September 2006    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.

	For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia Robert D. Crews Harvard University Press, 2006 Read September/October 2006 review
	Serfdom, Society, and the Arts in Imperial Russia: The Pleasure and the Power Richard Stites Yale University Press, 2005 Read March/April 2006 review
	Russian Conservatism and Its Critics: A Study in Political Culture Richard Pipes Yale University Press, 2005 Read March/April 2006 review
	Rulers and Victims: The Russians in the Soviet Union Geoffrey Hosking Belknap Press, 2006 Read May/June 2006 review
	Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World Andrew Wilson Yale University Press, 2005 Read November/December 2005 review

The Year in Books Index

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