Russia + Russian history

Book Reviews

• Svetlana Alexievich: Voices From Chernobyl*
  The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
• Paul Avrich: The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution
  - fifty contemporary documents
• James Cracraft: The Revolution of Peter the Great*
  - a lively account of the changes he brought to Russia
• Thomas de Waal: The Caucasus: An Introduction
  - the modern history of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia
• Yury Dombrovsky: The Faculty of Useless Knowledge*
  - a novel of Stalin's 1937 terror
• Yuri Druzhnikov: Passport to Yesterday
  - looking back at a childhood in WWII Russia
• Lidiya Ginzburg: Blockade Diary
  - life during the siege of Leningrad
• Jaan Kross: Professor Martens' Departure*
• Jaan Kross: The Czar's Madman
  - von Bock is a friend of Tsar Alexander I, but also an idealist...
• Peter Matthiessen: Baikal
  Sacred Sea of Siberia
• Nicholas V. Riasanovsky: A History of Russia
  - Kievan, Appanage, Muscovite, Imperial, and Soviet Russia
• Christopher Robbins: In Search of Kazakhstan
  The Land that Disappeared
• Alexander Solzhenitsyn: August 1914*
  - a fictional account of the battle of Tannenberg
• Francis Spufford: Red Plenty*
  Inside the Fifties' Soviet Dream
• Yevgeny Zamyatin: A Soviet Heretic*
  - essays on Russian literature from the decade after the Revolution

See also: Central Asia | Eastern Europe | Russian literature