Recommended
Russian History Books
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The
Ukraine Genocide
Execution
by Hunger: The
Hidden Holocaust
by
Miron Dolot and Adam Bruno Ulam
A
well-written eyewitness account of the forced
collectivization of Russian agriculture in 1929-1931
and the ensuing famine in the Ukraine
The
Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet
Collectivization and the Terror-Famine
by Robert Conquest
An
excellent account of what Conquest appropriately
calls the Terror-Famine engineered by Stalin.
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Lenin's
Tomb
by David Remnick the
story of the last years of Communism in the
Soviet Union by David Remnick, who covered the
events for The Washington Post |
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Peter
the Great
by Peter K. Massie the
Pulitzer Prize winning biography of Peter the
Great - "Enthralling . . . As fascinating
as any novel and more so than most." The
New York Times Book Review |
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Echoes
of a Native Land: Two Centuries of a Russian Village
by Serge Schmemann
New
York Times correspondent Serge Schmemann
returned to his ancestral village of Koltsovo
and explores its history in this very interesting
narrative |
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A
People's Tragedy : The Russian Revolution : 1891-1924
by Orlando Figes
a
very readable narrative account of the Russian
Revolution |
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The
Romanovs: the Final Chapter
by Robert K. Massie
a
fascinating account of the last days of Nicholas
II and his family |
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Catherine
the Great
by Henri Troyat, translated by Joan Pinkham
a
great account of the court intrigues surrounding
Catherine, ruler of Russia |
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The
Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956
by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Solzhenitsyn
used his own experiences in a gulag as well
as evidence from more than 200 fellow prisoners
and Soviet archives to reveal the apparatus
of Soviet repression -- the state within the
state that ruled all-powerfully
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