From the June 2016 Issue Philosophers & Murderers Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia’s New Nationalism By Charles Clover A Very Expensive Poison: The Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko and Russia’s War with the West By Luke Harding LR
From the October 2015 Issue The Cook’s Grandson The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin By Steven Lee Myers The Invention of Russia: The Journey from Gorbachev’s Freedom to Putin’s War By Arkady Ostrovsky Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped By Garry Kasparov LR
From the July 2015 Issue From the Kremlin to Ladbroke Grove Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva By Rosemary Sullivan
From the May 2015 Issue More Peter than Judas Tolstoy’s False Disciple: The Untold Story of Leo Tolstoy and Vladimir Chertkov By Alexandra Popoff LR
From the May 2003 Issue Travels with My Uncle Vanya Reading Chekhov: Critical Journey By Janet Malcolm LR
From the July 2003 Issue Midwife to Genius Furious Vissarion: Belinski's Struggle for Literature, Love and Ideas By Richard Freeborn LR
From the September 2003 Issue A Communist’s Progress The Diary of Georgi Dimitrov: 1933-1949 By Ivo Bana (ed) LR
From the April 2015 Issue Ghosts of Anatolia ‘They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else’: A History of the Armenian Genocide By Ronald Grigor Suny Great Catastrophe: Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide By Thomas de Waal Fragments of a Lost Homeland: Remembering Armenia By Armen T Marsoobian LR
From the March 2015 Issue The Big Freeze Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? By Karen Dawisha Red Notice: How I Became Putin’s No 1 Enemy By Bill Browder LR
From the May 2004 Issue Everyday Horrors Death of a Poet: The Last Days of Marina Tsvetaeva By Irma Kudrova LR
From the June 2004 Issue Donald Rayfield Welcomes New Translations of two Russian Classics Lady Macbeth of Mitsenk By Nikolai Leskov Dubrovsky By Alexander Pushkin LR
From the July 2004 Issue The Borders of Thought Motherland: A Philosophical History of Russia By Lesley Chamberlain LR
From the October 2004 Issue The Worst Dictator Since Tamerlane Stalin: A Biography By Robert Service LR
From the November 2014 Issue A Georgian Caliban Stalin, Vol 1: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928 By Stephen Kotkin LR
From the September 2014 Issue His Better Half Letters to Véra By Vladimir Nabokov (Translated and edited by Olga Voronina & Brian Boyd) LR
From the August 2006 Issue No Room for Russians? Rulers and Victims: The Russians in the Soviet Union By Geoffrey Hosking LR
From the May 2011 Issue Eminent Tsarist Statesman Tales of Imperial Russia: The Life and Times of Sergei Witte, 1849–1915 By Francis W Wcislo LR
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