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.

The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin's Greatest Enemy
Chernobyl, Life, and Other Disasters: A Graphic Memoir
Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921
The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
Victory '45: The End of the War in Eight Surrenders
What's Cooking in the Kremlin: From Rasputin to Putin, How Russia Built an Empire with a Knife and Fork
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War
Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
The Shortest History of the Soviet Union
Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
The Soviet Sisters
Your Presence Is Mandatory
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
Gulag: A History
Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Ten Days that Shook the World
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
The Master and Margarita
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944 - 1956
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
A Gentleman in Moscow
Child 44 (Leo Demidov, #1)
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
Eurocommunism Is Anti-Communism by Enver HoxhaThe Titoites by Enver HoxhaThe Soviet White Paper on the North Atlantic Pact by Soviet Foreign MinistryThe Revisionist Theory of the “Liberation” of Science From Id... by M.D. Kammari
Marxist-Leninism - Hoxhaism
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Animal Farm by George OrwellStalin by Simon Sebag MontefioreThe Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Stalinist Russia
155 books — 51 voters

Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics by Kremlin, Moscow
Soviet Law
1 book — 1 voter

Brutalist Britain by Elain HarwoodRedefining Brutalism by Simon HenleyBrutalism by Alexander ClementChinese Brutalism Today by Alberto BolognaThe Art of Brutalism by Ben Highmore
Brutalist Architecture
75 books — 2 voters
With God in Russia, by Walter J. CiszekOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynAlexander Dolgun's Story by Alexander DolgunComing Out of the Ice by Victor HermanTransit Point Moscow by Gerald Amster
Gulag, 1918-1991 (Soviet History)
107 books — 6 voters


Christopher Hitchens
Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which was the most Communist (and in the rather orthodox sense) of the Palestinian formations. I remember Edward once surprising me by saying, and apropos of nothing: 'Do you know something I have never done in my political career? I have never publicly criticized the Soviet Union. It’s not that I terribly sympathize with them or anything—it's just that the Soviets ...more
Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Over the years I have had much occasion to ponder this word, the intelligentsia. We are all very fond of including ourselves in it—but you see not all of us belong. In the Soviet Union this word has acquired a completely distorted meaning. They began to classify among the intelligentsia all those who don't work (and are afraid to) with their hands. All the Party, government, military, and trade union bureaucrats have been included. All bookkeepers and accountants—the mechanical slaves of Debit. ...more
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books III-IV

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