Brent's votes on the list Life under Communism

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1	Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution by Julia Alekseyeva 3.91 avg rating — 829 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Young Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Memoir and a Reckoning by Alex Halberstadt (Goodreads Author) 3.94 avg rating — 541 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Red Harvest: A Novel of the Terror Famine in Soviet Ukraine by Michael Cherkas 4.11 avg rating — 320 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Near Abroad: Putin, the West and the Contest over Ukraine and the Caucasus by Gerard Toal 3.86 avg rating — 107 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Diaries of War: Two Visual Accounts from Ukraine and Russia by Nora Krug 3.39 avg rating — 519 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Swimming to Freedom: My Untold Story of Escaping the Cultural Revolution by Kent Wong 4.36 avg rating — 353 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Cuba: My Revolution by Inverna Lockpez 3.56 avg rating — 627 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Haydée Santamaría, Cuban Revolutionary: She Led by Transgression by Margaret Randall 4.09 avg rating — 35 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	"Dream the Rest": On the Mystery and Vernacular Modernism of Felipe Jesus Consalvos, Cubamerican "Cigarmaker, Creator, Healer, & Man" by Brendan Greaves (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden (Goodreads Author) 4.01 avg rating — 73,866 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag by Kang Chol-Hwan 4.12 avg rating — 11,821 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	See You Again in Pyongyang: A Journey into Kim Jong Un's North Korea by Travis Jeppesen (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 1,149 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite by Suki Kim (Goodreads Author) 3.93 avg rating — 22,919 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle 3.87 avg rating — 29,659 ratings Brent rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan by Michael Booth 3.85 avg rating — 2,529 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	The Book of Secrets: A Personal History of Betrayal in Red China by Xinran 3.59 avg rating — 39 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide by Tahir Hamut Izgil 4.27 avg rating — 2,798 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China by Guy Delisle 3.73 avg rating — 9,750 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Song of Praise for a Flower: One Woman's Journey through China's Tumultuous 20th Century by Fengxian Chu 4.52 avg rating — 218 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Our Story: A Memoir of Love and Life in China by Rao Pingru 4.05 avg rating — 586 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	A Village with My Name: A Family History of China's Opening to the World by Scott Tong 4.19 avg rating — 208 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China by Frank Langfitt (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 1,072 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor by Anna Qu 3.85 avg rating — 2,909 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China by Jung Chang 3.91 avg rating — 4,621 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949 by Kevin Peraino 3.88 avg rating — 655 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	The House Baba Built: An Artist's Childhood in China by Ed Young 3.99 avg rating — 604 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet's Journey Through a Chinese Prison by Liao Yiwu 4.01 avg rating — 437 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Prisoner of Lies: Jack Downey's Cold War by Barry Werth 3.81 avg rating — 86 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story by Serhii Plokhy 4.28 avg rating — 684 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Siberiak: My Cold War Adventure on the River Ob by Jenny Jaeckel (Goodreads Author) 3.71 avg rating — 41 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal by David E. Hoffman (Goodreads Author) 4.24 avg rating — 16,713 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Unfinished Revolution: Daniel Ortega and Nicaragua's Struggle for Liberation by Kenneth E. Morris 3.34 avg rating — 44 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Into the Carpathians: A Journey Through the Heart and History of Central and Eastern Europe (Part 1: The Eastern Mountains) by Alan E. Sparks (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 46 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague by Timothy Garton Ash 3.77 avg rating — 1,249 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 by Madeleine K. Albright 4.03 avg rating — 8,544 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	The Amur River: Between Russia and China by Colin Thubron 3.97 avg rating — 1,699 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	Literary Russia: A Guide by Rosamund Bartlett 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Never Remember: Searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia by Masha Gessen 4.15 avg rating — 252 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya 3.37 avg rating — 1,503 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Spies in the Family: An American Spymaster, His Russian Crown Jewel, and the Friendship That Helped End the Cold War by Eva Dillon (Goodreads Author) 4.14 avg rating — 1,320 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Ho by David Halberstam 3.87 avg rating — 253 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang 3.84 avg rating — 14,267 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	Stalin: Waiting for Hitler 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin 4.47 avg rating — 1,795 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy, 1905-1953 by Simon Ings 3.68 avg rating — 534 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	Comrade Huppert: A Poet in Stalin's World by George Huppert 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman 4.29 avg rating — 4,308 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sís 4.09 avg rating — 4,689 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova (Goodreads Author) 4.14 avg rating — 3,490 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	The Night Witches by Garth Ennis 3.77 avg rating — 435 ratings Brent rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 by Antony Beevor 3.90 avg rating — 3,235 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	A People's History of the Russian Revolution by Neil Faulkner 3.66 avg rating — 323 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924 by Orlando Figes 4.38 avg rating — 6,191 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	Russia at War, 1941–1945: A History by Alexander Werth 4.32 avg rating — 559 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War by Arkady Ostrovsky 4.01 avg rating — 1,925 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort, 1941-1945 by Richard Overy 4.21 avg rating — 2,696 ratings Brent rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	Dragon by the Tail: American, British, Japanese, and Russian Encounters with China and One Another by John Paton Davies Jr. 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	40 Men and 12 Rifles: Indochina 1954 by Marcelino Truong 3.76 avg rating — 184 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	The Double Life of Fidel Castro: My 17 Years as Personal Bodyguard to El Lider Maximo by Juan Reinaldo Sánchez really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 969 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	Marita: The Spy Who Loved Castro by Marita Lorenz 3.36 avg rating — 434 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	Fidel Castro by Robert E. Quirk 3.68 avg rating — 149 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	Castro by Reinhard Kleist 3.68 avg rating — 705 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944 by Anna Reid 4.17 avg rating — 2,568 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
63	Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad by William Craig 4.24 avg rating — 14,706 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 by Antony Beevor 4.33 avg rating — 43,430 ratings Brent added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars