Best Russian History Books

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Ivan the Terrible
Ivan the Terrible 4.21 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Russian Revolution, 1900-1927
The Russian Revolution, 1900-1927 3.37 avg rating — 132 ratings
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Winter Storm: The Battle for Stalingrad and the Operation to Rescue 6th Army (Stackpole Military History Series)
Winter Storm: The Battle for Stalingrad and the Operation to Rescue 6th Army (Stackpole Military History Series) 3.64 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Russians: The People Behind the Power
Russians: The People Behind the Power 3.84 avg rating — 575 ratings
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Короткий запис спогадів. Історія Норильського повстання
Короткий запис спогадів. Історія Норильського повстання 4.63 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Red Plenty: Inside the Fifties’ Soviet Dream
Red Plenty: Inside the Fifties’ Soviet Dream 4.07 avg rating — 4,359 ratings
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The Red Machine: the Soviet Quest to Dominate Canada's Game
The Red Machine: the Soviet Quest to Dominate Canada's Game 4.50 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Dynamo : Defending the Honour of Kiev
Dynamo : Defending the Honour of Kiev 3.99 avg rating — 429 ratings
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Inside the Rainbow: Russian Children's Literature 1920-1935: Beautiful Books, Terrible Times
Inside the Rainbow: Russian Children's Literature 1920-1935: Beautiful Books, Terrible Times 4.38 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Stalin and Hitler: Twin Brothers or Mortal Enemies?
Stalin and Hitler: Twin Brothers or Mortal Enemies? 4.27 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Rebel Romanov: Julie of Saxe-Coburg, the Empress Russia Never Had
The Rebel Romanov: Julie of Saxe-Coburg, the Empress Russia Never Had 3.78 avg rating — 396 ratings
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Stalinism as a Way of Life: A Narrative in Documents
Stalinism as a Way of Life: A Narrative in Documents 3.87 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Economy and Material Culture of Russia, 1600-1725
The Economy and Material Culture of Russia, 1600-1725 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Stalin's Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky
Stalin's Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky 3.93 avg rating — 140 ratings
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Stalingrad: How the Red Army Triumphed
Stalingrad: How the Red Army Triumphed 4.21 avg rating — 278 ratings
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The Ukrainian impact on Russian culture, 1750-1850
The Ukrainian impact on Russian culture, 1750-1850 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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East Plays West
East Plays West 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Luiden tie – Gulagin jäljillä
Luiden tie – Gulagin jäljillä 3.76 avg rating — 118 ratings
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The Empress of Art
The Empress of Art 3.71 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Tomorrow You Go Home: One Man's Harrowing Imprisonment in a Modern-Day Russian Gulag
Tomorrow You Go Home: One Man's Harrowing Imprisonment in a Modern-Day Russian Gulag
by: Tig Hague
3.76 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism 4.40 avg rating — 8,495 ratings
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Inside the Stalin Archives: Discovering the New Russia
Inside the Stalin Archives: Discovering the New Russia 3.70 avg rating — 138 ratings
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Stalinism: New Directions
Stalinism: New Directions really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Serfdom and Social Control in Russia: Petrovskoe, a Village in Tambov
Serfdom and Social Control in Russia: Petrovskoe, a Village in Tambov really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Intimacy and Terror: Soviet Diaries of the 1930s
Intimacy and Terror: Soviet Diaries of the 1930s 3.75 avg rating — 44 ratings
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My golden road from Samarkand
My golden road from Samarkand 3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings
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До другої річниці агресії Росії проти України (20 лютого 2016 року)
До другої річниці агресії Росії проти України (20 лютого 2016 року) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million
Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million 3.86 avg rating — 2,059 ratings
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The Complete Memoirs of Serge Obolensky: One Man in His Time
The Complete Memoirs of Serge Obolensky: One Man in His Time 4.47 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Soviet Democracy
Soviet Democracy
by: Pat Sloan
4.30 avg rating — 105 ratings
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The Russian Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
The Russian Revolution: A Very Short Introduction 3.50 avg rating — 685 ratings
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Five Empresses: Court Life in Eighteenth-Century Russia
Five Empresses: Court Life in Eighteenth-Century Russia 3.81 avg rating — 69 ratings
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The Murder Of Rasputin: The Truth About Prince Felix Youssoupov And The Mad Monk Who Helped Bring Down The Romanovs
The Murder Of Rasputin: The Truth About Prince Felix Youssoupov And The Mad Monk Who Helped Bring Down The Romanovs
by: Greg King
