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Soviet Union Books
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 3.98 — 124,080 ratings — published 1962
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 37 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.46 — 21,550 ratings — published 2013
Gulag: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.28 — 13,229 ratings — published 2003
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.37 — 63,413 ratings — published 2019
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,212 ratings — published 2012
Child 44 (Leo Demidov, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.11 — 89,492 ratings — published 2008
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
by (shelved 29 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.33 — 34,308 ratings — published 1973
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.28 — 413,136 ratings — published 1967
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.39 — 9,151 ratings — published 2017
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.32 — 655,162 ratings — published 2016
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.40 — 64,091 ratings — published 1997
Ten Days that Shook the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 3.94 — 7,709 ratings — published 1919
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.15 — 12,935 ratings — published 2003
Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,679 ratings — published
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924 (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.37 — 5,851 ratings — published 1996
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.37 — 273,324 ratings — published 2011
The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,148 ratings — published 2007
Life and Fate (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.46 — 15,199 ratings — published 1960
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,188 ratings — published 2021
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.39 — 19,414 ratings — published 2010
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,467,138 ratings — published 1945
Red Plenty (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,476 ratings — published 2010
The State and Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,145 ratings — published 1917
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.33 — 40,775 ratings — published 1998
Darkness at Noon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.12 — 33,450 ratings — published 1940
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,293 ratings — published 1994
Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,324 ratings — published 1999
War's Unwomanly Face (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.51 — 38,388 ratings — published 1983
Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.39 — 513 ratings — published 2004
Lenin the Dictator (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,729 ratings — published 2017
Stalin: Waiting for Hitler 1929-1941 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,614 ratings — published 2017
Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.30 — 11,938 ratings — published 1989
Doctor Zhivago (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.01 — 102,247 ratings — published 1957
Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend (ebook)
by (shelved 15 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.36 — 856 ratings — published 2008
The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,923 ratings — published 2014
October: The Story of the Russian Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,748 ratings — published 2017
The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.15 — 890 ratings — published 1986
Kolyma Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.36 — 8,474 ratings — published 1966
The Gulag Archipelago (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.35 — 13,476 ratings — published 1973
The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.43 — 526 ratings — published 2018
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 — 86,350 ratings — published 2018
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.23 — 11,343 ratings — published 2018
The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,072 ratings — published 2017
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,712 ratings — published 2003
Breaking Stalin's Nose (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 3.84 — 10,012 ratings — published 2011
When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler (Modern War Studies)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,422 ratings — published 1995
The Diamond Eye (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.29 — 196,411 ratings — published 2022
Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.18 — 124 ratings — published 2003
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.26 — 10,070 ratings — published 1917
Stalingrad (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,688 ratings — published 1952
“Respectable opinion would never consider an assessment of the Reagan Doctrine or earlier exercises in terms of their actual human costs, and could not comprehend that such an assessment—which would yield a monstrous toll if accurately conducted on a global scale—might perhaps be a proper task in the United States. At the same level of integrity, disciplined Soviet intellectuals are horrified over real or alleged American crimes, but perceive their own only as benevolent intent gone awry, or errors of an earlier day, now overcome; the comparison is inexact and unfair, since Soviet intellectuals can plead fear as an excuse for their services to state violence.”
― The Culture of Terrorism
― The Culture of Terrorism
“It was quiet in the cell. Rubashov heard only the creaking of his steps on the tiles. Six and a half steps to the door, whence they must come to fetch him, six and a half steps to the window, behind which night was falling. Soon it would be over. But when he asked himself, For what actually are you dying? he found no answer.
It was a mistake in the system; perhaps it lay in the precept which until now he had held to be uncontestable, in whose name he had sacrificed others and was himself being sacrificed: in the precept, that the end justifies the means. It was this sentence which had killed the great fraternity of the Revolution and made them run amuck. What had he once written in his diary? "We have thrown overboard all conventions, our sole guiding principle is that of consequent logic; we are sailing without ethical ballast.”
― Darkness at Noon
It was a mistake in the system; perhaps it lay in the precept which until now he had held to be uncontestable, in whose name he had sacrificed others and was himself being sacrificed: in the precept, that the end justifies the means. It was this sentence which had killed the great fraternity of the Revolution and made them run amuck. What had he once written in his diary? "We have thrown overboard all conventions, our sole guiding principle is that of consequent logic; we are sailing without ethical ballast.”
― Darkness at Noon
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