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The Soviet Union (Советский Союз, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Союз Советских Социалистических Республик) abbreviated to USSR (СССР) was a socialist state on the Eurasian continent that existed between 1922 and 1991. A union of multiple subnational Soviet republics, its government and economy were highly centralized. The Soviet Union was a one-party state, governed by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital.

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Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
What's Cooking in the Kremlin: From Rasputin to Putin, How Russia Built an Empire with a Knife and Fork
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Your Presence Is Mandatory
Stalin's War: A New History of World War II
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Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books
The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance That Won the War
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World Enemy No. 1: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews
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The Death of Stalin
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Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
How Finland Survived Stalin: From Winter War to Cold War, 1939-1950
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God Save the USSR: Soviet Muslims and the Second World War
Red Closet: The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR
To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Over the years I have had much occasion to ponder this word, the intelligentsia. We are all very fond of including ourselves in it—but you see not all of us belong. In the Soviet Union this word has acquired a completely distorted meaning. They began to classify among the intelligentsia all those who don't work (and are afraid to) with their hands. All the Party, government, military, and trade union bureaucrats have been included. All bookkeepers and accountants—the mechanical slaves of Debit. ...more
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books III-IV

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
That bowl of soup—it was dearer than freedom, dearer than life itself, past, present, and future.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich

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