27 Best history books like Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know by Serhy Yekelchyk

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Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know

By: Serhy Yekelchyk

3.89

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

Conventional wisdom dictates that Ukraine's political crises can be traced to the linguistic differ…

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1. The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

By: Masha Gessen

4.19

Format: 515 pages, Hardcover

The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of … read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"...But reason was helpless against demagogy."

-Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

"[Hannah] Arendt wrote about the subjugation of public space - in effect the disappearance of public space, which, by depriving a person of boundaries and agency, rendered him profoundly lonely."

-Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

"Some studies actually showed that that Russian drinkers lived longer than non-drinkers. [Michelle Parsons] suggested an explanation for the apparent vodka paradox: for what it is worth, alcohol may h…"

-Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

"At the time of the October Revolution, the Russian intellectual elite had been both a part and a partner to the European conversation about God, power, and human life. After fifty years of purges, ar…"

-Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

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2. Ukraine Diaries

By: Andrey Kurkov , Sam Taylor

0.00

Format: 798 pages, Paperback

Kurkov's diaries begin on the first day of the pro-European protests in November 2013, and describe… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • ukraine
  • nonfiction
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3. Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire

By: Chalmers Johnson

3.00

Format: None pages,

Now with a new and up-to-date Introduction by the author, the bestselling account of the effect of … read more

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  • politics
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  • history
  • war
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4. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

By: Timothy Snyder

4.38

Format: 524 pages, Hardcover

Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime al… read more

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  • politics
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  • nonfiction
"Now we will live!"

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

5. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933

By: Anne Applebaum

3.32

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulagand the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtai… read more

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  • russia
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  • ukraine
  • nonfiction

6. The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

By: Masha Gessen

4.03

Format: 166 pages,

The Man Without a Faceis the chilling account of how a low- level, small-minded KGB operative ascen… read more

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  • politics
  • russia
  • history
  • nonfiction

7. The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War

By: Daniel Stashower

3.79

Format: 368 pages,

"It's history that reads like a race-against-the-clock thriller."--Harlan Coben Daniel Stashower, t… read more

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8. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine

By: Serhii Plokhy

3.87

Format: 268 pages, Hardcover

Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political… read more

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9. The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For

By: David McCullough

3.60

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A New York TimesBestseller A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored hi… read more

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10. Murder in Mississippi

By: John Safran

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

When filming his TV series Race Relations, John Safran spent an uneasy couple of days with one of M… read more

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11. A Short History of Russia: How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin

By: Mark Galeotti

3.88

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Russia’s epic and dramatic story told in an accessible, lively and short form, using the country's … read more

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  • politics
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  • audiobook
"History always wins."

-Mark Galeotti, A Short History of Russia: How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin

"As ever, though, facts take second place when it comes to building narratives of power and authority"

-Mark Galeotti, A Short History of Russia: How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin

Cover of Our Enemies Will Vanish by Yaroslav Trofimov

12. Our Enemies Will Vanish

By: Yaroslav Trofimov

4.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

A revelatory eyewitness account of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian people… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • ukraine
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History by Serhii Plokhy

13. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

By: Serhii Plokhy

4.30

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more

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  • history
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  • war
  • ukraine
  • nonfiction
"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"

-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

Cover of Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land by Jacob Mikanowski

14. Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land

By: Jacob Mikanowski

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Eastern Europe is disappearing. Not off the map of course, but as an idea. Today it calls to min… read more

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  • russia
  • history
  • politics
  • ukraine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum

15. Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

By: Anne Applebaum

3.91

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author, professor, and historian offers an expert guide to understanding… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
"Unity is an anomaly. Polarization is normal. Skepticism about liberal democracy is also normal. And the appeal of authoritarianism is eternal."

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

"Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all of our societies eventually will."

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

"Olga Tokarczuk, 2019: We horen niet langer de harmonie van de wereld, maar de kakofonie van geluiden, een ondraaglijke ruis waarin we wanhoping een een rustiger melodie proberen te ontdekken, al is h…"

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

"Throughout history, pandemics have led to an expansion of the power of the state: at times when people fear death, they go along with measures that they believe, rightly or wrongly, will save them—ev…"

-Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

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16. Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy

By: Adam Tooze

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021'A complex … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"What has made central bankers into the exemplar of modern crisis-fighting is the vacuum created by the evisceration of organized labor, the absence of inflationary pressure, and more broadly, the lac…"

-Adam Tooze, Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy

"Despite the successful suppression campaign in February, the coronavirus crisis of 2020 could easily have been a major liability for Xi's regime. Instead, it became an occasion for what has been aptl…"

-Adam Tooze, Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy

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17. Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia

By: Joshua Yaffa

4.13

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From a leading journalist in Moscow and correspondent for The New Yorker, a groundbreaking portrait… read more

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  • russia
  • history
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  • ukraine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Without a clear moral vision, Meylac thought, all that’s left are careerism and bureaucratic efficiency."

