Russia + Russian history

Book Reviews

• Svetlana Alexievich: Voices From Chernobyl*
  The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
• Svetlana Alexievich: Second-Hand Time: The Last of the Soviets
  - twenty oral histories from 1991 to 2012
• Paul Avrich: The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution
  - fifty contemporary documents
• Antony Beevor, Luba Vinogradova: A Writer at War*
  Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945
• Dovid Bergelson: Descent
  - a modernist shtetl novel
• 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
• Sheila Fitzpatrick: On Stalin's Team*
  The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics
• James Forsyth: A History of the Peoples of Siberia
  Russia's North Asian Colony 1581-1990
• Lidiya Ginzburg: Blockade Diary
  - life during the siege of Leningrad
• Janet M. Hartley: Siberia: A History of the People
  - settlers and soldiers; exiles and explorers
• Jaan Kross: Professor Martens' Departure*
• Jaan Kross: The Czar's Madman
  - von Bock is a friend of Tsar Alexander I, but also an idealist...
• Owe Martinsson, Jerzy Lesinski: Siberian Larch
  Forestry and Timber in a Scandinavian Perspective
• Peter Matthiessen: Baikal
  Sacred Sea of Siberia
• Benjamin Peters: How Not to Network a Nation
  The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet
• 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
• Ronald Grigor Suny: The Structure of Soviet History
  Essays and Documents
• Leonid Yuzefovich: Harlequin's Costume
  - a political murder mystery in 1871 St Petersburg
• Yevgeny Zamyatin: A Soviet Heretic*
  - essays on Russian literature from the decade after the Revolution

See also: Central Asia | Eastern Europe | Russian literature