History Books

From 1999 to 2010, Jan Brokken explored life stories in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. The result was his masterly Baltic Souls. He uncovered the stories of artists and writers such as Mark Rothko, Sergei Eisenstein, Hannah Arendt, and Jacques Lipchitz

In 2012 Joy Womack made history when she became the first American ballerina to sign a contract with the Bolshoi Ballet Theater - It was not the Onion Dome fairy tale she’d hoped for.

Michael Khodarkovsky's innovative exploration of Russia's 20th century, through 100 carefully selected vignettes that span the century, offers a fascinating prism through which to view Russian history.

The 1917 Revolution sent shockwaves throughout the globe, setting a chain of events in motion that would change the entire course of the 20th century. Geoffrey Swain provides an incisive overview of one of the most turbulent periods in modern history.

Commemorating the October 2017 centenary of the Russian Revolution, this book is an anthology of wide-ranging voices and scholarship throwing fresh light on this momentous historical event.

“Elegantly written and magisterially researched” (Robert Service, author of A History of Modern Russia), the definitive story behind the self-destruction of the autocratic Romanov dynasty, by the world’s foremost expert.

An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet Union

Solomon Volkov, a Russian emigre and acclaimed cultural historian, has written the definitive cultural biography of St. Petersburg and its transcendent artistic and spiritual legacy.

The acclaimed author of Sovietistan travels along the seemingly endless Russian border and reveals the deep and pervasive influence it has had across half the globe.

The definitive story of a game so great, even the Cold War couldn't stop it

From former NPR Moscow correspondent Gregory Feifer comes an incisive portrait that draws on vivid personal stories of the forces that have shaped the Russian character for centuries-and continue to do so today.

A New York Times bestseller, this definitive history of Ukraine is “an exemplary account of Europe’s least-known large country” (Wall Street Journal).