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Books that are set in or about Russia and Russians.

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Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare

Freezing Order: A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, Murder and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath

The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands

The Nord Stream Conspiracy: The Inside Story of the Explosions That Shook the World

Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy

The Wolves of Eternity (Morgenstjernen, #2)

World Cup Fever: A Footballing Journey in Nine Tournaments

The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West

The Silent Sisters (Charles Jenkins, #3)

Paying the Bratva's Debt (Bratva's Claim, #1)

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel: Romanovs, Revolutionaries, and the Forgotten Titan Who Fueled the World

A Brief History of a Long War: Ukraine's Fight Against Russian Domination

Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

Stalin's Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire

Last Train to Freedom (Survivors of War, #1)

Демон из Пустоши (Колдун Российской империи, #3)

Headhunter (With Me In Seattle Mafia, #2)

Тайна мертвого ректора. Книга 1 (Колдун Российской империи, #4A)

We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News

Tradecraft, Tactics, and Dirty Tricks: Russian Intelligence and Putin's Secret War

The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB

Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary

Граф Аверин (Колдун Российской империи, #1)

The Hard Parts: A Memoir of Courage and Triumph

The Shortest History of the Soviet Union

How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler

The Shadow of War: A Novel of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Императорский Див (Колдун Российской империи, #2)

Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization

Samaan virtaan - Putinin sota naisia vastaan

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“ Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument just one more time, or of going one more round with a hostile or (much worse) indifferent audience. I first became involved with the Czech opposition in 1968 when it was an intoxicating and celebrated cause. Then, during the depressing 1970s and 1980s I was a member of a routine committee that tried with limited suc Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument just one more time, or of going one more round with a hostile or (much worse) indifferent audience. I first became involved with the Czech opposition in 1968 when it was an intoxicating and celebrated cause. Then, during the depressing 1970s and 1980s I was a member of a routine committee that tried with limited success to help the reduced forces of Czech dissent to stay nourished (and published). The most pregnant moment of that commitment was one that I managed to miss at the time: I passed an afternoon with Zdenek Mlynar, exiled former secretary of the Czech Communist Party, who in the bleak early 1950s in Moscow had formed a friendship with a young Russian militant with an evident sense of irony named Mikhail Sergeyevitch Gorbachev. In 1988 I was arrested in Prague for attending a meeting of one of Vaclav Havel's 'Charter 77' committees. That outwardly exciting experience was interesting precisely because of its almost Zen-like tedium. I had gone to Prague determined to be the first visiting writer not to make use of the name Franz Kafka, but the numbing bureaucracy got the better of me. When I asked why I was being detained, I was told that I had no need to know the reason! Totalitarianism is itself a cliché (as well as a tundra of pulverizing boredom) and it forced the cliché upon me in turn. I did have to mention Kafka in my eventual story. The regime fell not very much later, as I had slightly foreseen in that same piece that it would. (I had happened to notice that the young Czechs arrested with us were not at all frightened by the police, as their older mentors had been and still were, and also that the police themselves were almost fatigued by their job. This was totalitarianism practically yawning itself to death.) A couple of years after that I was overcome to be invited to an official reception in Prague, to thank those who had been consistent friends through the stultifying years of what 'The Party' had so perfectly termed 'normalization.' As with my tiny moment with Nelson Mandela, a whole historic stretch of nothingness and depression, combined with the long and deep insult of having to be pushed around by boring and mediocre people, could be at least partially canceled and annealed by one flash of humor and charm and generosity. ...more ”
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