Russian Historical Biographies

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

A Mountain of Crumbs: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

By Elena Gorokhova

Parting with Illusions

By Vladimir Pozner

Bolshevik Women

By Barbara Evans Clements (University of Akron, Ohio)

As I Remember Them

By Galina Von Meck

Lenin

By Dmitri Volkogonov, Harold Shukman

My Fellow Prisoners

By Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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)

I Hope: Reminiscences and Reflections

By Raisa Gorbachev

Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary

By Dmitriai Antonovich Volkogonov, Harold Shukman

Pictorial History of Stalin

By Nigel Blundell

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

By Isabel Maxwell Scott

Melnikov: Solo Architect in a Mass Society

By Frederick S. Starr

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

By David Remnick

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

Peter the Great

By Henri Troyat

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

By G. I. Gurdjieff

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

By Tariq Ali

The Last Tsar: Life and Death of Nicholas II

By Edvard Radzinskii

Stalin: Man and Ruler

By Robert H. McNeal

Stalin and Stalinism (Seminar Studies in History)

By McCauley, Martin