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A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution
by Orlando Figes -
Molotov’s Magic Lantern
by Rachel Polonsky -
Catherine the Great and Potemkin: The Imperial Love Affair
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A Writer At War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945
by Vasily Grossman, edited and translated by Antony Beevor and Lyuba Vinogradova -
Soviet Workers and the Collapse of Perestroika
by Donald Filtzer -
History of the Russian Revolution
by Leon Trotsky
