{"id":45725,"count":20,"description":"Churchill described Russia as a \u201criddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma\u201d.\u00a0 Here you can start getting to grips with the best books on Russian history. Most of our interviews cover book recommendations for post-Revolutionary Russian history, but Andrei Maylunas looks at pre-Revolutionary Russia<\/a>. Roland Chambers looks at the Revolution itself<\/a>, as does Thomas Keneally<\/a>. Both of them choose A People\u2019s Tragedy<\/em> by Orlando Figes<\/a>.\r\n\r\nTurning to the broader experience of Communist Russia and the Soviet Union, we haver Francis Spufford looking at 20th<\/sup> century Russia<\/a>,\u00a0 recommended books on Stalin<\/a>, Robert Service looking at Totalitarian Russia<\/a>, trying to answer the difficult question of who was worse, Lenin, Trotsky or Stalin.\u00a0 Archie Brown chooses his best books on the Cold War<\/a> and Stephen Lucas considers Soviet Law<\/a>.\u00a0 We have a selection of recommended books about Mikhail Gorbachev<\/a>, the final leader of the Soviet Union. Bringing things up to date, but putting them in their historical context, Edward Lucas discusses Putin and Russian history<\/a>.\r\n\r\nWe also have a selection of expert recommended general books on Russia<\/a> and Russian Literature<\/a>.","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/history-books\/russian-history\/","name":"Russian History","slug":"russian-history","taxonomy":"category","parent":83,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/45725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/83"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=45725"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=45725"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=45725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}