Books I have read over the past year:
Berlin: The Downfall, 1945, by Antony Beevor
Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Among the Russians, by Colin Thubron
The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia, by Peter Hopkirk
Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin’s Dream of an Empire in Asia, by Peter Hopkirk
Putin’s Russia, by Anna Politkovskaya
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, by Marina Lewycka
Lost Heart of Asia, by Colin Thubron
In Siberia, by Colin Thubron
We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History, by John Lewis Gaddis
Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia, by Tom Bissell
Cancer Ward, by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Twentieth-Century Russia, by Catherine Merridale
Books I’m planning to read:
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, by William Taubman
A Writer at War : Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945, Vasily Grossman
Ivan’s War : Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945, by Catherine Merridale
The Cold War: A New History, by John Lewis Gaddis
Black Earth: A Journey through Russia After the Fall, by Andrew Meier
In Denial: Historians, Communism, & Espionage, by John Earl Haynes & Harvey Klehr
God Lives in St. Petersburg, by Tom Bissell
A right bundle of laughs Timski.
Don’t like your fookin ‘spam filter’!
Try reading, Stalin: Court of the Red Tsar. Also, the Stalin biography written by his nemesis Trotsky is very good too.