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The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.27 — 456,881 ratings — published 1967
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as soviet)
avg rating 3.98 — 129,859 ratings — published 1962
Roadside Picnic (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.11 — 97,253 ratings — published 1972
Heart of a Dog (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.07 — 80,647 ratings — published 1925
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
by (shelved 30 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.33 — 36,480 ratings — published 1973
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.45 — 23,585 ratings — published 2013
Doctor Zhivago (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.01 — 106,088 ratings — published 1957
Moscow to the End of the Line (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.03 — 13,682 ratings — published 1969
War's Unwomanly Face (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.51 — 41,695 ratings — published 1983
Life and Fate (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.46 — 16,779 ratings — published 1960
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,563 ratings — published 1994
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.40 — 67,872 ratings — published 1997
Gulag: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.29 — 14,510 ratings — published 2003
The First Circle (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.26 — 10,433 ratings — published 1968
The Twelve Chairs (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.39 — 25,066 ratings — published 1928
The Foundation Pit (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as soviet)
avg rating 3.79 — 6,773 ratings — published 1930
Cancer Ward (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,108 ratings — published 1967
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,818 ratings — published 2021
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924 (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.38 — 6,227 ratings — published 1996
Золотой теленок (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.43 — 9,484 ratings — published 1931
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,993 ratings — published 2003
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.36 — 72,776 ratings — published 2019
The White Guard (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.00 — 16,856 ratings — published 1924
Darkness at Noon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.12 — 35,366 ratings — published 1940
Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.12 — 967 ratings — published 2005
The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,133 ratings — published 2017
Понедельник начинается в субботу (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.13 — 18,457 ratings — published 1965
Red Plenty (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,763 ratings — published 2010
Ten Days that Shook the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as soviet)
avg rating 3.94 — 8,243 ratings — published 1919
The Gulag Archipelago (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.35 — 14,843 ratings — published 1973
Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,932 ratings — published 1989
Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.17 — 425 ratings — published 1995
Kolyma Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.37 — 9,283 ratings — published 1966
And Quiet Flows the Don (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.12 — 13,690 ratings — published 1928
October: The Story of the Russian Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,118 ratings — published 2017
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.31 — 715,994 ratings — published 2016
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,858,181 ratings — published 1945
Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,389 ratings — published 1999
Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.03 — 71,113 ratings — published 1981
Journey into the Whirlwind (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,093 ratings — published 1967
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.39 — 9,963 ratings — published 2017
Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.03 — 5,019 ratings — published 2014
Hard to Be a God (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.11 — 19,983 ratings — published 1964
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,174,602 ratings — published 1866
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944 - 1956 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,579 ratings — published 2012
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.36 — 290,074 ratings — published 2011
Child 44 (Leo Demidov, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.11 — 92,590 ratings — published 2008
“A veces oigo una música... O una canción... Una voz de mujer... Y allí encuentro lo que he sentido. Algo semejante... En cambio, veo una película de guerra y sabe a mentira, leo un libro y lo mismo, mentira. No es... No es correcto. Comienzo a hablar y tampoco me sale. No es tan espantoso, ni tan bonito. ¿Sabe lo preciosos que resultan los amaneceres en la guerra? Antes de un combate... Los observas y estás segura: ese podría ser el último. La tierra es tan bella... Y el aire... Y el sol...”
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“The internat had taught her well: as soon as you want something, you lack it; and if you do get it, it can easily be taken away. But this lesson came at a cost—a dry unfeeling clump had formed in her chest, had grown with age. She wonders now: If she slit her skin open, would nothing but sawdust spill out?”
― Good Citizens Need Not Fear: Stories
― Good Citizens Need Not Fear: Stories
