Molotov’s Magic Lantern

“Based on a chance discovery of Molotov’s library, Polonsky takes cultural allusions from Russian literary history and uses them to explain the present.” Read more...

The best books on Putin and Russian History

Edward Lucas, Journalist

“It is like, if you can imagine it, reading a wonderful series of lamp-lit oil painting interiors, so you feel like you are reading paintings.” Read more...

The best books on 20th Century Russia

Francis Spufford, Historian