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The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.27 — 456,882 ratings — published 1967
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as soviet)
avg rating 3.98 — 129,859 ratings — published 1962
Roadside Picnic (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.11 — 97,253 ratings — published 1972
Heart of a Dog (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.07 — 80,647 ratings — published 1925
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
by (shelved 30 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.33 — 36,480 ratings — published 1973
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.45 — 23,585 ratings — published 2013
Doctor Zhivago (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.01 — 106,088 ratings — published 1957
Moscow to the End of the Line (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.03 — 13,683 ratings — published 1969
War's Unwomanly Face (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.51 — 41,695 ratings — published 1983
Life and Fate (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.46 — 16,779 ratings — published 1960
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,563 ratings — published 1994
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.40 — 67,872 ratings — published 1997
Gulag: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.29 — 14,510 ratings — published 2003
The First Circle (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.26 — 10,433 ratings — published 1968
The Twelve Chairs (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.39 — 25,066 ratings — published 1928
The Foundation Pit (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as soviet)
avg rating 3.79 — 6,773 ratings — published 1930
Cancer Ward (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,108 ratings — published 1967
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,818 ratings — published 2021
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924 (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.38 — 6,227 ratings — published 1996
Золотой теленок (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.43 — 9,484 ratings — published 1931
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,993 ratings — published 2003
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.36 — 72,776 ratings — published 2019
The White Guard (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.00 — 16,856 ratings — published 1924
Darkness at Noon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.12 — 35,367 ratings — published 1940
Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.12 — 967 ratings — published 2005
The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,133 ratings — published 2017
Понедельник начинается в субботу (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.13 — 18,457 ratings — published 1965
Red Plenty (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,763 ratings — published 2010
Ten Days that Shook the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as soviet)
avg rating 3.94 — 8,243 ratings — published 1919
The Gulag Archipelago (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.35 — 14,843 ratings — published 1973
Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,932 ratings — published 1989
Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.17 — 425 ratings — published 1995
Kolyma Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.37 — 9,283 ratings — published 1966
And Quiet Flows the Don (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.12 — 13,690 ratings — published 1928
October: The Story of the Russian Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,118 ratings — published 2017
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.31 — 715,994 ratings — published 2016
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,858,181 ratings — published 1945
Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,389 ratings — published 1999
Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.03 — 71,113 ratings — published 1981
Journey into the Whirlwind (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,094 ratings — published 1967
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.39 — 9,963 ratings — published 2017
Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.03 — 5,019 ratings — published 2014
Hard to Be a God (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.11 — 19,983 ratings — published 1964
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,174,616 ratings — published 1866
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944 - 1956 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,579 ratings — published 2012
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.36 — 290,074 ratings — published 2011
Child 44 (Leo Demidov, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as soviet)
avg rating 4.11 — 92,591 ratings — published 2008
“Here in the Settlement of the Pale, life was hard, but in times of real trouble, Leah thought it was always worse for the Jews.”
― Sown in Tears: A Historical Novel of Love and Struggle
― Sown in Tears: A Historical Novel of Love and Struggle
“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















