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.

The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
The Shortest History of the Soviet Union
What's Cooking in the Kremlin: From Rasputin to Putin, How Russia Built an Empire with a Knife and Fork
Your Presence Is Mandatory
Stalin's War: A New History of World War II
Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921
Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
Red Closet: The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR
Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance That Won the War
The Soviet Sisters
The Watermark
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
Gulag: A History
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956
The Master and Margarita
Child 44 (Leo Demidov, #1)
Ten Days that Shook the World
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
A Gentleman in Moscow
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
Between Shades of Gray
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I believe profoundly that in the struggle against Communists and their organizations [...] we cannot and should not resort to the methods and forms employed by the Communists.
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