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Doctor Zhivago
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4.01 avg rating — 102,690 ratings
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Red Harvest: A Novel of the Terror Famine in Soviet Ukraine
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4.10 avg rating — 278 ratings
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A Gentleman in Moscow
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4.32 avg rating — 661,853 ratings
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The Girl with Seven Names: Escape from North Korea
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4.43 avg rating — 101,049 ratings
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
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4.37 avg rating — 64,334 ratings
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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4.33 avg rating — 34,548 ratings
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The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
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4.11 avg rating — 11,423 ratings
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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
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4.01 avg rating — 71,852 ratings
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The House Baba Built: An Artist's Childhood in China
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3.99 avg rating — 605 ratings
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Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
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3.90 avg rating — 4,269 ratings
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Voices from the Gulag: Life and death in communist Bulgaria
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4.42 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
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4.03 avg rating — 8,369 ratings
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Never Remember: Searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia
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4.14 avg rating — 247 ratings
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The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia
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3.38 avg rating — 1,469 ratings
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The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
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4.09 avg rating — 4,651 ratings
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North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors
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3.65 avg rating — 2,658 ratings
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Spy Artist Prisoner: My Life in Romania Under Fascist and Communist Rule
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4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution
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3.91 avg rating — 814 ratings
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North Korea Undercover: Inside the World's Most Secret State
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3.61 avg rating — 1,397 ratings
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Dear America: The True Odyssey of an American Youth who Miraculously Survived the Concentration Camps of the Soviet Gulag
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4.80 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Visual Rhetorics of Communist Romania: Life Under the Totalitarian Gaze
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Young Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Memoir and a Reckoning
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3.96 avg rating — 521 ratings
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Meltdown in Tibet: China's Reckless Destruction of Ecosystems from the Highlands of Tibet to the Deltas of Asia
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4.05 avg rating — 77 ratings
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The Hotel on the Roof of the World: From Miss Tibet to Shangri-La
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3.92 avg rating — 1,239 ratings
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How I Survived a Chinese "Reeducation" Camp: A Uyghur Woman's Story
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4.14 avg rating — 1,720 ratings
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Everyday Life in Stalinist Estonia
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Near Abroad: Putin, the West and the Contest over Ukraine and the Caucasus
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3.88 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Walking Home From Mongolia: Ten Million Steps Through China, From the Gobi Desert to the South China Sea
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3.79 avg rating — 331 ratings
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Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela
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4.13 avg rating — 1,065 ratings
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Skylarks and Rebels: A Memoir about the Soviet Russian Occupation of Latvia, Life in a Totalitarian State, and Freedom
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3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Diaries of War: Two Visual Accounts from Ukraine and Russia
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3.35 avg rating — 456 ratings
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Baikal: Sacred Sea of Siberia
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3.97 avg rating — 37 ratings
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In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
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4.48 avg rating — 103,967 ratings
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Adopting and Remembering Soviet Reality: Life Stories of Lithuanian Women, 1945-1970 (On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Identity, Freedom, and Moral Imagination in the Baltics, 24)
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2.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Swimming to Freedom: My Untold Story of Escaping the Cultural Revolution
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4.34 avg rating — 317 ratings
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The People's Republic of Chemicals
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4.09 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Cuba: My Revolution
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3.56 avg rating — 623 ratings
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Beijing for Beginners: An Irishman in the People's Republic
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4.19 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Haydée Santamaría, Cuban Revolutionary: She Led by Transgression
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4.06 avg rating — 36 ratings
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"Dream the Rest": On the Mystery and Vernacular Modernism of Felipe Jesus Consalvos, Cubamerican "Cigarmaker, Creator, Healer, & Man"
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
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4.19 avg rating — 11,902 ratings
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Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castro's Gulag
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4.45 avg rating — 385 ratings
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See You Again in Pyongyang: A Journey into Kim Jong Un's North Korea
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3.90 avg rating — 1,098 ratings
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Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag
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3.61 avg rating — 251 ratings
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Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
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3.93 avg rating — 22,220 ratings
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Alexander Dolgun's story: An American in the Gulag
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4.50 avg rating — 425 ratings
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Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
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3.88 avg rating — 28,803 ratings
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The Day Will Pass Away: The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard: 1935-1936
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3.43 avg rating — 172 ratings
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Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
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3.88 avg rating — 2,246 ratings
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The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
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4.01 avg rating — 3,242 ratings
