The Forsaken by Tim Tzouliadis – From the Great Depression to the Gulags: Hope and Betrayal in Stalin’s russia – is a book any American should read. It might sound a bit much, but it’s not. This book is about US as much as it…
Not worthy by Lubomyr Luciuk – Walter Duranty’s Pulitzer Prize and the New York Times – is a book published twenty years ago. It was edited by Lubomyr Luciuk, the Director of Research for the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association, who called for the stripping…
Internal colonization by Aleksandr Ėtkind – russia’s imperial experience – is a great book which might appeal to both academics and the ones who are interested in russia’s cultural history. This book was recommended to me by my supervisor and it is indeed very useful…
The Moscow correspondents by Whitman Bassow was a book I wanted to read for my studies. It is quite short and it was published in 1988, at the time when the soviet union still existed. Bassow was an American journalist in moscow and in this…
It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway by David Satter – Russia and the Communist Past – was another book I read for my studies. This is such a lovely book and the author is a journalist, so the style is…
Killer in the Kremlin by John Sweeney – The Explosive Account of Putin’s Reign of Terror – is very different from the We Need to Talk About Putin by Mark Galeotti I reviewed recently. That one has looking at Putin’s imagine in the west. The…
Dancing for Stalin by Christina Ezrahi – A True Story of Extraordinary Courage and Survival in the Soviet Gulag – was a book I was very keen to read. The book is about Nina Anisimova, born in 1909 in St Petersburg, who was a classical…
Female innovators who changed our world by Emma Shimizu is a good book, I enjoyed reading it. It is about women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). There are 46 women presented, mainly from US, but there are some Brits, Europeans, and a few…
The cholera years by Charles Rosenberg – the United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866 – is a book I read for my studies and I’m so happy I had to. First of all, I wasn’t aware that cholera was such a problem in US…
Soldier in the Sand by Simon Mayall* – A Personal History of the Modern Middle East – is a history book with a personal touch and this is what makes it so fascinating. A historian by education, Mayall offers a very well though off analysis…
Lawrence of Arabia’s Secret Dispatches during the Arab Revolt, 1915–1919 by Fabrizio Bagatti* was just the book I wanted to read these days. I read for my studies about the mandates both from the point of self-determination as a human rights issue and from the…
I enjoyed The Crusades in 100 Objects by James Waterson* a lot. It has some pretty surprising objects, including new ones… and by new I mean 21st century objects which are related to the crusades nonetheless. That was a lovely surprise and I think it…
I got this book, Islam by Malise Ruthven, from the A Very Short Introduction series because I am studying the Middle East and I wanted to understand better the “basics” of Islam. This book covers a lot of topics relating to Islam and has important…
I kept a close eye on the current pandemic, so when I saw the local library had The History of the World in 100 Pandemics, Plagues and Epidemics by Paul Chrystal I borrowed it. I read books by this author before and this is well…
The Anglo-Soviet Alliance by Colin Turbett* – Comrades and Allies during WW2. The book is very clear and really interesting, so I gave it a very well deserved 4 stars. I recommend it too because it offers an interesting perspective over the UK-USSR relations. The…
I know that one of my readers is keen to read the review for Little Book of US Presidents*, mainly because she mentioned it to me, even before I received it from Welbeck Publishing. So, I was very curious about the book. After a very…