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Russia's complex soul unfolds through stories of imperial grandeur, Soviet shadows, and modern power plays in the world's largest nation. Here you'll find tales of oligarchs and dissidents, cultural masterpieces and political intrigue, alongside intimate portraits of daily life in a land where tradition and transformation collide.

Russia Book Summaries

What I Believe Summary
What I Believe
by Leo Tolstoy 1884 244 pages
4.08
772 ratings
Philosophy
Religion
Russia
Proof of Conspiracy Summary
Proof of Conspiracy
How Trump's International Collusion Is Threatening American Democracy
by Seth Abramson 2019 592 pages
4.28
457 ratings
Politics
History
True Crime
Despair Summary
Despair
by Vladimir Nabokov 1934 212 pages
3.91
11.1K ratings
Classics
Russia
Russian Literature
Anna Karenina Fix Summary
Anna Karenina Fix
Life Lessons from Russian Literature
by Viv Groskop 2019 224 pages
3.96
1.6K ratings
Russia
Books About Books
Memoir
New Cold Wars Summary
New Cold Wars
China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
by David E. Sanger 2024 528 pages
4.34
1.6K ratings
Politics
History
China
Secondhand Time Summary
Secondhand Time
The Last of the Soviets
by Svetlana Alexievich 2013 496 pages
4.46
20.4K ratings
History
Russia
Politics
The Twilight Struggle Summary
The Twilight Struggle
What the Cold War Teaches Us about Great-Power Rivalry Today
by Hal Brands 2022 318 pages
3.99
214 ratings
Politics
History
Military Fiction
In the First Circle Summary
In the First Circle
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1968 742 pages
4.36
1.7K ratings
Russia
Classics
Literature
We the Living Summary
We the Living
by Ayn Rand 1936 464 pages
3.96
30.3K ratings
Classics
Philosophy
Historical Fiction
The Red Web Summary
The Red Web
The Struggle Between Russia's Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries
by Andrei Soldatov 2015 384 pages
3.95
675 ratings
Politics
Russia
History
Essential Works of Lenin Summary
Essential Works of Lenin
"What Is to Be Done?" and Other Writings
by Vladimir Lenin 1964 400 pages
4.10
711 ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
Spies in the Family Summary
Spies in the Family
An American Spymaster, His Russian Crown Jewel, and the Friendship That Helped End the Cold War
by Eva Dillon 2017 336 pages
4.15
1.2K ratings
History
Memoir
Espionage
Invitation to a Beheading Summary
Invitation to a Beheading
by Vladimir Nabokov 1935 223 pages
3.92
19.2K ratings
Classics
Russia
Russian Literature
Give War and Peace a Chance Summary
Give War and Peace a Chance
Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times
by Andrew D. Kaufman 2014 288 pages
3.88
347 ratings
Books About Books
Literary Criticism
Literature
Child 44 Summary
Child 44
by Tom Rob Smith 2008 509 pages
4.11
88.6K ratings
Historical Fiction
Thriller
Mystery
The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories Summary
The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories
by Leo Tolstoy 1886 304 pages
4.12
16.3K ratings
Classics
Short Stories
Russia
Cancer Ward Summary
Cancer Ward
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1967 576 pages
4.26
17.4K ratings
Classics
Russia
Russian Literature
Afghanistan Summary
Afghanistan
The Bear Trap
by Mohammad Yousaf 1992 256 pages
3.95
221 ratings
History
War
Military Fiction
The Oligarchs Summary
The Oligarchs
Wealth and Power in the New Russia
by David E. Hoffman 2002 575 pages
4.16
1.0K ratings
History
Russia
Politics
The Gulag Archipelago Summary
The Gulag Archipelago
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1973 660 pages
4.37
11.5K ratings
History
Russia
Politics
The Invention of Russia Summary
The Invention of Russia
From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War
by Arkady Ostrovsky 2015 384 pages
4.02
1.8K ratings
History
Russia
Politics
Russia - Culture Smart! Summary
Russia - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
by Anna King 2007 168 pages
3.84
131 ratings
Travel
Russia
History
The Three Sisters Summary
The Three Sisters
by Anton Chekhov 1900 81 pages
3.71
23.8K ratings
Plays
Classics
Drama
Black Garden Summary
Black Garden
Armenia and Azerbaijan through Peace and War
