September 2005    Each month (except for a summertime hiatus in June and July) a different member of our distinguished panel of book reviewers recommends the best books discussed in Foreign Affairs in the past year. This month, Robert Legvold gives his picks for the best books about Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Republics.

	Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution Peter Baker and Susan Glasser Scribner, 2005 Read September/October 2005 review
	Ivan the Terrible Isabel De Madariaga Yale University Press, 2005 Read May/June 2005 review
	The History of the Gulag: From Collectivization to the Great Terror Oleg V. Khlevniuk Yale University Press, 2004 Read March/April 2005 review
	The Choice: Poland, 1939-1945 Irene Eber Schocken, 2004 Read November/December 2004 review
	The Black Sea: A History Charles King Oxford University Press, 2004 Read November/December 2004 review
	Russia in Search of Itself James H. Billington Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2004 Read September/October 2004 review

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