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In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't ...
A powerful history of one the most devastating episodes in the twentieth century, by 'the leading historian of Soviet crimes' (Sunday Times)
In 1932-33, nearly ...
The adventure of a lifetime to buy Stalin's secret multimillion dollar wine cellar located in Georgia; it is the Raiders of the Lost Ark ...
The definitive, dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ...
The Race to Save the Romanovs is an incredible detective story that uncovers the truth behind the secret plans to rescue Russia's Imperial family ...
A Financial Times Book of the Year
Gold Medal in World History, Independent Publisher Book Awards
"Superb At once a history of science, of empire ...
Isaac Deutscher was planning to write a biography of Lenin after he completed the Trotsky trilogy. But he changed his mind and wrote one of ...
The story of a remarkable era of reform, controversy, optimism, and Cold War confrontation in the Soviet Union
Beginning with the death of Stalin in ...
A killer disease ... an all-powerful Empress ... an extraordinary encounter ... the astonishing true story.
No disease sparked as much dread in the eighteenth century as smallpox ...
Winner of the Costa Biography Award
What makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his ...
A dramatic, minute-by-minute account of one of the most shattering events of the Cold War, from an award-winning historian
On the morning of 26 April ...
One of the great works of modern history - the definitive biography of one of the world's most powerful and frightening rulers
Stalin's life ...
The unforgettable oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second World War from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
"Why, having ...
The unrivalled, definitive history beautifully reissued with a new introduction for the 100th anniversary
Unrivalled in scope and brimming with human drama, A People's ...