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Soviet Union Lists by Experts All Time Best Trending New By Book DNA List by Experts

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  • Alexis Peri The best books that grasp the gritty, brutal, and heartrending reality of life in the war-torn Soviet Union Book cover of The Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II Through Objects Book cover of German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Koenigsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad Book cover of To the Tashkent Station: Evacuation and Survival in the Soviet Union at War Book cover of Letters from the Dead: Last Letters from Soviet Men and Women Who Died Fighting the Nazis (1941-1945) Book cover of The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
  • Daniel Treisman The best books about the Soviet Union under Brezhnev Book cover of Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation Book cover of Good Stalin Book cover of Omon Ra Book cover of The KGB File of Andrei Sakharov Book cover of The Suitcase
  • Lisa Dickey The best books about the Russian people Book cover of Young Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Memoir and a Reckoning Book cover of Behind Putin's Curtain: Friendships and Misadventures Inside Russia Book cover of A Russian Journal Book cover of Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire Book cover of Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
  • Paul Clark The best novels about life in the Soviet Union Book cover of Stalin's Door Book cover of Life and Fate Book cover of The White Guard Book cover of The Porcupine Book cover of Conquered City
  • David Satter The best books for understanding the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia Book cover of The Russian Tradition Book cover of Vekhi: Landmarks Book cover of The Origins of Totalitarianism Book cover of The Seven Days of Creation Book cover of Moscow - 2042
  • Brandon M. Schechter The best books about Soviet stuff Book cover of Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution Book cover of Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin's Capital Book cover of Cigarettes and Soviets: Smoking in the USSR Book cover of The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia Book cover of Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice
  • Sean McMeekin The best books on Stalin and the Second World War Book cover of Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar Book cover of Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War 1941-1945 Book cover of Stalin's Drive to the West, 1938-1945: The Origins of the Cold War Book cover of Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan Book cover of Stalin’s Secret War
  • Istvan Hargittai The best books on scientific discovery under unfavorable Soviet realities Book cover of Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956 Book cover of Memoirs Book cover of My World Line: An Informal Autobiography Book cover of The Vavilov Affair Book cover of Kapitza in Cambridge and Moscow: Life and Letters of a Russian Physicist
  • Roger R. Reese The best books to understand Stalinism from every angle Book cover of Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag Book cover of Comrade Pavlik: The Rise And Fall Of A Soviet Boy Hero Book cover of Yezhov: The Rise of Stalin's Iron Fist Book cover of Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine Book cover of The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution
  • Mark Harrison The best books about working inside Soviet communism Book cover of Factory and Manager in the USSR Book cover of The Stalin-Kaganovich Correspondence, 1931-36 Book cover of Red Plenty Book cover of Terror by Quota: State Security from Lenin to Stalin (an Archival Study) Book cover of Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956
  • Wendy Z. Goldman The best books on the Soviet Union in World War II Book cover of The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad Book cover of Why Stalin's Soldiers Fought: The Red Army's Military Effectiveness in World War II Book cover of To the Tashkent Station: Evacuation and Survival in the Soviet Union at War Book cover of My Life in Stalinist Russia: An American Woman Looks Back Book cover of The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry
  • Brian B. Kelly The best books about the idealistic spies Joel Barr, Alfred Sarant, and Julius Rosenberg Book cover of The Man Behind the Rosenbergs Book cover of Engineering Communism: How Two Americans Spied for Stalin and Founded the Soviet Silicon Valley Book cover of Maverick for Life Book cover of Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America Book cover of Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America
  • Francine Hirsch The best books for understanding the experience of Soviet soldiers in WW2 Book cover of The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II Book cover of Life and Fate Book cover of Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945 Book cover of The Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II Through Objects Book cover of Russia at War, 1941-1945: A History
  • Susan Viets The best books about Ukraine from a journalist who was based there Book cover of The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine Book cover of Ukraine: Movement without Change, Change without Movement Book cover of Death and the Penguin Book cover of Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine Book cover of Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West
  • Michael Khodarkovsky The best books on Russia and USSR in the 20th Century Book cover of East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity Book cover of Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege Book cover of Archangel: A Novel Book cover of Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy Book cover of Moscow, 1937
  • Alex Aaronson The best cold war books that turn into hot military thrillers Book cover of Blue Masquerade Book cover of Northern Fury: H-Hour Book cover of Red Storm Rising Book cover of All Union Book cover of The War That Never Was
  • Samantha Lomb The best books on Soviet social history Book cover of Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union: Krokodil's Political Cartoons Book cover of It's Only A Joke, Comrade!: Humour, Trust and Everyday Life under Stalin (1928-1941) Book cover of The Experiment: Georgia's Forgotten Revolution 1918-1921 Book cover of American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream Book cover of Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan
  • William Durbin The best books on the Russian-Finnish Winter War, 1939-1940 Book cover of Finland at War: The Winter War 1939-40 Book cover of A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940 Book cover of The Winter War: The Soviet Attack on Finland, 1939-1940 Book cover of The White Sniper: Simo Häyhä Book cover of The Finnish-Soviet Winter War 1939-40: Stalin's Hollow Victory
  • Susanne Schattenberg The best books if you want to understand Pre-Putin’s Soviet Russia Book cover of Lenin on the Train Book cover of The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution Book cover of Khrushchev's Cold Summer: Gulag Returnees, Crime, and the Fate of Reform after Stalin Book cover of K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude, Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist Book cover of Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future
  • Choi Chatterjee The best books to understand Russia's role in world history Book cover of Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters Book cover of Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists: Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip Book cover of After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000 Book cover of How Russia Shaped the Modern World: From Art to Anti-Semitism, Ballet to Bolshevism Book cover of Red at Heart: How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian Revolution
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