Nonfiction Books for Russophiles
1. 
Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia 3.97 avg rating — 968 ratings
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Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
by:
Robert K. Massie
4.23 avg rating — 29,466 ratings 
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After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War
by:
Helen Rappaport
3.76 avg rating — 1,184 ratings 
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A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924
by:
Orlando Figes
4.37 avg rating — 5,696 ratings 
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The Russian Cosmists: The Esoteric Futurism of Nikolai Fedorov and His Followers
by:
George M. Young
4.03 avg rating — 109 ratings 10. 
Moscow & St. Petersburg 1900-1920: Art, Life, & Culture of the Russian Silver Age
by:
John E. Bowlt
4.45 avg rating — 65 ratings 11. 
Inside the Rainbow: Russian Children's Literature 1920-1935: Beautiful Books, Terrible Times 4.38 avg rating — 47 ratings
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The Director's Prism: E. T. A. Hoffmann and the Russian Theatrical Avant-Garde
by:
Dassia Posner
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 13. 
The Moscow Pythagoreans: Mathematics, Mysticism, and Anti-Semitism in Russian Symbolism
by:
Ilona Svetlikova
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution 4.22 avg rating — 1,785 ratings
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Hidden Urbanism: Architecture and Design of the Moscow Metro 1935-2015
by:
Sergey Kuznetsov
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings 
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Everything was Forever, Until it was No More: The Last Soviet Generation
by:
Alexei Yurchak
4.16 avg rating — 787 ratings 14. 
Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia
by:
Joshua Yaffa
4.14 avg rating — 956 ratings 
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The Collapse of the Soviet Union: Causes and Lessons: For the Revolutionary Revival of the International Communist Movement really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Wind of Change: An American Journey in Post-Soviet Russia
by:
Kenneth Maher
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 33 ratings 14. 
The Odd Man Karakozov: Imperial Russia, Modernity, and the Birth of Terrorism 3.65 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort, 1941-1945
by:
Richard Overy
4.21 avg rating — 2,548 ratings 29. 
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
by:
Anya von Bremzen
4.03 avg rating — 4,655 ratings 29. 
Stalin and His Hangmen : An Authoritative Portrait of a Tyrant and Those Who Served Him
by:
Donald Rayfield
4.02 avg rating — 447 ratings 29. 
Degeneration, decadence and disease in the Russian fin de siècle: Neurasthenia in the life and work of Leonid Andreev (Durham Modern Languages Series) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Lost and Found in Russia: Lives in the Post-Soviet Landscape
by:
Susan Richards
3.52 avg rating — 366 ratings 36. 
Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses
by:
Helen Rappaport
3.88 avg rating — 24,078 ratings 36. 
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The Rebel Romanov: Julie of Saxe-Coburg, the Empress Russia Never Had
by:
Helen Rappaport
3.78 avg rating — 396 ratings 43. 
Have Personality Disorder Will Rule Russia: A Concise History of Russia 3.65 avg rating — 96 ratings
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The Petrine Instauration: Religion, Esotericism and Science at the Court of Peter the Great, 1689-1725 (Aries Book Series -Texts and Studies in Western Esotericism, 14)
by:
Robert Collis
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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The rare and extraordinary History of Holy Russia: With over 500 illustrations
by:
Gustave Doré
3.56 avg rating — 59 ratings 51. 
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The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg
by:
Helen Rappaport
4.05 avg rating — 6,114 ratings 
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Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
by:
Michael Parenti
4.40 avg rating — 8,495 ratings 51. 
The Bathhouse at Midnight: An Historical Survey of Magic and Divination in Russia
by:
W.F. Ryan
4.35 avg rating — 82 ratings 58. 
Adventures in the Soviet Imaginary: Soviet Children's Books and Graphic Art
by:
Robert C. Bird
3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings 
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Coming Out of the Ice: An Unexpected Life by Victor Herman
by:
Victor Herman
4.58 avg rating — 566 ratings 
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Murder Most Russian: True Crime and Punishment in Late Imperial Russia 3.44 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Space and Time Perception by the Cosmonaut
by:
Alexei Leonov
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 65. 
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Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
by:
Kremlin, Moscow
3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings 65. 
Modern Occultism in Late Imperial Russia (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies)
by:
Julia Mannherz
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
71. 
Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000
by:
Stephen Kotkin
3.79 avg rating — 1,395 ratings 
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Letters from St Petersburg: A Siamese Prince at the Court of the Last Tsar it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Never Remember: Searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia
by:
Masha Gessen
4.15 avg rating — 247 ratings 
79. 
Little Mother of Russia: A Biography of the Empress Marie Feodorovna (1847-1928)
by:
Coryne Hall
4.26 avg rating — 194 ratings 79. 
The End of the Beginning: Lessons of the Soviet Collapse
by:
Carlos Martínez
4.31 avg rating — 116 ratings 79. 
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Bears in the Streets: Three Journeys Across a Changing Russia
by:
Lisa Dickey
4.04 avg rating — 587 ratings 
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Wonderlands of the Avant-Garde: Technology and the Arts in Russia of the 1920s
by:
Julia Vaingurt
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 86. 
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The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond
by:
Boris Groys
4.04 avg rating — 269 ratings 92. 
The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks: Life and Death Under Soviet Rule
by:
Igort
4.29 avg rating — 1,147 ratings 92. 
Optical Play: Glass, Vision, and Spectacle in Russian Culture it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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ARRESTED VOICES: Resurrecting the Disappeared Writers of the Soviet Regime 4.09 avg rating — 32 ratings
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