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Soviet Union Books
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 3.98 — 124,904 ratings — published 1962
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.46 — 21,856 ratings — published 2013
Gulag: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.28 — 13,582 ratings — published 2003
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.37 — 64,580 ratings — published 2019
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
by (shelved 31 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.33 — 34,628 ratings — published 1973
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,280 ratings — published 2012
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.28 — 418,759 ratings — published 1967
Child 44 (Leo Demidov, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.11 — 89,841 ratings — published 2008
Ten Days that Shook the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 3.94 — 7,807 ratings — published 1919
Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,722 ratings — published 2014
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.32 — 664,324 ratings — published 2016
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.40 — 64,655 ratings — published 1997
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.39 — 9,283 ratings — published 2017
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,070 ratings — published 2003
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.37 — 275,991 ratings — published 2011
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924 (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.37 — 5,920 ratings — published 1996
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,302 ratings — published 2021
The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,168 ratings — published 2007
Life and Fate (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.46 — 15,393 ratings — published 1960
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.39 — 19,694 ratings — published 2010
Red Plenty (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,519 ratings — published 2010
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,532,745 ratings — published 1945
Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,330 ratings — published 1999
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.33 — 41,207 ratings — published 1998
Darkness at Noon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.12 — 33,716 ratings — published 1940
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,332 ratings — published 1994
The State and Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,522 ratings — published 1917
War's Unwomanly Face (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.51 — 38,912 ratings — published 1983
Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,071 ratings — published 1989
Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.38 — 528 ratings — published 2004
Lenin the Dictator (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,766 ratings — published 2017
Stalin: Waiting for Hitler 1929-1941 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,646 ratings — published 2017
Doctor Zhivago (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.01 — 102,834 ratings — published 1957
The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,948 ratings — published 2014
Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend (ebook)
by (shelved 14 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.37 — 884 ratings — published 2008
October: The Story of the Russian Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,816 ratings — published 2017
The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.15 — 895 ratings — published 1986
Kolyma Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.36 — 8,568 ratings — published 1966
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.23 — 11,478 ratings — published 2018
The Gulag Archipelago (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.35 — 13,846 ratings — published 1973
The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.43 — 542 ratings — published 2018
Stalingrad (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,778 ratings — published 1952
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.52 — 87,904 ratings — published 2018
The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,082 ratings — published 2017
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,716 ratings — published 2003
Breaking Stalin's Nose (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 3.84 — 10,062 ratings — published 2011
When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler (Modern War Studies)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,432 ratings — published 1995
A Mountain of Crumbs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 3.78 — 2,987 ratings — published 2009
The Diamond Eye (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.29 — 201,730 ratings — published 2022
The Russian Revolution 1917-1932 (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,619 ratings — published 1982
“The Soviets, at least some of them, believed in what they were doing. After all, they did it themselves and recorded what they did, in clear language, in official documents, filed in orderly archives. They could associate themselves with their deeds, because true responsibility rested with the communist party. The Nazis used grand phrases of racial superiority, and Himmler spoke of the moral sublimity involved in killing others for the sake of the race. But when the time came, Germans acted without plans and without precision, and with no sense of responsibility. In the Nazi worldview, what happened was simply what happened, the stronger should win; but nothing was certain, and certainly not the relationship between past, present and future. The Soviets believed that History was on their side and acted accordingly. The Nazis were afraid of everything except the disorder they themselves created. The systems and the mentalities were different, profoundly and interestingly so.”
― Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
― Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
“Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which was the most Communist (and in the rather orthodox sense) of the Palestinian formations. I remember Edward once surprising me by saying, and apropos of nothing: 'Do you know something I have never done in my political career? I have never publicly criticized the Soviet Union. It’s not that I terribly sympathize with them or anything—it's just that the Soviets have never done anything to harm me, or us.' At the time I thought this a rather naïve statement, even perhaps a slightly contemptible one, but by then I had been in parts of the Middle East where it could come as a blessed relief to meet a consecrated Moscow-line atheist-dogmatist, if only for the comparatively rational humanism that he evinced amid so much religious barking and mania. It was only later to occur to me that Edward's pronounced dislike of George Orwell was something to which I ought to have paid more attention.”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
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