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10 best books like One Night in Winter (Simon Sebag Montefiore): Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust, Children of the Arbat, The House by the Dvina: A Russian Childhood, The Bloody White Baron: The Extraordinary Story of the Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia, Twilight of American Sanity: A Psychiatrist Analyzes the Age of Trump, Generations of Winter, The Wives: The Women Behind Russia's Literary Giants, Muscle for the Wing, Ostland, Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Twentieth-Century Russia

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...
Children of the Arbat
AuthorAnatoli Rybakov
ISBN0099633302
To the two people among my goodreads friends, who are interested in Russian history and culture - this novel (first in a trilogy) covers the era of Stalin's reign of terror and is both riveting and historically accurate. It is mostly about a group of young people caught up in the workings of Stalin's totalitarian...
The House by the Dvina: A Russian Childhood
AuthorEugenie Fraser
ISBN0552128333
The riveting story of two families separated in culture and geography but bound together by a Russian-Scottish marriage includes the purchase by the author's great-grandfather of a peasant girl with whom he had fallen in love, the desperate sledge journey in the depths of winter made by her grandmother...
The Bloody White Baron: The Extraordinary Story of the Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia
AuthorJames Palmer
ISBN0571230237
Roman Ungern von Sternberg was a Baltic aristocrat, a violent, headstrong youth posted to the wilds of Siberia and Mongolia before the First World War. After the Bolshevik Revolution, the Baron - now in command of a lethally effective rabble of cavalrymen - conquered Mongolia, the last time in history...
Twilight of American Sanity: A Psychiatrist Analyzes the Age of Trump
AuthorAllen Frances
ISBN0062394509
A landmark book, from “one of the world’s most prominent psychiatrists” (The Atlantic, June 2017): Eminent psychiatrist Allen Frances analyzes the national psyche, viewing the rise of Donald J. Trump as darkly symptomatic of a deeper societal distress. Equally challenging and profound,...
Generations of Winter
AuthorVasily Aksyonov
ISBN0679761829
Magnífico de principio a fin... y mira que hay páginas entre uno y otro.

Los que disfrutaron de Vida y destino, de Grossman (comparten la misma traductora, Marta Rebón), disfrutarán aún más de este libro a poco que nuestros gustos se asemejen. Y digo disfrutar a pesar de las barbaridades...
The Wives: The Women Behind Russia's Literary Giants
AuthorAlexandra Popoff
The six literary wives in the book, Anna Dostoevsky, Sophia Tolstoy, Véra Nabokov, Elena Bulgakov, Nadezhda Mandelstam, and Natalya Solzhenitsyn were muses, intellectual companions, and indispensable aids to Russia’s most celebrated writers. Popoff draws from the women’s autobiographical...
Muscle for the Wing
AuthorDaniel Woodrell
This is an early novel from Daniel Woodrell, the second in his Louisiana Bayou trilogy featuring St. Bruno detective, Rene Shade.

In the parish of St. Bruno the local citizenry exists in an uneasy alliance with a gaggle of small-time mobsters who are headed by a local boss named Auguste Beaurain....
Ostland
AuthorDavid Thomas
ISBN1780877366
February 1941, wartime Berlin. Brilliant, idealistic young detective Georg Heuser joins the Murder Squad in the midst of the biggest manhunt the city has ever seen. A serial killer is slaughtering women on S-Bahn trains and leaving their battered bodies by the tracks. Heuser must confront evil eye-to-eye...
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....
Enemies of the Heart
AuthorRebecca Dean
ISBN0007260997
June 1909, in a large Berlin mansion, cousins Zelda and Vicky are about to meet brothers Berthold and Josef for the first time -- an evening that will alter the course of their lives forever!

Vicky Hudson is only seventeen when she marries Berthold and moves from her idyllic Yorkshire home to...
Stalin's Children: Three Generations of Love and War
AuthorOwen Matthews
ISBN0747591814
An indelible portrait of Russia over seven decades and an unforgettable memoir about how we struggle to define ourselves in opposition to our ancestry only to find ourselves aligning with it.

