A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to Its Legacy
By: Peter Kenez
3.89
Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition
This concise yet comprehensive textbook examines political, social, and cultural developments in th…
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1. Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
By: David Remnick
4.26
Format: 588 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times From the ed… read more
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"The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known."-David Remnick, Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
2. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
By: Harriet Beecher Stowe
3.91
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
The narrative drive of Stowe's classic novel is often overlooked in the heat of the controversies s… read more
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"Liberty! -- Electric word!"-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
"Some jokes are less agreeable than others"-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
"Still waters run deepest, they used to tell me."-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
"What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear."-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
3. Sofia Petrovna
By: Lydia Chukovskaya , Aline Werth
4.04
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Sofia Petrovna is Lydia Chukovskaya's fictional account of the Great Purge. Sofia is a Soviet Every… read more
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4. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
By: Frederick Douglass
4.11
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Doug… read more
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"For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?"-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
"They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith."-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
5. Dust (Silo, #3)
By: Hugh Howey
3.97
Format: 250 pages,
The much-anticipated final instalment of the Wool trilogy. In the aftermath of the uprising, the pe… read more
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6. A People's History of the United States
By: Howard Zinn
3.00
Format: None pages,
Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the Unit… read more
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7. The Graveyard Book
By: Neil Gaiman , Dave McKean
4.16
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a perfectly normal boy. Well, he would be perfectly n… read more
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"Leave no path untaken."-Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
"Wherever you go, you take yourself wih you."-Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
"You are almost never cool to your children."-Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
"Wherever you go, you take yourself with you."-Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
8. 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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9. What Is History?
By: Edward Hallett Carr
4.21
Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Based on The George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures delivered at University of Cambridge, January-March… read more
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10. Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000
By: Stephen Kotkin
5.00
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
In the Cold War era that dominated the second half of the twentieth century, nobody envisaged that … read more
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11. The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more
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"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
12. Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
By: None , Keith Gessen
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award On April 2… read more
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13. Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
By: Valeria Luiselli
4.24
Format: None pages, Paperback
Structured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin-American chil… read more
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14. Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1)
By: Dante Alighieri , Anthony Esolen
3.93
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous jour… read more
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15. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
By: Michelle Alexander
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"As the United States celebrates the nation's 'triumph over race' with the election of Barack Obama… read more
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16. Putinism: Russia and Its Future with the West
By: Walter Laqueur
3.71
Format: 364 pages, Hardcover
There is no question that tensions between Russia and America are on the rise. The forced annexatio… read more
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17. Notes from Underground
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Norman Dietz , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky , Boris de Schlœzer , Emanuela Guercetti , None , Donald Fanger , None , None , None
4.17
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between ninet… read more
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"l'homme de la nature et de la verite"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"إذ ما العذاب والألم ... سوى المحرك الوحيد للوعي."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
18. Shift (Shift, #1-3; Silo, #2)
By: Hugh Howey
2.00
Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition
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19. Norse Mythology
By: Neil Gaiman
4.10
Format: 301 pages, Paperback
This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780393356182 Neil Gaiman, long inspired by ancient … read more
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"Ragnarok is coming."-Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology
"And the game begins anew."-Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology
"Rebirth always follows death."-Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology
"Of course it was Loki. It's always Loki."-Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology
20. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
21. A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to Its Legacy
By: Peter Kenez
3.89
Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition
This concise yet comprehensive textbook examines political, social, and cultural developments in th… read more
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