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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

Stalin: Man and Ruler

By Robert H. McNeal

Peter the Great

By Henri Troyat

The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution

By Tariq Ali

Meetings with Remarkable Men: All and Everything, 2nd Series

By G. I. Gurdjieff

A Mountain of Crumbs: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

By Elena Gorokhova

Melnikov: Solo Architect in a Mass Society

By Frederick S. Starr

Baltic Summers, Russian Winter: A Life in War, Revolution and Music

By Isabel Maxwell Scott

Pictorial History of Stalin

By Nigel Blundell

Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary

By Dmitriai Antonovich Volkogonov, Harold Shukman

I Hope: Reminiscences and Reflections

By Raisa Gorbachev

Leading Russia: Putin in Perspective: Essays in Honour of Archie Brown

By Alex Pravda (Director of the Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre, St Antony's College, Oxford)

My Fellow Prisoners

By Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Lenin

By Dmitri Volkogonov, Harold Shukman

As I Remember Them

By Galina Von Meck

Bolshevik Women

By Barbara Evans Clements (University of Akron, Ohio)

Parting with Illusions

By Vladimir Pozner

The Last Tsar: Life and Death of Nicholas II

By Edvard Radzinskii