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The Book of Secrets: A Personal History of Betrayal in Red China
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3.59 avg rating — 34 ratings
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An American Dream: The Life of an African American Soldier and POW Who Spent Twelve Years in Communist China
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3.74 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
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4.28 avg rating — 2,452 ratings
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Eighth Moon: The True Story of a Young Girl's Life in Communist China
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3.96 avg rating — 217 ratings
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Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China
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3.73 avg rating — 9,434 ratings
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Vermilion Gate: An Extraordinary Story of Growing Up in Communist China
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4.11 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Song of Praise for a Flower: One Woman's Journey through China's Tumultuous 20th Century
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4.53 avg rating — 216 ratings
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Thirty Years in a Red House: A Memoir of Childhood and Youth in Communist China
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3.61 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Our Story: A Memoir of Love and Life in China
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4.06 avg rating — 552 ratings
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Bamboo Swaying in the Wind: A Survivor's Story of Faith and Imprisonment in Communist China
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3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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A Village with My Name: A Family History of China's Opening to the World
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4.21 avg rating — 206 ratings
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The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China
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3.91 avg rating — 1,038 ratings
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
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4.46 avg rating — 99,138 ratings
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Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor
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3.85 avg rating — 2,669 ratings
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A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
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4.28 avg rating — 62,037 ratings
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Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look Inside North Korea
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4.33 avg rating — 9,552 ratings
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A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949
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3.88 avg rating — 616 ratings
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Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea
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4.31 avg rating — 7,584 ratings
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A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea
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3.97 avg rating — 8,357 ratings
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For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet's Journey Through a Chinese Prison
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 427 ratings
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Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman's Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom
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4.31 avg rating — 2,079 ratings
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Prisoner of Lies: Jack Downey's Cold War
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3.79 avg rating — 75 ratings
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This Is Paradise! My North Korean Childhood
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3.84 avg rating — 1,503 ratings
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The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story
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4.26 avg rating — 631 ratings
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The Hard Road Out: One Woman’s Escape From North Korea
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4.28 avg rating — 1,401 ratings
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Siberiak: My Cold War Adventure on the River Ob
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3.71 avg rating — 41 ratings
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North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors
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3.65 avg rating — 2,658 ratings
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The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
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4.24 avg rating — 15,864 ratings
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Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor
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4.16 avg rating — 709 ratings
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Unfinished Revolution: Daniel Ortega and Nicaragua's Struggle for Liberation
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3.31 avg rating — 42 ratings
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A Capitalist in North Korea: My Seven Years in the Hermit Kingdom
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3.61 avg rating — 249 ratings
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Into the Carpathians: A Journey Through the Heart and History of Central and Eastern Europe (Part 1: The Eastern Mountains)
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4.07 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Survival in the Killing Fields
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4.57 avg rating — 4,094 ratings
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The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague
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3.77 avg rating — 1,212 ratings
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The Killing Fields of Cambodia: Surviving a Living Hell
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4.18 avg rating — 327 ratings
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Watching Communism Fail: A Memoir of Life in the Soviet Union
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Amur River: Between Russia and China
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3.97 avg rating — 1,544 ratings
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My Soviet Youth: A Memoir of Ukrainian Life in the Final Years of Communism
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Literary Russia: A Guide
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4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Life is War: Surviving Dictatorship in Communist Albania
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4.12 avg rating — 51 ratings
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The Communist Chasm: How the Dreams of a Better Life became a Terrible Nightmare
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Spies in the Family: An American Spymaster, His Russian Crown Jewel, and the Friendship That Helped End the Cold War
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4.15 avg rating — 1,253 ratings
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My Life Behind the Iron Curtain: The Story of a Black Man coming of age in a predominantly white communist Country
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Ho
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3.84 avg rating — 242 ratings
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A Child's Life Under Communist Cuba
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Mao: The Unknown Story
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3.83 avg rating — 13,829 ratings
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Thirty Years in Deep Freeze: My Life in Communist China
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Stalin: Waiting for Hitler 1929-1941
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4.46 avg rating — 1,642 ratings
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Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy, 1905-1953
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3.68 avg rating — 511 ratings
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Comrade Huppert: A Poet in Stalin's World
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4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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