Robert Service

Putin’s Delusions

The Russo-Ukrainian War

By Serhii Plokhy

Donald Rayfield

All the President’s Murderers

Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West

By Catherine Belton

Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem, and Russia’s Remaking of the West

By Luke Harding

Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia

By Joshua Yaffa

Andrew Monaghan

The Moscow Effect

Kremlin Winter: Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin

By Robert Service

Catherine Brown

Dressing Gown Nation?

Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age

By Sara Wheeler

Owen Matthews

Kremlin Watch

Who Lost Russia? How the World Entered a New Cold War

By Peter Conradi

Andrew Cowley

Who Is Putin?

Putin's Progress: A Biography of Russia's Enigmatic President, Vladimir Putin

By Peter Truscott

Inside Putin's Russia

By Andrew Jack

Black Earth: Russia After The Fall

By Andrew Meier

Donald Rayfield

The Troubled Bear

Putin's Russia

By Anna Politikovskaya

John Sweeney

Laughing all the Way to the Money-Launderers

McMafia: Crime Without Frontiers

By Misha Glenny

David Satter

Vlad the Enforcer

The Strongman: Vladimir Putin and the Struggle for Russia

By Angus Roxburgh

The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

By Masha Gessen