Anybody got good recs for soviet history?

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>>7846650
Pic related was very enjoyable. I have heard criticisms of "pop history" but peer review seems to treat it well.

Also, Gulag Archipelago.

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>>7846650
"purely" historical:

Stephen Kotkin "Stalin: Paradoxes of Power
Simon S. Montefiore "Court of the Red Tsar"
S.S. Montefiore "Young Stalin
The Kotkin is my favorite biography of Stalin, so thorough.

Historically-informed (infused?) fiction:
As the other anon mentioned, "Gulag Archipelago" (which i have not read) or indeed any other book by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the ones i have read and can recommend are:
"Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch"
"Cancer Ward'
"The First Circle"

Although not a historical novel per se, Mikhail Bulgakov's "Master and Margaret' is definitely a soviet-era novel in theme and tone, although in a covert kind of way.

look in your trash bin where all you leftists belong

>>7847636
>likely that the people interested itt just interested in some history
>still tries to b8
maybe you should take a look in your trash bin and ask yourself why you aren't in it

>>7847651
good comeback. not

this is how deluded libruuls are

>>7847651
>likely that the people interested itt just interested in some history
This. If all the books mentioned ITT don't come off as cautionary tales (huge euphemism) to the reader then something's off. Hardly celebratory stuff.

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don't read all that bourgeois propaganda
stalin didn't actually do anything wrong

https://stalinsocietypk.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/another-view-of-stalin1.pdf
http://marxism.halkcephesi.net/Ludo%20Martens/node1.html

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The Affirmative Action Empire was pretty great

>>7847697
>but trust satlinsociety.com and marxism.net!

>>7846650
E.H. Carr wrote an extensive work on the subject. Think it stops around 1950~

>>7846650
Recently read Hosking's "the first socialist society" and really enjoyed it. Far more about life IN the ussr rather than the ussr as a whole, so you get only vague mentions of the civil war, wwii, and the cold war, but it's a great primer for soviet era lit which I absolutely maintain cannot be appreciated without understanding the history of the time period. Bulgakov, as mentioned above, is a great read even for someone unfamiliar with the relevant history, but holds a lot of nuances and small nuggets for those who know what was happening at the time.

Also I have yet to read, but have heard highly recommended, "a people's tragedy" (not sure of the author, published by penguin), about the 1917 revolution. Hoping to get to that soon.

>>7846650
Books by Marx and Lenin

>>7847942
>Books by Marx and Lenin
Invaluable tip, thx for the insight senpai