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Russia (Biographies & Memoirs › Europe, Books): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Books Best Sellers data for Russia (Biographies & Memoirs › Europe, Books), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $14.38, median 561 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 20/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $12.28 – $19.95 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.5 |
| New releases (90 days) | 5% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Books |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 19% of the parent category Europe (2,959), one of the easier corners under it.
- Its review barrier is higher than in 77% of Books categories: the median best seller has 561 reviews, so new books need time to build up.
- Only 5% of its best sellers are under 90 days old, fewer than in 75% of Books categories: established titles hold the list.
Top 10 Russia best sellers
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Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II
- List rank#1
- Price$18.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews1,045
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A Writer at War: A Soviet Journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945
by Vasily Grossman
- List rank#2
- Price$10.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews603
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Rasputin: The Downfall of the Romanovs
- List rank#3
- Price$14.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews447
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Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
by Julia Ioffe
- List rank#4
- Price$29.95
- Rating4.6
- Reviews383
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Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
by Bill Browder
- List rank#5
- Price$9.69
- Rating4.7
- Reviews48,697
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Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
- List rank#6
- Price$24.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews2,814
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The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation ― The Classic Soviet History Memoir about the Bureaucracy of Terror (Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956)
- List rank#7
- Price$11.48
- Rating4.8
- Reviews5,485
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- List rank#8
- Price$36.19
- Rating4.7
- Reviews1,145
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The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution
by Alex Storozynski
- List rank#9
- Price$12.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews309
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The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel: Romanovs, Revolutionaries, and the Forgotten Titan Who Fueled the World
by Douglas Brunt
- List rank#10
- Price$13.68
- Rating4.8
- Reviews279
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FAQ
Is Russia a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 20/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 561 reviews and sells for $14.38.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Russia?
The median best seller has 561 reviews, and 14% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Russia best sellers cost?
The median price is $14.38; half of the best sellers are priced between $12.28 and $19.95.
Can new books break into Russia?
5% of the current best sellers were released in the last 90 days.
About this data
Data comes from KDPTop's daily crawl of Amazon's public Best Sellers pages; medians use the latest list. The opportunity score (0–100, higher is easier to enter) combines the review barrier, the share of low-review books, list turnover, new-release share and price.