For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Russia & the Soviet Union & History & 19th Century

August 2018 Issue

Douglas Smith

Before Oblomov

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

By Edyta M Bojanowska

July 2016 Issue

Douglas Smith

Russia’s Wild East

The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile under the Tsars

By Daniel Beer

June 2016 Issue

Donald Rayfield

Philosophers & Murderers

Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia’s New Nationalism

By Charles Clover

A Very Expensive Poison: The Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko and Russia’s War with the West

By Luke Harding

June 2015 Issue

Robert Service

Battle for Europe’s Breadbasket

Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia

By Dominic Lieven

June 2003 Issue

Nikolai Tolstoy

Under Eastern Eyes

The Degaev Affair: Terror and Treason In Tsarist Russia

By Richard Pipes

June 2008 Issue

Nikolai Tolstoy

Tale of the Tsars

The Romanovs: Ruling Russia 1613–1917

By Lindsey Hughes

March 2008 Issue

Donald Rayfield

Other Stories

Children’s World: Growing up in Russia, 1890–1991

By Catriona Kelly