Soviet Union

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
Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921
The Shortest History of the Soviet Union
Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War
The Soviet Sisters
Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won the War
What's Cooking in the Kremlin: From Rasputin to Putin, How Russia Built an Empire with a Knife and Fork
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
The Watermark
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
Barbarossa: And the Bloodiest War in History
The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance That Won the War
Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Your Presence Is Mandatory
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
Gulag: A History
Ten Days that Shook the World
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956
The Master and Margarita
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
Child 44 (Leo Demidov, #1)
Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
A Gentleman in Moscow
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924
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Stalinist Russia
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George F. Kennan
Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy.
George F. Kennan

Володимир Шабля
– Independent farmers are arrested and deported somewhere to the Urals or Siberia. I fear we may be the next to be labeled ‘kulaks’. — Volodymyr Shablia, Stone. Book Two
Context note: During the forced collectivization in the USSR, millions of peasants were forcibly deported to remote regions such as Siberia and the Urals as part of state repression against on wealthy peasants (nicknamed "kulaks" by the Soviet authorities).
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