Russia Books


Russia: People and Empire, 1552-1917, Enlarged EditionRussia: People and Empire, 1552-1917, Enlarged Edition
Best Price: $11.00
I had modest expectations about this book and was pleasantly surprised. This is always better...
St. Petersburg: The Hidden InteriorsSt. Petersburg: The Hidden Interiors
Best Price: $27.51
We visited St. Petersburg several years ago and were blown away by the belle epoque portions of...
Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New EuropeNationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe
Best Price: $25.56
Rogers Brubaker, Professor of Sociology at UCLA and part-time teacher at the Central European...
Sacred Sea: A Journey to Lake BaikalSacred Sea: A Journey to Lake Baikal
Best Price: $17.87
You will find this book a spiritual reflection, a personal memoir, an ecological thriller. It...
Donbas: A True Story of an Escape Across RussiaDonbas: A True Story of an Escape Across Russia
Best Price: $10.59
When I met Jacques Sandulescu, I was a pasty college kid whose idea of exertion involved a...


The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture (Cambridge Companions to Culture)The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture (Cambridge Companions to Culture)
Best Price: $24.98
This book is comprised of 12 brief, well-written essays by distinguished researchers, put...
CIA SpyMasterCIA SpyMaster
Best Price: $6.67
Former CIA analyst Ashley here offers an account,vetted and approved by the CIA, of his...
Eastern Europe, 1939-2000 (Brief Histories)Eastern Europe, 1939-2000 (Brief Histories)
Best Price: $23.44
This book examines the post-war history of Eastern Europe from the perspective of social...
Stalingrad 1942 (Campaign)Stalingrad 1942 (Campaign)
Best Price: $11.90
This book is a good general history of the Stalingrad campaign. Whilst more time could have been...
Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse?: Understanding Historical ChangeWhy Did the Soviet Union Collapse?: Understanding Historical Change
Best Price: $24.75
Strayer's book is more than proposing one particular thesis as to why the USSR is no longer in...


When Elephants Paint: The Quest of Two Russian Artists to Save the Elephants of ThailandWhen Elephants Paint: The Quest of Two Russian Artists to Save the Elephants of Thailand
Best Price: $125.24
This book has many pictures and covers the material well. My only disappointment was that it...
One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964: The Secret History of the Cuban Missile CrisisOne Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964: The Secret History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Best Price: $8.85
One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964: The Secret History of the...
Central Asia: One Hundred Thirty Years of Russian Dominance, A Historical Overview, 3rd ed. (Central Asia Book Series)Central Asia: One Hundred Thirty Years of Russian Dominance, A Historical Overview, 3rd ed. (Central Asia Book Series)
Best Price: $29.71
Dr. Edward Allworth became the foremost scholar in the USA on Central Asian history with his...
Princess Victoria MelitaPrincess Victoria Melita
Best Price: $7.89
This was a book that needed to be written, and it needed more flesh to make it seem less skinny....
Off the Planet: Surviving Five Perilous Months Aboard the Space Station MirOff the Planet: Surviving Five Perilous Months Aboard the Space Station Mir
Best Price: $24.94
I bought the book after hearing Mr. Linenger speak. It was easy to read and very interesting.

Soviet Secret Projects: Fighters Since 1945Soviet Secret Projects: Fighters Since 1945
Best Price: $34.14
I enjoyed reading this book; it had a short "blurb" about many development types and...
Russia's Orient: Imperial Borderlands and Peoples, 1750-1917 (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian & East European Studies)Russia's Orient: Imperial Borderlands and Peoples, 1750-1917 (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian & East European Studies)
Best Price: $19.99
This is not a bad book, especially if you are interested in ethnopolitics of Imperial Russia. ...
Russia: A HistoryRussia: A History
Best Price: $17.36
This is a comprehensive book covering several hundred years of Russian history. Although the...
Aircraft Carriers at War: A Personal Retrospective of Korea, Vietnam, and the Soviet ConfrontationAircraft Carriers at War: A Personal Retrospective of Korea, Vietnam, and the Soviet Confrontation
Best Price: $21.90
This is a very well written book by a very smart man. It is a bit wordy towards the end but the...
Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in RussiaSoviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia
Best Price: $17.95
The other reviewers on Amazon are correct about Malia's thesis, which essentially boils down to...

