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Book on USSR history

dahamsta · 2003-09-23 13:31:36

Can anyone recommend a book on the history of the USSR in the 20th century? This is for personal enjoyment and not academic reasons, so I'm looking for something colourful, simplified, non-partisan and preferably not enormous. adam

23-09-2003 1:31pm

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Can anyone recommend a book on the history of the USSR in the 20th century? This is for personal enjoyment and not academic reasons, so I'm looking for something colourful, simplified, non-partisan and preferably not enormous.

adam

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#2 27-09-2003 11:19am

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Not really what you are looking for but... I gotta recommend "One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich" by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

After you read the history book, read this one for a worms eye view on what life was like for the guys on the bottom rung on the social status ladder.

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#3 01-10-2003 8:22am

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Thanks hip.

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