On a midsummer day in 1937, a black car pulled up to a house in Chernigov, in the heart of the Ukraine....
The Twelfth Department
AuthorWilliam Ryan
ISBN0312586523
Captain Alexei Korolev has nothing to complain about. He has his own room in an apartment, a job in the police force that puts food on the table, and his good health. In Moscow in 1937, that's a lot more than most people have to be grateful for. But for the first time in a long time, Korolev is about to be truly...
Fireblossom
AuthorCynthia Wright
ISBN0345386671
THE WILD WEST OF 1876 WAS NO PLACE FOR A LADY
And Madeleine Avery was every inch a fine Philadelphia lady, from the top of her tidy head to the tips of her ivory kid shoes. Gold had lured her father to the Black Hills – but with neighbors like Wild Bill Hickock, Calamity Jane, and a Little Bighorn survivor,...
Out of the Hitler Time
AuthorJudith Kerr
An omnibus edition of Judith Kerr’s internationally acclaimed trilogy, When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, The Other Way Round and A Small Person Far Away, we see the world through Anna’s eyes as she grows up – from her much loved family to Hitler’s holocaust.Anna was a German child when she had to...
The Last Man in Russia: The Struggle to Save a Dying Nation
AuthorOliver Bullough
ISBN0465074987
Russia is dying from within. Oligarchs and oil barons may still dominate international news coverage, but their prosperity masks a deep-rooted demographic tragedy. Faced with staggering population decline—and near-certain economic collapse—driven by toxic levels of alcohol abuse, Russia...
Monsieur Le Commandant
AuthorRomain Slocombe
ISBN1908313501
"Probably one of the most significant novels of this year."—L'Express

"As soon as you open Monsieur Le Commandant you will not be able to put it down, such is Slocombe's affinity for his subject matter. . . . His virtuosity and manner of storytelling reveal true talent. . . . Go out and buy a copy...
Midnight in the Century
AuthorVictor Serge
In 1933, Victor Serge was arrested by Stalin’s police, interrogated, and held in solitary confinement for more than eighty days. Released, he spent two years in exile in remote Orenburg. These experiences were the inspiration for Midnight in the Century, Serge’s searching novel about revolutionaries...
The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov
AuthorAndrea Pitzer
ISBN1605984116
A startling and revelatory examination of Nabokov's life and works — notably Pale Fire and Lolita — bringing new insight into one of the twentieth century's most enigmatic authors.

Novelist Vladimir Nabokov witnessed the horrors of his century, escaping Revolutionary Russia then...
Blowing Up Russia: Terror from Within
AuthorAlexander Litvinenko
ISBN1594032017
Blowing Up Russia contains the allegations of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko against his former spymasters in Moscow which led to his being murdered in London in November 2006. In the book he and historian Yuri Felshtinsky detail how since 1999 the Russian secret service has been hatching a plot to return...
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...
A Bag of Marbles
AuthorVincent Bailly
ISBN1467707007
In 1941 in occupied Paris, brothers Maurice and Joseph play a last game of marbles before running home to their father's barbershop. This is the day that will change their lives forever. With the German occupation threatening their family's safety, the boys' parents decide Maurice and Joseph must...
Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944
AuthorAnna Reid
On September 8, 1941, eleven weeks after Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, his brutal surprise attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded. The siege was not lifted for two and a half years, by which time some three quarters of a million Leningraders had died of starvation.

Anna...
El Juramento/the Oath
AuthorKhassan Baiev
ISBN8493424269
Told with immediacy and heart, The Oath is the story of a brave physician's dedication to saving lives in the Russia-Chechnya conflict.

In 1991, when the political conflict between Chechen insurgents and the Russian army began, Khassan Baiev was a wealthy plastic surgeon. But when Russia...
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