The Storks' Nest: Life and Love in the Russian CountrysideThe Storks' Nest: Life and Love in the Russian Countryside
Best Price: $6.75
Laura Williams' dawning into a life in the Russian countryside is beautiful and trenchant, and...
Russian Submarines: Guardians of the MotherlandRussian Submarines: Guardians of the Motherland
Best Price: $21.20
Amazing images of what was once so secret. Bit disappointed that many of the images are not...
The Russian Empire: A Multi-Ethnic HistoryThe Russian Empire: A Multi-Ethnic History
Best Price: $32.99
B> This book is a topical, innovative and far-reaching history of the multiplicity of...
Stalin's Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village after CollectivizationStalin's Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village after Collectivization
Best Price: $31.01
Sheila Fitzpatrick's study begins with the advent of collectivization in 1929 and covers the...
Documents on the Holocaust: Selected Sources on the Destruction of the Jews of Germany and Austria, Poland, and the Soviet Union (Eighth Edition)Documents on the Holocaust: Selected Sources on the Destruction of the Jews of Germany and Austria, Poland, and the Soviet Union (Eighth Edition)
Best Price: $18.00
An interesting book. The first section describes the gradual tightening of legal restrictions on...

Contemporary Russian Politics: A ReaderContemporary Russian Politics: A Reader
Best Price: $33.02
While this is more of a textbook than a political science book, it still offers useful...
War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941 (Total War: New Perspectives on World War II)War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941 (Total War: New Perspectives on World War II)
Best Price: $17.95
The author provides an excellent overview of the origin of Hitler's decision to invade the...
War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941 (Total War: New Perspectives on World War II)War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941 (Total War: New Perspectives on World War II)
Best Price: $17.95
The author provides an excellent overview of the origin of Hitler's decision to invade the...
Lenin's Private War: The Voyage of the Philosophy Steamer and the Exile of the IntelligentsiaLenin's Private War: The Voyage of the Philosophy Steamer and the Exile of the Intelligentsia
Best Price: $4.95
A book that helps one better understand the havoc created among the Russian intelligentsia by...
Warbird Recovery: The Hunt for a Rare World War II Plane in Siberia, RussiaWarbird Recovery: The Hunt for a Rare World War II Plane in Siberia, Russia
Best Price: $11.02
When Gordon sent me the book, I was excited to dig into it, but life is busy, and I didn't get a...

Soviet Secret Projects Bombers Since 1945 (Secret Projects)Soviet Secret Projects Bombers Since 1945 (Secret Projects)
Best Price: $32.85
Este livro foca muitos projectos de avi?es da ex. URSS, e mostra que a ind?stria aeron?utica...
Revolutions in World History (Themes in World History)Revolutions in World History (Themes in World History)
Best Price: $24.00
Revolutions have been a part of politics for centuries. Their ideologies, their leaders, and...
Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal MarchMoscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March
Best Price: $4.99
It is with great respect that I read Zamoyski's 1812. Respect not only for its author, but also...
The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation, Second editionThe Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation, Second edition
Best Price: $8.00
Andrew Wilson's history of Ukraine is unlike any other book written on the subject. It does not...
Russia's Sputnik Generation: Soviet Baby Boomers Talk About Their Lives (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies)Russia's Sputnik Generation: Soviet Baby Boomers Talk About Their Lives (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies)
Best Price: $16.00
Russia's Sputnik Generation presents the life stories of eight 1967 graduates of School No. 42...

