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Books about Russia and the former USSR

Members: 12 participating members (show all)

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1
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
10,233 members, 164 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: thorold (1), Chatterbox (1), raperper (2), roby72 (20)

Score: 13.26

2
Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman
2,280 members, 71 reviews
4.35 stars (4.35 stars)

Lists: raperper (1), elkiedee (2), roby72 (7), thecoroner (10)

Score: 12.07

3
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
21,664 members, 345 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (1), roby72 (1), thorold (2)

Score: 11.36

4
Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
8,582 members, 113 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (2), roby72 (4), thorold (5)

Score: 8.87

5
Dead Souls
by Nikolai Gogol
7,160 members, 89 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (3), thorold (6), roby72 (6)

Score: 8.15

6
Ten Days that Shook the World
by John Reed
1,759 members, 21 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: lilithcat (1), roby72 (8)

Score: 6.38

7
The White Guard
by Mikhail Bulgakov
1,028 members, 21 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: deebee1 (1), roby72 (11)

Score: 6.2

8
The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
22,701 members, 252 reviews
4.38 stars (4.38 stars)

Lists: roby72 (2), thecoroner (4)

Score: 6.19

9
Demons
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
5,918 members, 57 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (5), roby72 (5)

Score: 5.35

11
Sketches from a Hunter's Album
by Ivan Turgenev
1,328 members, 22 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (6), roby72 (9)

Score: 4.87

12
A Hero of Our Time
by Mikhail Lermontov
2,931 members, 45 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (7), roby72 (12)

Score: 4.61

13
The Petty Demon
by Fyodor Sologub
366 members, 3 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (8), roby72 (14)

Score: 4.45

14
Anna Karenina [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.]
by Leo Tolstoy
185 members, 1 review
4.37 stars (4.37 stars)

Lists: thecoroner (9), roby72 (16)

Score: 4.31

15
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
by Svetlana Alexievich
1,195 members, 47 reviews
4.37 stars (4.37 stars)

Lists: _Zoe_ (1)

Score: 4

16
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 (1)

Score: 4

17
Nothing But the Truth: Selected Dispatches
by Anna Politkovskaja
49 members, 1 review
4.17 stars (4.17 stars)

Lists: elkiedee (1)

Score: 4

19
Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
by Orlando Figes
1,390 members, 11 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (2)

Score: 3.36

20
An Armenian sketchbook
by Vasily Grossman
160 members, 5 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: inge87 (2)

Score: 3.36

21
Moscow, December 25, 1991: The Last Day of the Soviet Union
by Conor O'Clery
93 members, 3 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: Chatterbox (2)

Score: 3.36

22
Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
9,546 members, 113 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: roby72 (3)

Score: 3.04

23
The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin
by Adam Hochschild
196 members, 5 reviews
4.28 stars (4.28 stars)

Lists: Chatterbox (3)

Score: 3.04

24
Memoirs
by Mikhail Gorbachev
93 members, 0 reviews
2.94 stars (2.94 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (3)

Score: 3.04

25
The Last Man in Russia: The Struggle to Save a Dying Nation
by Oliver Bullough
73 members, 2 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: inge87 (3)

Score: 3.04

26
Silverland: A Winter Journey Beyond the Urals
by Dervla Murphy
48 members, 6 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: elkiedee (3)

Score: 3.04

28
The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia
by Esther Hautzig
1,361 members, 23 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: elkiedee (4)

Score: 2.83

29
Molotov's Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History
by Rachel Polonsky
224 members, 5 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Lists: Chatterbox (4)

Score: 2.83

30
Borderland: A Journey through the History of Ukraine
by Anna Reid
202 members, 3 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: inge87 (4)

Score: 2.83

31
One Point Safe
by Andrew Cockburn
46 members, 0 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (4)

Score: 2.83

32
My adventures in bolshevik Russia
by Odette Keun
3 members, 2 reviews
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Lists: thorold (4)

Score: 2.83

33
Lost and Found in Russia: Lives in the Post-Soviet Landscape
by Susan Richards
122 members, 2 reviews
3.64 stars (3.64 stars)

Lists: Chatterbox (5)

Score: 2.68

35
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: elkiedee (5)

Score: 2.68

37
Memoirs of a Revolutionary
by Victor Serge
313 members, 5 reviews
4.42 stars (4.42 stars)

Lists: elkiedee (6)

Score: 2.56

38
Inside the Stalin Archives: Discovering the New Russia
by Jonathan Brent
97 members, 4 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Lists: Chatterbox (6)

Score: 2.56

39
The Spirit-wrestlers
by Philip Marsden
88 members, 1 review
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: inge87 (6)

Score: 2.56

40
Ghosts of Afghanistan: The Haunted Battleground
by Jonathan Steele
39 members, 0 reviews
3.63 stars (3.63 stars)

Lists: Bretzky1 (6)

Score: 2.56

41
To the Hermitage
by Malcolm Bradbury
252 members, 2 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: thorold (7)

Score: 2.46

42
Conquered City
by Victor Serge
170 members, 3 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)

Lists: elkiedee (7)

Score: 2.46

44
The Litvinenko File: The Life and Death of a Russian Spy
by Martin Sixsmith
44 members, 1 review
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: Chatterbox (7)

Score: 2.46

45
The Siege
by Helen Dunmore
859 members, 45 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: elkiedee (8)

Score: 2.38

46
Putin’s Russia
by Anna Politkovskaja
527 members, 13 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: Chatterbox (8)

Score: 2.38

47
The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union
by Serhii Plokhy
127 members, 3 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: inge87 (8)

Score: 2.38

48
Belaya gvardiya. Povesti. Master i Margarita
by Mihail Bulgakov
6 members, 0 reviews
5 stars (5 stars)

Lists: thorold (8)

Score: 2.38

49
Imperium
by Ryszard Kapuściński
843 members, 20 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: Chatterbox (9)

Score: 2.31

50
The Betrayal
by Helen Dunmore
323 members, 37 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: elkiedee (9)

Score: 2.31

52
The Russians
by Hedrick Smith
724 members, 6 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: Chatterbox (10)

Score: 2.25

53
The Prophet Armed: Trotsky 1879-1921
by Isaac Deutscher
304 members, 7 reviews
4.28 stars (4.28 stars)

Lists: elkiedee (10)

Score: 2.25

54
The New Russians
by Hedrick Smith
394 members, 4 reviews
3.47 stars (3.47 stars)

Lists: Chatterbox (11)

Score: 2.2

55
Black Earth City: A Year in the Heart of Russia
by Charlotte Hobson
86 members, 3 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

Lists: elkiedee (11)

Score: 2.2

57
Fathers and Sons
by Ivan Turgenev
6,808 members, 101 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: roby72 (13)

Score: 2.11

58
Travels in Siberia
by Ian Frazier
612 members, 30 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: Chatterbox (13)

Score: 2.11

59
Stalingrad
by Antony Beevor
3,221 members, 45 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: roby72 (15)

Score: 2.03

60
Lady with Lapdog and Other Stories
by Anton Chekhov
737 members, 9 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: roby72 (17)

Score: 1.97

61
Resurrection
by Leo Tolstoy
2,212 members, 22 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: roby72 (18)

Score: 1.94

62
Red Cavalry
by Isaac Babel
618 members, 18 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: roby72 (19)

Score: 1.92

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Started by: elkiedee (January 2012)

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