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16 books

Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938 by Stephen F. Cohen

Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938

Stephen F. Cohen

495 pages • first pub 1973 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
Comandante: Myth and Reality in Hugo Chavez's Venezuela by Rory Carroll

Comandante: Myth and Reality in Hugo Chavez's Venezuela

Rory Carroll

320 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction biography history politics dark slow-paced
Dictator's Handbook: A Practical Manual for the Aspiring Tyrant by Carmine DeLuca, Randall Wood

Dictator's Handbook: A Practical Manual for the Aspiring Tyrant

Carmine DeLuca, Randall Wood

320 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history politics sociology informative medium-paced
The Fur Hat by Vladimir Voinovich, Susan Brownsberger

The Fur Hat

Vladimir Voinovich, Susan Brownsberger

132 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)

fiction politics funny reflective fast-paced
Mussolini: The Rise and Fall of Il Duce by Christopher Hibbert

Mussolini: The Rise and Fall of Il Duce

Christopher Hibbert

400 pages • first pub 1962 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare by Philip Short

Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare

Philip Short

555 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
The Rasputin File by Judson Rosengrant, Edvard Radzinsky

The Rasputin File

Judson Rosengrant, Edvard Radzinsky

576 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction biography history dark informative mysterious medium-paced
Trotsky: A Biography by Robert Service

Trotsky: A Biography

Robert Service

600 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative reflective slow-paced
Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Young Stalin

Joseph Stalin #1

Simon Sebag Montefiore

397 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction biography history dark informative tense medium-paced
The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book by Petra Couvée, Peter Finn

The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book

Petra Couvée, Peter Finn

352 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history reflective slow-paced