The Best Russian History Books 2025

1. The Unquiet Ghost (Paperback)

Although some twenty million people died during Stalin's reign of terror, only with the advent of glasnost did Russians begin to confront their memories of that time. In 1991, Adam Hochschild spent nearly six months in Russia talking to gulag survivors, retired concentration camp guards, and countless others. The result is a riveting evocation of a country still haunted by the ghost of Stalin.

The Unquiet Ghost (Paperback)

2. Major Problems in the History of Imperial Russia

Focusing on internal developments in Imperial Russia, this book provides even-handed coverage of the period, with thorough attention to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Political history is balanced with a clear vision of social and economic change.

Issues in World Politics Series: Major Problems in the History of Imperial Russia (Paperback)

3. Problems in European Civilization Series: The Stalin Revolution : Foundations of the Totalitarian Era (Edition 4) (Paperback)

The only anthology of its kind to address the Stalin era, this volume in the "Problems in European Civilization" series presents the recent work of scholars in the United States, Europe, and Russia. The introduction discusses the significance of the Stalin Revolution with relation to the collapse of Communism.

The Stalin Revolution: Foundations of the Totalitarian Era (Problems in European Civilization Series)

4. A History of Russia : Peoples, Legends, Events, Forces (Hardcover)

A History of Russia: Peoples, Legends, Events, Forces is a comprehensive narrative conceived and developed after the collapse of the former Soviet Union. Informed by the burgeoning historiography of the 1990s, the text balances political and economic explorations of everyday life, social roles, cultural dynamics, and gender issues. Many texts on this subject are written from a pre-Confederation point of view that may be unsuitable for today's classroom. This text provides strong coverage of 20th-century Russia and the U.S.S.R. without sacrificing its coverage of earlier historical periods.

• Author: David Goldfrank,Lindsey Hughes,Catherine Evtuhov,Richard Stites • ISBN:9780395660720 • Format:Hardcover • Publication Date:2003-01-02

5. Pre-Owned, Traditions & Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past, (Hardcover)

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Pre-Owned, Traditions & Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past, (Hardcover)

6. Pre-Owned, I Am Spock, (Hardcover)

9780786861828. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 342. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 342 p. Loaded with amusing and informative, behind-the-scenes Star Trek anecdotes, the long-awaited memoir of Leonard Nimoy is sure to be the "logical" hit of the season! This intelligently written autobiography recounts the events of Nimoy's 30-year career, and offers a fascinating look at an actor's relationship to a character of mythic proportions and mammoth appeal. of photos.

Pre-Owned, I Am Spock, (Hardcover)

7. A History of Russia, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

Pre-Owned - Now extensively revised in this ninth edition, A History of Russia covers the entire span of the country's history, from ancient times to the post-communist present. Keeping with the hallmark of the text, Riasanovsky and Steinberg examine all aspects of Russia's history--political, international, military, economic, social, and cultural--with a commitment to objectivity, fairness, and balance, and to reflecting recent research and new trends in scholarly interpretation. In the ninth edition, this includes expanded attention to the experiences of ordinary men and women and to imperial expansion and diversity. Extensively revised and with a more streamlined organization, A History of Russia, Ninth Edition, includes recent developments in Ukraine and Russia's near abroad in the Putin era.

A History of Russia, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

8. The Russian Revolution: A Very Short Introduction, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

Pre-Owned - This concise, accessible introduction provides an analytical narrative of the main events and developments in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1936. It examines the impact of the revolution on society as a whole--on different classes, ethnic groups, the army, men and women, youth. Its central concern is to understand how one structure of domination was replaced by another. The book registers the primacy of politics, but situates political developments firmly in the context of massive economic, social, and cultural change. Since the fall of Communism there has been much reflection on the significance of the Russian Revolution. The book rejects the currently influential, liberal interpretation of the revolution in favor of one that sees it as rooted in the contradictions of a backward society which sought modernization and enlightenment and ended in political tyranny.

The Russian Revolution: A Very Short Introduction, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

9. Catherine the Great [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. "[A] superb biography....Scholarly, refreshing, commonsensical, and compelling, vividly portraying the charismatic Empress and her times." --Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Sashenka Simon Dixon's Catherine the Great is a complete and revealing portrait of an extraordinary leader, chronicling her rise to power and her remarkable reign as empress of Russia. Catherine Merridale, author of Ivan's War, calls this definitive history, "attractive, engaging, and very intelligent....Established fans of the Russian empress will find plenty of new material and those who are meeting her for the first time will be dazzled."

Catherine the Great, Used [Hardcover]

10. Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Edvard Radzinsky is justly famous as both a biographer and a dramatist, and he brings both skills to bear in this vivid, page-turning, rich portrait of one of the greatest of all Romanovs. Alexander II was Russia's Lincoln -- he freed the serfs, promised a new, more liberal state for everyone, yet was brought down by a determined group of terrorist anarchists who tried to kill him six times before finally, fatefully, succeeding. His story proves the timeless lesson that in Russia, it is dangerous to start reforms, but even more dangerous to stop them. It also shows that the traps and dangers encountered in today's war on terrorists were there 150 years ago.

Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar, Used [Hardcover]