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I finally got an ereader so here I am /lit/, trying to figure out books I might be interested in.
Anyone have any good, not too biased recommendations regarding Russia's attempt at communism? I'm not interested in the "they lost haha they starved lol" I'm more interested in a quality take on what happened. How the state was envisioned to function, how it ended up in practice. I find it really interesting to imagine something like that happening, such a major shift in policy seems impossible today.

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>>16679382
I read some excerpts from this for a 20th century russia history class, seems like it might be along the line of what you are looking for. It gets into the nitty gritty of how soviet policy played out.
It's been years but if I can dig up the syllabus there were some other great books that go into pre-Stalin economy

>> No.16680432

>>16679382
>>16680355
Orlando Figes and Sheila Fitzpatrick are also a couple of authors I read a decent amount of, specifically A People's Tragedy, The Russian Revolution, and Everyday Stalinism. I'd say mix and match and these will give you a really decent start. Figes has some weird controversy going with amazon reviews at one point but his books are still authoritative works on the subject.

>> No.16680614

>>16680355
>>16680432
Sounds good thanks anon
Stalinism is a little later than what I'd like to start off with, but I'll toss it on my list for sure. It fascinates me most how personalities could rise so fast and hard then, how weak the systems were at the time that you could see someone go from practically unheard of one day to having parades in their honor and statues erected of them across the nation another day. Wild stuff.

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>>16680614
this book might also be of interest to you

>> No.16680699

>>16679382
I'm reading one called Everything was Forever, Until it was no more, which is subtitled The Last Soviet Generation. So far he is just describing how nobody saw it coming, not sure what the book will go on to say.

Solzhenitsyn is very biased but he is interesting nonetheless and he's a good writer, his essays are top tier.

>> No.16680724

TWO
HUNDRED
YEARS
TOGETHER
your understanding of Russia, communism, zionism, and the Jewish Question in general will not remain the same regardless of your intellectual background.