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Blindingly apparent

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5. Timothy Snyders Blood Lands

Reply to lordsummerisle (Original post)

Mon Oct 9, 2017, 08:49 PM

Oct 2017

This is a nonfiction book and not just about Stalin’s policies that were so devastating for Eastern Europe but also Hitler’s similar and equally punishing devastation on the sane region. Be warned though, it is a very long book and at times heartbreaking.

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Can anyone recommend a good book about Stalin? [View all] lordsummerisle Oct 2017 OP

Animal Farm nt Xipe Totec Oct 2017 #1

1984 nt Sailor65x1 Oct 2017 #2

Not on Stalin but perhaps "Stalinism" - DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler n/m bagelsforbreakfast Oct 2017 #3

Two: "Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar" and "Young Stalin" by Simon Sebag Montefiore friendly_iconoclast Oct 2017 #4

Timothy Snyders Blood Lands Blindingly apparent Oct 2017 #5

the gulag archipelago LSFL Oct 2017 #6

Amazon has these left-of-center2012 Oct 2017 #7

Didn't Stalin's daughter write a book? lordsummerisle Oct 2017 #8

Hannah Arendt: "The Origins of Totalitarianism" (1952) . . . Journeyman Oct 2017 #9

This message was self-deleted by its author lordsummerisle Oct 2017 #10

"The Origins of Totalitarianism" . . . Journeyman Oct 2017 #11

Thanks for all of the suggestions n/t lordsummerisle Oct 2017 #12

"Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives" thucythucy Mar 2018 #13