Title: The Russian Way of War: Operational Art, 1904-1940 Author: Richard W. Harrison Genre: Military History Publisher: University Press of Kansas Release Date: 2001 Format: Hardcover Pages: 351 For those interested in the rather dry topic of the evolution of Russian military art prior to World War II, this is an excellent book. This book
Title: The Great Terror: A Reassessment 40th Anniversary Edition Author: Robert Conquest Genre: General History Publisher: Oxford University Press Release Date: 2007 Format: Hardcover Pages: 608 This is the classic account of Stalin's Great Terror, updated based on greater access to Soviet archives after the fall of the Soviet Union. Most of the book actually
Title: Storm of Steel: The Development of Armor Doctrine in Germany and the Soviet Union, 1919–1939 Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs Author: Mary R. Habeck Genre: Military History Publisher: Cornell University Press Release Date: 2014 Format: Kindle Pages: 336 This is an incredibly-detailed account of the evolution of pre-war armored doctrine in Germany and
Title: The Soviet High Command: A Military-Political History, 1918-1941 (3rd Edition) Series: Cass Series on Soviet (Russian) Military Institutions Author: John Erickson Genre: Military History Publisher: Frank Cass Release Date: 2001 Format: Paperback Pages: 889 While not exactly a page-turner, this book is an incredibly detailed and well-written history of what it says--the Red Army
Title: High Treason: Essays on the History of the Red Army, 1918-1938 Author: Vitaly Rapoport (Author), Yuri Alexeev (Author), Vladimir G. Treml (Editor) Genre: Military History Publisher: Duke University Press Release Date: 1985 Format: Hardcover Pages: 436 This is a very interesting account of various episodes in pre-WWII Red Army history. Apparently it was written
Title: Operation Barbarossa: The Complete Organisational and Statistical Analysis, and Military Simulation Volume IIIA Series: Operation Barbarossa Author: Nigel Askey Genre: Military History Publisher: lulu.com Release Date: 2016 Format: Paperback Pages: 718 This book is very similar to the previous-described Volume IIA, but it covers Soviet weapons and units instead of Volume IIA's German ones.
Title: Stumbling Colossus: The Red Army on the Eve of World War Series: Modern War Series Author: David Glantz Genre: Military History Publisher: University Press of Kansas Release Date: 1998 Format: Hardcover Pages: 408 This is a classic of East Front literature, written by Prof Glantz in response to the claims by "Suvorov" about plans
Title: The Tanks of Operation Barbarossa: Soviet versus German Armour on the Eastern Front Author: Boris Kavalerchik Genre: Military History Publisher: Pen and Sword Military Release Date: 2018 Format: Kindle Pages: 288 This is an excellent book describing the tanks and armored unit organization on both sides during Operation Barbarossa. The author goes into great
Title: Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman Author: Robert K. Massie Genre: General History Publisher: Random House Release Date: 2011 Format: Kindle Pages: 656 This is a very readable book about, well, Catherine the Great. Generally the book reads like a novel, or rather like a soap opera, with all of Catherine's various romances.
Title: All the Kremlin's Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin Author: Mikhail Zygar Genre: General History Publisher: PublicAffairs Release Date: 2016 Format: Kindle Pages: 396 This is excellent account of Russian political dynamics since 2000--readable and absolutely fascinating (for those interested in this kind of stuff). The author gives an excellent account, based on
Title: Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914 - 1921 Author: Laura Engelstein Genre: General History Publisher: Oxford University Press Release Date: 2017 Format: Kindle Pages: 851 This is a clearly written, fairly comprehensive, and--as far as I can tell--accurate account of the Russian revolution and civil war. The author does a very good
Title: The White Armies of Russia. A Chronicle of Counter-Revolution and Allied Intervention Author: George Stewart Genre: Military History Publisher: Macmillan Release Date: 1933 Format: Hardcover Pages: 469 While rather dated and written without the benefit of the several succeeding decades of research, this is a good history of the Russian civil war. Given its
Title: Russia's Dead End: An Insider's Testimony from Gorbachev to Putin Author: Andrei A. Kovalev (Author), Peter Reddaway (Foreword), Steven I. Levine (Translator) Genre: General History Publisher: Potomac Books Release Date: 2017 Format: Kindle Pages: 392 This is an insightful book by a very conscientious, intelligent Russian diplomat that served during and after the fall
Title: Confronting Case Blue: Briansk Front's Attempt To Derail The German Drive To The Caucasus, July 1942 Author: Igor' Sdvizhkov (Author), Stuart Britton (Translator) Genre: Military History Publisher: Helion and Company Release Date: 2017 Format: Hardcover Pages: 424 This is an excellent account of a little-covered battle in the summer of 1942, on the periphery
Title: Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime Author: Richard Pipes Genre: General History Publisher: Vintage Release Date: 2011 Format: Kindle Pages: 608 This author is an excellent writer that does a very good job of simplifying and explaining the very complex situation/conditions which arose at the Bolsheviks established their regime. I was mainly interested in the
Title: Prelude to Berlin: The Red Army's Offensive Operations in Poland and Eastern Germany, 1945 Author: Richard W. Harrison Genre: Military History Publisher: Helion and Company Release Date: 2016 Format: Hardcover Pages: 636 Overall I would rate this book at three and a half stars; it has some good features but also some pretty significant
Title: The Soviet Partisan Movement, 1941-1944: A Critical Historiographical Analysis Author: Leonid D. Grenkevich (Author), David M. Glantz (Editor) Genre: Military History Publisher: Routledge Release Date: 2013 Format: Kindle Pages: 405 This book is more of an academic treatise than a military history--I guess the subtitle "a Critical Historiographical Analysis" should have tipped me off
Title: Russia Against Napoleon: The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace Author: Dominic Lieven Genre: Military History Publisher: Penguin Books Release Date: 2010 Format: Kindle Pages: 656 This is the best history of Russia's part in the Napoleonic Wars that I've read thus far. Unlike some of the other books on the
Title: From Defeat to Victory: The Eastern Front, Summer 1944 Decisive and Indecisive Military Operations, Volume 2 Series: Modern War Studies Author: Charles J. Dick Genre: Military History Publisher: University Press of Kansas Release Date: 2016 Format: Kindle Pages: 373 As usual, the rating for this book depends on what you're expecting it to be,
Title: Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia Author: Orlando Figes Genre: General History Publisher: Metropolitan Books Release Date: 2014 Format: Kindle Pages: 784 I've been meaning to read this book since it came out a few years ago, but have been too intimidated--reading a book of this size about Russian culture is not for
