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Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics
Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics
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Soviet Nightingales: Care Under Communism
Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World
Central Peripheries: Nationhood in Central Asia
Two Books on Modern Russian Identity
Books for the Century: Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics
Memory Crash: The Politics of History in and Around Ukraine, 1980s–2010s
God Save the USSR: Soviet Muslims and the Second World War
Brezhnev: The Making of a Statesman
Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books
Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey Into Space
Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War
The Volga: A History of Russia’s Greatest River
Deception: Russiagate and the New Cold War
We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to East Asia From Peter the Great to Putin
The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World
Navalny: Putin’s Nemesis, Russia’s Future?
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR
Assignment Russia: Becoming a Foreign Correspondent in the Crucible of the Cold War
Russian Energy Chains: The Remaking of Technopolitics From Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union
Two Books on Conspiracy Theories in Russia and the Post-Soviet World
Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
A Full-Value Ruble: The Promise of Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union
White Russians, Red Peril: A Cold War History of Migration to Australia
Comrade Kerensky
Political Ideologies in Contemporary Russia
Beyond the Protest Square: Digital Media and Augmented Dissent
Flowers Through Concrete: Explorations in Soviet Hippieland
Assignment Moscow: Reporting on Russia From Lenin to Putin
The Happy Traitor: Spies, Lies, and Exile in Russia; The Extraordinary Story of George Blake
Nested Nationalism: Making and Unmaking Nations in the Soviet Caucasus
Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia
A Short History of Russia: From the Pagans to Putin
1837: Russia’s Quiet Revolution
Tales From Russian Folklore
Substate Dictatorship: Networks, Loyalty, and Institutional Change in the Soviet Union
Two Books on Material Objects in the Soviet Union
Politics for Profit: Business, Elections, and Policymaking in Russia
The Lenin Plot: The Unknown Story of America’s War Against Russia
Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty
Russia and America: The Asymmetric Rivalry
Young Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Memoir and a Reckoning
Cold War Correspondents: Soviet and American Reporters on the Ideological Frontlines
It Will Be Fun and Terrifying: Nationalism and Protest in Post-Soviet Russia
How Russia Learned to Talk: A History of Public Speaking in the Stenographic Age, 1860–1930
Sketches of the Criminal World: Further Kolyma Stories
Woodrow Wilson and the Reimagining of Eastern Europe
The Dissidents: A Memoir of Working With the Resistance in Russia, 1960–1990
The Icon and the Square: Russian Modernism and the Russo-Byzantine Revival
Three Books about the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
Nikita Khrushchev’s Journey Into America
The Siberian Dilemma
The Tragedy of Property: Private Life, Ownership, and the Russian State
The Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II Through Objects
Two Memoirs About the Soviet Union
Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan
The Great Cauldron: A History of Southeastern Europe
Mirrorlands: Russia, China, and Journeys in Between
Ivan the Terrible: Free to Reward and Free to Punish
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: American Airmen Behind the Soviet Lines and the Collapse of the Grand Alliance
To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture
Bucharest Diary: Romania’s Journey From Darkness to Light
We Need to Talk About Putin
The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union From Ruin
Catherine and Diderot: The Empress, the Philosopher, and the Fate of the Enlightenment
Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century
An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent
Understanding Russia: The Challenges of Transformation
A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate Pallada
Putin’s World: Russia Against the West and With the Rest
School of Europeanness: Tolerance and Other Lessons in Political Liberalism in Latvia
Russia Without Putin: Money, Power, and the Myths of the New Cold War
Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy: Religion, Politics, and Strategy
Without the Banya We Would Perish: A History of the Russian Bathhouse
Putin’s Counterrevolution
Russian “Hybrid Warfare”: Resurgence and Politicisation
The Kremlin Letters: Stalin’s Wartime Correspondence With Churchill and Roosevelt
A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism
Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan
No Place for Russia: European Security Institutions Since 1989
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
The Dawn of Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World Order
Rich Russians: From Oligarchs to Bourgeoisie
The Code of Putinism
Tito and His Comrades
A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism
Communists and Their Victims: The Quest for Justice in the Czech Republic
The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia
Orbán: Hungary’s Strongman
The Treacherous Path: An Insider’s Account of Modern Russia
The Kremlinologist: Llewellyn E. Thompson, America’s Man in Cold War Moscow; From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia
Rival Power: Russia in Southeast Europe
Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia
My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File
Peacemakers: American Leadership and the End of Genocide in the Balkans
Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes From the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine
Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz
Orders to Kill: The Putin Regime and Political Murder
The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution; Putin’s War Against Ukraine: Revolution, Nationalism, and Crime
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