4 BOOKS ABOUT SOVIET PERIOD RUSSIA

Armageddon Averted, The Soviet Collapse 1970-2000. Stephen Kotkin, Oxford University Press, 2008.
Passage Through Armageddon, The Russians in War and Revolution, W. Bruce Lincoln, Oxford University Press, 1994.
Peasant Russia Civil War, The Volga Countryside in Revolution, 1917-1921, Orlando Figes, Phonix Press, 2001.
The Soviet Century, Moshe Lewin, Verso, 2005.