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Matt’s favorite books

Assassinating Shakespeare by Thomas Goltz

Black Garden by Thomas de Waal

God's Playground by Norman Davies

A State of Nations by Ronald Grigor Suny

The Affirmative Action Empire by Terry Martin

The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997 by Piers Brendon

John A by Richard Gwyn

Georgia Diary by Thomas Goltz

Oil Empire by Alison Fleig Frank

The Boys of Winter by Wayne Coffey

The Third Reich in Power by Richard J. Evans

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Matt’s Bookshelves

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currently-reading‎ (3)
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history‎ (532)
europe‎ (236)
europe-history‎ (221)
soviet-union‎ (201)
hockey‎ (195)
sports‎ (178)
politics‎ (149)
hockey-history‎ (126)
canada‎ (121)

russian-history‎ (114)
nhl‎ (110)
russia‎ (107)
caucasus‎ (98)
history-of-canada‎ (91)
communism‎ (84)
nationalism‎ (84)
biography‎ (74)
georgia‎ (71)
stalin‎ (67)
second-world-war‎ (64)
sakartvelo‎ (63)

business-of-hockey‎ (60)
russian-empire‎ (59)
soviet-society‎ (57)
post-soviet‎ (55)
nazi‎ (53)
interwar‎ (52)
ukraine‎ (52)
central-asia‎ (49)
bolshevik‎ (48)
germany‎ (48)
poland‎ (47)
abkhazia‎ (44)

asia‎ (39)
soviet-nationality-policy‎ (36)
history-of-georgia‎ (34)
first-world-war‎ (32)
azerbaijan‎ (31)
holocaust‎ (31)
international-relations‎ (31)
armenia‎ (30)
russian-revolution‎ (30)
memoir‎ (29)
british-columbia‎ (28)
south-ossetia‎ (27)

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Matt is Currently Reading

Stalin's Peasants...

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Stalin's Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village After Collectivization

by Sheila Fitzpatrick

bookshelves: history, soviet-society, soviet-union, stalin, currently-reading

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The Maple Leaf Fo...

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The Maple Leaf Forever

by Brian McFarlane

bookshelves: currently-reading, nhl, nhl-team-history, hockey-history, hockey, toronto-maple-leafs, sports

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Nov 29, 2025 03:58PM

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Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia

by Tom Bissell

bookshelves: central-asia, currently-reading, uzbekistan

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2025 Reading Challenge

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2025 Reading Challenge

Matt has read 83 books of his goal of 80!

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Listopia Votes

Arctic Mirrors by Yuri Slezkine

Indigenous Siberia

16 books — 8 voters

The Dark Heart of Hitler's Europe by Martin Winstone

History Published in Year: 2014

18 books — 14 voters

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Favorite Genres

History, Non-fiction, Sports, european-history, Hockey, Caucasus, Sakartvelo, Russian History, Russian history, European history, Polish history, Ukrainian history, Soviet history, Hockey history, and Soviet Union

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