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Matt’s favorite books

Assassinating Shakespeare by Thomas Goltz

Black Garden by Thomas de Waal

God's Playground by Norman Davies

A State of Nations by Ronald Grigor Suny

The Affirmative Action Empire by Terry Martin

The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997 by Piers Brendon

John A by Richard Gwyn

Georgia Diary by Thomas Goltz

Oil Empire by Alison Fleig Frank

The Boys of Winter by Wayne Coffey

The Third Reich in Power by Richard J. Evans

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Matt’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (219)
currently-reading‎ (2)
read‎ (660)
history‎ (539)
europe‎ (240)
europe-history‎ (225)
soviet-union‎ (203)
hockey‎ (201)
sports‎ (184)
politics‎ (152)
hockey-history‎ (128)
canada‎ (121)

russian-history‎ (117)
nhl‎ (110)
russia‎ (110)
caucasus‎ (98)
history-of-canada‎ (91)
communism‎ (87)
nationalism‎ (85)
biography‎ (78)
georgia‎ (72)
stalin‎ (67)
second-world-war‎ (65)
sakartvelo‎ (64)

business-of-hockey‎ (62)
russian-empire‎ (60)
soviet-society‎ (58)
post-soviet‎ (56)
ukraine‎ (55)
interwar‎ (54)
nazi‎ (54)
central-asia‎ (51)
bolshevik‎ (49)
germany‎ (49)
poland‎ (47)
abkhazia‎ (45)

asia‎ (40)
soviet-nationality-policy‎ (36)
history-of-georgia‎ (34)
first-world-war‎ (32)
armenia‎ (31)
azerbaijan‎ (31)
holocaust‎ (31)
international-relations‎ (31)
russian-revolution‎ (31)
memoir‎ (30)
british-columbia‎ (28)
soccer‎ (28)

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Matt is Currently Reading

The Rise of Major...

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The Rise of Major League Soccer: Building a Global Giant

by Rick Burton (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: soccer, sports, currently-reading

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Counsel in the Crease: A Big League Player in the Hockey Wars

by Robert O Swados

bookshelves: business-of-hockey, hockey, nhl, sports, currently-reading

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Listopia Votes

Everyday Stalinism by Sheila Fitzpatrick

Stalin's Peasants by Sheila Fitzpatrick

Peasant Rebels Under Stalin by Lynne Viola

Stalin's Police by Paul Hagenloh

Moscow 1956 by Kathleen E. Smith

Books about life as a citizen of the Soviet Union

81 books — 13 voters

"They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else" by Ronald Grigor Suny

The Armenian Genocide by Raymond H. Kévorkian

Armenia on the Road to Independence, 1918 by Richard G. Hovannisian

The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times by Richard G. Hovannisian

Armenian Genocide

156 books — 39 voters

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Favorite Genres

History, Non-fiction, Sports, european-history, Hockey, Caucasus, Sakartvelo, Russian History, Russian history, European history, Polish history, Ukrainian history, Soviet history, Hockey history, and Soviet Union

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