13 best-selling history books like The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It by Mark B. Smith

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The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It

By: Mark B. Smith

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Russia is an exceptional country, the biggest in the world. It is both European and exotic, powerfu…

If you liked the history plot in The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It by Mark B. Smith , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Demons

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.30

Format: 733 pages, Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512) Inspired by the true story of a… read more

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  • russia
"God is the pain of the fear of death"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

"...and in fact I've noticed that faith always seems to be less in the daytime"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

2. On Anarchism

By: Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Paperback

We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

3. Revolutionary Road

By: Richard Yates

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talen… read more

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4. The Compromise

By: Sergei Dovlatov

3.97

Format: None pages, Paperback

Based on Dovlatov's experiences as a journalist in the Soviet Republic of Estonia, this is an acidl… read more

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5. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

By: William L. Shirer

4.21

Format: 1147 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Hitler boasted that The Third Reich would last a thousand years. It lasted only 12. But those 12 ye… read more

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  • nonfiction
"One of them was Fritz Thyssen, one of the earliest and biggest contributors to the party. Fleeing the "Nazi regime has ruined German industry." And to all he met abroad he proclaimed, "What a fool ( …"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

"To some Germans and, no doubt, to most foreigners it appeared that a charlatan had come to power in Berlin. To the majority of Germans Hitler had — or would shortly assume — the aura of a truly chari…"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

"In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electr…"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

"Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken ea…"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

6. Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders

By: L. David Marquet

4.05

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

"Leadership should mean giving control rather than taking control and creating leaders rather than … read more

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7. The Romanovs: 1613-1918

By: Simon Sebag Montefiore

3.17

Format: None pages,

The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surfac… read more

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8. White Holes

By: Carlo Rovelli

4.10

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerizing trip to the strange world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief L… read more

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  • nonfiction
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9. A Thousand Ships

By: Natalie Haynes

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

This is the women’s war, just as much as it is the men’s. They have waited long enough for their tu… read more

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"If he tells me to sing one more time, I think I might bite him."

-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

"An artist constantly risks falling fully into chaos, instead of transforming it."

-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

"Because really, how many cannibalistic giants can one Greek plausibly meet as he sails the open seas?"

-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

"We are all human. That means there is something about our experience that is the same. Otherwise, we would not all be human."

-Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

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10. The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History

By: Jeremy Bowen

4.38

Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition

A Sunday Times Paperback of the YearA Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year‘An illuminating … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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11. The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?

By: Michael J. Sandel

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds ar… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"A wealthy CEO could justify his or her advantages to a lower paid worker on a factory floor as: "I am not worthier then you nor morally deserving of the privileged position I hold. My generous compen…"

-Michael J. Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?

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12. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

By: Jeff Goodell

4.32

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine

By: Mark Galeotti

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A timely and accessible history of how Putin and the conflicts he has chosen to involve Russia in h… read more

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  • history
  • russia
  • nonfiction
  • russian history
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14. The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

By: Shon Faye

4.55

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than 1% of … read more

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  • nonfiction
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement’s muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement's muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

"Together, an LGBTQ+ coalition with class consciousness and anti-racism at its core must recover its radicalism and reaffirm its opposition to capitalism and patriarchy. Infighting and division are in…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

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15. Fear: Trump in the White House

By: Bob Woodward

3.87

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodw… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"He’s a fucking moron,"

-Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House

"When Trump called Mexicans “rapists"

-Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House

"Mr. President, you've got to buy some democrats," Graham said. The good news is they come cheap."

-Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House

"For Mr. Trump, though, bringing in Mr. Bannon was the political equivalent of ordering comfort food."

-Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House

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16. Putin: His Life and Times

By: Philip Short

4.32

Format: 848 pages, Hardcover

Vladimir Putin is a pariah to the West.Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the Un… read more

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  • russia
  • nonfiction
  • russian history
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17. The Skripal Files: The Life and Near Death of a Russian Spy

By: Mark Urban

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The explosive story of the poisoning of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and what it reveals a… read more

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  • russia
  • nonfiction
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18. Russia's Military Revival

By: Bettina Renz

3.93

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Russian annexation of Crimea and the subsequent air campaign over Syria took the world by surprise.… read more

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  • russia
  • nonfiction
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19. The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It

By: Mark B. Smith

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Russia is an exceptional country, the biggest in the world. It is both European and exotic, powerfu… read more

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  • russia
  • nonfiction
  • russian history
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20. Russia's Foreign Policy: Change and Continuity in National Identity (The New International Relations of Europe)

By: Andrei P. Tsygankov

3.98

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

This clear and comprehensive text explores the past quarter-century of Soviet/Russian international… read more

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  • russia
  • nonfiction
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21. Russia (Polity Histories)

By: Dmitri Trenin

3.92

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Over the past century alone, Russia has lived through great achievements and deepest misery; mass h… read more

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15 Best nonfiction books like The Russia Anxiety: And How History Can Resolve It by Mark B. Smith

On Anarchism

Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman

4.42

Transform Your Habits

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

William L. Shirer

4.21

Transform Your Habits

White Holes

Carlo Rovelli

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History

Jeremy Bowen

4.38

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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

David Graeber

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

Yascha Mounk

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

Yanis Varoufakis

4.01

Transform Your Habits

The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?

Michael J. Sandel

4.19

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