Very readable, one of the best single volume histories.

A detailed, authoritative history of Soviet Russia up to 1985.

An excellent book by the Washington Post's Moscow correspondent about what it was like to live in Russia under Gorbachev in the last dangerous, hopeful, anxious, farcical years of Communist rule.

Extraordinary, disturbing novel, set in the lower parts of St Petersburg, about a young man who thinks certain people should be allowed to get away with murder, and puts his theory to the test.

Intricate, strange and amusing, this is a story of what happens when the Devil, accompanied by a talking cat, comes to Moscow to torment its citizens.

A melodramatic, enthusiastic, contemporary account of the Bolsheviks' 1917 power grab, written by an American journalist.