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Russian & Former Soviet Union Books

Books selected for readers looking for russian & former soviet union books.

32 booksApril 2, 2026

Part of 760+ tracked lists·1 crossover shelf·100% reader overlap with Eastern Books

1. KGB Literati
Kovacevic, Filip Kovacevic
Fits this list for its focus on former and soviet.
Shelf signal: Russian Lit Crit
2. Cold Warriors
Duncan White
Fits this list for its focus on soviet and union.
Shelf signal: Cold War History
3. Wonder Confronts Certainty
Gary Saul Morson
Fits this list for its focus on russian.
Shelf signal: Russian Lit Crit
4. The Gulag Archipelago [volume 2]
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Fits this list for its focus on soviet.
Shelf signal: Russian Lit Crit
6. Lost Time
Jozef Czapski, Eric Karpeles
Fits this list for its focus on soviet and union.
Shelf signal: French Literary Criticism
8. Russian Thinkers
Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy
Fits this list for its focus on russian.
Shelf signal: Russian Lit Crit
9. The Portable Twentieth-century Russian Reader
Clarence Brown
Fits this list for its focus on russian.
Shelf signal: Russian Lit Crit
10. Gulag
Anne Applebaum
Fits this list for its focus on russian and soviet.
Shelf signal: Russian Lit Crit
11. Reading the Archival Revolution
Cristina Vatulescu
Fits this list for its focus on soviet.
Shelf signal: East European Literary Criticism
13. The Oak and the Larch
Sophie Pinkham
Fits this list for its focus on russian.
Shelf signal: Russian Lit Crit
14. The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry
Robert Chandler, Boris Dralyuk
Fits this list for its focus on russian.
Shelf signal: Russian Lit Crit
15. Firefly in a Box
Anna Krushelnitskaya, Dmitri Manin
Fits this list for its focus on russian and soviet.
Shelf signal: Russian Lit Crit
16. The Post-chornobyl Library
Tamara Hundorova, Sergiy Yakovenko
Fits this list for its focus on soviet and union.
Shelf signal: East European Literary Criticism
17. Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible
Peter Pomerantsev, John Curless
Included for strong century alignment with this russian & former soviet union list.
Shelf signal: Russian Lit Crit
18. Stalin
Stephen Kotkin, Paul Hecht
Fits this list for its focus on soviet.
Shelf signal: Russian Lit Crit
19. Death and the Penguin
Andrey Kurkov, George Bird
Fits this list for its focus on soviet and union.
Shelf signal: International Crime Fiction
20. Writing in Red
Nergis Ertürk
Fits this list for its focus on soviet and union.
Shelf signal: Russian Lit Crit
21. Odyssey Moscow
Michael Calvey
Fits this list for its focus on russian.
Shelf signal: Russian Lit Crit
22. Reorientalism
Nariman Skakov
Fits this list for its focus on soviet.
Shelf signal: Russian Lit Crit
23. Voices of Jewish-russian Literature
Maxim D. Shrayer
Fits this list for its focus on russian.
Shelf signal: Jewish Literary Criticism
24. City of Rogues and Schnorrers
Jarrod Tanny
Fits this list for its focus on russian and soviet.
Shelf signal: East European Literary Criticism
25. April 1917
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Clare Kitson
Fits this list for its focus on russian.
Shelf signal: Soviet-Era Russia
26. Chernobyl
Serhii Plokhy
Fits this list for its focus on soviet.
Shelf signal: Eastern European History
27. The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years
Chingiz Aitmatov, John French
Fits this list for its focus on russian and soviet.
Shelf signal: Russian Lit Crit