Donald Rayfield

The Russian Dispossessed

The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia

By Orlando Figes

The Voices of the Dead: Stalin’s Great Terror in the 1930s

By Hiroaki Kuromiya

Richard Overy

Twentieth Century Monsters

Lenin, Stalin and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe

By Robert Gellately

Evan Mawdsley

Eastern Front

Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War – A Modern History

By Chris Bellamy

John Jolliffe

Comrade Sofka

Red Princess: A Revolutionary Life

By Sofka Zinovieff

Adam LeBor

The Battle for Budapest

Twelve Days: Revolution 1956 – How the Hungarians Tried To Topple Their Soviet Masters

By Victor Sebestyen

Odd Arne Westad

Cold Hands, Warm Heart

Roosevelt’s Lost Alliances: How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War

By Frank Costigliola

Brendan Simms

Dire Straits

The Russian Origins of the First World War

By Sean McMeekin

Christopher Andrew

For Your Eyes Only

Spies and Commissars: Bolshevik Russia and the West

By Robert Service

Anna Reid

Lev’s Letters

Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag

By Orlando Figes

Nikolai Tolstoy

White Blood

Former People: The Last Days of the Russian Aristocracy

By Douglas Smith

John Gray

Evasion Tactics

Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the 20th Century

By Eric Hobsbawm