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The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World

by Karl Schlögel

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Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century

by Mark Mazower

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Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History

by Richard Thompson Ford

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“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
― Václav Havel

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“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

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“Russian novels don't teach you how to become successful.”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Czasy secondhand. Koniec czerwonego człowieka

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“No nostalgia is felt as keenly as nostalgia for things that never existed.”
― Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman

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“whatever problem you have with someone, project yourself into the other person and see it from their point of view.”
― Anderson Cooper, The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss

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