Communism's Shadow by Grigore Pop-Eleches and Joshua A. Tucker

Sorta.

The Total Art of Stalinism by Boris Groys

Plus, a smattering of polisci literature on post-communism and like thirty percent of State and Revolution.

The Unwinding by George Packer

Discards:

Black Square by Sophie Pinkham

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Toward the Rising Sun: Russian Ideologies of Empire and the Path to War with Japan by David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye

What a name.

Russian Orientalism by David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye

Gonna give it to myself.

Other Russias by Victoria Lomasko

Russian General Staff and Asia, 1860-1917 by Alex Marshall

All you could ever hope to know about Russian officers' careers in the 1860s.

Everyone Loses: The Ukraine Crisis and the Ruinous Contest for Post-Soviet Eurasia by Samuel Charap and Timothy J. Colton

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

Hadji Murad by Leo Tolstoy

Fortunately everyone dies.

Bitter Choices: Loyalty and Betrayal in the Russian Conquest of the North Caucasus by Michael Khodarkovsky

Imperial Boundaries: Cossack Communities and Empire-Building in the Age of Peter the Great by Brian J. Boeck

Russia's Steppe Frontier: The Making of a Colonial Empire, 1500-1800 by Michael Khodarkovsky

Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Racist early 20th century pulp. Interesting as a historical or cultural document.

Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

The ideological debate is simpler than it looks because of how deftly Koestler handles the psychology.

HHhH by Laurent Binet

Binet believes he can produce a more honest book by repeatedly calling attention to the artifice of his project. This, along with its weird title, makes HHhH "post-modern." Remove that conceit, and you are left with a rolicking boys' adventure story.