Reccommend books about Russia in 20th century

On-line books of Victor Suvorowv (in russian)

http://lib.ru/WSUWOROW/

Alexander Solzhenitsyn "The Gulag Archipelago"

Leon Trotsky "Book Review of My Life"

Michail Tukhachevsky "March behind Vistula"

Victor Suvorov "Icebreaker" and "Aquarium"

i have the RUSSIAN CHRONICLES!!!!...uk published..costed me 1231 rubles.i have bought it at Tverskaya.

The book starts with the land of Rus and ends with the revolution of 1917.it is in large size and colourful..The historians are important scholars on the russian history.what i like most the historians catch every tendency in history which is important to envisage and  understand present day russia..

i would suggest that book for anyone who have a special interest on the Russian history.

I heard Vadim Kozhinov is not a bad writer.

'Victor Suvorov "Icebreaker""

Don't bother with conspiracy theories.

Try Robert K Masie  "Nicholas and Alexandra"  it's been a few years since I read it - but If I remember correctly - it was pretty good.

Just finished Solomon Volkov "St. Petersburg: A Cultural History" - not all 20th century - but good.  Somewhat heavy going - it's a survey of the Arts in St Pete - starting with Peter's era but moveing quickly into the 20th century.  Chapt 1 and 2 are all discussion of Pushkin, Gogol and Dostoyevsky, Glinka and Tschaikovsky, Mussorgsky, the "School of Five", the "Wanderers"...

By chapter 3 it is well seated in the 20th century - the poetry of Akhmatova, Stravinsky, Balanchine, Glazunov, Shostakovich and moving on to people like Brodsky, Andrei Bitov, Valery Gergiev and Boris Grebenshikov.