10 must-read history books like The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged) by Edward E. Ericson Jr., Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

By: None , Edward E. Ericson Jr. , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

4.32

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prison…

"To taste the sea, all one needs is one gulp."

-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

"To taste the sea, all one needs is one gulp."

-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

"One man who stopped lying could bring down a tyranny."

-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

"One man who stopped lying could bring down a tyranny."

-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

If you liked the history plot in The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged) by None, Edward E. Ericson Jr., Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Gulag

By: Anne Applebaum

4.01

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal … read more

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  • politics
  • russia
  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. 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
  • classics
  • russian literature
  • literature
  • politics
  • philosophy
"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

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3. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

By: Christopher R. Browning

4.10

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The behavior of any human being is, of course, a very complex phenomenon, and the historian who attempts to "explain" it is indulging in a certain arrogance."

-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

"This story of ordinary men is not the story of all men. The reserve policemen faced choices, and most of them committed terrible deeds. But those who killed cannot be absolved by the notion that anyo…"

-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

"What, then, is one to conclude? Most of all, one comes away from the story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 with great unease. This story of ordinary men is not the story of all men. The reserve polic…"

-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

"At the same time, however, the collective behavior of Reserve Police Battalion 101 has deeply disturbing implications. There are many societies afflicted by traditions of racism and caught in the sie…"

-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

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4. The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

By: None , Edward E. Ericson Jr. , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

4.32

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prison… read more

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  • russia
  • biography
  • classics
  • history
  • memoir
  • literature
  • russian literature
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"To taste the sea, all one needs is one gulp."

-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

"One man who stopped lying could bring down a tyranny."

-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

"Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand."

-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

"Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty."

-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

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5. Meditations

By: Marcus Aurelius , Martin Hammond , Diskin Clay

3.75

Format: 148 pages,

Written in Greek, without any intention of publication, by the only Roman emperor who was also a ph… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • classics
  • history
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6. The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.37

Format: 796 pages, Paperback

The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry… read more

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  • russia
  • classics
  • russian literature
  • literature
  • philosophy
"How good life is when one does something good and just!"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"Forgive me... for my love - for ruining you with my love."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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7. The Idiot

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Joseph Frank , Alan Myers , Anna Brailovsky

4.21

Format: 667 pages, Paperback

Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin find… read more

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  • russia
  • classics
  • russian literature
  • literature
  • philosophy
"I'm drunk but truthful."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"Beauty will save the world."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"The Russian soul is a dark place."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"She is passion embodied, a flower of melodrama in eternal bloom."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

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8. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • 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

9. The Road to Serfdom

By: Friedrich A. Hayek

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road … read more

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10. Crime and Punishment

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , David McDuff

4.27

Format: 671 pages, Paperback

Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg a… read more

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  • literature
  • philosophy
  • russia
  • russian literature
"Life [had] replaced logic."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

"I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

"The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

"It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

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11. 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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  • russia
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  • philosophy
"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

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12. Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

By: Jordan B. Peterson

4.05

Format: 564 pages, Paperback

Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structur… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
"Un acontecimiento significativo existe en la frontera entre el orden y el caos."

-Jordan B. Peterson, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

"...todo momento de amenaza es también, simultáneamente, un momento de oportunidad."

-Jordan B. Peterson, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

"Nuestras insignificantes debilidades se acumulan y multiplican, y se convierten en grandes males de Estado."

-Jordan B. Peterson, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

"La actitud tiránica mantiene a la sociedad en una predictibilidad homogénea y rígida, pero la condena a un derrumbamiento final."

-Jordan B. Peterson, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

13. Man's Search for Meaning

By: Viktor E. Frankl

3.93

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of lif… read more

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14. The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression

By: Stéphane Courtois , Andrzej Paczkowski , None

4.00

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

Already famous throughout Europe, this international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in … read more

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15. Two Captains

By: Veniamin Kaverin , Bernard Isaacs

3.80

Format: 240 pages,

Two Captains is the most renowned novel of the Russian writer Veniamin Kaverin. The plot spans from… read more

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16. The Road to Wigan Pier

By: George Orwell , Richard Hoggart

3.92

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell went to the industrial areas of norther… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • literature
  • politics
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"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."

-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

"...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly."

-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

"According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is ‘the puritan’s opium’."

-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

"It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are."

-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

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17. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

By: Michael G. Kramer

4.29

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

This book covers the things I was forced to leave out of "A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume O… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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18. Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

By: Dale A. Jenkins

4.30

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

WAS THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR INEVITABLE? It’s November 1941. Japan and the US are te… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"During the Fireside Chats, half the country tuned in on their radios, and it was said that on hot summer nights when people had their windows open, one could walk through the residential downtown of …"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"Roosevelt was a genius at mass communications, and his speechwriters deferred to his reviews of their drafts, not so much because he was the president, but because when a text required the perfect wo…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"In 1941, as the United States faced the threat of another horrific war, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was leading the nation from a wheelchair. Struck down by polio at age thirty-nine, he rehabilit…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"Back in Washington, alone in the late afternoon of December 7, a chastened Franklin Roosevelt considered the situation.  He may have wondered how things had gone so terribly wrong.  But what might ha…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

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19. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

By: Jordan B. Peterson

3.92

Format: 409 pages, Hardcover

What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's ans… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Treat yourself like you would someone you're responsible for helping."

-Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

"Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living - and the Ideal shames us all."

-Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

"So, listen, to yourself and to those with whom you are speaking. Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of …"

-Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

"Sometimes, when people have a low opinion of their own worth—or, perhaps, when they refuse responsibility for their lives—they choose a new acquaintance, of precisely the type who proved troublesome …"

-Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

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20. Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life

By: Jordan B. Peterson

4.17

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

The sequel to 12 Rules for Life offers further guidance on the periolus path of modern life. I… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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21. How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place

By: Bjørn Lomborg

3.65

Format: 170 pages, Hardcover

the world faces myriad challenges - yet we are constrained by scarce resources. In the 21st Century… read more

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