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The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as bolsheviks)
avg rating 3.92 — 15,822 ratings — published 2003
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as bolsheviks)
avg rating 4.32 — 664,435 ratings — published 2016
The Great Terror: A Reassessment (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as bolsheviks)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,205 ratings — published 1968
Doctor Zhivago (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as bolsheviks)
avg rating 4.01 — 102,842 ratings — published 1957
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 4.30 — 14,714 ratings — published 1951
Warsaw 1920: Lenin’s Failed Conquest of Europe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 3.76 — 599 ratings — published 2008
America's Secret War against Bolshevism: U.S. Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1917-1920 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 3.48 — 25 ratings — published 1995
The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 3.65 — 81 ratings — published 2007
Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 3.89 — 62 ratings — published 1996
Lenin's Private War: The Voyage of the Philosophy Steamer and the Exile of the Intelligentsia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 3.55 — 62 ratings — published 2006
Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,093 ratings — published 1984
The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB & the Battle for the Third World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 4.10 — 600 ratings — published 2005
Surviving Freedom: After the Gulag (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 4.40 — 30 ratings — published 2003
Till My Tale Is Told: Women's Memoirs of the Gulag (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 4.11 — 61 ratings — published
Victims of Yalta (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 4.10 — 89 ratings — published 1977
Stalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 4.02 — 456 ratings — published 2004
The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin – An Investigation of the Gulag, Survivors' Voices, and Glasnost-Era Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 4.16 — 904 ratings — published 1994
Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 4.35 — 892 ratings — published 1998
The Perversion Of Knowledge: The True Story Of Soviet Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 3.83 — 24 ratings — published 2001
Gareth Jones: Eyewitness to the Holodomor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 3.85 — 33 ratings — published 2013
Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,083 ratings — published 2002
The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,126 ratings — published 2007
Autopsy for an Empire: The Seven Leaders Who Built the Soviet Regime (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 3.87 — 109 ratings — published 1998
A Concise History of the Russian Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 3.84 — 712 ratings — published 1995
Stillborn Crusade (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 1996
Stalin's Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 3.84 — 227 ratings — published
Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 4.30 — 514 ratings — published 1985
History's Greatest Heist: The Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 4.12 — 64 ratings — published 2008
The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 4.15 — 895 ratings — published 1986
Fear No Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 4.48 — 546 ratings — published 1988
A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,861 ratings — published 2000
The Bolsheviks in Power: The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 4.28 — 88 ratings — published 2007
The Ghost of the Executed Engineer: Technology and the Fall of the Soviet Union (Russian Research Center Studies)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 3.82 — 185 ratings — published 1993
Conspirator: Lenin in Exile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 3.89 — 161 ratings — published 2009
Hope Against Hope (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,249 ratings — published 1970
The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,132 ratings — published 1985
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,073 ratings — published 2003
Под чужим знаменем (Russian Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Gulag: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 4.28 — 13,583 ratings — published 2003
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,280 ratings — published 2012
Young Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 3.97 — 7,721 ratings — published 2007
The Haunting of Moscow House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 3.39 — 1,370 ratings — published 2024
Lenin Rediscovered: What Is to Be Done? In Context (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 4.45 — 139 ratings — published 2003
Murder in Moscow (A Fiona Figg & Kitty Lane Mystery, #5)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 4.20 — 490 ratings — published
Red Terror in Russia (4-4) (English and Russian Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 4.50 — 18 ratings — published
Twenty Years in Underground Russia: Memoirs of a Rank-And-File Bolshevik (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 4.47 — 17 ratings — published 2010
Stalin: Breaker of Nations (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 3.66 — 595 ratings — published 1991
Lenin the Dictator (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,766 ratings — published 2017
Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 4.45 — 3,768 ratings — published 2018
Unemployed Councils in St. Petersburg in 1906 (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as bolsheviks)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
“The mistake the Bolsheviks made was not in aiming at the modernisation of Russia. That was entirely sensible. Nor was it a mistake to ascribe a major role in the economy to the state. This is quite normal in the modern world. Their mistake was to suppose that successful modernisation required the elimination of the market and of private enterprise. They did not realise the role that the market and private enterprise can play in generating and maintaining self-sustaining economic growth. Looking at all economic activity as if it were a zero-sum game was very one-sided. Furthermore, the Bolsheviks failed to realise that for the state to attempt to micromanage every farm, factory and office is a very inefficient form of management, that wastes information and potential local initiatives and entrepreneurship. Furthermore, coercion tends, in general, to be less effective than market incentives in raising labour productivity, and to be indifferent to human suffering and loss of life (see Chapters 6 and 7).”
― Socialist Planning
― Socialist Planning
“It may well be that the Bolsheviks' greatest strength in 1917 was not strict party organization and discipline (which scarcely existed at this time) but rather the party's stance of intransigent radicalism on the extreme left of the political spectrum. While other socialist and liberal groups jostled for position in the Provisional Government and Petrograd Soviet, the Bolsheviks refused to be co-opted and denounced the politics of coalition and compromise. While other formerly radical politicians called for restraint and responsible, statesmanlike leadership, the Bolsheviks stayed out on the streets with the irresponsible and belligerent revolutionary crowd. As the 'dual power' structure disintegrated, discrediting the coalition parties represented in the Provisional Government and Petrograd Soviet leadership, only the Bolsheviks were in a position to benefit. Among the socialist parties, only the Bolsheviks had overcome Marxist scruples, caught the mood of the crowd, and declared their willingness to seize power in the name of the proletarian revolution.”
― The Russian Revolution 1917-1932
― The Russian Revolution 1917-1932
