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After the Fall: The Failure of Communism and the Future of Socialism

By Robin Blackburn, Alexander Cockburn, Diane Elson, e p thompson, Eduardo Galeano

Prince of Princes: The Life of Potemkin

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow

By Zamoyski, Adam

The First Heroes

By Craig Nelson

The Romanov Conspiracies: The Romanovs and the House of Windsor

By Michael Occleshaw

Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

Nicholas II, The Last Tsar

By Michael Paterson

Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses

By Helen Rappaport

Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich

By Shirer, William L

Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend

By Mark Bostridge

The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

By Masha Gessen

The Life of Irene Nemirovsky: 1903-1942

By Olivier Philipponnat, Patrick Lienhardt, Euan Cameron

Vixi: Memoirs of a Non-belonger

By Richard Pipes

Catherine the Great: A Short History

By isabel-de-madariaga

Alexandra: The Last Tsarina: The Tragic Story of the Last Empress of Russia: A Life of the Last Tsarina

By Erickson, Carolly

The Tragedy of Leon Trotsky

By Ronald Segal

Tangled Loyalties: Life and Times of Ilya Ehrenburg

By Joshua Rubenstein

The Life and Work of S. M. Dubnov: Diaspora Nationalism and Jewish History

By Sophie Dubnov-Erlich

Young Stalin

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

Life and Fate of Vasily Grossman

By John Garrard, Carol Garrard

The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family

By Helen Rappaport

Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy

By Anna Politkovskaya

Special Tasks: Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness a Soviet Spymaster

By Pavel Sudoplatov, Anatoli Sudoplatov, Jerrold L. Schector

The Skripal Files: The full story behind the Salisbury Poisonings

By Mark Urban

Young Trudeau: 1919-1944: Son of Quebec, Father of Canada

By Max Nemni, Monique Nemni, William Johnson

The Life & Times of Gregorii Rasputin

By Alex De Jonge

One Minute To Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

By Michael Dobbs

Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

By Donnie Eichar

Lenin the Dictator

By Victor Sebestyen

Russian Journal

By Lee, Andrea