October 2003    Each month a different member of our distinguished panel of book reviewers recommends the best books discussed in Foreign Affairs in the past year. This month, Columbia University political scientist Robert Legvold gives his picks for the best books on Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Republics.

Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War
Thomas de Waal
New York: New York University Press, 2003, 337 pp.
Read November/December 2003 review

Khrushchev: the Man and His Era
William Taubman
New York: Norton, 2003. 876 pp. $35.00
Read May/June 2003 review

Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
Orlando Figes
New York: Metropolitan Books, 2002. 544 pp. $35.00
Read November/December 2002 review

The End of Eurasia: Russia on the Border between Geopolitics and Globalization
Dmitri Trenin
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2002. 380 pp. $24.50 paper
Read January/February 2002 review

The Challenge of Revolution: Contemporary Russia in Historical Perspective
Vladimir Mau and Irina Starodubrovskaya
Oxford University Press, 2001. 369 pp. $80.00
Read September/October 2001 review

A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe 1989
Padraic Kenney
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002, 341 pp. $29.95
Read September/October 2002 review

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