| 1. |  | Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968
from Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc.
Price: $13.50
Customer Review:
An excellent book that is easy to read, you can easily get through it on a transatlantic flight or something similar.
I have one quibble - at one point in the book Heda Kovaly states to her son Ivan that his father Rudolf died "for his beliefs." Well, sadly I think the truth is that he died... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | The Russian Revolution
from Oxford University Press, USA
Price: $17.99
Customer Review:
Sheila Fitzpatrick's "The Russian Revolution" is concise and well-written, making sense out of a very confusing and confused time. She sees the events generally referred to as The Russian Revolution as a series of revolutions, each with its distinct character and players, beginning with the... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 3. | ![]() | Peter the Great
from Random House Value Publishing
Customer Review:
I read this book ten or more years ago and still remember it well. It changed the way I read history. I get interested in a period a biography ends up suggesting other aspects of the time. My interest is largely in the ways personalities and intellects interact with their times and cultures to... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 4. |  | Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
from Metropolitan Books
Customer Review:
Despite the author's ambivalent aversion to Slavophilism, he seemed to grasp the basics of Russian culture. This was not so much a review of Russian history--there are many of those--but how Russian culture incarnated in the Slavic lands.
Since other reviewers likely talked about the opening... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | Nicholas and Alexandra
from Ballantine Books
Price: $12.89
Customer Review:
This is an all-encompassing authoritative biography of the last ruling Romanovs, and Massie has compiled a thorough and well-researched insight into the lives of Nicholas and Alexandra. Even forty years after its original publication and long after the fall of the Soviet Union, it is a relevant part... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 6. |  | A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End
from Cambridge University Press
Price: $65.00
Customer Review:
Wow! I just finished this book, and I must say that it TRULY was an excellent, and most informative read!
I remember when I picked it up I had those funny little "brain thoughts" (the ones like your conscience that says things to you, silently within your head), "Are you SURE you really want to... more info | 3.5 / 5.0
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| 7. | ![]() | The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague
from Random House
Customer Review:
An often eye-witness account of the democratic revolutions of 1989 in Poland, Hungary, East Germany and Czechoslovakia.
The writing is a little uneven but it provides an excellent inside account of exceptional historic events. Ash left me with a very strong sense of the contingent and uncertain... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 8. |  | Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000
from Oxford University Press, USA
Price: $25.00
Customer Review:
I read this reasonable book, here in Brazil.This book is concise, but also is far from complete, about USSR's fall.On page 28, this book writes:"In 1982, one émigré defector derided the USSR as a 'land of cleptocracy'.On page 57, this page writes:"Belief in a humane socialism had... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 9. |  | A Concise History of the Russian Revolution
from Vintage
Price: $11.56
Customer Review:
This work thoroughly documents the Russian Revolutions, which serve as a crucial case study on the importance of ideas in shaping history. Why did the Russian history descend into so much chaos?
The author is a professor at Harvard, an eminent historian and a noted conservative who has written... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 10. |  | Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
from Vintage
Price: $11.53
Customer Review:
Both Remnick's on Russia provide deep and useful insights on the political life of this country. A must-read for people interested in Russia's recent history. | 4.5 / 5.0
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