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 Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance That Won the War
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
Gulag: A History
Ten Days that Shook the World
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
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Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
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A Gentleman in Moscow
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924
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Timothy Snyder
Stalin had developed an interesting new theory: that resistance to socialism increases as its successes mount, because its foes resist with greater desperation as they contemplate their final defeat. Thus any problem in the Soviet Union could be defined as an example of enemy action, and enemy action could be defined as evidence of progress. P. 41
Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
That bowl of soup—it was dearer than freedom, dearer than life itself, past, present, and future.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich

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