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Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag

By Orlando Figes

Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History

By Catherine Merridale

The Maisky Diaries: The Wartime Revelations of Stalin's Ambassador in London

By Ivan Maisky, Gabriel Gorodetsky

Mafia State: How One Reporter Became an Enemy of the Brutal New Russia

By Luke Harding

The Putin Corporation: How to Poison Elections

By Yuri Felshtinsky, Vladimir Pribylovsky

Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

By Max Hastings

Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the Oligarchs and the Greatest Wealth in History

By Ben Mezrich

The Plot to Betray America: How Team Trump Embraced Our Enemies, Compromised Our Security, and How We Can Fix It

By Malcolm Nance

The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin

By Steven Lee Myers

From Cold War to Hot Peace: The Inside Story of Russia and America

By Michael McFaul

The Russian Century: A History of the Last Hundred Years

By Brian Moynahan

Essential Works

By V. I. Lenin

From Russia with Blood: Putin's Ruthless Killing Campaign and Secret War on the West

By Heidi Blake

Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914-1924

By Robert Service

Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

By Antony Beevor

Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps

By Anne Applebaum

Mr Jones: The Man Who Knew Too Much: The Life and Death of Gareth Jones

By Martin Shipton

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

By Timothy Snyder

Russia's Rulers Under the Old Regime

By Dominic Lieven

Memories - From Moscow to the Black Sea

By Teffi, Robert Chandler, Anne Marie Jackson, Irina Steinberg

The Great Game

By Peter Hopkirk

Nicholas II: Emperor of All the Russias

By D.C.B. Lieven

Setting the East Ablaze

By Peter Hopkirk

Churchill, Whitehall and the Soviet Union, 1940-45

By M. Folly

Empires of Eurasia: How Imperial Legacies Shape International Security

By Jeffrey Mankoff

The Cold War through Documents: A Global History

By Edward H. Judge, John W. Langdon

Dead Again: The Russian Intelligentsia After Communism

By Masha Gessen

New Cold War: How the Kremlin Menaces Both Russia and the West

By Edward Lucas

Historically Inevitable?: Turning Points of the Russian Revolution

By Tony Brenton, Donald Crawford, Sean McMeekin, Professor Dominic Lieven (Professor), Orlando Figes (Professor)

Dictators: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century

By Frank Dikotter