7 best-selling russia books like This I Cannot Forget: The Memoirs of Nikolai Bukharin's Widow by Anna Larina

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This I Cannot Forget: The Memoirs of Nikolai Bukharin's Widow

By: Anna Larina

4.15

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

Larina tells the story not only of her twenty years in the Gulag but of her life as a daughter and …

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1. Beyond Good and Evil

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with a… read more

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"The noble soul reveres itself"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"...all that is rare is for the rare."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"One is punished most for one’s virtues."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"In music the passions enjoy themselves."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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2. Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938

By: Stephen F. Cohen

3.87

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

This classic biography carefully traces Bukharin's rise to and fall from power, focusing particular… read more

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3. A Time to Love and a Time to Die

By: Erich Maria Remarque , Denver Lindley

3.66

Format: None pages, Hardcover

After two years at the Russian front, Ernst Graeber finally receives three weeks' leave. But since … read more

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4. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

By: Christopher R. Browning

4.10

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the … read more

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"The behavior of any human being is, of course, a very complex phenomenon, and the historian who attempts to "explain" it is indulging in a certain arrogance."

-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

"This story of ordinary men is not the story of all men. The reserve policemen faced choices, and most of them committed terrible deeds. But those who killed cannot be absolved by the notion that anyo…"

-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

"What, then, is one to conclude? Most of all, one comes away from the story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 with great unease. This story of ordinary men is not the story of all men. The reserve polic…"

-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

"At the same time, however, the collective behavior of Reserve Police Battalion 101 has deeply disturbing implications. There are many societies afflicted by traditions of racism and caught in the sie…"

-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

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5. Paris

By: Edward Rutherfurd

3.63

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

From the grand master of the historical novel comes a dazzling epic portrait of Paris that leaps th… read more

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6. Life and Fate

By: Vasily Grossman , Robert Chandler

4.09

Format: 156 pages,

Life and Fate is an epic tale of a country told through the fate of a single family, the Shaposhnik… read more

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7. Fathers and Sons

By: Ivan Turgenev , None , None

3.99

Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his fri… read more

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"He has no faith in principles, only in frogs."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"Death's an old story, but new for each person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"However, I know myself as a very unhappy person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

8. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

By: Timothy Snyder

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more

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9. Three Comrades

By: Erich Maria Remarque

4.50

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

THREE COMRADES The year is 1928. On the outskirts of a large German city, three young men are earni… read more

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10. A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924

By: Orlando Figes

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

Written in a narrative style that captures both the scope and detail of the Russian revolution, Orl… read more

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11. The French Lieutenant's Woman

By: John Fowles

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

The scene is the village of Lyme Regis on Dorset's Lyme Bay..."the largest bite from the underside … read more

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12. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

By: Simon Sebag Montefiore

4.44

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

This widely acclaimed biography provides a vivid and riveting account of Stalin and his courtiers--… read more

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13. Darkness at Noon

By: Arthur Koestler , Pınar Kür , Daphne Hardy

4.11

Format: 216 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Darkness at Noon is a fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an agi… read more

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"Truth is what is useful to humanity, falsehood what is harmful."

-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

"Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations."

-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

"History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes."

-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

"The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong and harmful before it."

-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

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14. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

By: Lea Ypi

4.28

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more

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"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

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15. Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

By: Calder Walton

4.30

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

The riveting, untold story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with le… read more

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  • history
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16. Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century

By: Alexandra Popoff

4.33

Format: 424 pages, Kindle Edition

The definitive biography of Soviet Jewish dissident writer Vasily Grossman   If Vasily Grossman’s 1… read more

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17. The Story of Russia

By: Orlando Figes

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern R… read more

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18. Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.00

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

A murderer strikes at a school reunion--but the students are no strangers to death-- in this propul… read more

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"Harbinder paces her office. She still can’t stop herself thinking, Look at me with an office big enough to pace in ."

-Elly Griffiths, Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)

"How many times can you reminisce about school? She doesn’t think Talgarth High has ever tried to gather its former students. To be fair, it would be hard with so many of them electronically tagged."

-Elly Griffiths, Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)

"Aren’t you a Christian though?’ She remembers a comment about St Peter’s Italian church. ‘Not really,’ says Kim. ‘I just pick the bits I like from every religion. Is there a word for that?’ ‘Heretic,…"

-Elly Griffiths, Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)

"Gary’s made a bit of a name for himself. He’s always in the papers going on about climate change being a hoax. That’s why I was surprised ….’ ‘Surprised by what,’ prompts Harbinder because the singer…"

-Elly Griffiths, Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)

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19. The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur, #1)

By: Elly Griffiths

3.88

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Clare Cassidy is no stranger to murder. A high school English teacher specializing in the Gothic wr… read more

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"Why are Georgette Heyer's covers so naff? When you think of all the exciting things that happen - abductions, false identities, wild horseback chases - the front of the book nearly always shows a wom…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur, #1)

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20. The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway, #13)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.27

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr Ruth Galloway returns to the moody and beautiful landscape of North Norfolk to confront another … read more

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21. This I Cannot Forget: The Memoirs of Nikolai Bukharin's Widow

By: Anna Larina

4.15

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

Larina tells the story not only of her twenty years in the Gulag but of her life as a daughter and … read more

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8 Best history books like This I Cannot Forget: The Memoirs of Nikolai Bukharin's Widow by Anna Larina

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4.02

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Stephen F. Cohen

3.87

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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

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4.10

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