The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
7 best books like The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia (Orlando Figes): Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World, Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s, The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia, Kolyma Tales, Forever Flowing
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
| Author | John W. Dower |
| ISBN | 0393320278 |
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II.
Drawing on a...
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 | David W. Anthony |
| ISBN | 0691058873 |
Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Until now their identity has remained a tantalizing mystery...
| 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 | 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,...
| Author | Varlam Shalamov |
| ISBN | 0140186956 |
It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. Shalamov himself spent seventeen years there, and in these stories he vividly captures the lives of ordinary people caught up in terrible circumstances, whose hopes...
| Author | Vasily Grossman |
| ISBN | 0810115034 |
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....
