Fiction
Crime and Punishment (1866)
Written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Present (2003)
Written by Zvi Gitelman
A Concise History of Russia (2011)
Written by Paul Bushkovitch
Fiction
A Hero of Our Time (1840)
Written by Mikhail Lermontov
Biography
Across the Moscow River: The World Turned Upside Down (2002)
Written by Rodric Braithwaite
Fiction
Anna Karenina (1878)
Written by Leo Tolstoy
Fiction
Babylon (2000)
Written by Victor Pelevin
Poetry
Collected Poems in English (2000)
Written by Joseph Brodsky
Biography
Crisis, Revolution, and Russian Jews (2009)
Written by Jonathan Frankel
Dismantling Utopia: How Information Ended the Soviet Union (1994)
Written by Scott Shane
Fiction
Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse (1833)
Written by Alexander Pushkin
Fiction
Fathers and Sons (1862)
Written by Ivan Turgenev
Fiction
Heart of a Dog (1925)
Written by Mikhail Bulgakov
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (1993)
Written by David Remnick
Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia (2002)
Written by Orlando Figes
Fiction
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)
Written by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? (2016)
Written by Karen Dawisha
Russia and the Russians: A History (2001)
Written by Geoffrey Hosking
Russian History: A Very Short Introduction (2012)
Written by Geoffrey Hosking
Sale of the Century: Russia's Wild Ride from Communism to Capitalism (2000)
Written by Chrystia Freeland
Biography
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (2016)
Written by Svetlana Alexievich
Fiction
The Master and Margarita (1967)
Written by Mikhail Bulgakov
War and Peace (1869)
Written by Leo Tolstoy
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