-Joshua Yaffa, Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia

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18. Overreach

By: Owen Matthews

4.37

Format: 441 pages, Kindle Edition

An astonishing investigation into the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war – from the corridors of the … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • ukraine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate by Mary Elise Sarotte

19. Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate

By: Mary Elise Sarotte

4.25

Format: 568 pages, Hardcover

A leading expert on Cold War foreign policy reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia … read more

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  • russia
  • history
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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Invasion: The Inside Story of Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival by Luke Harding

20. Invasion: The Inside Story of Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival

By: Luke Harding

4.13

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

New York Times bestselling author of Collusion and The Snowden Files Luke Harding's personal, front… read more

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  • ukraine
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  • audiobook
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21. Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know

By: Serhy Yekelchyk

3.89

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

Conventional wisdom dictates that Ukraine's political crises can be traced to the linguistic differ… read more

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  • russia
  • history
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  • nonfiction
  • government
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  • audiobook
Cover of The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky by Simon Shuster

22. The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky

By: Simon Shuster

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Time  correspondent Simon Shuster delivers the definitive account of the Russian invasion of Ukrain… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The War Came to Us: Life and Death in Ukraine by Christopher       Miller

23. The War Came to Us: Life and Death in Ukraine

By: Christopher Miller

4.05

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking exploration of Ukraine's past, present, and future, and a heartbreaking account of t… read more

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  • history
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  • nonfiction
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24. A Message from Ukraine

By: Volodymyr Zelensky

4.64

Format: 134 pages, Hardcover

An urgent call to arms from Time’s Person of the Year, the Ukrainian leader whose unwavering courag… read more

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"Ukraine did not seek greatness. But Ukraine has become great."

-Volodymyr Zelensky, A Message from Ukraine

Cover of The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution by Marci Shore

25. The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution

By: Marci Shore

4.06

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became… read more

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  • russia
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  • audiobook
Cover of Here, Right Matters: An American Story by Alexander S. Vindman

26. Here, Right Matters: An American Story

By: Alexander S. Vindman

4.46

Format: 256 pages, ebook

The former National Security Council staffer who testified against President Trump during his impea… read more

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  • politics
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  • government
  • audiobook
Cover of The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past by Shaun  Walker

27. The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past

By: Shaun Walker

4.19

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In The Long Hangover, Shaun Walker provides a deeply reported, bottom-up explanation of Russia's re… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister by Olesya Khromeychuk

28. The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister

By: Olesya Khromeychuk

4.46

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Killed by shrapnel as he served in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Olesya Khromeychuk’s brother Volodym… read more

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  • politics
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  • nonfiction
Cover of Ukraine: The History and Legacy of Ukraine from the Middle Ages to Today by Charles River Editors

29. Ukraine: The History and Legacy of Ukraine from the Middle Ages to Today

By: Charles River Editors

3.52

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

The history of Ukraine is a fascinating story of how cultures, political systems, religions, and po… read more

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  • history
  • ukraine
  • audiobook
Cover of Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War by Paul D'Anieri

30. Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War

By: Paul D'Anieri

4.24

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

D'Anieri explores the dynamics within Ukraine, between Ukraine and Russia, and between Russia and t… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Modern Ukraine: The History of the Country Since the 20th Century by Charles River Editors

31. Modern Ukraine: The History of the Country Since the 20th Century

By: Charles River Editors

3.58

Format: 83 pages, Kindle Edition

*Includes pictures *Includes a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents “Had … read more

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17 Top audiobook books like Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know by Serhy Yekelchyk

Transform Your Habits

The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

Masha Gessen

4.19

Transform Your Habits

A Short History of Russia: How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin

Mark Galeotti

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land

Jacob Mikanowski

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

Anne Applebaum

3.91

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21 best-selling history books like Our Enemies Will Vanish by Yaroslav Trofimov

Transform Your Habits

Our Enemies Will Vanish

Yaroslav Trofimov

4.42

Transform Your Habits

The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War

Jim Sciutto

4.01

Transform Your Habits

The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

Serhii Plokhy

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Nuclear War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

4.47

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