Russia

This is the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin from his birth to the October Revolution, an often chilling account of how an impoverished, idealistic youth was transformed into a cunning and fearsome outlaw who would one day become one of the 20th century's most ruthless dictators....

The Russo-Ukraine War is a vital learning opportunity for military strategists across the globe.

One of the most notorious yet least understood body of troops that fought for the Third Reich during World War II was the infamous Sondereinheit Dirlewanger, or the "Dirlewanger Special Unit."

Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense fight with Russia to preserve its territorial integrity and political independence. But today's conflict is only the latest in a long history of battles over Ukraine's territory and its existence as a sovereign nation....

In this revised version that includes an exclusive new chapter on the Russia-Ukraine war, renowned foreign policy expert Angela Stent examines how Putin created a paranoid and polarized world—and increased Russia's status on the global stage....

A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, exposing the events that led to his invasion of Ukraine and his assault on Europe....

In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag....

A People’s Tragedy follows workers, soldiers, intellectuals and villagers as their world is consumed by revolution and then degenerates into violence and dictatorship....

Blind Man's Bluff shows for the first time how the navy sent submarines wired with self-destruct charges into the heart of Soviet seas to tap crucial underwater telephone cables....

A new history of how Putin and his conflicts have inexorably reshaped Russia, including his devastating invasion of Ukraine....

The fighting between the German and Russian armies in the Rzhev Salient during World War II was so grisly, so murderous, and saw such vast losses that the troops called the campaign 'The Meat Grinder'....

In the mid-1950's were tumultuous for the Soviet Bloc. Several countries saw Stalin’s death and the apparent change of direction, even the softening of policy under Khrushchev, as an opportunity to pursue a reformist path....

Today, the Soviet Union remains the most extraordinary but tragic attempt to create a society beyond capitalism. Yet its history was one that for a long time proved impossible to write.

A prize-winning historian reveals how Stalin - not Hitler - was the animating force of World War II in this major new history....

The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one abridged volume (authorized by the author). Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum....

In Killer in the Kremlin, award-winning journalist John Sweeney takes listeners from the heart of Putin's Russia to the killing fields of Chechnya, to the embattled cities of an invaded Ukraine....

The renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Mieville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution....

A fascinating account of Russia's famous dissident and the politics he embodies....

Richard Sorge was a man with two homelands. Born of a German father and a Russian mother in Baku in 1895, he moved in a world of shifting alliances and infinite possibility....

The Eastern Alliance has suffered multiple crushing defeats in the Pacific, and the tide seems to be turning against them. The Allies turn their attentions to the Russian Far East, but are they pushing ahead of themselves....

David Satter's description of where Russia is and how it got there will be of vital interest to anyone concerned about the dangers facing the world today....

Anticipating a new dawn of freedom after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russians could hardly have foreseen the reality of their future a decade later: a country impoverished and controlled at every level by organized crime....

A ground-breaking history of one of the greatest ever sieges. Masterfully brought to life by a leading expert using original Russian and German source material, To Besiege a City is a ground-breaking history of one of the greatest ever sieges...

At 01:23:40 on April 26th 1986, Alexander Akimov pressed the emergency shutdown button at Chernobyl's fourth nuclear reactor. It was an act that forced the permanent evacuation....

A classic work of World War II history that brings to vivid, dramatic life one of the bloodiest battles ever fought - and the beginning of the end for the Third Reich....