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Soviet Books
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The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.28 — 407,614 ratings — published 1967
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as soviet)
avg rating 3.98 — 123,251 ratings — published 1962
Roadside Picnic (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.13 — 83,642 ratings — published 1972
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.46 — 21,200 ratings — published 2013
Heart of a Dog (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.09 — 69,680 ratings — published 1925
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
by (shelved 25 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.33 — 33,951 ratings — published 1973
Moscow to the End of the Line (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.03 — 12,815 ratings — published 1969
Doctor Zhivago (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.01 — 101,755 ratings — published 1957
War's Unwomanly Face (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.51 — 37,943 ratings — published 1983
Life and Fate (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.46 — 14,992 ratings — published 1960
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.40 — 63,550 ratings — published 1997
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,250 ratings — published 1994
Cancer Ward (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.26 — 17,350 ratings — published 1967
Gulag: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,997 ratings — published 2003
The Twelve Chairs (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.39 — 24,252 ratings — published 1928
The First Circle (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.26 — 10,092 ratings — published 1968
Золотой теленок (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.43 — 9,166 ratings — published
The Foundation Pit (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as soviet)
avg rating 3.78 — 6,291 ratings — published 1930
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924 (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.37 — 5,770 ratings — published 1996
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.14 — 12,807 ratings — published 2003
Journey into the Whirlwind (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.40 — 4,707 ratings — published 1967
The Gulag Archipelago (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.35 — 13,254 ratings — published 1973
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.37 — 62,226 ratings — published 2019
The White Guard (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.00 — 15,878 ratings — published 1924
Red Cavalry (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as soviet)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,366 ratings — published 1926
Darkness at Noon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.12 — 33,169 ratings — published 1940
Everything was Forever, Until it was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.16 — 797 ratings — published 2005
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,068 ratings — published 2021
The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,054 ratings — published 2017
Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.30 — 11,806 ratings — published 1989
Понедельник начинается в субботу (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.15 — 17,269 ratings — published 1965
Ten Days that Shook the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet)
avg rating 3.94 — 7,633 ratings — published 1919
Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.04 — 69,344 ratings — published 1981
And Quiet Flows the Don (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,063 ratings — published 1928
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.39 — 9,018 ratings — published 2017
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.32 — 646,154 ratings — published 2016
Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.16 — 390 ratings — published 1995
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,042,194 ratings — published 1866
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.37 — 271,045 ratings — published 2011
October: The Story of the Russian Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as soviet)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,685 ratings — published 2017
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,416,731 ratings — published 1945
Red Plenty (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,425 ratings — published 2010
Child 44 (Leo Demidov, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.11 — 89,125 ratings — published 2008
Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as soviet)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,309 ratings — published 1999
Kolyma Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.36 — 8,368 ratings — published 1966
The Suitcase (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,927 ratings — published 1986
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.17 — 215,487 ratings — published 1864
The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,127 ratings — published 2007
“A cadre must know how to carry out instructions, must understand them, adopt them as his own. attach the greatest importance to them, and make them part of his very existence. Otherwise, politics loses its meaning and consists merely of gesticulating. Hence the decisive importance of the cadres department in the apparatus of the Central Committee. Every functionary must be closely studied, from every angle and in the most minute detail.”
― Collected Works. Volume 5
― Collected Works. Volume 5














