Most Read This Week In Soviet Union

The Soviet Union (Советский Союз, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Союз Советских Социалистических Республик) abbreviated to USSR (СССР) was a socialist state on the Eurasian continent that existed between 1922 and 1991. A union of multiple subnational Soviet republics, its government and economy were highly centralized. The Soviet Union was a one-party state, governed by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital.

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The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
The Shortest History of the Soviet Union
Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921
Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance That Won the War
Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West
Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War
The Soviet Sisters
Stalin's War: A New History of World War II
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
The Death of Stalin
What's Cooking in the Kremlin: From Rasputin to Putin, How Russia Built an Empire with a Knife and Fork
Bagration 1944: The Great Soviet Offensive
American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery
Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books
Your Presence Is Mandatory
Red Closet: The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR
Barbarossa: And the Bloodiest War in History
To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power
World Enemy No. 1: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews
The Watermark
God Save the USSR: Soviet Muslims and the Second World War
Dissidents among Dissidents: Ideology, Politics and the Left in Post-Soviet Russia
How Finland Survived Stalin: From Winter War to Cold War, 1939-1950

Anne Applebaum
If the Russian people and the Russian elite remembered - viscerally, emotionally remembered - what Stalin did to the Chechens, they could not have invaded Chechnya in the 1990s, not once and not twice. To do so was the moral equivalent of postwar Germany invading western Poland. Very few Russians saw it that way - which is itself evidence of how little they know about their own history.
Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History

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