Laboratories of Terror: The Final Act of Stalin's Great Purge in Soviet Ukraine
By: Lynne Viola
3.09
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
Laboratories of Terror explores the final chapter of Stalin's Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine. When …
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1. Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
By: Stephen Kotkin
3.97
Format: 976 pages, Hardcover
A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world It has th… read more
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"Russia was a genuine great power, but with a tragic flaw. Its vicious, archaic autocracy had to be emasculated for any type of better system to emerge. Unmodern in principle, let alone in practice, t…"-Stephen Kotkin, Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
2. Antonio Gramsci: Life of a Revolutionary (Verso Modern Classics)
By: Giuseppe Fiori , Tom Nairn
4.36
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Antonio Gramsci was born in Sardinia in 1891, became the leader of the Italian Communist Party in h… read more
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3. An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
By: Rick Atkinson
4.29
Format: 681 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn the first volume of his monumental tri… read more
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"In battle, topography is fate."-Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
"Troops caught nibbling their emergency D- ration chocolate bars were dubbed Chocolate Soldiers and punished by forfeiting two meals. This was a happy penance. The galleys served so much fatty mutton …"-Rick Atkinson, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
4. 1848: Year of Revolution
By: Mike Rapport
3.72
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
In 1848, a violent storm of revolutions ripped through Europe. The torrent all but swept away the c… read more
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5. The Age of Capital: 1848-1875
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
4.53
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
In the wake of the French Revolution & the Industrial Revolution, Europe underwent another revoluti… read more
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6. The Radetzky March
By: Joseph Roth , Michael Hofmann
4.23
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
The Radetzky March charts the history of the Trotta family through three generations spanning the r… read more
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7. Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
By: Michael Parenti
4.41
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, rev… read more
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"Ecology's implications for capitalism are too horrendous for the capitalist to contemplate."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"Decentralized parochial autonomy is the graveyard of insurgency-which may be one reason why there has never been a successful anarcho-syndicalist revolution."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"A joke circulating in Russia in 1992 went like this: Q. What did capitalism accomplish in one year that communism could not do in seventy years? A. Make communism look good."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"...the [pure socialist] critics [of communist countries] seem unable to apply their own leadership genius to producing a successful revolutionary movement in their own country."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
8. Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
By: William Taubman
4.82
Format: 174 pages, Paperback
The definitive biography of the mercurial Soviet leader who succeeded and denounced Stalin. Nikita … read more
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9. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
By: C.L.R. James
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intens… read more
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10. The Russian Revolution 1917-1932
By: Sheila Fitzpatrick
1.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
This provocative and eminently readable work looks at the many upheavals of the Russian Revolution … read more
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11. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
By: Lewis Carroll , John Tenniel , Martin Gardner
4.06
Format: 239 pages, Paperback
"I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir," said Alice, "Because I'm not myself, you see." When A… read more
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"Curiouser and curiouser."-Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
"Go on till you come to the end; then stop."-Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
"You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!"-Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
"I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it."-Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
12. Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia
By: David Greene
4.44
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Far away from the trendy cafes, designer boutiques, and political protests and crackdowns in Moscow… read more
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13. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
By: Ellen Meiksins Wood
3.44
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extensi… read more
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14. Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
By: Nick Turse
4.21
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated inc… read more
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15. Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
By: Vladislav M. Zubok
4.26
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to … read more
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16. Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books
By: Geoffrey Roberts
3.52
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
In this engaging life of the twentieth century’s most self-consciously learned dictator, Geoffrey R… read more
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17. The Iliad
By: Homer
3.91
Format: 848 pages, Hardcover
One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more
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"I say no wealth is worth my life."-Homer, The Iliad
"These were the colloquies in heaven."-Homer, The Iliad
"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."-Homer, The Iliad
"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"-Homer, The Iliad
18. Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II
By: Alex Kershaw
4.32
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The national bestselling author of The First Wave tells the untold story of four of the most decora… read more
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19. 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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"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
20. A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto
By: China Miéville
3.95
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
China Miéville's riveting engagement with the Communist Manifesto offers a lyrical introduction and… read more
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"Like the authors of the Manifesto, I don’t believe that the generalised mass misery of the world, all the unbearable checklists of deprivation and depravity, is irrelevant, nor unrelated to the econo…"-China Miéville, A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto
21. Stalin's War: A New History of World War II
By: Sean McMeekin
4.28
Format: 768 pages, Hardcover
A major new history of the Second World War by a prize-winning historian We remember World War I… read more
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22. Cuba Libre!: Che, Fidel, and the Improbable Revolution That Changed World History
By: Tony Perrottet
4.30
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Historian and travel writer Tony Perrottet chronicles the events of the Cuban Revolution and the fi… read more
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23. Napoleon: The Man behind the Myth
By: Adam Zamoyski
4.27
Format: 728 pages, Hardcover
A landmark new biography that presents the man behind the many myths. The first writer in English t… read more
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24. The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny
By: Ian Davidson
3.60
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A vital and illuminating look at this profoundly important (and often perplexing) historical moment… read more
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"I accuse you of marching towards supreme power. - said by Jean-Baptiste Louvet to Robespierre (1792)"-Ian Davidson, The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny
"Sir, did you not hear the orders of the King?" Bailly replied: "...It seems o me that the nation assembled cannot take orders."-Ian Davidson, The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny
"If I were to put a date on it, I would say that the French Revolution finally came to rest after almost exactly 180 years, on April 28, 1969, when President de Gaulle resigned in a huff and the Fifth…"-Ian Davidson, The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny
25. The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World
By: Karl Schlögel
4.25
Format: 928 pages, Hardcover
An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet Union The Soviet Unio… read more
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26. Laboratories of Terror: The Final Act of Stalin's Great Purge in Soviet Ukraine
By: Lynne Viola
3.09
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
Laboratories of Terror explores the final chapter of Stalin's Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine. When … read more
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27. Stalin as Warlord
By: Alfred J. Rieber
4.05
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative account of Stalin as a wartime leader—showing how his paradoxical policies of mass… read more
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28. Girl With A Sniper Rifle: An Eastern Front Memoir
By: Yulia Zhukova
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In this vivid firsthand account we gain unique access to the inner workings of Stalin's Central Wom… read more
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