Finding usable histories of the Soviet Navy at war

Why is Soviet naval warfare less visible in popular history, and what book is a useful starting point?

Much of the literature is specialist and context-heavy; Jurgen Rohwer offers a useful work on the Soviet Navy in the Second World War.

Useful Soviet naval material exists but is often written for readers who already possess a large reference library. Specialist authors may assume background knowledge that a general reader has not yet acquired. Their arguments can therefore require extensive cross-checking against other books before the narrative becomes coherent. Jürgen Rohwer's work on the Soviet Navy in the Second World War is a useful route into the subject.