In the Shadow of Revolution: Life Stories of Russian Women from 1917 to the Second World War
By: Sheila Fitzpatrick
4.06
Format: 443 pages, Paperback
Asked shortly after the revolution about how she viewed the new government, Tatiana Varsher replied…
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1. The Crimean War: A History
By: Orlando Figes
4.06
Format: 575 pages, Hardcover
From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians," (Financial Times) the definitive account… read more
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- russia
- history
- russian history
"Each power entered the Crimean War with its own motives. Nationalism and imperial rivalries combined with religious interests."-Orlando Figes, The Crimean War: A History
2. A Mountain of Crumbs
By: Elena Gorokhova
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Elena Gorokhova grows up in 1960's Leningrad where she discovers that beauty and passion can be fou… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- soviet union
- nonfiction
"Don't let the magic slip away," he says, "or you'll sink into the quicksand of the ordinary."-Elena Gorokhova, A Mountain of Crumbs
"A bunch of silly men chasing a ball" my mother says "give each one his own ball if they're so desperate to have one"-Elena Gorokhova, A Mountain of Crumbs
"The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them."-Elena Gorokhova, A Mountain of Crumbs
3. The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
By: Orlando Figes
4.81
Format: 539 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of A People's Tragedyand Natasha's Dance, a landmark account of what … read more
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- russia
- history
- soviet union
- nonfiction
- russian history
4. Their Eyes Were Watching God
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries … read more
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5. Deathless (Leningrad Diptych, #1)
By: Catherynne M. Valente
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Koschei the Deathless is to Russian folklore what devils or wicked witches are to European culture:… read more
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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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- history
"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. Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag
By: Jan Tomasz Gross , Nicolas Werth , Steven Rendall
3.67
Format: 117 pages, Hardcover
During the spring of 1933, Stalin's police rounded up nearly one hundred thousand people as part of… read more
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8. 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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9. Journey into the Whirlwind
By: Evgenia Ginzburg , Max Hayward , Paul Stevenson
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
Eugenia Ginzburg's critically acclaimed memoir of the harrowing eighteen years she spent in prisons… read more
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10. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
By: Carson McCullers
4.14
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
With the publication of her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twe… read more
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11. War and Society in the American Revolution: Mobilization and Home Fronts
By: None , None
4.19
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The War for Independence touched virtually every American. It promised liberty, the opportunity for… read more
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12. The Thaw Generation: Coming of Age in the Post-Stalin Era
By: Paul Goldberg , None
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Thaw Generationoffers an insider's look at the Soviet dissident movement--the intellectuals who… read more
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13. Vampires of El Norte
By: Isabel Cañas
3.90
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
Vampires and vaqueros face off on the Texas-Mexico border in this supernatural western from the aut… read more
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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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- history
15. Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
By: Svetlana Alexievich
4.49
Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition
Stunning stories about what it was like to be a Soviet child during the upheaval and horror of the … read more
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- russian literature
- history
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
"For a child, the loss of a parent is the loss of memory itself."-Svetlana Alexievich, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
"En la guerra hi penso per mirar de comprendre-la... Si no, de què serveix?"-Svetlana Alexievich, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
"Ningú no volia conèixer ningú, perquè l’endemà aquella persona podia morir."-Svetlana Alexievich, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
"А однажды на улице встретила мужчину, похожего на папу. Как мой папа. Долго шла за ним… Я же не видела папу мертвым…"-Svetlana Alexievich, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
16. A Fragile Enchantment
By: Allison Saft
3.53
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
In this romantic fantasy of manners from New York Times bestselling author Allison Saft, a magical … read more
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"You're like a pint-sized hurricane of earnestness and good cheer."-Allison Saft, A Fragile Enchantment
"it's not meaningful to kill yourself little by little to make people happy!"-Allison Saft, A Fragile Enchantment
17. The Ballerinas
By: Rachel Kapelke-Dale
3.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Dare Me meets Black Swan and Luckiest Girl Alive in a captivating, voice-driven debut novel about a… read more
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"Why is it that trauma is written so easily on women's bodies?"-Rachel Kapelke-Dale, The Ballerinas
"Walking through an airport is the only way to be somewhere and nowhere at the same time. [Delphine Léger]"-Rachel Kapelke-Dale, The Ballerinas
"I just knew I never wanted to live in a world where you weren't my friend. [Lindsay Price, to Delphine Léger]"-Rachel Kapelke-Dale, The Ballerinas
"Sometimes... I think the real tragedy of life is that we're always the people we were, and it's only our outsides that change."-Rachel Kapelke-Dale, The Ballerinas
18. After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War
By: Helen Rappaport
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From Helen Rappaport, the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes After the … read more
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"His wife, "who only demanded of life that it should amuse her"."-Helen Rappaport, After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War
"(B)ut behind it all-- nothing: just vodka and the void. (Coco Chanel)"-Helen Rappaport, After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War
"We lived side by side with life but were afraid of meeting it. (Maria Pavlovna)"-Helen Rappaport, After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War
"(H)is action was merely "galvanizing the corpse" of an army that was already in retreat and heading for defeat."-Helen Rappaport, After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War
19. The Haunting of Moscow House
By: Olesya Salnikova Gilmore
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In this elegant gothic horror tale set in post-revolutionary Russia, two formerly aristocratic sist… read more
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20. The Snow Hare
By: Paula Lichtarowicz
3.91
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In this "riveting, heartfelt" novel of love and consequences (Heather Morris, New York Times bestse… read more
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"Disappointment is a land to which women journey, my dear."-Paula Lichtarowicz, The Snow Hare
"I was the told it's the blackest clouds you want to keep an eye on."-Paula Lichtarowicz, The Snow Hare
"Is it better to love or be loved, do you think?" "It's easier to be loved," Ala says, "but better to try to have both."-Paula Lichtarowicz, The Snow Hare
"If you embrace all the suffering that life hands out it’s too much to bear. If you refuse to embrace it, what kind of person does it make you?"-Paula Lichtarowicz, The Snow Hare
21. Independence: The Tangled Roots of the American Revolution
By: Thomas P. Slaughter
3.98
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
An important new interpretation of the American colonists' 150-year struggle to achieve independenc… read more
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- history
22. The Ties That Buy: Women and Commerce in Revolutionary America (Early American Studies)
By: Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor
3.52
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
In 1770, tavernkeeper Abigail Stoneman called in her debts by flourishing a handful of playing card… read more
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23. A Revolution Of Their Own: Voices Of Women In Soviet History
By: Barbara Alpern Engel
3.86
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
The stories of these eight Russian women offer an extremely rare perspective into personal life in … read more
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- soviet union
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24. In the Shadow of Revolution: Life Stories of Russian Women from 1917 to the Second World War
By: Sheila Fitzpatrick
4.06
Format: 443 pages, Paperback
Asked shortly after the revolution about how she viewed the new government, Tatiana Varsher replied… read more
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