For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Russia & the Soviet Union & History

October 2024 Issue

Donald Rayfield

Clerics & Crooks

The Baton and the Cross: Russia’s Church from Pagans to Putin

By Lucy Ash

February 2024 Issue

Patricia Fara

Explosion of Talent

The Nobel Family: Swedish Geniuses in Tsarist Russia

By Bengt Jangfeldt (Translated from Swedish by Harry D Watson)

February 2024 Issue

Donald Rayfield

Better Dead Than Red

A Nasty Little War: The West’s Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution

By Anna Reid

November 2023 Issue

Donald Rayfield

Ten Years That Shook the World

Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914–1924

By Robert Service

October 2022 Issue

Miranda Seymour

From Grand Duke to Dustbin Man

After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris Between the Wars

By Helen Rappaport

December 2021 Issue

Robert Service

Goodbye, Lenin

Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union

By Vladislav M Zubok

June 2021 Issue

Lawrence Freedman

Countdown to Armageddon

Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

By Serhii Plokhy

Donald Rayfield

Eau de Hammer & Sickle

The Scent of Empires: Chanel No. 5 and Red Moscow

By Karl Schlögel (Translated from German by Jessica Spengler)

June 2020 Issue

Alexander Watson

Aflame with Anarchy

The Lockhart Plot: Love, Betrayal, Assassination, and Counter-Revolution in Lenin’s Russia

By Jonathan Schneer

November 1918: The German Revolution

By Robert Gerwarth

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

November 2019 Issue

Anna Reid

Feeding the Eight Million

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

By Douglas Smith

July 1999 Issue

Frances Welch

A Reason for Incest

The Crime of Olga Arbyelina

By Andreï Makine

December 2018 Issue

Richard Overy

Won in the Post

The Kremlin Letters: Stalin’s Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt

By David Reynolds & Vladimir Pechatnov

December 2018 Issue

Donald Rayfield

Yours Radically

Greetings From the Barricades: Revolutionary Postcards in Imperial Russia

By Tobie Mathew

November 2018 Issue

Xan Smiley

Orphans of the USSR

The Shoemaker and His Daughter: One Ordinary Family’s Remarkable Journey from Stalin’s Soviet Union to Putin’s Russia

By Conor O’Clery

August 2018 Issue

Sarah Bradford

Cousins in Arms

The Imperial Tea Party: Family, Politics and Betrayal – The Ill-fated British and Russian Royal Alliance

By Frances Welch

August 2018 Issue

Douglas Smith

Before Oblomov

A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate 'Pallada'

By Edyta M Bojanowska

June 2018 Issue

Jonathan Steinberg

Massacre of the Innocents

Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History

By Steven J Zipperstein

Michael Burleigh

Apocalypse Nearly

1983: The World at the Brink

By Taylor Downing

April 2018 Issue

Bridget Kendall

Which Way to Uondsuert?

The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World

By John Davies & Alexander J Kent