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I'm interested if anyone who has any other recommended literature for learning about the Soviet Union, its foundations, and its end. I have a moderate background in history, and am familiar with most of the terms, but my teacher is a bit...incompetent, and can't really give me much in the way of literature that's not an academic paper. Amazon page for book: http://www.amazon.com/Lenins-Tomb-Last-Soviet-Empire/dp/0679751254 Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenin%27s_Tomb:_The_Last_Days_of_the_Soviet_Empire And no, I'm not trying to get out of reading the book for the class.
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If you want to get seriously deep into the Great Purge and the life and times of the people who had to endure it, you can't go wrong with Moscow, 1937. It examine Moscow's urban life and culture under the shadow of the Great Terror, using some sources that were previously not available in English (the book was originally published in German), notably the Moscow social directory. To put it in context, that directory stopped being published after 1937 because nearly everyone in it had been killed by Stalin's purges. It's a narrow slice of history, but an incredibly important one rendered at very high resolution.
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May 19, 2015 19:27
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Kestral posted:If you want to get seriously deep into the Great Purge and the life and times of the people who had to endure it, you can't go wrong with Moscow, 1937. Sounds good, the Great Purge and the killings during the earlier Russian Civil War are events I found overlooked in my textbooks, usually more focus was placed on the famines and failures of Stalin's policies with some care taken to how his purges weakened Russia militarily. I actually never stopped to think about the sheer number of people in regular city life that might have been killed or fled from the purges in Moscow itself.
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May 20, 2015 04:30
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