Russian Historical Biographies

The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire: Political Leaders From Lenin to Gorbachev

By Dmitri Volkogonov

Che Guevara: the definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating historical figures, by critically-acclaimed New York Times journalist Jon Lee Anderson

By Jon Lee Anderson

A Writer At War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945

By Vasily Grossman, Antony Beevor, Luba Vinogradova

From Biplanes to Fast Jets: A pilot's life in the Royal Air Force 1942-1973

By Ken Aedy

Lenin V3

By Robert Service

The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

By Ben Macintyre

How Football (Nearly) Came Home: Adventures in Putin's World Cup

By Barney Ronay

Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

By Laurence Rees

Dear Leader: North Korea's senior propagandist exposes shocking truths behind the regime

By Jang Jin-Sung

Free Fall: A Sniper's Story from Chechnya

By Nicolai Lilin, Jamie Richards

The Prophet Outcast: Leon Trotsky, 1929-40

By Isaac Deutscher

Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

By David Remnick

Stalin and Stalinism (Seminar Studies in History)

By McCauley, Martin