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The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine

10 best books like The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine (Robert Conquest): The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia, Salammbô, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America, Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s, The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia, One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy, Forever Flowing, Cat-O'nine Tails, God's Secretaries : The Making of the King James Bible, On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics

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...
Salammbô
AuthorGustave Flaubert
ISBN0140443282
A little human sacrifice, a touch of cannibalism, some slaughter of both soldiers and civilians, one or two crucifixions, there you have it, the mercenaries revolt against Carthage in 240 B.C. Yes I am being facetious, a great amount in all these categories in fact occurred, people played rough then,...
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
AuthorNancy MacLean
ISBN1101980966
Behind today’s headlines of billionaires taking over our government is a secretive political establishment with long, deep, and troubling roots. The capitalist radical right has been working not simply to change who rules, but to fundamentally alter the rules of democratic governance. But billionaires...
Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s
AuthorSheila Fitzpatrick
ISBN0195050010
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...
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,...
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
AuthorCarol Anderson
ISBN1635571375
From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, the startling--and timely--history of voter suppression in America, with a foreword by Senator Dick Durbin.

In her New York Times bestseller White Rage, Carol Anderson laid bare an insidious history of policies that...
Forever Flowing
AuthorVasily Grossman
ISBN0810115034
Everything Flows is Vasily Grossman’s final testament, written after the Soviet authorities suppressed his masterpiece, Life and Fate. The main story is simple: released after thirty years in the Soviet camps, Ivan Grigoryevich must struggle to find a place for himself in an unfamiliar world....
Cat-O'nine Tails
AuthorJulia Golding
ISBN1405230460
Cat O'Nine Tails (Cat Royal, #4), 2008, Julia Golding
Cat O'Nine Tails is the fourth book in the "Cat Royal" series written by Julia Golding. In this story the protagonist, Cat, dances at a ball, dresses as a boy, and meets an Indian tribe.
Abstract: Cat becomes an unlikely recruit for the British...
God's Secretaries : The Making of the King James Bible
AuthorAdam Nicolson
ISBN0060838736
A network of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. This was the England of Shakespeare, Jonson, and Bacon; the era of the Gunpowder Plot and the worst outbreak of the plague. Jacobean England was both more godly and less godly than the country had ever been, and the entire culture was drawn...
On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics
AuthorSheila Fitzpatrick
ISBN0691145334
Stalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing. On Stalin's Team overturns this view, revealing that behind Stalin was a group of loyal men who formed a remarkably...
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933
AuthorAnne Applebaum
ISBN0771009305
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...
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