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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 17 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Who Lost Russia? From the Collapse of the USSR to Putin by Peter Conradi
    Who Lost Russia? From the Collapse of the USSR to Putin - by Peter Conradi

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780861545520 | ISBN 10: 0861545524

    ‘A must read for anyone interested in the future of Europe and the world as a whole.’ Serhii Plokhy, author of The Last Empire.   An essential insight into Russia’s relations with Ukraine, the US and beyond.  Why did Vladimir Putin launc ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Volga: A History of Russia
    The Volga: A History of Russia's Greatest River - by Janet M. Hartley

    £11.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780300266412 | ISBN 10: 0300266413

    A rich and fascinating exploration of the Volga River and its vital place in Russian history — named a Best Book of 2021 by the Financial Times   “A memorable journey into the heart of Russian social, political, and cultural history.” ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Need to Talk About Putin: How the West Gets Him Wrong by Mark Galeotti
    We Need to Talk About Putin: How the West Gets Him Wrong - by Mark Galeotti

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529103595 | ISBN 10: 1529103592

    Meet the world's most dangerous man.  Who is the real Vladimir Putin? What does he want? And what will he do next?  Despite the millions of words written on Putin's Russia, the West still fails to truly understand one of the world's m ... more

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  • Cover image of book Trotsky in 1917 by Leon Trotsky
    Trotsky in 1917 - by Leon Trotsky

    £12.50   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781870958844 | ISBN 10: 1870958845

    Trotsky in 1917 is a collection of new translations, many translated for the first time, of Leon Trotsky’s writings from 1917, the year of the Russian revolution.  Trotsky, together with Lenin, was a leading figure in the revolution, chairi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Riot Days by Maria Alyokhina
    Riot Days - by Maria Alyokhina

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780141986616 | ISBN 10: 0141986611

    From activist, Pussy Riot member and freedom fighter Maria Alyokhina, a raw, hallucinatory, passionate account of her arrest, trial and imprisonment in a penal colony in the Urals for standing up for what she believed in.  People who believe in f ... more

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  • Cover image of book Red Star Over Russia: Revolution in Visual Culture, 1905-55 by Natalia Sidlina and Matthew Gale
    Red Star Over Russia: Revolution in Visual Culture, 1905-55 - by Natalia Sidlina and Matthew Gale

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781849765237 | ISBN 10: 1849765235

    In exploring the intersection of art, politics and society, few collections in the world can compare with the David King collection. Published to accompany the Red Star Over Russia exhibition at Tate Modern, this accessible and highly illustrated cat ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia by Peter Pomerantsev
    Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia - by Peter Pomerantsev

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571338528 | ISBN 10: 0571338526

    A journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia: into the lives of Hells Angels convinced they are messiahs, professional killers with the souls of artists, bohemian theatre directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, supermodel sect ... more

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  • Cover image of book Collusion: How Russia Helped Trump Win the White House by Luke Harding
    Collusion: How Russia Helped Trump Win the White House - by Luke Harding

    £14.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781783351497 | ISBN 10: 1783351497

    MOSCOW, July 1987. Real-estate tycoon Donald Trump visits Soviet Russia for the first time at the invitation of the government.  LONDON, December 2016. Luke Harding meets former MI6 officer Christopher Steele to discuss the president-elect’ ... more

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  • Cover image of book Russia: From Revolution to Counter-Revolution by Ted Grant
    Russia: From Revolution to Counter-Revolution - by Ted Grant

    £14.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781900007726 | ISBN 10: 190000772x

    The October Russian Revolution, led by Lenin and Trotsky, swept away landlordism and capitalism and placed the working class in power for the first time. It transformed the idea of socialism from theory into practice. From this point of view, the Bol ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Soviet Century by Moshe Lewin, edited by Gregory Elliott
    The Soviet Century - by Moshe Lewin, edited by Gregory Elliott

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784780661 | ISBN 10: 1784780669

    A leading historian draws guides us through the inner workings of Soviet power.   The USSR may no longer exist, but its history remains highly relevant — perhaps today more so than ever. Yet it is a history which for a long time proved impos ... more

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    I'm Going to Ruin Their Lives: Inside Putin's War on Russia's Opposition - by Marc Bennetts

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781780745244 | ISBN 10: 1780745249

    The disturbing reality of a political landscape where autocracy reigns and civil liberties are being crushed.  In 2012, on the eve of Vladimir Putins inauguration for a controversial third term as president, mass protests ended in violent cl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot by Masha Gessen
    Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot - by Masha Gessen

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781847089342 | ISBN 10: 1847089348

    On February 21st 2012, five members of an obscure feminist post-punk collective called Pussy Riot staged a performance in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. Dressed in their trademark brightly coloured dresses and balaclavas, the women perform ... more

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  • Cover image of book Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
    Red Plenty - by Francis Spufford

    £10.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780571225248 | ISBN 10: 0571225241

    Once upon a time in the Soviet Union... Strange as it may seem, the grey, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairytale. It was built on the 20th-century magic called the planned economy, which was going to gush forth an abundance of good thi ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Secret State: Preparing for the Worst 1945 - 2010 by Peter Hennessy
    The Secret State: Preparing for the Worst 1945 - 2010 - by Peter Hennessy

    £12.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141044699 | ISBN 10: 0141044691

    This updated edition of The Secret State revises Hennessy's picture of the Soviet threat that was presented to ministers from the last days of the Second World War to the 1960s. He maps the size and shape of the Cold War state built in response to th ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Russian Diary by Anna Politkovskaya
    A Russian Diary - by Anna Politkovskaya

    £10.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099523451 | ISBN 10: 0099523450

    A Russian Diary is the book that Anna Politkovskaya had recently completed when she was murdered in a contract killing in Moscow. Covering the period from the Russian parliamentary elections of December 2003 to the tragic aftermath of the Beslan scho ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lost Cosmonaut: Travels to the Republics that Tourism Forgot by Daniel Kalder
    Lost Cosmonaut: Travels to the Republics that Tourism Forgot - by Daniel Kalder

    £7.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780571227815 | ISBN 10: 0571227813

    "As the world has become smaller, so its wonders have diminished. There is nothing amazing about the Taj Mahal, The Great Wall of China or the Pyramids of Egypt. They are as banal and familiar as the face of a Cornflakes packet. The true unknown fro ... more

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  • Cover image of book Putin by Anna Politkovskaya
    Putin - by Anna Politkovskaya

    £10.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781843430506 | ISBN 10: 1843430509

    Former KGB spy Vladimir Putin, named Prime Minister of Russia in 1999 and, one year later, President, has been something of a media darling in the West, having successfully marketed himself as an enlightened leader with both feet planted firmly on th ... more

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