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Ilf, Ilya; Petrov, Yevgeny "The Twelve Chairs" (Russian: Двенадцать стульев/Dvenadtsat stulyev) - 1928 This was our international ...

Towles, Amor "A Gentleman in Moscow" - 2016 I love Russian authors and stories about Russia. And I've heard a lot about this n...

Bulgakow, Michail "The Master and Margarita" ( Russian: Мастер и Маргарита/Master i Margarita ) - 1929-39 When the last " cla...

Camus, Albert "The Just Assassins" (aka The Just) ( French: Les Justes ) - 1949 I'm not the biggest fan of reading plays but I...

Fatland, Erika "Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan" ( Norwegian: Sovjetistan...

Chukovskaya, Lydia (Чуковская, Лидия Корнеевна) "Going Under" ( Russian: Спуск под воду/Spusk pod vodu ) - 1972 I found...

Erpenbeck, Jenny "The End of Days" (German: Aller Tage Abend ) - 2012 Jenny Erpenbeck is quite a well-known German author ...

Hastings, Max "The Secret War: Spies, Codes And Guerrillas, 1939–45" - 2015 A highly interesting book if you are interested i...

Solschenizyn, Alexander (Александр Исаевич Солженицын/Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn) "Große Erzählungen: Iwan Denissowitsch; Zum Nutzen d...

Grass, Günter "Peeling the Onion" ( German: Beim Häuten der Zwiebel ) - 2006 Günter Grass , one of Germany's greatest...

Alexievich, Svetlana "Second Hand Time. The Last of the Sovjets" ( Russian: Время секонд хэнд = Vremja sekond khend ) - 2013 ...

Landers, Brian "Empires Apart. A History of American and Russian Imperialism" - 2010 This was a great recommended from a goo...

Ulitzkaya, Lyudmila "Imago" or "The Big Green Tent" ( Russian: Zelenyi shater/Зеленый шатер ) - 2010 I love Rus...

Follett, Ken "Edge of Eternity" - 2014 When I first learnt there was a trilogy about the past century, each part concentrati...

Follett, Ken "Winter of the World" - 2012 The second book of the trilogy about the 20th century, certainly one of the most d...

Follett, Ken "Fall of Giants" - 2010 What a book. And it's only the beginning of a trilogy. From the coal mines of Wales ...

Grjasnowa, Olga "All Russians Love Birch Trees" (German: Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt ) - 2012  I heard ab...

Alexievich, Svetlana "Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster" ( Russian: Чернобыльская молитва/Černobyl...