3.84 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime
Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime 4.10 avg rating — 240 ratings
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Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe 4.23 avg rating — 11,075 ratings
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The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them 3.71 avg rating — 5,947 ratings
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Dressed for a Dance in the Snow: Women's Voices from the Gulag
Dressed for a Dance in the Snow: Women's Voices from the Gulag 3.96 avg rating — 789 ratings
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Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921
Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 3.89 avg rating — 2,564 ratings
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The Princess of Siberia : The Story of Maria Volkonsky and the Decembrist Exiles
The Princess of Siberia : The Story of Maria Volkonsky and the Decembrist Exiles 4.07 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir
Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir 3.42 avg rating — 213 ratings
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The Tsar's Last Armada: The Epic Journey to the Battle of Tsushima
The Tsar's Last Armada: The Epic Journey to the Battle of Tsushima 3.94 avg rating — 363 ratings
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KGB: The Inside Story of its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev
KGB: The Inside Story of its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev 3.89 avg rating — 309 ratings
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Economic Problems of Socialism in the U.S.S.R.
Economic Problems of Socialism in the U.S.S.R. 3.65 avg rating — 262 ratings
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Russian Elegance: Country & City Fashion from the 15th to the Early 20th Century
Russian Elegance: Country & City Fashion from the 15th to the Early 20th Century 4.32 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Imperium
Imperium 4.36 avg rating — 7,523 ratings
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The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks: Life and Death Under Soviet Rule
The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks: Life and Death Under Soviet Rule
by: Igort
4.29 avg rating — 1,147 ratings
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The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag After Stalin
The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag After Stalin 3.52 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Passage Through Armageddon: The Russians in War and Revolution 1914-1918
Passage Through Armageddon: The Russians in War and Revolution 1914-1918 4.14 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Marxism vs. Liberalism: An Interview
Marxism vs. Liberalism: An Interview 4.30 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Behind the Veil at the Russian Court
Behind the Veil at the Russian Court really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Russia and the Russians: A History
Russia and the Russians: A History 3.96 avg rating — 582 ratings
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Anastasia: The Lost Princess
Anastasia: The Lost Princess 3.65 avg rating — 464 ratings
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Terrible Tsarinas: Five Russian Women in Power: Catherine the Great, and Anna Leopoldovna
Terrible Tsarinas: Five Russian Women in Power: Catherine the Great, and Anna Leopoldovna 3.81 avg rating — 196 ratings
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A State of Nations: Empire and Nation-Making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin
A State of Nations: Empire and Nation-Making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin 4.07 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Nomenklatura: The Soviet Ruling Class
Nomenklatura: The Soviet Ruling Class 4.33 avg rating — 198 ratings
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Who Lost Russia?: How the World Entered a New Cold War
Who Lost Russia?: How the World Entered a New Cold War 4.26 avg rating — 498 ratings
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The History of the Gulag: From Collectivization to the Great Terror (Annals of Communism Series)
The History of the Gulag: From Collectivization to the Great Terror (Annals of Communism Series) 3.86 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Dissolution of an Empire
The Dissolution of an Empire liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Ukrainian famine-genocide myth
The Ukrainian famine-genocide myth 2.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Beria's Gardens
Beria's Gardens 4.11 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements
The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements 3.65 avg rating — 80 ratings
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The Eclipse of Russia [1918]
The Eclipse of Russia [1918] liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938
Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938 4.17 avg rating — 290 ratings
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A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story
A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story 4.21 avg rating — 1,312 ratings
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A History of Ukraine
A History of Ukraine 4.20 avg rating — 95 ratings
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The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard
The Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard 3.44 avg rating — 169 ratings
