Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization

7 best books like Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization (Stephen Kotkin): Pale Fire, Invitation to a Beheading, The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference - New Edition, The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine, Everything was Forever, Until it was No More: The Last Soviet Generation

Pale Fire

Author	Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN	0141185260

The American poet John Shade is dead. His last poem, 'Pale Fire', is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous?...

Invitation to a Beheading

Author	Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN	0679725318

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Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude", an imaginary...

The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia

Author	Tim Tzouliadis
ISBN	1594201684

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,...

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

Author	Benedict Anderson
ISBN	0860915468

What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many studies have been written on nationalist political movements, the sense of nationality--the personal and cultural feeling of belonging to a nation--has not received proportionate attention. In this widely...

Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference - New Edition

Author	Dipesh Chakrabarty
ISBN	0691130019

First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of modernity in many histories of capitalist transition in non-Western countries. This imaginary Europe, Dipesh Chakrabarty argues,...

The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine

Author	Simon Price
ISBN	0670022470

An innovative and intriguing look at the foundations of Western civilization from two leading historians.
The influence of ancient Greece and Rome can be seen in every aspect of our lives. From calendars to democracy to the very languages we speak, Western civilization owes a debt to these classical...

Everything was Forever, Until it was No More: The Last Soviet Generation

Author	Alexei Yurchak
ISBN	0691121176

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...