Donald Rayfield

The Monks who Came in from the Cold

Spies and Scholars: Chinese Secrets and Imperial Russia’s Quest for World Power

By Gregory Afinogenov

Sam Phipps

The Government Inspector

Perestroika – New Thinking for Our Country and the World

By Mikhail Gorbachev

Christopher Coker

The Great Thaw

The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the end of the Cold War

By Archie Brown

Robert Mayhew

Play It Again, Vlad

The Lost Pianos of Siberia

By Sophy Roberts

Michael Burleigh

Murder on the Mind

From Russia with Blood: Putin’s Ruthless Killing Campaign and Secret War on the West

By Heidi Blake

Daniel Beer

Washing Away Their Sins

Without the Banya We Would Perish: A History of the Russian Bathhouse

By Ethan Pollock

Rose George

In the Realm of the Walrus

Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait

By Bathsheba Demuth

Claus von Bulow

A Botched Job

The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II

By Edvard Radzinsky

Mihir Bose

Big Bad Wolf

Threat from the East?

By Fred Halliday

The Afghan Syndrome

By Bhabani Sen Gupta

Roots of Confrontation in South Asia

By Stanley Wolpert

Adam Zamoyski

They Shall Not Pass

The Fortess: The Great Siege of Przemyśl

By Alexander Watson

Anna Reid

Feeding the Eight Million

The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Famine

By Douglas Smith

Andrew Monaghan

The Moscow Effect

Kremlin Winter: Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin

By Robert Service

Prabhu S. Guptara

Beating the System

The Proofreader

By Alexis Parnis, translated by Thomas Hatton and Byron Baizis

Adrian Nathan West

Freedom Regained

Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp

By Józef Czapski (Translated by Eric Karpeles)

Almost Nothing: The 20th-Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski

By Eric Karpeles

Frances Welch

A Reason for Incest

The Crime of Olga Arbyelina

By Andreï Makine