17 must-read history books like Tito and the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia by Richard West

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Tito and the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia

By: None , Richard West

3.70

Format: None pages, Paperback

A revealing biography of Tito, the Yugoslav leader who was a partisan against the Germans and the f…

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1. Café Europa: Life After Communism

By: Slavenka Drakulić

3.94

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Croatian journalist, novelist, and essayist Slavenka Drakulić notes that Eastern Europeans are so a… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"It was hard to force people to give up their rights to apartments, and predictably, this radical Utopian ideal failed. But it does illustrate how the concept of social injustice in a communist societ…"

-Slavenka Drakulić, Café Europa: Life After Communism

"Even at his age he knew that there are basically two categories of people in a society: those who have, and those who have not. But according to the egalitarian principles of any communist society, t…"

-Slavenka Drakulić, Café Europa: Life After Communism

"Nobody would doubt for one moment that my husband is a rich foreigner - why in the world would I marry a poor one? My marriage also means that I have escaped the common destiny of my people: the war,…"

-Slavenka Drakulić, Café Europa: Life After Communism

"If you asked a child riding a broomstick what it was doing, the child would answer, without hesitation: 'I am riding a horse.' For that child, a stick is a horse. It is as if by merely calling someth…"

-Slavenka Drakulić, Café Europa: Life After Communism

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2. The State and Revolution

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

1917-ci ilin avqust-sentyabr aylarında yazılan yaradıcı marksizmin bu görkəmli əsəri – “Dövlət və i… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarianism, not only in parliamen…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"We must also note that Engels is most definite in calling universal suffrage an instrument of bourgeois rule. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously summing up the long experience of German Social-De…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"Take any parliamentary country, from America to Switzerland, from France to England, Norway and so forth - in these countries the real business of the 'state' is preformed behind the scenes and is ca…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

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3. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

4.10

Format: 426 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost philosophers of our time, Nas… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Only the autodidacts are free."

-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

"More data means more information, but it also means more false information."

-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

"Convincing - and confident - disciplines, say, physics, tend to use little statistical backup, while political science and economics, which have never produced anything of note, are full of elaborate…"

-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

"Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing itself. This acts as a filter--it is the only filter. If the subject is not intere…"

-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

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4. The Wretched of the Earth

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

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5. The Fall of Yugoslavia

By: Misha Glenny

3.69

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

Misha Glenny's acclaimed account of the war in former Yugoslavia contains substantial new material … read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
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6. The Balkans: A Short History

By: Mark Mazower

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Throughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural, and e… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction

7. Hard Times

By: Charles Dickens , Gage McWeeny

4.33

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

Longman's new Cultural Editions Series, Hard Times, by Charles Dickens, edited by Jeff Nunokawa, in… read more

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8. Logavina Street: Life And Death In A Sarajevo Neighborhood

By: Barbara Demick , John Edmond Costello

3.85

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

Logavina Street was a microcosm of Sarajevo, a six-block-long history lesson. For four centuries, i… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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9. East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"

By: Philippe Sands

3.30

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

A profound and profoundly important book--a moving personal detective story, an uncovering of secre… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
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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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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11. Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, #1)

By: Martin Cruz Smith

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fin… read more

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12. Tito and the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia

By: None , Richard West

3.70

Format: None pages, Paperback

A revealing biography of Tito, the Yugoslav leader who was a partisan against the Germans and the f… read more

Similar categories in None's Tito and the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia book and None's Tito and the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia

  • history
  • biography
  • world history
  • historical
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
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13. Zorba the Greek

By: None , None , Nikos Kazantzakis

4.04

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

The classic novel, international sensation, and inspiration for the film starring Anthony Quinn exp… read more

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"فالروح نفسها تبدو وكأنها بحر وغيمة وعطر"

-None, Zorba the Greek

"كم هو حزين ان تسير بمفردك على ساحل البحر"

-None, Zorba the Greek

"إنّني أعتقد - ليسامحني الله - أنّني سعيد."

-None, Zorba the Greek

"You can knock on a deaf man's door forever."

-None, Zorba the Greek

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14. The End of the Affair

By: Graham Greene , Monica Ali

3.90

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look… read more

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"As long as one suffers one lives."

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

"I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist."

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

"Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy?"

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

"I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend."

