From Russia with Borscht
A staple of Russia and the Slavic world, borscht has inspired films and novels – and has even reached outer space.
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Homophobia in Russia
Despite the difficulties in accessing official archival sources, the history of homophobic persecution in Russia is covered convincingly in this study.
Goodbye Lenin? A Centenary Perspective
The Russian Revolution should not be confined to 1917. The legacy of its leader and chief ideologue lives on in all its terrible contradictions.
Looking back through the Iron Curtain
A discerning account by a self-deprecating but well-informed journalist of the dramatic changes in Russia over the past 40 years.
Revolution and the Fortune of War
On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, five books track its transition from idealism to tyranny.
The Man in Carriage No. 2013
Leo Steveni was a British officer based in St Petersburg at the time of the Russian Revolution. He became an active eyewitness to the chaos of the Civil War that followed.
The Russian Revolution: People of the Future
The October Revolution of 1917 inspired a generation of young Russians to embrace new ideals of socialist living.
The Map: Poltava, 1709
An 18th-century map produced by Anna van Westerstee Beeck marks a pivotal moment in the histories of Russia, Sweden and Ukraine.
Kerensky in Hindsight
Alexander Kerensky, the last Russian premier before the Bolsheviks took power, decided to continue the war with Germany. He and his nascent democracy would pay the price.
Russia's Grassroots Revolution
Underneath the sweeping history of the Russian Revolution is another story, one told through the lesser-known people, moments and objects of a world in transformation.