by Thomas de Waal 2003 400 pages
4.25
788 ratings
History
Politics
War
Rasputin and the Fall of the Romanovs Summary
Rasputin and the Fall of the Romanovs
by Colin Wilson 1964
3.41
230 ratings
History
Biography
Russia
Darkness at Noon Summary
Darkness at Noon
by Arthur Koestler 1940 216 pages
4.12
32.7K ratings
Classics
Historical Fiction
Politics
Sovietistan Summary
Sovietistan
Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
by Erika Fatland 2014 477 pages
4.28
7.4K ratings
Travel
History
Asia
American Kompromat Summary
American Kompromat
How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery
by Craig Unger 2021 368 pages
3.91
932 ratings
Politics
History
Espionage
The Gun Summary
The Gun
by C.J. Chivers 2010 496 pages
3.99
2.2K ratings
History
Military Fiction
War
Life and Fate Summary
Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman 1960 864 pages
4.45
14.5K ratings
Classics
Russia
Historical Fiction
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking Summary
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking
A Memoir of Food and Longing
by Anya von Bremzen 2013 339 pages
4.03
4.6K ratings
Memoir
Food
Russia
The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism Summary
The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
by Bertrand Russell 1920 122 pages
3.98
371 ratings
Philosophy
Politics
History
Blowout Summary
Blowout
by Rachel Maddow 2019 400 pages
4.34
15.5K ratings
Politics
History
Economics
Day of the Oprichnik Summary
Day of the Oprichnik
by Vladimir Sorokin 2006 191 pages
3.75
9.2K ratings
Russia
Dystopia
Russian Literature
Diary of a Superfluous Man Summary
Diary of a Superfluous Man
by Ivan Turgenev 1850 80 pages
3.85
3.8K ratings
Russian Literature
Russia
Classics
A Gentleman in Moscow Summary
A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles 2016 462 pages
4.32
625.2K ratings
Historical Fiction
Book Club
Historical
Kremlin Rising Summary
Kremlin Rising
Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution
by Peter Baker 2005 464 pages
3.88
320 ratings
Russia
History
Politics
The Return of the Russian Leviathan Summary
The Return of the Russian Leviathan
by Sergei Medvedev 2017 250 pages
4.06
325 ratings
Russia
Politics
History
The First Circle Summary
The First Circle
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1968 580 pages
4.24
8.2K ratings
Classics
Russia
Russian Literature
In the Enemy's House Summary
In the Enemy's House
The Secret Saga of the FBI Agent and the Code Breaker Who Caught the Russian Spies
by Howard Blum 2018 352 pages
4.14
2.0K ratings
History
Espionage
Russia
Winter Is Coming Summary
Winter Is Coming
Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped
by Garry Kasparov 2015 290 pages
4.04
3.4K ratings
Politics
Russia
History
Socialism Betrayed Summary
Socialism Betrayed
Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union
by Roger Keeran 2004 230 pages
4.39
455 ratings
History
Politics
Russia
Russian Roulette Summary
Russian Roulette
The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump
by Michael Isikoff 2018 352 pages
4.20
6.6K ratings
Politics
History
Russia
The Dark Valley Summary
The Dark Valley
A Panorama of the 1930s
by Piers Brendon 2000 848 pages
4.18
593 ratings
History
European History
World History
The Slynx Summary
The Slynx
by Tatyana Tolstaya 1999 299 pages
3.81
5.5K ratings
Russia
Science Fiction
Dystopia
Putinism Summary
Putinism
Russia and Its Future with the West
by Walter Laqueur 2015 288 pages
3.30
256 ratings
Russia
Politics
History
Brisbane Summary
Brisbane
by Eugene Vodolazkin 2018 343 pages
3.98
1.4K ratings
Russia
Historical Fiction
Literature
Always with Honor Summary
Always with Honor
The Memoirs of General Wrangel
by Pyotr Wrangel 2020 307 pages
4.46
554 ratings
History
Russia
Biography
House of Trump, House of Putin Summary
House of Trump, House of Putin
The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia
by Craig Unger 2018 382 pages
4.02
1.7K ratings
Politics
History
Russia
Dressed Up for a Riot Summary
Dressed Up for a Riot
Misadventures in Putin's Moscow
by Michael Idov 2018 288 pages
3.62
261 ratings
Russia
Memoir
Politics
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