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Russian & Soviet (Regions, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Russian & Soviet (Regions, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $9.73, median 42 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 21/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $2.99 – $14.54 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.5 |
| New releases (90 days) | 5% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 11% of the parent category Regions (383), one of the easier corners under it.
- Only 5% of its best sellers are under 90 days old, fewer than in 76% of Kindle eBooks categories: established titles hold the list.
- Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $2.99 to $14.54, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.
Top 10 Russian & Soviet best sellers
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A Writer at War: A Soviet Journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945
by Vasily Grossman
- List rank#1
- Price$10.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews603
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Notes from the Underground: The Original Unabridged and Complete Edition (Fyodor Dostoyevsky Classics)
- List rank#2
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews2,981
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War And Peace: The Original Unabridged and Complete Edition (A Leo Tolstoy Classics)
by Leo Tolstoy
- List rank#5
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews298
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
by George Saunders
- List rank#6
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews4,415
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The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- List rank#7
- Price$11.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews5,485
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Los hermanos Karamazov: Clásicos de la literatura (Spanish Edition)
- List rank#8
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews1,942
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Lectures on Russian Literature
- List rank#9
- Price$10.84
- Rating4.5
- Reviews212
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Manuscripts Don't Burn: A Life in Letters and Diaries
- List rank#10
- Price$3.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews34
FAQ
Is Russian & Soviet a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 21/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 42 reviews and sells for $9.73.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Russian & Soviet?
The median best seller has 42 reviews, and 66% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Russian & Soviet best sellers cost?
The median price is $9.73; half of the best sellers are priced between $2.99 and $14.54.
Can new books break into Russian & Soviet?
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.