Russia's Revolution: 1989-2006Russia's Revolution: 1989-2006
Best Price: $8.18
Auther Leon Aron (resident scholar and director of Russian studies, American Enterprise...
The Last Flight of Bomber 31: Harrowing Tales of American and Japanese Pilots Who Fought World War II's Arctic Air CampaignThe Last Flight of Bomber 31: Harrowing Tales of American and Japanese Pilots Who Fought World War II's Arctic Air Campaign
Best Price: $5.70
Mr. Wetterhahn has done a great service in relating the type of warfare conducted in the...
Putin's Kremlin: How the West Misinterprets Modern RussiaPutin's Kremlin: How the West Misinterprets Modern Russia
Best Price: $18.45
A timely account of Putin's presidency on the eve of his departure from office When...
There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of EishyshokThere Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok
Best Price: $8.45
I feel renewed horror that, to this day, Polish and Lithuanian reviewers use this format to try...
More Bf109 Aces of the Russian Front (Aircraft of the Aces)More Bf109 Aces of the Russian Front (Aircraft of the Aces)
Best Price: $13.98
John Weal concludes his survey of Russian Front Bf 109 aces with this volume on the second tier...

The Tsar's Last Armada: The Epic Voyage to the Battle of TsushimaThe Tsar's Last Armada: The Epic Voyage to the Battle of Tsushima
Best Price: $1.25
A superb,well written and referenced history. Authors research into the amazing deployment of...
Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan through Peace and WarBlack Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan through Peace and War
Best Price: $19.80
After being introduced to the author's writing through a na?ve-Westerner-written article titled...
A History Of Russia Volume 2: Since 1855 (Anthem Series on Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies)A History Of Russia Volume 2: Since 1855 (Anthem Series on Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies)
Best Price: $26.00
Written by a professor of history at Eastern Michigan State University, this book is chiefly...
The Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905The Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905
Best Price: $4.90
This book is a good introduction to this conflict for its 96 page length. Not very in-depth but...
FROM EYLAU TO FRIEDLANDFROM EYLAU TO FRIEDLAND
Best Price: $43.12
From Eylau to Friedland is a wonderful book for those interested either in these rather obscure...

Mikoyan Mig-21 (Famous Russian Aircraft) (Famous Russian Aircraft)Mikoyan Mig-21 (Famous Russian Aircraft) (Famous Russian Aircraft)
Best Price: $70.16
First Impression It has been a while since any serious new publication on the MiG-21 Fishbed...
In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching (Harvest Book)In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching (Harvest Book)
Best Price: $22.42
P.D. Ospensky as a teenager decided to forgo an academic education and instead to search for or...
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the Modern Russo-Jewish Question (Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society 14)Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the Modern Russo-Jewish Question (Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society 14)
Best Price: $34.54
Will the Russian and Jewish nations ever achieve true reconciliation? Why is there such...
The Memoirs of Princess DashkovaThe Memoirs of Princess Dashkova
Best Price: $18.17
The Memoirs of Princess Dashkova are unique in that they are a first hand account of eighteenth...
Russian Rebels, 1600-1800: Four Great Rebellions Which Shook the Russian State in the Seventeenth (The Norton Library ; N836)Russian Rebels, 1600-1800: Four Great Rebellions Which Shook the Russian State in the Seventeenth (The Norton Library ; N836)
Best Price: $16.14
Bolotnikov, Razin, Bulavin and Pugachev are all names lost to history yet these were leaders of...

Russia, The Soviet Union, and The United States: An Interpretive HistoryRussia, The Soviet Union, and The United States: An Interpretive History
Best Price: $12.39
From the capricious reign of Catherine the Great and Alexander I to the provocative leadership...
Russia 2010: And What It Means for the WorldRussia 2010: And What It Means for the World
Best Price: $3.99
Written in 1993, it is fascinating to re-read "Russia 2010" today, 11 years later --...
Reinventing PoliticsReinventing Politics
Best Price: $2.39
When I was in college, I was required to read this book. I was struck then by the insights that...
Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in UkraineNazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine
Best Price: $20.83
Lower provides the most complete assessment available of German colonization and the Holocaust...
Chernobyl: Confessions of a ReporterChernobyl: Confessions of a Reporter
Best Price: $21.25
Written by prizewinning journalist Igor Kostin, who braved severe radiation to take the only...
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