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  • Epic in scope, precise in detail, and heart-breaking in its human drama, Former People is the first book to recount the history of the aristocracy caught up in the maelstrom of the Bolshevik…
    Former People

    Former People - The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy

    By Douglas Smith rating of short cover   ( 164 customer ratings) Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 2012 ISBN: 9781466827752 Asian, Former Soviet Republics Language:  English
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  • The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners--was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying…
    Gulag

    Gulag - A History

    By Anne Applebaum rating of short cover   ( 2533 customer ratings) Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, December 2007 ISBN: 9780307426123 Asian, Former Soviet Republics Language:  English
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  • In 1988, the first edition of Orest Subtelny's Ukraine was published to international acclaim, as the definitive history of what was at that time a republic in the USSR. In the years since, the world…
    Ukraine

    Ukraine - A History, 4th Edition

    By Orest Subtelny rating of short cover   ( 20 customer ratings) University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, November 2009 ISBN: 9781442697287 Asian, Former Soviet Republics Language:  English
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  • An NYRB Classics OriginalFew writers had to confront as many of the last century’s mass tragedies as Vasily Grossman, who wrote with terrifying clarity about the Shoah, the Battle of Stalingrad, and…
    An Armenian Sketchbook

    An Armenian Sketchbook

    By Vasily Grossman rating of short cover   ( 40 customer ratings) New York Review Books, February 2013 ISBN: 9781590176351 Asian, Former Soviet Republics Language:  English
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  • In 2006, Alice Walker, working with Women for Women International, visited Rwanda and the eastern Congo to witness the aftermath of the genocide in Kigali. Invited by Code Pink, an antiwar group…
    Overcoming Speechlessness

    Overcoming Speechlessness - A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo…

    By Alice Walker rating of short cover   ( 106 customer ratings) Seven Stories Press, January 2011 ISBN: 9781609800789 Asian, Former Soviet Republics Language:  English
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  • Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.The Siege of Leningrad was one of the longest sieges in history and it inflicted some of the worst civilian casualties of World War Two. When…
    The Siege of Leningrad: History in an Hour

    The Siege of Leningrad: History in an Hour

    By Rupert Colley rating of short cover   ( 2 customer ratings) HarperCollins Publishers, April 2012 ISBN: 9780007485192 Asian, Former Soviet Republics Language:  English
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  • In this fascinating book, noted journalist Thomas de Waal--author of the highly acclaimed Black Garden--makes the case that while the Caucasus is often treated as a sub-plot in the history of Russia…
    The Caucasus:An Introduction

    The Caucasus:An Introduction

    By Thomas de Waal rating of short cover   ( 98 customer ratings) Oxford University Press, USA, August 2010 ISBN: 9780199746200 Asian, Asia Language:  English
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  • "One of the great stories of our time . . . a wonderful anecdotal history of a great drama."--San Francisco Chronicle Book ReviewAs Washington Post correspondent in Moscow, Warsaw, and Yugoslavia in…
    Down with Big Brother

    Down with Big Brother - The Fall of the Soviet Empire

    Vintage By Michael Dobbs rating of short cover   ( 45 customer ratings) Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, March 2011 ISBN: 9780307773166 Asian, Former Soviet Republics Language:  English
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  • One Soldier’s War is a visceral and unflinching memoir of a young Russian soldier’s experience in the Chechen wars that brilliantly captures the fear, drudgery, chaos, and brutality of modern combat…
    One Soldier's War

    One Soldier's War

    By Arkady Babchenko rating of short cover   ( 189 customer ratings) Grove/Atlantic, Inc., February 2009 ISBN: 9781555848354 Asian, Former Soviet Republics Language:  English
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  • "In Anna Porter, we are in the presence not only of a journalist on a personal odyssey back to her own origins in Communist Hungary, but of a gifted storyteller who shapes a historically consequential…
    Ghosts of Europe: Journeys through Central Europe's Troubled Past and Uncertain Future

    Ghosts of Europe: Journeys through Central Europe's Troubled Past and Uncertain…

    By Anna Porter rating of short cover   ( 5 customer ratings) D&M Publishers Inc., September 2010 ISBN: 9781553656371 Asian, Former Soviet Republics Language:  English
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