what's the best book on the history of the USSR?
What's the best book on the history of the USSR?
Liam Allen
Juan Bell
The Gulag Archipelago
William Evans
wikipedia
Asher Sanchez
This. Also, Applebaum’s studies.
Austin Gomez
my grandfather lived during the ussr and he is a very hardcore commie, his bookshelf has a fuck ton of books about everything from the Aztecs to mao and he has a Lenin bust in his reading room.
too bad age is getting to the old man
Lucas James
The one no one will recommend.
John Scott
Fiction, you should know this, Doctor.
Kayden Roberts
it’s a non-fiction work though?
Charles Stewart
It's rumours, so combination of the two.
Joseph Parker
This
Daniel Cook
>it’s rumours
keep living in a fucking ideological ivory tower
Ryan Russell
Are you retarded? What do ivory towers have to do with anything? It literally is rumours. The dude lived in a camp on sibir, but got a cushy position so he could collect stories from other prisoners, that's all there is to it. Oral history has it's value, but shouldn't be taken at face value.
Benjamin Brooks
show pics, your granddad sounds based
Elijah Allen
He asked for history not fiction, go back to your daddy Jordan Peterstein now
Hudson Williams
The Soviet Experiment by Ronald Grigor Suny.
Nathan Foster
It's a downvote/upvote though?
Lucas Foster
>tfw the sculptor couldn't do feet so he didn't
Oliver Torres
It's CIA bullshit.
Now KYS Peterson. You shouldn't be on a board filled with antisemite scum.
Samuel Rivera
>muh conspiracy
Absolute cringe. Also, am not a petersonfag.
Kayden Evans
Same energy as this
>The professor of philosophy at the University of Bucharest who had the most decisive influence on the young Cioran, Nae Ionescu (1890–1940), was by the usual standards a spectacular failure. He didn’t publish any books, his lectures were often plagiarized or improvised on the spot, and sometimes he didn’t show up to classes because he “didn’t have anything to say.” His laziness was legend. Otherwise Ionescu was one of the most brilliant minds of his generation — a “genius,” by many firsthand accounts. Always the philosopher, Ionescu even developed a little theory of failure (which, appropriately, he preferred not to publish)
John Rivera
Reading just one book about a nation history is for brainlets, so you posted the right image.
Asher Campbell
Holy based
Julian Cook
>muh conspiracy
You need to go back. Otherwise, name one (1) conspiracy that hasn't been proven to be true.
Isaiah Hill
A bump for interest.
I was actually reading the wiki on the USSR the other day, it is shit. Wikipedia should stick to short concise simple encyclopedia entries and stop trying to write books.
Oliver Diaz
Ten Days that Shook the World, of course
Aaron Lopez
October by China Mieville is a pretty enjoyable history of the USSR formation
Logan Morris
>commie feet
>fascist failure
There is something in the work ethic of those who love totalitarian regimes...
Thomas Butler
On economic history Robert Allen, Farm to Factory and Michael Ellman, Socialist Planning.
Post-Stalin era sociology: Alexey Yurchak, Everything was Forever, Until it was No More
Fiction: Francis Spufford, Red plenty; Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales for gulag memes.
Oliver Taylor
12 Rules For Life