Recommendations from our site
“To understand the collapse of communism at first hand, the unrivalled account is the Pulitzer-prize winning Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick. The former Moscow bureau chief for the Washington Post (and now the editor of the New Yorker), Remnick exemplifies the virtues of American journalism: meticulous accuracy, a mosaic of gripping anecdotes and detail, and a powerful, evocative analytical framework.” Read more...
The best books on Contemporary Russia
Edward Lucas, Journalist
“It is a brilliantly written book about life at the end of the Soviet Union by someone who was there. If you want to know what the Soviet Union was like and why it was in crisis, this book will tell you. It’s a page-turner too, written as a journalist writes, doing interviews, going to meet people; it’s about riots, racism and the struggles people were going through at that time.” Read more...
Stephen Lucas, Lawyer
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Catherine the Great and Potemkin: The Imperial Love Affair
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A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution
by Orlando Figes