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        Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
       
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                 4.39 avg rating — 19,324 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
       
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                 4.15 avg rating — 12,888 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938
       
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                 4.17 avg rating — 294 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
       
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                 4.39 avg rating — 9,105 ratings
          
         
                  
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        The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine
       
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                 4.15 avg rating — 890 ratings
          
         
                  
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        The Great Terror: A Reassessment
       
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                 4.14 avg rating — 1,198 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Ten Days That Shook the World
       
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                 3.94 avg rating — 7,688 ratings
          
         
                  
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        A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924
       
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                 4.37 avg rating — 5,824 ratings
          
         
                  
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        God Save the USSR: Soviet Muslims and the Second World War
       
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                 4.14 avg rating — 36 ratings
          
         
                  
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        The Collapse of the Soviet Union: Causes and Lessons: For the Revolutionary Revival of the International Communist Movement
       
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                really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
       
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                 4.13 avg rating — 1,403 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Gulag: A History
       
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                 4.28 avg rating — 13,181 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Moscow, 1937
       
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                 4.21 avg rating — 304 ratings
          
         
                  
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        USSR: The Velvet Counter Revolution
       
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                 4.04 avg rating — 23 ratings
          
         
                  
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        The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 (The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956, #1-7)
       
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                 4.33 avg rating — 34,197 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Moscow, the Fourth Rome: Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931–1941
       
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                 4.07 avg rating — 45 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945
       
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                 4.07 avg rating — 3,954 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Perestroika: The Complete Collapse of Revisionism
       
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                 4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Another View of Stalin
       
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                 4.01 avg rating — 387 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel
       
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                 3.71 avg rating — 652 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
       
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                 4.39 avg rating — 8,912 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Stalin: The Man and His Era
       
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                 4.27 avg rating — 66 ratings
          
         
                  
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        The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
       
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                 4.33 avg rating — 34,197 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Stalin and Hitler: Twin Brothers or Mortal Enemies?
       
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                 4.21 avg rating — 28 ratings
          
         
                  
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        The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
       
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                 4.26 avg rating — 3,143 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Towards a Critique of the Category of Totalitarianism
       
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                 4.51 avg rating — 63 ratings
          
         
                  
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        The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921
       
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                 4.34 avg rating — 1,102 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Soviet Democracy
       
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                 4.25 avg rating — 111 ratings
          
         
                  
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        The Gulag Archipelago
       
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                 4.35 avg rating — 13,424 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
       
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                 3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings
          
         
                  
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        The Conscience of the Revolution: Communist Opposition in Soviet Russia
       
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                 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Economic Problems of Socialism in the U.S.S.R.
       
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                 3.63 avg rating — 275 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Marxism vs. Liberalism: An Interview
       
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                 4.28 avg rating — 97 ratings
          
         
                  
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        The Unknown Stalin: His Life, Death, and Legacy
       
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                 3.71 avg rating — 70 ratings
          
         
                  
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        The Purges of the CPSU in the 1930s
       
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                 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
          
         
                  
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        The Ukrainian famine-genocide myth
       
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                 2.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Health in The USSR
       
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                really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
          
         
                  
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        Education in the Soviet Union
       
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                it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Revisionism and the Demise of the USSR
       
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                 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
          
         
                  
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        THE MERITS OF STALIN
       
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                it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
          
         
                  
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        The End of the Beginning: Lessons of the Soviet Collapse
       
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                 4.32 avg rating — 119 ratings
          
         
                  
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        A personal account of experiences in the German Panzers at the Battle of Stalingrad
       
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                it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
          
         
                  
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        Stalin and the Struggle for Democratic Reform
       
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                 4.04 avg rating — 25 ratings
          
         
                  
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