Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.08
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe, a new history of Russian imperialism In 2014, Russi…
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1. The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569 - 1999
By: Timothy Snyder
4.30
Format: 367 pages, Paperback
Timothy Snyder traces the emergence of four rival modern nationalist ideologies from common medieva… read more
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- ukraine
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2. Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
By: Peter Pomerantsev
3.97
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia, where even dictatorship is a r… read more
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"We used to have this self-centred idea that Western democracies were the end-point of evolution, and we're dealing from a position of strength, and people are becoming like us. It's not that way. Bec…"-Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
"So you were dissidents? You believed in finishing the USSR?''No. It's not like that. You just speak several languages at the same time, all the time. There's like several "you"s.' Seen from this pers…"-Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
"That unique Moscow mix of tackiness and menace. One time I see a poster advertising a new property development that captures the tone nicely. Got up in the style of Nazi propaganda, it shows two Germ…"-Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
3. Civilization: The West and the Rest
By: Niall Ferguson
3.86
Format: 402 pages, Hardcover
Western civilization’s rise to global dominance is the single most important historical phenomenon … read more
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"We must resist the temptation to romanticize history's losers."-Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest
"Institutions or products of culture. But they formalize a set of norms."-Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest
"No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible."-Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest
"After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in Marxism Leninism"-Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest
4. 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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5. The White Guard
By: Mikhail Bulgakov , Michael Glenny
4.00
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
The White Guardis less famous than Mikhail Bulgakov's comic hit, The Master and Margarita, but it i… read more
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6. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
By: Timothy Snyder
4.38
Format: 524 pages, Hardcover
Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime al… read more
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"Now we will live!"-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
7. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933
By: Anne Applebaum
3.32
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulagand the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtai… read more
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8. Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist’s Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine
By: Timothy Snyder
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The forgotten protagonist of this true account aspired to be a cubist painter in his native Kyiv. I… read more
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9. Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
By: Anne Applebaum
3.83
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Appleb… read more
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10. Mao: The Unknown Story
By: Jung Chang , Jon Halliday
3.68
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
The most authoritative life of the Chinese leader every written, Mao: The Unknown Story is based on… read more
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11. Our Enemies Will Vanish
By: Yaroslav Trofimov
4.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
A revelatory eyewitness account of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian people… read more
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12. 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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13. Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
By: Laurence Rees
4.53
Format: 488 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning historian plumbs the depths of Hitler and Stalin's vicious regimes, and shows the … read more
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14. The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World
By: Peter Frankopan
3.58
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
'All roads used to lead to Rome. Today, they lead to Beijing.' When The Silk Roads was published… read more
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"Schoolkinderen worden snel groot (sneller dan wij volgens de krantenberichten), en ze moeten onze wereld gaan begrijpen. Lezen is een manier om de volgende generatie te helpen om te leren en te denke…"-Peter Frankopan, The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World
15. Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land
By: Jacob Mikanowski
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Eastern Europe is disappearing. Not off the map of course, but as an idea. Today it calls to min… read more
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16. This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
By: Peter Pomerantsev
4.04
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
Learn how the perception of truth has been weaponized in modern politics with this “insightful” acc… read more
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"З багатьох поглядів Ігорю пощастило. Він мав видимість вибору. Майор чітко дав зрозуміти, що він проведе сім років у в’язниці і п’ять на засланні у радянських загумінках, якщо залишиться. Якби він бу…"-Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
"The display, which was called 'Can Democracy Survive the Internet?' was dedicated to a 'global election management' company called Cambridge Analytica. Cambridge Analytica claimed to have gathered 5,…"-Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
"Some of the farm's work reached a level of granularity that stunned Lyudmilla. Two trolls would go on the comments sections of small' provincial newspapers and start chatting about the street they li…"-Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
"Conspiracy theories have long been used to maintain power: the Soviet leadership saw capitalist and counter-revolutionary conspiracies everywhere; the Nazis, Jewish ones. But those conspiracies were …"-Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
17. 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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18. Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921
By: Antony Beevor
3.90
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
An epic new account of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe and set the stage for the rest of … read more
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19. 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
20. Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.08
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe, a new history of Russian imperialism In 2014, Russi… read more
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21. War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
By: Mikhail Zygar
4.28
Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition
From an award-winning Russian journalist, a brisk, clearly written history of Ukraine—from its emer… read more
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