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The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.27 — 456,974 ratings — published 1967
The Tsar of Love and Techno (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.27 — 18,730 ratings — published 2015
The Betrayal (The Siege #2)
by (shelved 4 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,968 ratings — published 2010
Gulag: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.29 — 14,513 ratings — published 2003
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
by (shelved 4 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.33 — 36,484 ratings — published 1973
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,566 ratings — published 1994
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 3.98 — 129,871 ratings — published 1962
The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,067 ratings — published 2014
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.39 — 9,964 ratings — published 2017
The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939 (The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture)
by (shelved 3 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.11 — 149 ratings — published 2001
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944 - 1956 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,580 ratings — published 2012
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,174,845 ratings — published 1866
The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.28 — 101,771 ratings — published 2000
Child 44 (Leo Demidov, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.11 — 92,595 ratings — published 2008
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,996 ratings — published 2003
Life and Fate (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.46 — 16,783 ratings — published 1960
Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,085 ratings — published 2005
Russia in the Era of NEP: Explorations in Soviet Society and Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 3.84 — 25 ratings — published 1991
Stalin: Passage to Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.21 — 228 ratings — published 2020
The Gulag Archipelago (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.35 — 14,847 ratings — published 1973
In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 3.68 — 288 ratings — published 2019
Stalin in Power: The Russian Revolution From Above, 1928-1941 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.01 — 268 ratings — published 1990
The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 3.82 — 12,325 ratings — published 2010
Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union (Culture and Society after Socialism)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.03 — 124 ratings — published 2000
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 3.96 — 12,278 ratings — published 2014
Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,547 ratings — published 2001
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.45 — 23,590 ratings — published 2013
Dead Souls (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 3.97 — 101,488 ratings — published 1842
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.51 — 98,833 ratings — published 2018
The State and Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.28 — 20,756 ratings — published 1917
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.19 — 7,238 ratings — published 2017
The Noise of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 3.75 — 27,761 ratings — published 2016
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.31 — 716,128 ratings — published 2016
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.35 — 274,130 ratings — published 2016
Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,389 ratings — published 1999
The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,338 ratings — published 2010
Everything Flows (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,874 ratings — published 1972
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.40 — 67,878 ratings — published 1997
The Russian Revolution 1917-1932 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,790 ratings — published 1982
The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,975 ratings — published 1969
Ice Trilogy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,025 ratings — published 2006
We (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 3.87 — 121,093 ratings — published 1924
The Soviet Strategic Offensive in Manchuria, 1945: 'August Storm' (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.27 — 52 ratings — published 1983
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.40 — 421,467 ratings — published 1879
Memories of the Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,328 ratings — published 1929
The White Guard (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.00 — 16,861 ratings — published 1924
Shadow Pass (Inspector Pekkala, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,059 ratings — published 2011
The Battle of Kursk (Modern War Studies)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.08 — 885 ratings — published 1999
The First Circle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.26 — 10,435 ratings — published 1968
Kolyma Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.37 — 9,286 ratings — published 1966
“Two Leningrad women were summoned to the police station. Had they been at a party with some men? Yes. Had sexual intercourse taken place? (This had already been established with the aid of a reliable informer.) Er—yes. Right, then, which is it: did you take part in the sexual act voluntarily or against your will? If voluntarily, we shall have to regard you as prostitutes, you will hand over your passports and get out of Leningrad in forty-eight hours. If it was against your will, you must bring a charge of rape! The women were not a bit anxious to leave Leningrad! So the men got twelve years each.”
― The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books V-VII
― The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books V-VII
“Events specially staged to demonstrate the reality of that which doesn’t exist stand out in the particular detail in which they are described. No one really knows, for example, whether the harvests reported in Stalin’s or Brezhnev’s Russia were ever actually reaped, but the fact that the number of tilled hectares or tons of milled grain was always reported down to the tenth of a percent gave these simulacra the character of hyperreality. [...] In this sense, the ideology was accurate—it was describing itself. And any reality that differed from the ideology simply ceased to exist—it was replaced by hyperreality, which trumpeted its existence by newspaper and loudspeaker and was much more tangible and reliable than anything else. In the Soviet land, “fairy tale became fact,” as in that American paragon of hyperreality, Disneyland, where reality itself is designed as a “land of imagination.”
― After the Future
― After the Future