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An epic work of Russian history from a major new talent
It was known as 'the vast prison without a roof'. From the beginning of ...
How was the Soviet Union like a soup kitchen? In this important and highly revisionist work, historian Sheila Fitzpatrick explains that a reimagining of the ...
At the turn of the century, the Russian economy was growing by about 10% annually and its population had reached 150 million. By 1920 the ...
On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, China Mieville tells the extraordinary story of this pivotal moment in history.
In February of 1917 Russia was ...
A gripping account of how, in the depths of the First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in a 'sealed train' across Europe ...
A German princess who married a decadent and lazy Russian prince, Catherine mobilized support amongst the Russian nobles, playing off of her husband's increasing ...
Nearly a century after his murder, Rasputin remains as divisive a figure as ever.
Was he really a horse thief and a hard-drinking ruffian in ...
An epic story of courage, genius and terrible folly, this is the first history of how the Soviet Union's scientists became both the glory ...
On a freezing night in January 2013, an assailant hurled acid in the face of the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, dragging one of ...
A riveting account of the part Russian composer Shostakovich played in the Siege of Leningrad from award-winning author M. T. Anderson. From internationally acclaimed YA ...
Based on exclusive access to newly discovered Russian documents, the last word on the fate of the Romanov family. The overthrow and execution of Tsar ...
A riveting account of the last eighteen months of Tsar Nicholas II's life and reign from one of our finest historians of Russia.
In ...
How Soviet scientists and pseudoscientists pursued telepathic research, cybernetic simulations, and mass hyptonism over television to control the minds of citizens.In October 1989, as ...
Shortlisted for the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography
Victor Sebestyen's intimate biography is the first major work in English for nearly two decades ...