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Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,840 ratings — published 2014
Gulag: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 14,126 ratings — published 2003
The Russian Revolution 1917-1932 (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,703 ratings — published 1982
Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,358 ratings — published 1999
The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 210 ratings — published 1999
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924 (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.38 — 6,043 ratings — published 1996
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,437 ratings — published 2003
The Shortest History of the Soviet Union (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,676 ratings — published 2022
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,532 ratings — published 2021
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 35,503 ratings — published 1973
Stalin: Waiting for Hitler 1929-1941 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,728 ratings — published 2017
Khrushchev Lied (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 171 ratings — published 2011
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.46 — 22,639 ratings — published 2013
Ten Days that Shook the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 8,041 ratings — published 1919
Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.38 — 578 ratings — published 2004
Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 409 ratings — published 1995
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,446 ratings — published 1994
Another View of Stalin (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 402 ratings — published 1994
October: The Story of the Russian Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,955 ratings — published 2017
Red Plenty (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,652 ratings — published 2010
Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 884 ratings — published 2005
Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 155 ratings — published 1988
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.36 — 67,969 ratings — published 2019
The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 471 ratings — published 1997
The Soviet Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 540 ratings — published 2005
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 20,331 ratings — published 2010
Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,503 ratings — published 2001
The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 894 ratings — published 1986
The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 386 ratings — published 2014
The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, Volume 5: The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture 1931-1933 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.61 — 23 ratings — published 2004
Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend (ebook)
by (shelved 8 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.36 — 952 ratings — published 2008
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 9,637 ratings — published 2017
The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,104 ratings — published 2017
The Great Terror: A Reassessment (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,216 ratings — published 1968
Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 128 ratings — published 2003
Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 299 ratings — published 1973
The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,173 ratings — published 2007
Fraud, Famine and Fascism: The Ukrainian Genocide Myth from Hitler to Harvard (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 3.69 — 213 ratings — published 1987
Human Rights in the Soviet Union: Including Comparisons with the U.S.A. (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.43 — 77 ratings — published 1984
Origins of the Great Purges: The Soviet Communist Party Reconsidered, 1933–1938 (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, Series Number 43) (Volume 0)
by (shelved 7 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 64 ratings — published 1985
The Revolution Betrayed (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,101 ratings — published 1937
Lenin: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,857 ratings — published 2000
The Bolsheviks Come to Power: The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.48 — 246 ratings — published 1976
Stalin (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,781 ratings — published 2004
Blood Lies (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 90 ratings — published 2014
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 11,825 ratings — published 2018
Soviet Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 119 ratings — published 1937
Is the Red Flag Flying? The Political Economy of the Soviet Union Today (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 53 ratings — published 1979
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,410 ratings — published 2012
A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 712 ratings — published 2007
“Red Army soldier Danylo could only sleep while moving – in transport – and even that could hardly be called sleep at all.”
― Камень. Биографический роман. Книга вторая. Непростые дороги в ад: Выживание в условиях насилия
― Камень. Биографический роман. Книга вторая. Непростые дороги в ад: Выживание в условиях насилия
“The prisoners, feral and maddened by thirst, tried to snatch discarded watermelon rinds lying along the road or to drink from muddy puddles nearby. At first, the NKVD guards simply shot those who dared rush toward the water. But soon the situation slipped out of control.
When a small puddle flashed in the sun, all the prisoners surged toward this miserable source of water, ignoring fear of death, desperate shouts, and gunfire from the guards. They fought wildly, beating one another for the right to press their lips to the life-giving moisture.
Peter reached the puddle among the first, but several men were already lying in it, gulping greedily and blocking others. In a fit of rage, Peter grabbed one of them by the clothes, flung him several meters aside, collapsed into his place — and fused his mouth to the water. He drank frantically. For the first few minutes, he felt nothing but a dizzying mix of rapture, pleasure, and joy as his thirst was quenched. Only when mud replaced water in his mouth did awareness of what was happening slowly begin to return.
— Volodymyr Shablia, Stone. Book One
Context note:
During a prisoner transport in Stalin’s USSR in the early years of World War II, extreme thirst drove Gulag inmates to the edge of madness. Even filthy puddles became objects of violent struggle, exposing how wartime Soviet repression reduced human survival to pure instinct.”
― Камінь. Біографічний роман. Книга перша. Перші кроки до світла та назад: Дитинство та занурення в ГУЛАГ.
When a small puddle flashed in the sun, all the prisoners surged toward this miserable source of water, ignoring fear of death, desperate shouts, and gunfire from the guards. They fought wildly, beating one another for the right to press their lips to the life-giving moisture.
Peter reached the puddle among the first, but several men were already lying in it, gulping greedily and blocking others. In a fit of rage, Peter grabbed one of them by the clothes, flung him several meters aside, collapsed into his place — and fused his mouth to the water. He drank frantically. For the first few minutes, he felt nothing but a dizzying mix of rapture, pleasure, and joy as his thirst was quenched. Only when mud replaced water in his mouth did awareness of what was happening slowly begin to return.
— Volodymyr Shablia, Stone. Book One
Context note:
During a prisoner transport in Stalin’s USSR in the early years of World War II, extreme thirst drove Gulag inmates to the edge of madness. Even filthy puddles became objects of violent struggle, exposing how wartime Soviet repression reduced human survival to pure instinct.”
― Камінь. Біографічний роман. Книга перша. Перші кроки до світла та назад: Дитинство та занурення в ГУЛАГ.
