Beryl Bainbridge

Not Too Bad

Rasputin: The Saint Who Sinned

By Brian Moynahan

Donald Rayfield

The Boy Scout & the Butcher

The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution

By Robert Service

Lenin the Dictator: An Intimate Portrait

By Victor Sebestyen

Donald Rayfield

The Monk behind the Myth

Rasputin

By Douglas Smith

Nikolai Tolstoy

A Genial Man Despite His Humble Origins

Anton Chekhov: A Life

By Donald Rayfield

Sheila Fitzpatrick

Behind Every Great Book…

Lara: The Untold Love Story That Inspired Doctor Zhivago

By Anna Pasternak

A N Wilson

He Dared to Tell Them their History, Now Forgotten

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in His Life

By D M Thomas

John Gray

Romantic Rebel?

The Discovery of Chance: The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzen

By Aileen M Kelly

Christopher Hitchens

Three Theories

Breaking with Moscow

By Arkady Shevchenko

Terry Eagleton

Janus-Faced Genius

Mikhail Bakhtin

By Katerina Clark and Michael Holquist

Donald Rayfield

Midwife to Genius

Furious Vissarion: Belinski's Struggle for Literature, Love and Ideas

By Richard Freeborn

Mark Almond

Moscow’s Media Mogul

The Red Millionaire: A Political Biography of Willi Müzenberg, Moscow's Secret Propaganda Tsar in the West

By Sean McMeekin

Simon Heffer

Music to Uncle Joe’s Ears

Shostakovich and Stalin: The Extraordinary Relationship Between the Great Composer and the Brutal Dictator

By Solomon Volkov

Donald Rayfield

A Ruthless Martinet

Zhukov: The Conqueror of Berlin

By John Colvin

Nikolai Tolstoy

The Name’s Oggins

The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin’s Secret Service

By Andrew Meier

Donald Rayfield

The Monster Hedgehog

Yezhov: The Rise of Stalin’s ‘Iron Fist’

By J Arch Getty & Oleg V Naumov

Nigel West

Smoking Gun

The Sixth Man

By James McNeish

Frances Spalding

Artist of the Floating World

Chagall: Love and Exile

By Jackie Wullschlager

Henrietta Garnett

Maynard’s Muse

Bloomsbury Ballerina: Lydia Lopokova, Imperial Dancer and Mrs John Maynard Keynes

By Judith Mackrell