The New York Review of Books

Death Under the Tsar

June 14, 2007

A Russian Diary: A Journalist’s Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Death in Putin’s Russia by Anna Politkovskaya, translated from the Russian by Arch Tait, with a foreword by Scott Simon

The Emperor Vladimir

February 9, 2006

Putin’s Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy by Anna Politkovskaya, translated from the Russian by Arch Tait

Putin’s Russia by Lilia Shevtsova,translated from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis

Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World by Andrew Wilson

The Emperor Putin

February 10, 2005

Cold Peace: Russia’s New Imperialism by Janusz Bugajski

Inside Putin’s Russia: Can There be Reform Without Democracy? by Andrew Jack

An Icelandic Saga

November 4, 2004

Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended by Jack F. Matlock Jr.

Russia: Unmanifest Destiny

October 7, 2004

Taming the Wild Field: Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe by Willard Sunderland

History, Memory, and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia: The End of a Collective Farm by Sigrid Rausing

The Siberian Curse: How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold by Fiona Hill and Clifford G. Gaddy

Putin’s Trap

December 4, 2003

Violent Entrepreneurs: The Use of Force in the Making of Russian Capitalism by Vadim Volkov

Across the Moscow River: The World Turned Upside Down by Rodric Braithwaite

State and Evolution: Russia’s Search for a Free Market by Yegor Gaidar, translated from the Russian by Jane Ann Miller

L’Homme Nikita

May 1, 2003

Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman

Conversations with Gorbachev: On Perestroika, the Prague Spring, and the Crossroads of Socialism by Mikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynár, translated from the Russian by George Shriver, with a foreword by Archie Brown

A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia by Alexander N. Yakovlev,translated from the Russian by Anthony Austin, with a foreword by Paul Hollander

Big Money in the New Russia

June 13, 2002

The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia by David E. Hoffman

Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970–2000 by Stephen Kotkin

Overlapping Russians

November 15, 2001

Russia: Was There a Better Way?

October 4, 2001

The Tragedy of Russia’s Reforms: Market Bolshevism Against Democracy by Peter Reddaway and Dmitri Glinski

Founding Father

April 26, 2001

My Six Years with Gorbachev Anatoly S. Chernyaev, translated from the Russian and edited by Robert D. English and Elizabeth Tucker

Mr. Bigsky

October 19, 2000

Godfather of the Kremlin: Boris Berezovsky and the Looting of Russia by Paul Klebnikov

Sale of the Century: Russia’s Wild Ride from Communism to Capitalism by Chrystia Freeland

It Still Flies

April 22, 1999

Europe: So Far, It Flies

April 8, 1999

This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair by Hugo Young. To be published in May.

Redrawing the Map of Europe by Michael Emerson

Not Bad, Just Sad

February 18, 1999

Chechnya: How Russia Lost

September 24, 1998

Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power by Anatol Lieven

Chechnya: Calamity in the Caucasus by Carlotta Gall, by Thomas de Waal

Russia Confronts Chechnya: Roots of a Separatist Conflict, Volume I by John B. Dunlop

Russia and Chechnia [sic]: The Permanent Crisis Essays on Russo-Chechen Relations edited by Ben Fowkes

Russia’s Dream City

April 23, 1998

New Atlantis Revisited: Akademgorodok, the Siberian City of Science by Paul R. Josephson

Russia: The New Oligarchy

March 27, 1997

Kremlin Capitalism: The Privatization of the Russian Economy by Joseph R. Blasi, by Maya Kroumova, by Douglas Kruse, foreword by Andrei Shleifer

Denis Dutton, Intellectual Entrepreneur

January 12, 2011

For a man of his age and background—a non-techy, 50-something, university professor—Denis Dutton was a crucial few years ahead of his time in understanding the Internet.

Moscow's Espionage Addiction

July 12, 2010

The arrest of ten Russian spies in America on June 27, and the exchange of them last week for four Russians accused of spying for the West, has brought inevitable comparisons with the Cold War. But really, it has little to do with war or peace. Russia simply cannot help itself.