12 must-read politics books like The Code of Putinism by Brian D. Taylor

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The Code of Putinism

By: Brian D. Taylor

4.03

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

What is Vladimir Putin up to? This book shows how the mentality of Putin and his team - the code of…

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Cover of Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche, Michael Tanner, R.J. Hollingdale

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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  • nonfiction
  • history
"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. City of Thieves

By: David Benioff

3.95

Format: None pages,

From the critically acclaimed author of The 25th Hour, a captivating novel about war, courage, surv… read more

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  • russia
Cover of Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by None, Bela Shayevich

3. Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

By: None , Bela Shayevich

4.29

Format: 192 pages,

From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English… read more

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  • politics
  • russia
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

By: Christopher Clark

3.79

Format: None pages,

On the morning of 6/28/1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sa… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. Russian History: A Very Short Introduction

By: Geoffrey Hosking

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

Russia's sheer size has made it difficult to mobilize resources and to govern effectively, especial… read more

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  • politics
  • russia
  • history
  • nonfiction

6. Faserland

By: Christian Kracht

4.48

Format: 334 pages,

Einmal durch die Republik, von Nord nach Sud: Christian Krachts namenloser Ich-Erzahler berichtet v… read more

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7. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany

By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more

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8. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine

By: Serhii Plokhy

3.87

Format: 268 pages, Hardcover

Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political… read more

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9. The Last Question

By: Isaac Asimov , Bob E. Flick , None

3.78

Format: None pages, Audio CD

The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when human… read more

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10. War's Unwomanly Face

By: None , Svetlana Alexievich

4.51

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

This book is a confession, a document and a record of people's memory. More than 200 women speak in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • russia
  • history
"War kills time, precious human time."

-None, War's Unwomanly Face

"My fearlessness came from an ignorance of life."

-None, War's Unwomanly Face

"HOW DO THEY RECEIVE ME? They call me “little girl,"

-None, War's Unwomanly Face

"What keeps us from remembering ? The unbearableness of the memories ..."

-None, War's Unwomanly Face

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11. The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land

By: Thomas Asbridge

4.22

Format: 784 pages, Hardcover

The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the H… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The Lionheart had arrived."

-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land

"Zangi was now sixty-two and still in remarkably rude health."

-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land

"Time and again in the Middle Ages, warrior-kings, seen by their men in the thick of fighting, turned the tide of battle, assuring victory."

-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land

"The first Latin up a ladder was Aubery Clements, marshal of France, one of Philip’s leading knights. It was said later among the Christians’ forces that, before climbing the breach, Aubery had called…"

-Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land

12. The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction

By: Robert J. McMahon

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The massive disorder and economic ruin following the Second World War inevitably predetermined the … read more

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13. Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)

By: Frank Herbert

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Book Two in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles--the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time … read more

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"One moment of incompetence can be fatal."

-Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)

"What the eyes had seen could not be erased."

-Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)

"Cynicism! That, no doubt is a greater crime than heresy."

-Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)

"Truth suffers from too much analysis. -Ancient Fremen Saying"

-Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)

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14. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Vietnam is an irritation for China. For centuries the two have squabbled over territory, and unfortunately for both this is the one area to the south which has a border an army can get across without…"

-Tim Marshall, The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

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15. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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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16. Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy

By: Ben Macintyre

4.16

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • russia
  • history
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17. 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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  • politics
  • russia
  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. Overreach

By: Owen Matthews

4.37

Format: 441 pages, Kindle Edition

An astonishing investigation into the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war – from the corridors of the … read more

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  • politics
  • russia
  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. The Last Days of Stalin

By: Joshua Rubenstein

3.78

Format: None pages, Audio CD

A scholarly, absorbing narrative of Stalin's last days and the turbulent wake of his dictatorship.J… read more

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  • politics
  • russia
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Accidental Czar: The Life and Lies of Vladimir Putin by Andrew S. Weiss

20. Accidental Czar: The Life and Lies of Vladimir Putin

By: Andrew S. Weiss

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

This riveting graphic novel biography chronicles Vladimir Putin's rise from a mid-level KGB officer… read more

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  • politics
  • russia
  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. Killer in the Kremlin: The Explosive Account of Putin's Reign of Terror

By: John Sweeney

4.24

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, e… read more

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  • politics
  • russia
  • history
  • nonfiction
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22. Dans la tête de Vladimir Poutine

By: Michel Eltchaninoff

3.84

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

Et si la philosophie russe nous aidait à comprendre la stratégie de Vladimir Poutine ? Cette idée n… read more

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  • politics
  • russia
  • history
  • nonfiction
"De plus en plus nettement, Poutine incarne la revanche de ceux qui n’ont pas supporté la chute de l’URSS et sa métamorphose en démocratie."

-Michel Eltchaninoff, Dans la tête de Vladimir Poutine

"Cette doctrine s’étage sur plusieurs plans : à partir d’un héritage soviétique assumé et d’un libéralisme feint, le premier plan est une vision conservatrice. Le deuxième, une théorie de la Voie russ…"

-Michel Eltchaninoff, Dans la tête de Vladimir Poutine

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23. The Code of Putinism

By: Brian D. Taylor

4.03

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

What is Vladimir Putin up to? This book shows how the mentality of Putin and his team - the code of… read more

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  • politics
  • russia
  • history
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16 must-read history books like The Code of Putinism by Brian D. Taylor

Transform Your Habits

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

None , Bela Shayevich

4.29

Transform Your Habits

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

Christopher Clark

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Russian History: A Very Short Introduction

Geoffrey Hosking

3.80

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14 Top history books like The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark

Transform Your Habits

Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War

Max Hastings

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March

Adam Zamoyski

4.35

Transform Your Habits

The Great War and Modern Memory

Paul Fussell

4.13

Transform Your Habits

July 1914: Countdown to War

Sean McMeekin

3.68

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