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by Lauren Wilkinson

816 members

48 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, bluewind1

2

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

by Anthony Marra

2,381 members

183 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: bluewind1

3

A Fatal Passion: The Story of the Uncrowned Last Empress of Russia

by Michael John Sullivan

67 members

½ 3.7

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4

An Evening With Claire

by Gaito Gazdanov

111 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: bluewind1

5

Bears in the Streets: Three Journeys across a Changing Russia

61 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

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6

Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia

by Joshua Yaffa

92 members

4 reviews

4.1

Member: bluewind1

7

Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, The Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place On Earth

by Iain MacGregor

119 members

1 review

3.9

Member: bluewind1

8

by Garth Greenwell

369 members

12 reviews

3.8

Member: bluewind1

9

Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State

by David Satter

77 members

4

Member: bluewind1

10

by Karl Marlantes

301 members

17 reviews

4.1

Member: bluewind1

11

by Joseph Kanon

282 members

13 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: bluewind1

12

Distant Fathers

by Marina Jarre

28 members

4 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: bluewind1

13

Dreams of a Great Small Nation: The Mutinous Army that Threatened a Revolution, Destroyed an Empire, Founded a Republic, and Remade the Map of Europe

by Kevin J. McNamara

41 members

½ 4.3

Member: bluewind1

14

From Chernobyl with love : reporting from the ruins of the Soviet Union

by Katya Cengel

12 members

2 reviews

4

Member: bluewind1

15

History of a Disappearance: The Story of a Forgotten Polish Town

by Filip Springer

49 members

2 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: bluewind1

16

Horsemen of the Sands

by Leonid Yuzefovich

25 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Member: bluewind1

17

How Life Writes the Book: Real Socialism and Socialist Realism in Stalin's Russia

by Thomas Lahusen

7 members

3

Member: bluewind1

18

An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent

by Owen Matthews

135 members

2 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: bluewind1

19

Lara: The Untold Love Story and the Inspiration for Doctor Zhivago

by Anna Pasternak

89 members

1 review

½ 4.3

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20

In Memory of Memory

by Maria Stepanova

301 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: bluewind1

21

Letters to Véra

by Vladimir Nabokov

172 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Member: bluewind1

22

Like a Bomb Going Off: Leonid Yakobson and Ballet as Resistance in Soviet Russia

18 members

Member: bluewind1

23

A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union

447 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: bluewind1

24

A Most Clever Girl

by Stephanie Marie Thornton

54 members

5 reviews

4.2

Member: bluewind1

25

The Last Empress: Life and Times of Zita of Austria-Hungary, 1892-1989

by Gordon Brook-Shepherd

22 members

4

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26

A Woman of Intelligence

by Karin Tanabe

191 members

12 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: bluewind1

27

The Messiah of Stockholm

by Cynthia Ozick

371 members

6 reviews

3.8

Member: bluewind1

28

The Painted Bird

by Jerzy Kosiński

2,993 members

74 reviews

3.8

Member: bluewind1

29

The Untouchable

by John Banville

1,570 members

36 reviews

3.9

Member: bluewind1

30

Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva

by Rosemary Sullivan

394 members

9 reviews

4

Member: bluewind1

31

The Diamond Eye

1,178 members

61 reviews

4.1

Member: bluewind1

32

The Last and the First

by Nina Berberova

32 members

1 review

½ 2.5

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33

The Black Earth

by Philip Kazan

11 members

½ 4.5

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34

18 members

2

Member: bluewind1

35

Death of the Vazir-Mukhtar

by Iouri Tynianov

57 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: bluewind1

36

The Little Devil and Other Stories (Russian Library)

by Alexei Remizov

16 members

1 review

4

Member: bluewind1

37

The Captain's Daughter

by Alexander Pushkin

1,037 members

21 reviews

½ 3.7

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38

The Life of the Archpriest Avvakum

by Protopope Avvakum Petrovich

61 members

1 review

½ 3.3

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39

Wunderkind: A Novel

by Nikolai Grozni

60 members

4 reviews

½ 4.4

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40

The Tsarina's Lost Treasure: Catherine the Great, a Golden Age Masterpiece, and a Legendary Shipwreck

by Gerald Easter

30 members

1 review

½ 4.5

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41

Rasputin's Daughter

by Robert Alexander

683 members

23 reviews

3.2

Member: bluewind1

42

Where You Come From

by Saša Stanišić

291 members

13 reviews

4

Member: bluewind1

43

Our Woman in Moscow

by Beatriz Williams

369 members

17 reviews

3.9

Member: bluewind1

44

by Francisco Goldman

56 members

5 reviews

½ 3.4

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45

The Museum of Extraordinary Things

by Alice Hoffman

2,178 members

121 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: bluewind1

46

The End of Days

by Jenny Erpenbeck

592 members

35 reviews

3.9

Member: bluewind1

47

The Romanov Empress

by C. W. Gortner

320 members

50 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: bluewind1

48

Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl

by Jonathan C. Slaght

437 members

15 reviews

4.1

Member: bluewind1

49

Surviving Katyń: Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth

by Jane Rogoyska

25 members

Member: bluewind1

50

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

by Adam Higginbotham

1,957 members

79 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: bluewind1

51

The Tsarina's Daughter

by Ellen Alpsten

95 members

7 reviews

4.2

Member: bluewind1

52

The Winter Palace

by Eva Stachniak

880 members

82 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: bluewind1

53

The Secrets We Kept

by Lara Prescott

1,144 members

61 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: bluewind1

54

The Man Who Saw Everything

by Deborah Levy

467 members

28 reviews

3.8

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55

The House of Special Purpose

806 members

57 reviews

3.8

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56

The Woman of a Thousand Names

by Alexandra Lapierre

43 members

3 reviews

4

Member: bluewind1

57

Swimming in the Dark

by Tomasz Jedrowski

511 members

15 reviews

4.1

Member: bluewind1

58

Russia at War: 1941-1945

by Alexander Werth

317 members

5 reviews

4.1

Member: bluewind1

59

The Winter Station

by Jody Shields

106 members

7 reviews

½ 3.5

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60

The Romanovs: 1613-1918

by Simon Sebag-Montefiore

1,437 members

17 reviews

3.9

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61

The Taking of K-129: How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History

163 members

4 reviews

4.2

Member: bluewind1

62

The Romanovs, 1818-1959: Alexander II of Russia and His Family

by John Van der Kiste

48 members

1 review

½ 4.3

Member: bluewind1

63

The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story

by Serhii Plokhy

68 members

4

Member: bluewind1

64

The Last Communard: Adrien Lejeune, the Unexpected Life of a Revolutionary

26 members

2 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: bluewind1

65

Stalin and the scientists: a history of triumph and tragedy 1905-1953

126 members

4 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: bluewind1

66

Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story-How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War

90 members

6 reviews

4.1

Member: bluewind1

67

October: The Story of the Russian Revolution

by China Miéville

885 members

20 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: bluewind1

68

The Zookeepers' War: An Incredible True Story from the Cold War

by J. W. Mohnhaupt

66 members

4 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: bluewind1

69

Nicholas and Alexandra

by Robert K. Massie

3,422 members

50 reviews

4.2

Member: bluewind1

70

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine

by Anne Applebaum

847 members

22 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: bluewind1

71

The Year of the Comet

by Sergei Lebedev

42 members

4 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: bluewind1

72

Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath

by Bill Browder

377 members

10 reviews

4.2

Member: bluewind1

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