The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia
8 best books like The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia (Tim Tzouliadis): Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine, The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia, Long Walk To Freedom, Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s, Stalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him, The Lost Girls: The True Story of the Cleveland Abductions and the Incredible Rescue of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus, Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
| Author | David Remnick |
| ISBN | 0679751254 |
If you are a hard line communist apparatchik about to launch a coup d’état against those who libel World Socialism and defame the noble memory of Stalin then here is some advice: plan your coup well and don’t confuse planning with plotting.
This is plotting:
the traitor Yeltsin...
| Author | Robert Conquest |
| ISBN | 0195051807 |
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...
| Author | Orlando Figes |
| ISBN | 0805074619 |
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...
| Author | Nelson Mandela |
| ISBN | 0349116024 |
From his birth in a village on the banks of the Mbashe River in the Transkei to his politicisation and development as a freedom fighter, this first volume of Nelson Mandela's classic autobiography charts the early years of his life, which culminated in his prison sentence in 1962. Emotive, compelling...
| Author | Sheila Fitzpatrick |
| ISBN | 0195050010 |
Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by a leading authority on modern Russian history. Focusing on the urban population, Fitzpatrick depicts a world of privation, overcrowding, endless lines, and broken homes, in which the regime's promises of future socialist abundance...
| Author | Donald Rayfield |
| ISBN | 0375757716 |
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...
The Lost Girls: The True Story of the Cleveland Abductions and the Incredible Rescue of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus
| Author | John Glatt |
| ISBN | 1250036372 |
New York Times bestselling crime writer John Glatt tells the true story behind the kidnappings and long-overdue rescue of three women found in a Cleveland basement.
The Lost Girls tells the truly amazing story of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, who were kidnapped, imprisoned,...
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933
| Author | Anne Applebaum |
| ISBN | 0771009305 |
The momentous new book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Iron Curtain. In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth century. With unprecedented...
