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Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s

10 best books like Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s (Sheila Fitzpatrick): Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust, The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine, The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia, The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive History of Russian Culture, Stalin, The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia, Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization, Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag, The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939, Russia Under the Old Regime

Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust
AuthorMiron Dolot
ISBN0393304167
In 1929, in an effort to destroy the well-to-do peasant farmers, Joseph Stalin ordered the collectivization of all Ukrainian farms. In the ensuing years, a brutal Soviet campaign of confiscations, terrorizing, and murder spread throughout Ukrainian villages. What food remained after the seizures...
The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine
AuthorRobert Conquest
ISBN0195051807
The Harvest of Sorrow is the first full history of one of the most horrendous human tragedies of the 20th century. Between 1929 and 1932 the Soviet Communist Party struck a double blow at the Russian peasantry: dekulakization, the dispossession and deportation of millions of peasant families, and...
The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
AuthorOrlando Figes
ISBN0805074619
From the award-winning author of A People's Tragedy and Natasha's Dance, a landmark account of what private life was like for Russians in the worst years of Soviet repression
 
There have been many accounts of the public aspects of Stalin's dictatorship: the arrests and trials, the enslavement...
The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive History of Russian Culture
AuthorJames H. Billington
ISBN0394708466
While a decent attempt at getting the Russian culture, it was just that, an attempt. Patchy.

For example, Scythians and Slavic paganism and the gathering of the ancient peoples, out of which the Kiev Rus was created are dismissed, along with everything folk, all legends. I don't think the great...
Stalin
AuthorRobert Service
ISBN0674022580
Overthrowing the conventional image of Stalin as an uneducated political administrator inexplicably transformed into a pathological killer, Robert Service reveals a more complex and fascinating story behind this notorious twentieth-century figure. Drawing on unexplored archives and personal...
The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia
AuthorTim Tzouliadis
ISBN1594201684
A remarkable piece of forgotten history- the never-before-told story of Americans lured to Soviet Russia by the promise of jobs and better lives, only to meet tragic ends

In 1934, a photograph was taken of a baseball team. These two rows of young men look like any group of American ballplayers,...
Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization
AuthorStephen Kotkin
ISBN0520208234
This study is the first of its kind: a street-level inside account of what Stalinism meant to the masses of ordinary people who lived it. Stephen Kotkin was the first American in 45 years to be allowed into Magnitogorsk, a city built in response to Stalin's decision to transform the predominantly agricultural...
Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag
AuthorJanusz Bardach
ISBN0520221524
FROM THE BOOK:"The pit I was ordered to dig had the precise dimensions of a casket. The NKVD officer carefully designed it. He measured my size with a stick, made lines on the forest floor, and told me to dig. He wanted to make sure I'd fit well inside."

In 1941 Janusz Bardach's death sentence was...
The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939
AuthorJ. Arch Getty
ISBN0300077726
This book is not bad -- probably closer to 4-stars. It is a survey of Stalin's Road to Terror.
The book suffers from some of the flaws of modern scholarship - an occasional need to quote Foucault, e.g., without spending the hundreds of pages needed to analyze the doctrines that Foucault espouses;...
Russia Under the Old Regime
AuthorRichard Pipes
ISBN0140247688
This study analyzes the evolution of the Russian state from the 9th century to the 1880s, and its unique role in managing Russian society. The development of Russia was different from that of the rest of Europe. The natural poverty of geographical conditions made it extremely difficult to construct...
Inside the Stalin Archives: Discovering the New Russia
AuthorJonathan Brent
ISBN0977743330
To most Americans, Russia remains as enigmatic today as it was during the Iron Curtain era. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the country had an opportunity to face its tortured past. In Inside the Stalin Archives, Jonathan Brent asks, why didn't this happen? Why are the anti-Semitic Protocols...
Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Twentieth-Century Russia
AuthorCatherine Merridale
ISBN0142000639
During the twentieth century, Russia, Ukraine, and the other territories of the former Soviet Union experienced more bloodshed and violent death than anywhere else on earth: fifty million dead in an epic of destruction that encompassed war, revolution, famine, epidemic, and political purges....
Eight Pieces of Empire: A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse
AuthorLawrence Scott Sheets
ISBN0307395839
Not with a bang, but with a quiet, ten-minute address on Christmas Day, 1991: this is how the Soviet Union met its end. But in the wake of that one deceptively calm moment, conflict and violence soon followed. Some of the emergent new countries began to shed totalitarianism while other sought to revive...
Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia
AuthorMartin Malia
ISBN0684823136
"The Soviet Tragedy is an essential coda to the literature of Soviet studies...Insofar as [he] returns the power of ideology to its central place in Soviet history, Malia has made an enormous contribution. He has written the history of a utopian illusion and the tragic consequences it had for the people...
Stalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him
AuthorDonald Rayfield
ISBN0375757716
Stalin did not act alone. The mass executions, the mock trials, the betrayals and purges, the jailings and secret torture that ravaged the Soviet Union during the three decades of Stalin’s dictatorship, were the result of a tight network of trusted henchmen (and women), spies, psychopaths, and...
Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution
AuthorRichard Stites
ISBN0195055373
The revolutionary ideals of equality, communal living, proletarian morality, and technology worship, rooted in Russian utopianism, generated a range of social experiments which found expression, in the first decade of the Russian revolution, in festival, symbol, science fiction, city planning,...
Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814
AuthorDominic Lieven
ISBN0713996374
Tho much has been written about Napoleon's doomed invasion of Russia & the collapse of the French Empire that ensued, virtually all of it has been from the Western perspective. Now, taking advantage of never- before-seen documents from the Russian archives, Lieven upends much of the conventional...
Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia
AuthorDavid Remnick
ISBN0375750231
Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Remnick chronicles the new Russia that emerged from the ash heap of the Soviet Union. From the siege of Parliament to the farcically tilted elections of 1996, from the rubble of Grozny to the grandiose wealth and naked corruption of today's Moscow, Remnick chronicles...
Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938
AuthorStephen F. Cohen
ISBN0195026977
The bulk of this book is a history of the USSR's New Economic Policy from its initiation in 1921 until its abrupt termination at the end of 1929. The NEP was a policy formulated largely by Lenin and Bukharin which tried to lead the USSR through a market-based transition to socialism. With this history,...
Year One of the Russian Revolution
AuthorVictor Serge
ISBN0863161502
I'm reading this book and I love it.

It tells the truth about the historic revolution that knocked down the Tsar's immense wealth and wide-ranging system of hideous oppression -- from the barbaric massacres against Jews to the mass killing of people trying to deliver a petition or stage a peaceful...
Everything was Forever, Until it was No More: The Last Soviet Generation
AuthorAlexei Yurchak
ISBN0691121176
Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet life had always...
Khrushchev Remembers
AuthorNikita Khrushchev
ISBN0316831409
Publisher's Note
Introduction
Translator-Editor's Note
Early Career
Party work in Moscow
The terror
Return to the Ukraine
Prelude to the war
The great patriotic war
Famine in the Ukraine
Stalin's last years
Succession
The fraternal countries
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