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…
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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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- soviet union
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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. On Palestine
By: Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé
4.25
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dea… read more
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"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
3. 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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"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
4. The Winter Queen (Erast Fandorin Mysteries, #1)
By: Boris Akunin , Andrew Bromfield
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Moscow, May 1876: What would cause a talented young student from a wealthy family to shoot himself … read more
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6. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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7. Pode um Desejo Imenso
By: Frederico Lourenço
4.27
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Esta nova edicao, revista e integral, de Pode um desejo imenso, incorpora O Curso das Estrelas e A … read more
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8. Tolstoy: A Russian Life
By: Rosamund Bartlett
3.48
Format: 241 pages, Hardcover
In this biography Rosamund Bartlett draws extensively on the many new sources which have been publi… read more
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9. Hegel: A Very Short Introduction
By: Peter Singer
4.19
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Hegel is regarded as one of the most influential figures on modern political and intellectual devel… read more
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10. History of the Peloponnesian War
By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner
3.94
Format: 648 pages, Paperback
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more
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"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
11. Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
By: Vladimir Lenin
4.23
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
'Globalisation' is the buzzword of the 1990s. VI Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitali… read more
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- russia
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"Crises of every kind — economic crises more frequently, but not only these — in their turn increase very considerably the tendency towards concentration and monopoly."-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"At the basis of these swindles and manipulations lies socialised production; but the immense progress of humanity, which achieved this socialisation, goes to benefit the speculators."-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop…"-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
"As long as capitalism remains what it is, surplus capital will never be utilised for the purpose of raising the standard of living of the masses in a given country, for this would mean a decline in p…"-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
12. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
By: Friedrich Engels
4.24
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Modern socialism is not a doctrine, Engels explains, but a working-class movement growing out of th… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by th…"-Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
"Las fuerzas activas de la sociedad obran, mientras no las conocemos y contamos con ellas, exactamente lo mismo que las fuerzas de la naturaleza: de un modo ciego, violento, destructor. Pero, una vez …"-Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
13. A History of the Arab Peoples
By: Albert Hourani
3.53
Format: 349 pages,
Encyclopedic and panoramic in its scope, this fascinating work chronicles the rich spiritual, polit… read more
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14. The Metaphysics of Morals
By: Immanuel Kant , Mary J. Gregor
3.96
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Kant's major work in applied moral philosophy deals with the basic principles of rights and of virt… read more
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16. 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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- history
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17. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.30
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more
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- russia
- history
- nonfiction
"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
18. 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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- nonfiction
- books about books
19. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
By: Katja Hoyer
4.17
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more
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20. The Story of Russia
By: Orlando Figes
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern R… read more
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- russia
- history
- nonfiction
21. The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History
By: Edward Brooke-Hitching
4.25
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
This fascinating and bizarre collection compiles the most unusual, obscure books from the far reach… read more
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- literature
- nonfiction
- history
- books about books
22. 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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"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
23. Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
By: Megan Rosenbloom
4.01
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest othe… read more
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- history
- books about books
"Human skin books—mostly made by nineteenth-century doctor bibliophiles—are the only books that are controversial not for the ideas they contain but for the physical makeup of the object itself."-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
"Anthropodermic books tell a complicated and uncomfortable take about the development of clinical medicine and the doctoring class, and the worst of what can come from the collision of acquisitiveness…"-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
"Many confirmed human skin books didn’t begin their print life in this controversial binding but were rebound by collectors, usually doctors who took the oldest or rarest texts in their private collec…"-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
"No wonder the public persists in connecting the idea of human skin books with Nazis. It's easier to believe that objects of human skin are made by monsters like Nazis and serial killers, and not the …"-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
24. The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
By: Nicholas Mulder
3.87
Format: 434 pages, Hardcover
The first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period a… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"The policy debate about sanctions has been repeated almost every decade since the [League of Nations] was created in the wake of World War I. At its core has been the perennial question: do economic …"-Nicholas Mulder, The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
25. Ludwig Feuerbach And the Outcome of Classical German Philosophy
By: Friedrich Engels
4.12
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
On the philosophy of Hegel and Feuerbach, and the essence and tasks of philosophy. read more
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"If we are able to prove the correctness of our conception of a natural process by making it ourselves, bringing it into being out of its conditions and making it serve our own purposes into the barga…"-Friedrich Engels, Ludwig Feuerbach And the Outcome of Classical German Philosophy
"By the word materialism, the philistine understands gluttony, drunkenness, lust of the eye, lust of the flesh, arrogance, cupidity, avarice, covetousness, profit-hunting, and stock-exchange swindling…"-Friedrich Engels, Ludwig Feuerbach And the Outcome of Classical German Philosophy
26. The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began
By: Valerie Hansen
3.69
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
From celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a groundbreaking work of history showing that bold e… read more
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- history
27. Maoism
By: Julia Lovell
3.98
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
Since the heyday of Mao Zedong, there has never been a more crucial time to understand Maosim. A… read more
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28. A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War
By: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
4.27
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning journalist’s powerful portrait of his native Baghdad, the people of Iraq, and twen… read more
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- politics
- history
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29. The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the US, and Iran's Global Ambitions
By: Arash Azizi
3.52
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
‘An excellent contribution to our knowledge of Iran and Soleimani.’ Kim Ghattas, author of Black Wa… read more
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30. The Fire and the Darkness: The Bombing of Dresden, 1945
By: Sinclair McKay
4.19
Format: 369 pages, Hardcover
A gripping work of narrative nonfiction recounting the history of the Dresden Bombing, one of the m… read more
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31. Online Afterlives: Immortality, Memory, and Grief in Digital Culture
By: Davide Sisto
3.77
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
How digital technology—from Facebook tributes to QR codes on headstones—is changing our relationshi… read more
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