Best Russian History Books
101. 
Popular Opinion in Stalin's Russia: Terror, Propaganda and Dissent, 1934-1941
by:
Sarah Davies
3.61 avg rating β 23 ratings 102. 
Stalin As Revolutionary, 1879-1929: A Study in History and Personality
by:
Robert C. Tucker
3.89 avg rating β 150 ratings 
105. 
In war's dark shadow: The Russians before the Great War
by:
W. Bruce Lincoln
3.90 avg rating β 154 ratings 106. 
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
by:
Anya von Bremzen
4.03 avg rating β 4,655 ratings 
109. 
The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
by:
Steven Lee Myers
4.07 avg rating β 5,471 ratings 
111. 
Russia and the Golden Horde: The Mongol Impact on Medieval Russian History 3.69 avg rating β 235 ratings
113. 
Alexander Dolgun's story: An American in the Gulag
by:
Alexander Dolgun
4.50 avg rating β 421 ratings 
115. 
Bears in the Streets: Three Journeys across a Changing Russia
by:
Lisa Dickey
4.04 avg rating β 587 ratings 
118. 
Stalin's Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village after Collectivization 3.75 avg rating β 85 ratings
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Russia Through Women's Eyes: Autobiographies from Tsarist Russia (Russian Literature and Thought Series)
by:
Toby W. Clyman
3.93 avg rating β 14 ratings 
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East of the Sun: The Epic Conquest and Tragic History of Siberia
by:
Benson Bobrick
4.10 avg rating β 155 ratings 127. 
The Tide at Sunrise: A History of the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-05
by:
Peggy Warner
4.10 avg rating β 111 ratings 
131. 
Vienna 1814: How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made War, Peace, and Love at the Congress of Vienna
by:
David King
3.99 avg rating β 907 ratings 
133. 
The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life
by:
Tom Reiss
3.92 avg rating β 2,915 ratings 134. 
Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944
by:
Anna Reid
4.17 avg rating β 2,427 ratings 
137. 
A History of Russian Thought: From the Enlightenment to Marxism
by:
Andrzej Walicki
4.22 avg rating β 65 ratings 
138. 
Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America
by:
Jack Barsky
4.07 avg rating β 2,660 ratings 138. 
God Save the USSR: Soviet Muslims and the Second World War
by:
Jeff Eden
4.15 avg rating β 33 ratings 138. 
Spies and Commissars: The Early Years of the Russian Revolution
by:
Robert Service
3.59 avg rating β 230 ratings 142. 
Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian & East European Studies (Paperback)) 3.58 avg rating β 195 ratings
142. 
Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000
by:
Stephen Kotkin
3.79 avg rating β 1,395 ratings 144. 
From Splendor to Revolution: The Romanov Women, 1847--1928
by:
Julia P. Gelardi
4.01 avg rating β 865 ratings 145. 
The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue the Russian Imperial Family
by:
Helen Rappaport
3.80 avg rating β 1,979 ratings 146. 
147. 
Nicholas I: Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias
by:
W. Bruce Lincoln
3.83 avg rating β 60 ratings 
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The Resurrection of the Romanovs: Anastasia, Anna Anderson, and the World's Greatest Royal Mystery
by:
Greg King
4.02 avg rating β 602 ratings 
153. 
Red Road From Stalingrad: Recollections of a Soviet Infantryman
by:
Mansur Abdulin
4.17 avg rating β 452 ratings 153. 
The Siege Of Leningrad: 1941-1944; 900 Days Of Terror
by:
David M. Glantz
3.70 avg rating β 100 ratings 155. 
Magnificence of the Tsars: Men's Dress at the Imperial Russian Court 1721-1917 4.52 avg rating β 21 ratings
161. 
Stalin's Folly: The Tragic First Ten Days of WWII on the Eastern Front 3.88 avg rating β 272 ratings
161. 
Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia
by:
Douglas Northrop
4.05 avg rating β 75 ratings 161. 
Killing Rasputin : The Murder That Ended The Russian Empire
by:
Margarita Nelipa
3.46 avg rating β 81 ratings 164. 
The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution
by:
Robert Service
3.75 avg rating β 532 ratings 165. 
Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
by:
Nina Willner
4.37 avg rating β 12,280 ratings 165. 
The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War
by:
Arkady Ostrovsky
4.02 avg rating β 1,863 ratings 167. 
The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions.
by:
Arno J. Mayer
3.88 avg rating β 97 ratings 
169. 
Three Who Made a Revolution: A Biographical History of Lenin, Trotsky & Stalin
by:
Bertram D. Wolfe
3.81 avg rating β 180 ratings 
170. 
Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia
by:
Michael Farquhar
3.89 avg rating β 1,327 ratings 172. 
Little Mother of Russia: A Biography of the Empress Marie Feodorovna (1847-1928)
by:
Coryne Hall
4.26 avg rating β 194 ratings 173. 
Where the Jews Aren't: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region (Jewish Encounters Series)
by:
Masha Gessen
3.78 avg rating β 662 ratings 173. 
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Dancing Under the Red Star: The Extraordinary Story of Margaret Werner, the Only American Woman to Survive Stalin's Gulag
by:
Karl Tobien
4.12 avg rating β 1,208 ratings 178. 
Red Victory: A History of the Russian Civil War, 1918-1921
by:
W. Bruce Lincoln
4.08 avg rating β 238 ratings 179. 
Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort, 1941-1945
by:
Richard Overy
4.21 avg rating β 2,549 ratings 180. 
Till My Tale Is Told: Women's Memoirs of the Gulag
by:
Simeon Vilensky
4.12 avg rating β 60 ratings 
183. 
Shostakovich and Stalin: The Extraordinary Relationship Between the Great Composer and the Brutal Dictator
by:
Solomon Volkov
4.02 avg rating β 195 ratings 184. 
The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
by:
Masha Gessen
3.82 avg rating β 11,842 ratings 185. 
Michael and Natasha: The Life and Love of Michael II, the Last of the Romanov Tsars 4.07 avg rating β 576 ratings
185. 
The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars
by:
Daniel Beer
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 491 ratings 188. 
Telling October: Memory and the Making of the Bolshevik Revolution 3.68 avg rating β 38 ratings
188. 
Sex in Public: The Incarnation of Early Soviet Ideology
by:
Eric Naiman
3.83 avg rating β 18 ratings 190. 
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I
by:
M.J. Carter
4.03 avg rating β 4,253 ratings 190. 
After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Γpoque Through Revolution and War
by:
Helen Rappaport
3.76 avg rating β 1,183 ratings 192. 
The Taking of K-129: How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History
by:
Josh Dean
4.19 avg rating β 2,153 ratings 192. 
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Dear America: The True Odyssey of an American Youth who Miraculously Survived the Concentration Camps of the Soviet Gulag
by:
Thomas Sgovio
4.79 avg rating β 33 ratings 195. 
Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age
by:
Sara Wheeler
3.62 avg rating β 369 ratings 196. 
For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War 3.92 avg rating β 300 ratings
199. 
Thou Shalt Kill: Revolutionary Terrorism in Russia, 1894-1917
by:
Anna Geifman
3.66 avg rating β 35 ratings 200. 
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster 4.37 avg rating β 61,006 ratings