Goodbye Russia by Fiona Maddocks
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A study of Rachmaninoff’s life and work outside of Russia
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High Caucasus by Tom Parfitt
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A travel memoir treks the mountains between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
Read MoreLast Witnesses by Svetlana Alexievich
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Svetlana Alexievich interviews 100 people who were children during the Second World War and relates their stories.
Read MoreManual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future by Kate Brown
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A damning portrait not only of callous Soviet bureaucracy but also of the shocking complicity of international regulatory bodies.
Read MoreMessing with the Enemy by Clint Watts
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The author is uniquely qualified to show how misinformation campaigns, social media trolling, and electronic espionage have become tools of modern warfare.
Read MoreChernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii Plokhy
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Plokhy's new history gives us as much about the Chernobyl disaster as we're ever likely to know.
Read MoreSoviet Milk by Nora Ikstena
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The story of three generations of women, as well as the effects of Soviet rule on their lives.
Read MoreSt. Petersburg: Madness, Murder, and Art on the Banks of the Neva by Jonathan Miles
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An appealingly elastic framework in which to retell the outsized stories of the history of St. Petersburg.
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