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Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,745 ratings — published 2021
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as ussr)
avg rating 3.98 — 128,989 ratings — published 1962
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 41 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.46 — 23,283 ratings — published 2013
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
by (shelved 39 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.33 — 36,152 ratings — published 1973
Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.36 — 602 ratings — published 2004
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.40 — 67,389 ratings — published 1997
Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend (ebook)
by (shelved 34 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,004 ratings — published 2008
War's Unwomanly Face (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.51 — 41,280 ratings — published 1983
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,778 ratings — published 2003
An Economic History of the USSR (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as ussr)
avg rating 3.94 — 167 ratings — published 1969
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.28 — 449,992 ratings — published 1925
Red Plenty (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,726 ratings — published 2010
Human Rights in the Soviet Union: Including Comparisons with the U.S.A. (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.43 — 79 ratings — published 1984
Ten Days that Shook the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as ussr)
avg rating 3.94 — 8,173 ratings — published 1919
October: The Story of the Russian Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as ussr)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,058 ratings — published 2017
Gulag: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.29 — 14,393 ratings — published 2003
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.36 — 71,229 ratings — published 2019
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924 (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.38 — 6,164 ratings — published 1996
History of the Russian Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,993 ratings — published 1931
The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.42 — 572 ratings — published 2018
Another View of Stalin (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.02 — 405 ratings — published 1994
The Soviet Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as ussr)
avg rating 3.90 — 549 ratings — published 2005
The Russian Revolution 1917-1932 (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as ussr)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,761 ratings — published 1982
Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as ussr)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,377 ratings — published 1999
Soviet Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.25 — 122 ratings — published 1937
Kolyma Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.36 — 8,841 ratings — published 1966
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.41 — 11,374 ratings — published 1997
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,528 ratings — published 1994
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944 - 1956 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,519 ratings — published 2012
Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,773 ratings — published 1989
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.39 — 9,873 ratings — published 2017
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.31 — 707,300 ratings — published 2016
The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,211 ratings — published 2007
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.39 — 20,787 ratings — published 2010
Life and Fate (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.46 — 16,558 ratings — published 1960
The Stalin era (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.14 — 123 ratings — published 1956
Moscow to the End of the Line (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.03 — 13,577 ratings — published 1969
Cancer Ward (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,011 ratings — published 1967
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.33 — 43,178 ratings — published 1998
The Soviets Expected It (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.31 — 65 ratings — published 2013
Heart of a Dog (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.08 — 79,428 ratings — published 1925
The Gulag Archipelago (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.35 — 14,734 ratings — published 1973
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.52 — 96,632 ratings — published 2018
Is the Red Flag Flying? The Political Economy of the Soviet Union Today (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.23 — 53 ratings — published 1979
The Revolution Betrayed (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,145 ratings — published 1937
Red Star Over the Third World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.21 — 973 ratings — published 2017
The Bolshevik Revolution 1917-23, Vol 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.22 — 250 ratings — published 1950
The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,047 ratings — published 2014
Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as ussr)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,943 ratings — published 2014
“As his later cool relationship with Moscow was to show, he was far too independent-minded to take orders from the doctrinaire Soviets. Even if they did try to recruit him, the attempt was doomed to fail. 'They are full of self-importance and convinced that only they hold the truth. There is no truth other than theirs,' he fumed bitterly in front of one of his lawyers years later. To the same lawyer he also said that he hated the Russian Communists. He made a point of reaffirming his independence from Moscow, a matter of national pride in his eyes. 'Unlike other parties, the Venezuelan Communist Party is not pledged to Moscow, although it does have privileged relations with the Soviet Union. Venezuelans are a proud people. There is a strong libertarian tradition in the country.'
Hans-Joachim Klein, Ilich's fellow traveller for almost six months in the mid-1970s, recalled his antipathy towards the Russian Communists: 'He didn't like them. He thought they were corrupt. He did not define himself as a Marxist, but rather as an international revolutionary, a bit like Che Guevara.' Klein dismissed out of hand the story that Ilich was a KGB agent: 'That's a joke. He was expelled from Lumumba University after he took part in a demonstration. They don't really like that over there.”
― Jackal: The Complete Story of the Legendary Terrorist, Carlos the Jackal
Hans-Joachim Klein, Ilich's fellow traveller for almost six months in the mid-1970s, recalled his antipathy towards the Russian Communists: 'He didn't like them. He thought they were corrupt. He did not define himself as a Marxist, but rather as an international revolutionary, a bit like Che Guevara.' Klein dismissed out of hand the story that Ilich was a KGB agent: 'That's a joke. He was expelled from Lumumba University after he took part in a demonstration. They don't really like that over there.”
― Jackal: The Complete Story of the Legendary Terrorist, Carlos the Jackal
“Ті останні дні Радянського Союзу були багато в чому особливими, ні на що не схожими. Економіка країни була у вільному падінні. Ставали можливими найбожевільніші угоди. На якийсь час PepsiCo перетворилася на одну з найбільших морських потуг у світі, коли домовилася, що за продані в СРСР пепсі їй заплатять 17 радянськими підводними човнами, крейсером, фрегатом і есмінцем. Цей флот продали на брухт, що спонукало голову PepsiCo пожартувати на адресу Білого дому: «Ми роззброюємо Радянський Союз швидше за вас».”
― The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
― The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