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

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15. Cosmos

By: Carl Sagan

4.39

Format: 384 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The story of fifteen billion years of cosmic evolution transforming matter and life into consciousn… read more

Similar categories in Carl Sagan's Cosmos book and None's Tito and the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia

  • nonfiction
  • history
"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos

"Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex."

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos

"Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs."

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos

"We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands."

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos

16. The Bridge on the Drina

By: Ivo Andrić , William H. McNeill , None

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In the small Bosnian town of Visegrad the stone bridge of the novel's title, built in the sixteenth… read more

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17. A Gun for Sale

By: Samuel Hynes , Graham Greene

4.50

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

Raven is an ugly man dedicated to ugly deeds. His cold-blooded killing of a European Minister of Wa… read more

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18. The Fortress

By: Meša Selimović , None , None

3.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

A novel on 18th century Sarajevo under Ottoman rule, featuring a soldier returned from the wars. A … read more

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19. Death and the Dervish

By: Meša Selimović , None , None

1.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Death and the Dervishis an acclaimed novel by Bosnian writer Mesa Selimovic. It recounts the story … read more

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20. What Is to Be Done?

By: Vladimir Lenin , Robert Service , Joe Fineberg , George H. Hanna

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In What Is to Be Done?, Lenin in 1901 argues that the working class will not spontaneously become p… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Ancak kendine güveni olmayanlar, güvenilmez insanlarla bile olsa geçici ittifaklara girmekten korkar ve hiçbir politik parti bu tür ittifaklar olmadan var olamaz."

-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?

"Ya burjuva ideolojisi ya da sosyalist ideoloji. Bunun ortası yok (çünkü insanlık "üçüncü" bir ideoloji yaratmış değildir; ayrıca genel olarak sınıfsal çelişkilerle parçalanmış bir toplumda, hiçbir za…"

-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?

"We are marching in a compact group along a precipitous and difficult path, firmly holding each other by the hand. We are surrounded on all sides by enemies, and we have to advance almost constantly u…"

-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?

"Rusya'da, hem 1870'li, hem de 1860'lı yıllarda (hatta 19. yüzyılın ilk yarısında) da grevler oldu ve bunlar makinelerin vb. "kendiliğinden" tahrip edilmesi vb. eşliğinde yaşanan grevlerdi. Bu "isyanl…"

-Vladimir Lenin, What Is to Be Done?

21. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

By: Simon Sebag Montefiore

4.44

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

This widely acclaimed biography provides a vivid and riveting account of Stalin and his courtiers--… read more

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22. To Kill A Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia

By: Michael Parenti

3.81

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Drawing on a wide range of unpublished material and observations gathered from his visit to Yugosla… read more

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23. The Master and Margarita

By: Mikhail Bulgakov , None , Katherine Tiernan O'Connor , None

4.29

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece. An au… read more

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"Cowardice is the most terrible of vices."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

"manuscripts don't burn" - "(рукописи не горят)"

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

"The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!"

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

"Злых людей нет на свете, есть только люди несчастливые."

-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

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24. Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

By: Anna Funder

4.20

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceas… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"People were crazy with pain and secrets."

-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

"When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says."

-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

"Why are some things easier to remember the more time has passed since they occurred?"

-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

"Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time."

-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

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25. Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide

By: John Cleese

3.88

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

____________________________ We can all be more creative. John Cleese shows us how. Creativity is … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Getting discouraged is a total waste of your time."

-John Cleese, Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide

" But once it's been agreed when that real-world decision has to happen, why make it before the deadline arrives? Why Well, it would be foolish, because if you can wait longer, two incredibly importan…"

-John Cleese, Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide

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26. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • world history
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27. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

By: Katja Hoyer

4.23

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Some of the “songs"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

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28. Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend

By: Domenico Losurdo

4.39

Format: 353 pages, ebook

La figura di Stalin occupa una posizione centrale nella storia del Novecento. Dittatore sanguinario… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • world history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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29. 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

Similar categories in Jordan B. Peterson's Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life book and None's Tito and the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia

  • politics
  • nonfiction
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30. Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania

By: Paul Kenyon

4.43

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

The only country in Eastern Europe to speak a Latin language, Romania has always felt itself differ… read more

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  • historical
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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31. Tito and His Comrades

By: Jože Pirjevec

4.23

Format: 552 pages, Kindle Edition

This landmark biography reveals the life of one of the most powerful figures of the Cold War era. J… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction

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3.70

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4.20

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