: Last of the Tsars
by Marc Ferro
210 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
robnavsr
97
Grand Failure: The Birth and Death of Communism in the Twentieth Century
by Zbigniew Brzezinski
111 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
pomonomo2003
98
The Prophet Armed: Trotsky 1879-1921
by Isaac Deutscher
446 members
10 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
Kulikovo1380
99
Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire
by Victor Sebestyen
297 members
3 reviews
4.1
Member
robnavsr
100
Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938
by Stephen F. Cohen
250 members
3 reviews
4.1
Member
pomonomo2003