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Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,911 ratings — published 2014
Gulag: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 14,332 ratings — published 2003
The Russian Revolution 1917-1932 (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,745 ratings — published 1982
Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,367 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 4.01 — 213 ratings — published 1999
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924 (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.38 — 6,129 ratings — published 1996
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,510 ratings — published 1994
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,664 ratings — published 2003
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,701 ratings — published 2021
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 36,007 ratings — published 1973
Stalin: Waiting for Hitler 1929-1941 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,770 ratings — published 2017
Khrushchev Lied (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 179 ratings — published 2011
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.46 — 23,108 ratings — published 2013
Ten Days that Shook the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 8,136 ratings — published 1919
Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.36 — 596 ratings — published 2004
The Shortest History of the Soviet Union (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,773 ratings — published 2022
Another View of Stalin (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 405 ratings — published 1994
October: The Story of the Russian Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,036 ratings — published 2017
The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 478 ratings — published 1997
Red Plenty (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,697 ratings — published 2010
The Soviet Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 545 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
Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 418 ratings — published 1995
Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,528 ratings — published 2001
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 — 70,322 ratings — published 2019
Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 923 ratings — published 2005
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 20,684 ratings — published 2010
The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 893 ratings — published 1986
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 — 991 ratings — published 2008
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 9,806 ratings — published 2017
The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,117 ratings — published 2017
The Great Terror: A Reassessment (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,226 ratings — published 1968
Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 132 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 — 303 ratings — published 1973
The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,203 ratings — published 2007
The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 400 ratings — published 2014
Fraud, Famine and Fascism: The Ukrainian Genocide Myth from Hitler to Harvard (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 3.68 — 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 — 79 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 3.98 — 65 ratings — published 1985
The Revolution Betrayed (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,135 ratings — published 1937
The Bolsheviks Come to Power: The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.50 — 258 ratings — published 1976
Stalin (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,798 ratings — published 2004
Stalin's War: A New History of World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,878 ratings — published 2021
Blood Lies (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.03 — 91 ratings — published 2014
An Economic History of the USSR (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 167 ratings — published 1969
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,047 ratings — published 2018
Soviet Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as soviet-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 122 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 — 7,484 ratings — published 2012
“When his fingers touched the bread during the inspection of his duffel bag, and he inhaled its warm rye scent, Peeter could no longer restrain himself. He broke off a small piece, placed it in his mouth, and chewed for a long time, trying – if only briefly – to deceive the constant hunger. For a moment, it worked: he swallowed the paste-like pap, felt a rush of euphoria, and quietly fell asleep.
— Volodymyr Shablia, Stone. Book Two
Context note: During prisoner transports to the Gulag, hunger was constant. Even a single bite of bread could bring brief relief – and an almost euphoric sense of escape from terrible reality.”
― Камень. Биографический роман. Книга вторая. Непростые дороги в ад: Выживание в условиях насилия
— Volodymyr Shablia, Stone. Book Two
Context note: During prisoner transports to the Gulag, hunger was constant. Even a single bite of bread could bring brief relief – and an almost euphoric sense of escape from terrible reality.”
― Камень. Биографический роман. Книга вторая. Непростые дороги в ад: Выживание в условиях насилия
“Krushchev himself is 'revealed' not as an honest communist but instead as a political leader seeking personal advantage while hiding behind an official persona of idealism and probity, a type familiar in capitalist countries. Taking into account his murder of Beria and the men executed as 'Beria's gang' in 1953, he seems worse still - a political thug. Krushchev was guilty IN REALITY of the kinds of crimes he DELIBERATELY AND FALSELY accused Stalin of in the 'Secret Speech'.”
― Khrushchev Lied
― Khrushchev Lied
