Recommended Russian Books (updated!)

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A People's Tragedy

by Orlando Figes

Covers Russian history from the end of the nineteenth century to the death of Lenin, and explores how Russian pre-revolution social forces were violently erased …
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Stalingrad

by Antony Beevor

The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also changed the face of modern warfare. From Antony …
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The Harvest of Sorrow

by Robert Conquest

Chronicles the events of 1929 to 1933 in the Ukraine when Stalin's Soviet Communist Party killed or deported millions of peasants; abolished privately held land …
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Anna Karenin

by graf Leo Tolstoy

A beautiful, passionate Russian woman escapes the restrictions and boredom of her marriage through a love affair with a charming soldier
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Dead Souls

by Nikolai Gogol

Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; …
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Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of …
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The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Revealing Dostoevsky's acute artistic sense and penetrating psychological insight, this new translation is meticulously faithful to the original.
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War and Peace

by graf Leo Tolstoy

Presents the classical epic of the Napoleonic Wars and their effects on four Russian families
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