What are some good books on the rise and fall of the Soviet Union?

Animal farm is satirical and but I like it. If you haven't read it I highly recommend. I don't usually like reading but I actually like this one.

>>2030413

I was thinking more along the lines of actual historical studies.

>>2029163
I'm pretty sure there is a book literally named the rise and fall of the Soviet union.

>>2030774
There are multiple books called the Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union. I just don't know if they are good books.

>>2029163
The Black book of Communism

Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

This book details a lot of history in the USSR from around 1919-1959.

It will also inoculate you against any romantic possession by Marxist ideology.

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>>2030850
>Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

>>2030850
reading stories about prisoners from a poor background getting ass raped in state penitentiaries for petty theft or selling weed would probably inoculate against romantic conceptions of the usa but hey that's just the system mang :^)