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The Essays (Penguin Classics)

By Bacon, Francis, Pitcher, John

Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar

By Edvard Radzinsky, MS Antonina W Bouis (Andrei Sakharov Foundation)

The Reforms of Peter the Great: Progress Through Violence in Russia

By Evgenii V. Anisimov, J.T. Alexander

Peter the Great

By Paul Bushkovitch

Chernobyl Strawberries

By Vesna Goldsworthy

Nikolai Sukhanov: Chronicler of the Russian Revolution

By I. Getzler

Peter the Great

By M.S. Smith

Nicholas and Alexandra

By Robert K. Massie

Yeltsin: A Life

By Timothy Colton

The House by the Dvina: A Russian Childhood

By Eugenie Fraser

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

By Helen Rappaport

The Serge Trotsky Papers: Correspondence and Other Writings Between Victor Serge and Leon Trotsky

By David Cotterill

Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov

By Geoffrey Roberts

Nikolai Gogol

By Vladimir Nabokov

Josephine: Desire, Ambition, Napoleon

By Kate Williams

Stalin

By Edvard Radzinskii

Lenin: Liberator or Oppressor?

By John Laver

Memoirs

By Professor Mikhail Gorbachev

Peter the Great

By Stephen J. Lee

Stalin: Man and Ruler

By Robert H. McNeal

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

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

By Tariq Ali

A Mountain of Crumbs: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

By Elena Gorokhova

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

By G. I. Gurdjieff

Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

By Laurence Rees

Peter the Great

By Henri Troyat