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Collapse Summary

The Fall of the Soviet Union

by Vladislav M. Zubok 2021 576 pages

Blowout Summary

by Rachel Maddow 2019 400 pages

Putinism Summary

Russia and Its Future with the West

by Walter Laqueur 2015 288 pages

Dressed Up for a Riot Summary

Dressed Up for a Riot

Misadventures in Putin's Moscow

by Michael Idov 2018 288 pages

In the Enemy's House Summary

In the Enemy's House

The Secret Saga of the FBI Agent and the Code Breaker Who Caught the Russian Spies

by Howard Blum 2018 352 pages

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man Summary

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1877 32 pages

Russian Literature

Essential Works of Lenin Summary

Essential Works of Lenin

"What Is to Be Done?" and Other Writings

by Vladimir Lenin 1964 400 pages

Doctor Zhivago Summary

by Boris Pasternak 1957 592 pages

Historical Fiction

Russian Literature

City of Night Birds Summary

City of Night Birds

by Juhea Kim 2024 320 pages

Historical Fiction

Literary Fiction

The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories Summary

The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories

by Leo Tolstoy 1886 304 pages

The Bronze Horseman Summary

The Bronze Horseman

by Paullina Simons 2000 637 pages

Historical Fiction

Kremlin Rising Summary

Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution

by Peter Baker 2005 464 pages

Sovietistan Summary

Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan

by Erika Fatland 2014 477 pages

New Cold Wars Summary

China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West

by David E. Sanger 2024 528 pages

Cancer Ward Summary

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1967 576 pages

Russian Literature

In the First Circle Summary

In the First Circle

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1968 742 pages

Secondhand Time Summary

Secondhand Time

The Last of the Soviets

by Svetlana Alexievich 2013 496 pages

The Gulag Archipelago Summary

The Gulag Archipelago

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1973 660 pages

Socialism Betrayed Summary

Socialism Betrayed

Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union

by Roger Keeran 2004 230 pages

Winter Is Coming Summary

Winter Is Coming

Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped

by Garry Kasparov 2015 290 pages

The Dark Valley Summary

The Dark Valley

A Panorama of the 1930s

by Piers Brendon 2000 848 pages

European History

American Kompromat Summary

American Kompromat

How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery

by Craig Unger 2021 368 pages

The First Circle Summary

The First Circle

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1968 580 pages

Russian Literature

A Gentleman in Moscow Summary

A Gentleman in Moscow

by Amor Towles 2016 462 pages

Historical Fiction

House of Trump, House of Putin Summary

House of Trump, House of Putin

The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia

by Craig Unger 2018 382 pages

Brisbane Summary

by Eugene Vodolazkin 2018 343 pages

Historical Fiction

The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism Summary

The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism

by Bertrand Russell 1920 122 pages

Roadside Picnic Summary

Roadside Picnic

by Arkady Strugatsky 1972 145 pages

Science Fiction

Sandworm Summary

A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers

by Andy Greenberg 2019 368 pages

The Double Summary

by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1846 144 pages

Russian Literature

by Robert Service 2000 592 pages

The Oligarchs Summary

Wealth and Power in the New Russia

by David E. Hoffman 2002 575 pages

Always with Honor Summary

Always with Honor

The Memoirs of General Wrangel

by Pyotr Wrangel 2020 307 pages

Two Hundred Years Together Summary

Two Hundred Years Together

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 2002 539 pages

A Hero of Our Time Summary

A Hero of Our Time

by Mikhail Lermontov 1839 185 pages

Russian Literature

Eugene Onegin Summary

by Alexander Pushkin 1833 240 pages

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