"Thoughtful, considered and understated... a fine book telling a story that needed to be told... Gavin deserves a lot of credit for threading together the lives of civilians on both sides in this humane account" – The Times
Gabriel Gavin delivers searing, human reportage from the collapse of Nagorno-Karabakh – once a shared home of Armenians and...
'Magnificent... As exciting to read as it is important' Peter Frankopan
“Baltic: The Future of Europe” shows how Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and their neighbours around the Baltic Sea are shaping the continent’s future. Oliver Moody blends history, politics and reportage to reveal resilient societies reinventing themselves through technology, eco...
“Bread and War” offers a vivid, deeply human chronicle of wartime Ukraine – focusing on the bakers, chefs, army cooks, volunteers, farmers, small producers and cafe owners who have been fighting to keep people fed and hopeful in the midst of the loss, fear and violence of the Russian invasion. Spector shows how food can become resistance and ide...
On the first day of Russia’s 2022 invasion, armoured vehicles seized Chernobyl, holding staff hostage and forcing them to work under extreme pressure. Serhii Plokhy reveals the full story of this reckless gamble, showing how close the world came to a second nuclear disaster and the human courage that endured under terrifying conditions.
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In “Dark Shadows”, Joanna Lillis unveils the hidden heart of Kazakhstan – a vast, oil-rich nation caught between Russia and China. With over a decade of on‑the‑ground journalistic experience, she traces a landscape of corruption, power and exile, revealing how one man’s ruthless rule reshaped a fragile post‑Soviet society into a modern monocrac...
Mark Galeotti and Anna Arutunyan's “Downfall” traces Yevgeny Prigozhin's rise and his rivalry with Putin, revealing how private armies and shadow power upset Russia’s elite. This timely, forensic account shows how personal ambition, violence and fractured loyalties threatened to reshape the country's future, and the stability of the wider world....
In “Everyday Politics in Russia: From Resentment to Resistance”, Jeremy Morris dives into post‑February 2022 Russia through fieldwork in Moscow, regional towns, and rural areas. He reveals how ordinary Russians – from factory workers to security officers and citizen journalists – live their lives, and shows how politics shapes their everyday liv...
'A remarkable eye-witness account of Russia's descent into authoritarianism and war' - Catherine Belton, author of Putin's People
Sarah Rainsford came to Russia with hope and stayed to witness its unraveling. Expelled from Moscow as a “security threat”, she chronicles the country she once called home – its slide from post-Soviet possibility int...
Winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2024.
"Would you like to know where Putin comes from? What the Russians are like today? And why? Read this book" - Svetlana Alexievich
"Kostyuchenko is an important guide to the twenty-first century" - Timothy Snyder
“I Love Russia” by Elena Kostyuchenko is a fearless, personal exploration of a nation on th...
"The essential, must-read insider account of the West’s cat and mouse economic warfare against Russia and how it is changing the face of global trade. Magisterial and gripping" - Catherine Belton, author of Putin's People
Stephanie Baker’s “Punishing Putin” exposes the West’s unprecedented economic war against Putin, from seizing superyachts an...
Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize 2025.
'A different level of insight to anything I’ve read for a long time about Russia.' - Sophy Roberts, author of The Lost Pianos of Siberia
'Exquisitely observed... Full of empathy, Amos refuses easy stereotypes.' - Tom Parfitt, author of High Caucasus
'Truly kaleidoscopic and unique in its reach,...
“Silk Mirage” by Joanna Lillis journeys into the heart of Uzbekistan – a jewel of the Silk Road and now a battleground between reformers and reactionaries. One of the only Western journalists with access to Uzbekistan, Lillis chronicles the legacy of dictatorship and the hope of the “Uzbek Spring,” through the lives of ordinary people.
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'TEN, NINE, EIGHT, SEVEN... ' On April 12, 1961, the Soviet Union begins its countdown.From the steppes of Kazakhstan, the first human – Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin – launches into space. In that moment, another countdown begins. How could it be that a single generation – just three decades – would separate the USSR's crowning achievement from...
“Tigers Between Empires” tells the astonishing true story of Amur tigers on the brink of extinction, from the fall of the Soviet Union to the present day. Jonathan C. Slaght follows the daring scientists – Russian and American – who risked everything to found the Siberian Tiger Project, forging a fragile alliance to rescue these majestic cats.
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In “Who Will Defend Europe?”, Keir Giles warns that decades of outsourcing security to the United States have left the continent dangerously exposed. As Russia re‑arms and tensions rise, Europe must urgently rebuild its defences, strengthen alliances, and confront hard truths—or risk devastating consequences for its future security and stability...
Charles Hecker’s “Zero Sum” chronicles three decades of Western business in post‑Soviet Russia, from the gold‑rush boom of the 1990s market to the retreat triggered by Putin’s 2022 invasion. He reveals how ambition, greed and political maneuvering collided, showing a high‑stakes world of profit, power and risk where there were no true winners.
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