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The Purges of the CPSU in the 1930s
The Purges of the CPSU in the 1930s 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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From Lenin to Stalin
From Lenin to Stalin 3.86 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance
Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance 3.85 avg rating — 60 ratings
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The Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution 3.81 avg rating — 268 ratings
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The Grand Duchesses: Daughters & Granddaughters of Russia's Tsars
The Grand Duchesses: Daughters & Granddaughters of Russia's Tsars 4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Comrades: A World History of Communism
Comrades: A World History of Communism 3.60 avg rating — 552 ratings
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The Cossacks
The Cossacks 3.83 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Health in The USSR
Health in The USSR really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan
The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan 3.86 avg rating — 811 ratings
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Rasputin His Malignant Influence and his Assassination
Rasputin His Malignant Influence and his Assassination 3.06 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Berlin: The Downfall 1945
Berlin: The Downfall 1945 4.30 avg rating — 17,969 ratings
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A History of Modern Russia: From Nicholas II to Vladimir Putin
A History of Modern Russia: From Nicholas II to Vladimir Putin 3.95 avg rating — 809 ratings
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Should the West Engage Putin’s Russia?: The Munk Debates (The Munk Debates, 2015)
Should the West Engage Putin’s Russia?: The Munk Debates (The Munk Debates, 2015) 3.63 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Letters from St Petersburg: A Siamese Prince at the Court of the Last Tsar
Letters from St Petersburg: A Siamese Prince at the Court of the Last Tsar it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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A Hidden World: My Nine Years in the Soviet Gulag
A Hidden World: My Nine Years in the Soviet Gulag 3.94 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Central Asia: One Hundred Thirty Years of Russian Dominance, A Historical Overview (Central Asia Book Series)
Central Asia: One Hundred Thirty Years of Russian Dominance, A Historical Overview (Central Asia Book Series) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Education in the Soviet Union
Education in the Soviet Union
by: Ella Rule
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Comrade Pavlik: The Rise and Fall of a Soviet Boy Hero
Comrade Pavlik: The Rise and Fall of a Soviet Boy Hero 3.81 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Peasant Russia, Civil War: The Volga Countryside in Revolution (1917-1921)
Peasant Russia, Civil War: The Volga Countryside in Revolution (1917-1921) 3.95 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Romanov Autumn: Stories from the Last Century of Imperial Russia
Romanov Autumn: Stories from the Last Century of Imperial Russia 4.22 avg rating — 220 ratings
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Let History Judge: The Origins and Consequences of Stalinism
Let History Judge: The Origins and Consequences of Stalinism 4.04 avg rating — 96 ratings
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The Last King of Poland
The Last King of Poland 3.88 avg rating — 114 ratings
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The Empire Must Die: Russia's Revolutionary Collapse, 1900-1917
The Empire Must Die: Russia's Revolutionary Collapse, 1900-1917 4.46 avg rating — 2,243 ratings
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Gulag: Life and Death Inside the Soviet Concentration Camps
Gulag: Life and Death Inside the Soviet Concentration Camps 4.44 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Medieval Russia, 980–1584 (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks)
Medieval Russia, 980–1584 (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks) 3.65 avg rating — 102 ratings
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THE MERITS OF STALIN
THE MERITS OF STALIN it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Year One of the Russian Revolution
Year One of the Russian Revolution 4.31 avg rating — 211 ratings
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The Revolution of Peter the Great
The Revolution of Peter the Great 3.54 avg rating — 128 ratings
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The Time of Stalin: Portrait of a Tyranny
The Time of Stalin: Portrait of a Tyranny 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Lenin: A Biography
Lenin: A Biography 3.84 avg rating — 1,791 ratings
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Spies in the Family: An American Spymaster, His Russian Crown Jewel, and the Friendship That Helped End the Cold War
Spies in the Family: An American Spymaster, His Russian Crown Jewel, and the Friendship That Helped End the Cold War 4.15 avg rating — 1,232 ratings
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To Build a Castle: My Life as a Dissenter
To Build a Castle: My Life as a Dissenter 4.47 avg rating — 331 ratings
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From Gulag to Freedom (The Volga Flows Forever)
From Gulag to Freedom (The Volga Flows Forever) 4.35 avg rating — 48 ratings
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