A State of Nations: Empire and Nation-Making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin
By: Ronald Grigor Suny
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
This collected volume, edited by Ron Suny and Terry Martin, shows how the Soviet state managed to c…
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1. The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569 - 1999
By: Timothy Snyder
4.30
Format: 367 pages, Paperback
Timothy Snyder traces the emergence of four rival modern nationalist ideologies from common medieva… read more
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2. The Bolshevik Revolution 1917-23 (History of Soviet Russia, Vol 3)
By: Edward Hallett Carr
4.04
Format: 614 pages, Paperback
“E. H. Carr’s History of Soviet Russia holds a unique position in the vast literature on Bolshevism… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- russian history
3. Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union
By: Francine Hirsch
3.69
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
When the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917, they set themselves the task of building socialism in the… read more
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- russian history
4. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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5. The Bolshevik Revolution 1917-23, Vol 1
By: Edward Hallett Carr
3.93
Format: 233 pages,
1917-23 covers the period up to Lenin's first withdrawal from the political scene in the Spring of … read more
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- russian history
6. 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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"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
7. Lenin and the Russian Revolution
By: Christopher Hill
3.86
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extreme… read more
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8. The German Ideology
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels
3.50
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
Nearly two years before his powerful Communist Manifesto, Marx (1818-1883) co-wrote The German Ideo… read more
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9. The Re-Conquest of Ireland
By: James Connolly
3.72
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
When England deprived Ireland of all rights to the soil and to universal livelihood, the Irish peop… read more
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10. Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat
By: J. Sakai
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
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11. Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator
By: Nora Seligman Favorov , None
3.82
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The most authoritative and engrossing biography of the notorious dictator ever written Josef Stalin… read more
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12. Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
By: Vladimir Lenin
4.23
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
'Globalisation' is the buzzword of the 1990s. VI Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitali… read more
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"Crises of every kind — economic crises more frequently, but not only these — in their turn increase very considerably the tendency towards concentration and monopoly."-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"At the basis of these swindles and manipulations lies socialised production; but the immense progress of humanity, which achieved this socialisation, goes to benefit the speculators."-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop…"-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"As long as capitalism remains what it is, surplus capital will never be utilised for the purpose of raising the standard of living of the masses in a given country, for this would mean a decline in p…"-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
13. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.16
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more
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"See the child."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
14. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
By: Katja Hoyer
4.17
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more
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15. The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
By: Patrik Svensson
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Remarkably little is known about the European eel, Anguilla anguilla. So little, in fact, that scie… read more
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16. Putin's World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest
By: Angela Stent
4.19
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
We all now live in a paranoid and polarized world of Putin’s making, and the Russian leader, throug… read more
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- russian history
17. Unequal Exchange
By: Arghiri Emmanuel
4.42
Format: 453 pages, Hardcover
English, French (translation) read more
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18. Stasi State or Socialist Paradise?: The German Democratic Republic and What Became of It
By: Bruni de la Motte
4.33
Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition
Much has been written about how awful the German Democratic Republic supposedly was: a people impri… read more
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"What followed was the largest and most rapid privatisation ever seen in any country in the world (except perhaps in the Soviet Union under Yeltsin). Never in the history of civilisation has a state's…"-Bruni de la Motte, Stasi State or Socialist Paradise?: The German Democratic Republic and What Became of It
"What in essence happened under the Treuhand was a complete transfer without compensation of property and assets accumulated over forty years through hard work and effort by GDR citizens, as well as t…"-Bruni de la Motte, Stasi State or Socialist Paradise?: The German Democratic Republic and What Became of It
19. Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance
By: Lynne Viola
3.89
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
The first book to document the peasant rebellion against Soviet collectivization, Peasant Rebels Un… read more
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"According to an OGPU report, so many livestock had been slaughtered in the Central Black Earth Region that peasants were feeding pigs with meat."-Lynne Viola, Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance
"Pope Pius XI called for a world-wide day of prayer, to be held on 16 March 1930, on behalf of the persecuted believers in Russia. This action led Stalin to suspend temporarily the antireligious campa…"-Lynne Viola, Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance
"In insisting that peasant activity contrary to Communist policies could be defined as kulak while at the same time maintaining that his approach to the peasantry was based on scientific Marxist class…"-Lynne Viola, Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance
"The peasant rebellion against collectivization was the most serious episode in popular resistance experienced by the Soviet state after the Russian Civil War. In 1930, more than two million peasants …"-Lynne Viola, Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance
20. The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939 (The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture)
By: Terry Martin
4.04
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
"Terry Martin looks at the nationalities policy of the early Soviet period and offers an insightful… read more
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21. The Islamic State in Khorasan: Afghanistan, Pakistan and the New Central Asian Jihad
By: Antonio Giustozzi
3.88
Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition
So-called Islamic State began to appear in what it calls Khorasan (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central A… read more
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22. A State of Nations: Empire and Nation-Making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin
By: Ronald Grigor Suny
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
This collected volume, edited by Ron Suny and Terry Martin, shows how the Soviet state managed to c… read more
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- russian history
23. On the National Question
By: İbrahim Kaypakkaya
4.32
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
Written in a time when the left in Turkey was divided on the question of a nation’s right to self-d… read more
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24. The Interregnum 1923-1924
By: Edward Hallett Carr
4.13
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
E.H. Carr who died in 1982 at the age of 90 was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, & an Honora… read more
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25. The Bolshevik Revolution 1917-23, Vol 2
By: Edward Hallett Carr
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
This volume discusses the economic policies and predicaments of the first years of the Soviet regim… read more
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26. Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty
By: Norman M. Naimark
3.63
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The Cold War division of Europe was not inevitable--the acclaimed author of Stalin's Genocides show… read more
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