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The Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archive

By Richard Pipes, Y. A. Buranov

Trotsky: A Biography

By Robert Service

Russia's Rulers Under the Old Regime

By D.C.B. Lieven

Forsake Fear: Memoirs of an Historian

By Aleksandr Nekrich, Donald Lineburgh

Khrushchev: The Years in Power

By Roy A. Medvedev, Zhores A. Medvedev

Why Gorbachev Happened: His Triumphs and His Failure

By Robert G. Kaiser

Narodniki Women: Russian Women Who Sacrificed Themselves for the Dream of Freedom

By Margaret Maxwell

Intimacy and Terror: Soviet Diaries of the 1930s

By Veronique Garros, Natalia Korenevskaya, Thomas Lahusen, Carol A. Flath

Nikolay Bukharin: The Last Years

By Roy A. Medvedev

The Russian Album

By Michael Ignatieff

Buried Glory: Portraits of Soviet Scientists

By Istvan Hargittai (University Professor, University Professor, Institute of General and Analytical Chemistry, Budapest Technical University)

Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess

By Andrew Lownie

Half Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy

By Frank Close

Russia in the Age of Peter the Great

By Lindsey Hughes

Peter the Great Changes Russia

By Marc Raeff

Peter the Great

By William Marshall, William M. Marshall

The Revolution of Peter the Great

By James Cracraft

Peter the Great

By John Swift

Pushkin’s Button

By Vitale, Serena, Goldstein, Ann

Ivan's War: The Red Army 1939-1945

By Catherine Merridale

Abraham Hanibal

By Dieudonne Gnammankou

The Dvina Remains

By Eugenie Fraser

The Russian Court at Sea

By Frances Welch