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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Ben Macintyre
4.52 average rating, · 94k ratings
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Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
Bill Browder
4.44 average rating, · 111.6k ratings
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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
Svetlana Alexievich
4.46 average rating, · 22.9k ratings
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Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
Robert K. Massie
4.23 average rating, · 30.2k ratings
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Patriot: A Memoir
Alexei Navalny
4.51 average rating, · 16.8k ratings
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Peter the Great: His Life and World
Robert K. Massie
4.16 average rating, · 23.3k ratings
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A Confession
Leo Tolstoy
4.10 average rating, · 20.9k ratings
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The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
4.35 average rating, · 14.6k ratings
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Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy
Ben Macintyre
4.16 average rating, · 18.8k ratings
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The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
David E. Hoffman
4.24 average rating, · 16.4k ratings
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Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov
4.08 average rating, · 18k ratings
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Limonov
Emmanuel Carrère
4.11 average rating, · 17k ratings
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The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
Candace Fleming
4.16 average rating, · 14.1k ratings
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The Romanovs, 1613-1918
Simon Sebag Montefiore
4.02 average rating, · 16.8k ratings
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Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
Simon Sebag Montefiore
4.15 average rating, · 13.6k ratings
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Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
Erika Fatland
4.27 average rating, · 9.1k ratings
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Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West
Catherine Belton
4.17 average rating, · 9.8k ratings
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Sculpting in Time
Andrei Tarkovsky
4.50 average rating, · 6.8k ratings
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My Childhood
Maxim Gorky
4.09 average rating, · 9.3k ratings
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Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
M.T. Anderson
4.35 average rating, · 6.7k ratings
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The Romanovs: The Final Chapter
Robert K. Massie
4.02 average rating, · 7.8k ratings
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Tienes que mirar
Anna Starobinets
4.51 average rating, · 5.1k ratings
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The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg
Helen Rappaport
4.05 average rating, · 6.3k ratings
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The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
Steven Lee Myers
4.06 average rating, · 5.6k ratings
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