5 Great Books on Russia, selected by Peter Rutland

Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000, by Stephen Kotkin.  Oxford University Press, 2001.

Lost and Found in Russia: Lives in the Post-Soviet Landscape, by Susan Richards.  Other Press, 2010.

On the Run in Siberia, by Rane Willerslev.  University of Minnesota Press, 2012.

Rock and Roll in the Rocket City: The West, Identity, and Ideology in Soviet Dniepropetrovsk, 1960-1985, by Sergei Zhuk.  Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.

Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World, byAndrew Wilson.  Yale University Press, 2005.

Peter Rutland is the Colin and Nancy Campbell Professor in Global Issues and Democratic Thought in the Government Department at Wesleyan University.  His email is [email protected].