Start with high-confidence soviet era russia books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
The Gulag Archipelago [volume 1]
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Thomas P. Whitney
Journey Into the Whirlwind
Eugenia Ginzburg
The Decembrist Myth in Russian Culture
L. Trigos, Ludmilla A. Trigos
April 1917
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Clare Kitson
The CIA Book Club
Charlie English
Red Famine
Anne Applebaum
KGB Literati
Kovacevic, Filip Kovacevic
The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel
Douglas Brunt
Odyssey Moscow
Michael Calvey
Rasputin
Antony Beevor
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