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The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.28 — 450,959 ratings — published 1925
The Tsar of Love and Techno (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.27 — 18,654 ratings — published 2015
The Betrayal (The Siege #2)
by (shelved 4 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,957 ratings — published 2010
Gulag: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.29 — 14,405 ratings — published 2003
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
by (shelved 4 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.33 — 36,194 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 — 5,533 ratings — published 1994
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 3.98 — 129,105 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 — 2,048 ratings — published 2014
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.39 — 9,886 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 — 148 ratings — published 2001
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944 - 1956 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,534 ratings — published 2012
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,159,803 ratings — published 1866
The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.28 — 100,837 ratings — published 2000
Child 44 (Leo Demidov, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.11 — 92,010 ratings — published 2008
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,799 ratings — published 2003
Life and Fate (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.46 — 16,593 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 — 4,066 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
The Gulag Archipelago (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.35 — 14,746 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 — 287 ratings — published 2019
Stalin in Power: The Russian Revolution From Above, 1928-1941 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.00 — 267 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 — 12,244 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 — 125 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 — 12,209 ratings — published 2014
Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,537 ratings — published 2001
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.46 — 23,320 ratings — published 2013
Dead Souls (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 3.97 — 100,649 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 4.52 — 96,940 ratings — published 2018
The State and Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.27 — 20,447 ratings — published 1917
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.19 — 7,209 ratings — published 2017
The Noise of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 3.75 — 27,612 ratings — published 2016
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.31 — 708,500 ratings — published 2016
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.35 — 271,044 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 — 1,380 ratings — published 1999
The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,298 ratings — published 2010
Everything Flows (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,811 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 — 67,447 ratings — published 1997
The Russian Revolution 1917-1932 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,765 ratings — published 1982
The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,955 ratings — published 1969
Ice Trilogy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,023 ratings — published 2006
We (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 3.87 — 119,776 ratings — published 1924
The Soviet Strategic Offensive in Manchuria, 1945: 'August Storm' (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.30 — 50 ratings — published 1983
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.40 — 415,610 ratings — published 1879
Memories of the Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,317 ratings — published 1929
The White Guard (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.00 — 16,739 ratings — published 1924
Shadow Pass (Inspector Pekkala, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,055 ratings — published 2011
The Battle of Kursk (Modern War Studies)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.08 — 883 ratings — published 1999
The First Circle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.26 — 10,399 ratings — published 1968
Kolyma Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.36 — 8,846 ratings — published 1966
Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as soviet-russia)
avg rating 4.12 — 944 ratings — published 2005
“This investigation has shown that many of the widespread interpretations about the Russian Revolution have either no basis in fact or, at best, are ideologically motivated exaggerations. We could find no evidence for example that there was anything in the DNA of Bolshevism that would lead it to consciously and deliberately undermine proletarian power from the start. On the contrary they did all they could to encourage it for the first 6 months. Such accusations of course are made by those who already know the story ended badly, but to leave out the positive achievements of those early months is a distortion which denies the achievements of the working class in Russia.”
― Russia: Revolution and Counter-Revolution, 1905-1924. A View from the Communist Left
― Russia: Revolution and Counter-Revolution, 1905-1924. A View from the Communist Left
“If the first thing you see each and every morning is the eyes of your cellmate who has gone insane, how then shall you save yourself during the coming day? Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, whose brilliant career in astronomy was interrupted by his arrest, saved himself only by thinking of the eternal and infinite: of the order of the Universe - and of its Supreme Spirit; of the stars; of their internal state; and what Time and the passing of Time really are.
And in this way he began to discover a new field in physics. And only in this way did he succeed in surviving in the Dmitrovsk Prison. But his line of mental exploration was blocked by forgotten figures. He could not build any further - he had to have a lot of figures. Now just where could he get them in his solitary-confinement cell with its overnight kerosene lamp, a cell into which not even a little bird could enter? And the scientist prayed: "Please, God! I have done everything I could. Please help me! Please help me continue!"
At this time he was entitled to receive one book every ten days (by then he was alone in the cell). In the meager prison library were several different editions of Demyan Bedny's Red Concert , which kept coming around to each cell again and again. Half an hour passed after his prayer; they came to exchange his book; and as usual, without asking anything at all, they pushed a book at him. It was entitled A Course in Astrophysics! Where had it come from? He simply could not imagine such a book in the prison library. Aware of the brief duration of this coincidence, Kozyrev threw himself on it and began to memorize everything he needed immediately, and everything he might need later on. In all, just two days had passed, and he had eight days left in which to keep his book, when there was an unscheduled inspection by the chief of the prison. His eagle eye noticed immediately. "But you are an astronomer?" Yes." "Take this book away from him!" But its mystical arrival had opened the way for his further work, which he then continued in the camp in Norilsk.”
― The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books III-IV
And in this way he began to discover a new field in physics. And only in this way did he succeed in surviving in the Dmitrovsk Prison. But his line of mental exploration was blocked by forgotten figures. He could not build any further - he had to have a lot of figures. Now just where could he get them in his solitary-confinement cell with its overnight kerosene lamp, a cell into which not even a little bird could enter? And the scientist prayed: "Please, God! I have done everything I could. Please help me! Please help me continue!"
At this time he was entitled to receive one book every ten days (by then he was alone in the cell). In the meager prison library were several different editions of Demyan Bedny's Red Concert , which kept coming around to each cell again and again. Half an hour passed after his prayer; they came to exchange his book; and as usual, without asking anything at all, they pushed a book at him. It was entitled A Course in Astrophysics! Where had it come from? He simply could not imagine such a book in the prison library. Aware of the brief duration of this coincidence, Kozyrev threw himself on it and began to memorize everything he needed immediately, and everything he might need later on. In all, just two days had passed, and he had eight days left in which to keep his book, when there was an unscheduled inspection by the chief of the prison. His eagle eye noticed immediately. "But you are an astronomer?" Yes." "Take this book away from him!" But its mystical arrival had opened the way for his further work, which he then continued in the camp in Norilsk.”
― The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books III-IV