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Soviet Union Books
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 3.98 — 127,610 ratings — published 1962
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 43 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.46 — 22,785 ratings — published 2013
Gulag: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.29 — 14,189 ratings — published 2003
Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,870 ratings — published 2014
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.36 — 68,698 ratings — published 2019
Ten Days that Shook the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 3.94 — 8,081 ratings — published 1919
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.28 — 438,579 ratings — published 1967
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
by (shelved 31 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.33 — 35,686 ratings — published 1973
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,436 ratings — published 2012
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.40 — 66,492 ratings — published 1997
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,525 ratings — published 2003
Child 44 (Leo Demidov, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.11 — 91,298 ratings — published 2008
A Gentleman in Moscow (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.31 — 691,452 ratings — published 2016
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,602 ratings — published 2021
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.39 — 9,706 ratings — published 2017
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924 (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.38 — 6,076 ratings — published 1996
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.36 — 284,051 ratings — published 2011
The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,190 ratings — published 2007
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.39 — 20,436 ratings — published 2010
Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,363 ratings — published 1999
Life and Fate (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.46 — 16,149 ratings — published 1960
Red Plenty (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,665 ratings — published 2010
Stalin: Waiting for Hitler 1929-1941 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,738 ratings — published 2017
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,713,699 ratings — published 1945
War's Unwomanly Face (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.51 — 40,504 ratings — published 1983
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.33 — 42,513 ratings — published 1998
The State and Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.27 — 19,753 ratings — published 1917
Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.37 — 583 ratings — published 2004
Darkness at Noon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.12 — 34,647 ratings — published 1940
Lenin the Dictator (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,868 ratings — published 2017
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.26 — 5,465 ratings — published 1994
Doctor Zhivago (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.01 — 104,670 ratings — published 1957
October: The Story of the Russian Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,984 ratings — published 2017
Kolyma Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.36 — 8,757 ratings — published 1966
Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend (ebook)
by (shelved 15 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.36 — 962 ratings — published 2008
The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,015 ratings — published 2014
The Russian Revolution 1917-1932 (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,724 ratings — published 1982
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.23 — 11,917 ratings — published 2018
Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,564 ratings — published 1989
Young Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 3.97 — 7,857 ratings — published 2007
Farm to Factory: A Reinterpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.18 — 130 ratings — published 2003
The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,105 ratings — published 2017
An Economic History of the USSR (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 3.95 — 165 ratings — published 1969
When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler (Modern War Studies)
by (shelved 13 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,485 ratings — published 1995
Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.13 — 900 ratings — published 2005
Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000 (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,510 ratings — published 2001
The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.16 — 894 ratings — published 1986
The Gulag Archipelago (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.35 — 14,512 ratings — published 1973
The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.42 — 565 ratings — published 2018
Stalingrad (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as soviet-union)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,087 ratings — published 1952
“Somewhere nearby, artillery thundered. Vast fields — flat as a table, without a single tree — turned any moving figure into an easy target against the monotonous landscape, drawing German pilots toward whatever appeared below.
Twice already, the exhausted and terrified prisoners were strafed by Junkers aircraft returning from their missions, deciding to use up their remaining ammunition. At the command of the group leader — a State Security lieutenant — everyone scattered in all directions. Yet despite this, nearly twenty people, including soldiers, were killed by the bullets of the German vultures.
Roughly the same number were executed by the guards themselves. Anyone seriously wounded, anyone unable to keep walking, was shot on the spot.
— Volodymyr Shablia, Stone. Book One
Context note:
During the first weeks of the German–Soviet War in 1941, prisoners and soldiers are driven across the open steppe. Caught between German air attacks and Soviet security forces, the weak and wounded are systematically eliminated. The scene exposes the brutal logic of total war on the Eastern Front.”
― Камень. Биографический роман: Часть первая. Первые шаги к свету и обратно
Twice already, the exhausted and terrified prisoners were strafed by Junkers aircraft returning from their missions, deciding to use up their remaining ammunition. At the command of the group leader — a State Security lieutenant — everyone scattered in all directions. Yet despite this, nearly twenty people, including soldiers, were killed by the bullets of the German vultures.
Roughly the same number were executed by the guards themselves. Anyone seriously wounded, anyone unable to keep walking, was shot on the spot.
— Volodymyr Shablia, Stone. Book One
Context note:
During the first weeks of the German–Soviet War in 1941, prisoners and soldiers are driven across the open steppe. Caught between German air attacks and Soviet security forces, the weak and wounded are systematically eliminated. The scene exposes the brutal logic of total war on the Eastern Front.”
― Камень. Биографический роман: Часть первая. Первые шаги к свету и обратно
“From the moment I bought my ticket, I had a premonition I wasn’t returning to New York anytime soon.
You Know, this happens a lot to Russians. The Soviet Union is gone, and the borders are as free and passable as they’ve ever been. And yet, when a Russian moves between the two universes, this feeling of finality persists, the logical impossibility of a place like Russia existing alongside the civilized world, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, sharing the same atmosphere with, say, Vladivostok. It was like those mathematical concepts I could never understand in high school: if, then. If Russia exists, then the West is a mirage; conversely, if Russia does not exist, then and only then is the West real and tangible. No wonder young people talk about “going beyond the cordon” when they talk of emigrating, as if Russia were ringed by a vast cordon sanitaire. Either you stay in the leper colony or you get out into the wider world and maybe try to spread your disease to others.”
― Absurdistan
You Know, this happens a lot to Russians. The Soviet Union is gone, and the borders are as free and passable as they’ve ever been. And yet, when a Russian moves between the two universes, this feeling of finality persists, the logical impossibility of a place like Russia existing alongside the civilized world, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, sharing the same atmosphere with, say, Vladivostok. It was like those mathematical concepts I could never understand in high school: if, then. If Russia exists, then the West is a mirage; conversely, if Russia does not exist, then and only then is the West real and tangible. No wonder young people talk about “going beyond the cordon” when they talk of emigrating, as if Russia were ringed by a vast cordon sanitaire. Either you stay in the leper colony or you get out into the wider world and maybe try to spread your disease to others.”
― Absurdistan
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