Non-Fiction
1 Best Non-Fiction Book About Post-Soviet Russia
Histories, biographies and reference works are listed separately from the historical novels above.
Period
Post-Soviet Russia
1991–present
The dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991 created the Russian Federation amid rapid political and economic change. Market reforms, privatisation, inflation and weakening state institutions transformed everyday life during the 1990s, while regional communities experienced the transition in sharply different ways.
Post-Soviet Russia also inherited the physical and moral landscape of the Soviet state: industrial settlements, military sites, prisons, monuments and memories of repression remained part of contemporary life. Colin Thubron’s In Siberia encounters this transition across a region where imperial exile, Stalinist development and the collapse of Soviet authority overlap.
