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Soviet Union Books
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 3.98 — 126,904 ratings — published 1962
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 41 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.46 — 22,548 ratings — published 2013
Gulag: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.29 — 14,085 ratings — published 2003
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.36 — 67,496 ratings — published 2019
Ten Days that Shook the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 3.94 — 8,023 ratings — published 1919
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
by (shelved 31 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.33 — 35,372 ratings — published 1973
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,392 ratings — published 2012
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.28 — 433,565 ratings — published 1967
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,374 ratings — published 2003
Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,828 ratings — published 2014
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.40 — 65,998 ratings — published 1997
Child 44 (Leo Demidov, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.11 — 90,892 ratings — published 2008
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.32 — 684,823 ratings — published 2016
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.39 — 9,598 ratings — published 2017
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924 (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.38 — 6,031 ratings — published 1996
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,504 ratings — published 2021
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.36 — 281,976 ratings — published 2011
The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,167 ratings — published 2007
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.39 — 20,240 ratings — published 2010
Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,354 ratings — published 1999
Life and Fate (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.46 — 15,996 ratings — published 1960
Red Plenty (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,645 ratings — published 2010
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,667,187 ratings — published 1945
Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.38 — 571 ratings — published 2004
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.33 — 42,170 ratings — published 1998
The State and Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.27 — 19,418 ratings — published 1917
Stalin: Waiting for Hitler 1929-1941 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,717 ratings — published 2017
War's Unwomanly Face (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.51 — 40,098 ratings — published 1983
Lenin the Dictator (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,842 ratings — published 2017
Darkness at Noon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.12 — 34,413 ratings — published 1940
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,431 ratings — published 1994
Doctor Zhivago (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.01 — 104,230 ratings — published 1957
October: The Story of the Russian Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,937 ratings — published 2017
The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,995 ratings — published 2014
Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend (ebook)
by (shelved 14 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.36 — 944 ratings — published 2008
The Russian Revolution 1917-1932 (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,694 ratings — published 1982
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.23 — 11,764 ratings — published 2018
Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,450 ratings — published 1989
Young Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 3.97 — 7,819 ratings — published 2007
Kolyma Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.36 — 8,722 ratings — published 1966
Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.18 — 128 ratings — published 2003
The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,101 ratings — published 2017
An Economic History of the USSR (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 3.94 — 163 ratings — published 1969
When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler (Modern War Studies)
by (shelved 13 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,473 ratings — published 1995
Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.12 — 877 ratings — published 2005
The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.16 — 893 ratings — published 1986
The Gulag Archipelago (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.35 — 14,379 ratings — published 1973
The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.44 — 557 ratings — published 2018
Stalingrad (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,030 ratings — published 1952
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.52 — 92,175 ratings — published 2018
“Now there is a modern-day anthropology* for the criminal type: a great number of so-called 'born criminals' have pale faces, large cheekbones, a coarse lower jaw, and deeply shining eyes. How can one not recall this when one thinks of Lenin and thousands like him? How many pale faces, high cheekbones and strikingly asymmetric features mark the soldiers of the Red Army and, generally speaking, also of the common Russian people - how many of them, these savage types, have Mongolian atavism directly in their blood! They are all from Murom, the white-eyed Chud. And it is precisely these individuals, these very Russichi, who gave us so many 'daring pirates', so many vagabonds, escapees, scoundrels and tramps - it is precisely these people whom we have recruited for the glory, pride and hope of the Russian social revolution. So why should we feign surprise at the results?”
― Cursed Days: Diary of a Revolution
― Cursed Days: Diary of a Revolution
“From the moment I bought my ticket, I had a premonition I wasn’t returning to New York anytime soon.
You Know, this happens a lot to Russians. The Soviet Union is gone, and the borders are as free and passable as they’ve ever been. And yet, when a Russian moves between the two universes, this feeling of finality persists, the logical impossibility of a place like Russia existing alongside the civilized world, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, sharing the same atmosphere with, say, Vladivostok. It was like those mathematical concepts I could never understand in high school: if, then. If Russia exists, then the West is a mirage; conversely, if Russia does not exist, then and only then is the West real and tangible. No wonder young people talk about “going beyond the cordon” when they talk of emigrating, as if Russia were ringed by a vast cordon sanitaire. Either you stay in the leper colony or you get out into the wider world and maybe try to spread your disease to others.”
― Absurdistan
You Know, this happens a lot to Russians. The Soviet Union is gone, and the borders are as free and passable as they’ve ever been. And yet, when a Russian moves between the two universes, this feeling of finality persists, the logical impossibility of a place like Russia existing alongside the civilized world, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, sharing the same atmosphere with, say, Vladivostok. It was like those mathematical concepts I could never understand in high school: if, then. If Russia exists, then the West is a mirage; conversely, if Russia does not exist, then and only then is the West real and tangible. No wonder young people talk about “going beyond the cordon” when they talk of emigrating, as if Russia were ringed by a vast cordon sanitaire. Either you stay in the leper colony or you get out into the wider world and maybe try to spread your disease to others.”
― Absurdistan
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