Best Eastern European History Books

1.
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin 4.39 avg rating — 18,856 ratings
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Gulag: A History
Gulag: A History 4.28 avg rating — 12,841 ratings
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White Eagle, Red Star: The Polish-Soviet War 1919 - 1920 and The Miracle on the Vistula
White Eagle, Red Star: The Polish-Soviet War 1919 - 1920 and The Miracle on the Vistula 4.09 avg rating — 496 ratings
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Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia 4.24 avg rating — 4,281 ratings
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 4.33 avg rating — 33,403 ratings
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Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort, 1941-1945
Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort, 1941-1945 4.21 avg rating — 2,549 ratings
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Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 4.08 avg rating — 7,063 ratings
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The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine
The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine 4.15 avg rating — 875 ratings
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A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924 4.37 avg rating — 5,694 ratings
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The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569 - 1999
The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569 - 1999 4.29 avg rating — 1,056 ratings
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Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation 1939-1944
Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation 1939-1944 4.23 avg rating — 150 ratings
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Life and Fate
Life and Fate 4.45 avg rating — 14,755 ratings
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Auschwitz
Auschwitz 4.31 avg rating — 17,967 ratings
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This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen 4.12 avg rating — 11,547 ratings
15.
Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II
Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II 4.40 avg rating — 2,891 ratings
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The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution
The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution 4.27 avg rating — 493 ratings
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Warsaw 1920: Lenin’s Failed Conquest of Europe
Warsaw 1920: Lenin’s Failed Conquest of Europe 3.76 avg rating — 589 ratings
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The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia 4.26 avg rating — 3,108 ratings
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Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine 4.39 avg rating — 8,865 ratings
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A memoir of the Warsaw uprising
A memoir of the Warsaw uprising 3.76 avg rating — 1,825 ratings
21.
A History of Ukraine
A History of Ukraine 4.19 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Gulag
Gulag 4.28 avg rating — 12,841 ratings
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Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland 4.02 avg rating — 3,203 ratings
23.
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon 4.22 avg rating — 2,622 ratings
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No Greater Ally: The Untold Story of Poland's Forces in World War II
No Greater Ally: The Untold Story of Poland's Forces in World War II 4.13 avg rating — 412 ratings
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Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s
Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s 3.92 avg rating — 1,299 ratings
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The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita 4.28 avg rating — 401,024 ratings
28.
The Fall of Yugoslavia
The Fall of Yugoslavia 3.84 avg rating — 1,358 ratings
29.
The Foundation Pit
The Foundation Pit 3.78 avg rating — 6,235 ratings
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The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky 4.23 avg rating — 4,106 ratings
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The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov 4.38 avg rating — 369,469 ratings
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Black Sea
Black Sea 3.95 avg rating — 801 ratings
33.
The Last King of Poland
The Last King of Poland 3.88 avg rating — 114 ratings
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The Great Terror: A Reassessment
The Great Terror: A Reassessment 4.13 avg rating — 1,187 ratings
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God's Playground: A History of Poland, Vol. 1: The Origins to 1795
God's Playground: A History of Poland, Vol. 1: The Origins to 1795 4.22 avg rating — 777 ratings
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The Northern Wars: War, State and Society in Northeastern Europe, 1558-1721 (Modern Wars in Perspective series)
The Northern Wars: War, State and Society in Northeastern Europe, 1558-1721 (Modern Wars in Perspective series) 3.91 avg rating — 58 ratings
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The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)
The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1) 4.33 avg rating — 24,210 ratings
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The House of the Dead
The House of the Dead 4.05 avg rating — 33,986 ratings
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God's Playground: A History of Poland, Vol. 2: 1795 to the Present
God's Playground: A History of Poland, Vol. 2: 1795 to the Present 4.30 avg rating — 575 ratings
40.
Rising 44
Rising 44 4.15 avg rating — 1,596 ratings
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Eastern Europe!: Everything You Need to Know About the History (and More) of a Region that Shaped Our World and Still Does
Eastern Europe!: Everything You Need to Know About the History (and More) of a Region that Shaped Our World and Still Does 3.91 avg rating — 324 ratings
42.
The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939
The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939 3.99 avg rating — 202 ratings
42.
Molotov's Magic Lantern: A Journey In Russian History
Molotov's Magic Lantern: A Journey In Russian History 3.48 avg rating — 483 ratings
44.
Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel
Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel 3.71 avg rating — 649 ratings
45.
Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag
Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag 4.35 avg rating — 881 ratings
46.
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster 4.40 avg rating — 62,914 ratings
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The Polish Way: A Thousand-Year History of the Poles and Their Culture
The Polish Way: A Thousand-Year History of the Poles and Their Culture really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 235 ratings
47.
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning 4.29 avg rating — 4,240 ratings
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The Red Prince: The Fall of a Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Europe
The Red Prince: The Fall of a Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Europe 4.06 avg rating — 817 ratings
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Stalin
Stalin 4.07 avg rating — 1,865 ratings
51.
Journey into the Whirlwind
Journey into the Whirlwind 4.33 avg rating — 3,854 ratings
51.
Voices from the Gulag: Life and death in communist Bulgaria
Voices from the Gulag: Life and death in communist Bulgaria 4.43 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Historical Atlas of East Central Europe (A History of East Central Europe, Vol 1)
Historical Atlas of East Central Europe (A History of East Central Europe, Vol 1) 4.51 avg rating — 70 ratings
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The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 - 1999
The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 - 1999 4.14 avg rating — 2,237 ratings
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Imperial Knowledge: Russian Literature and Colonialism
Imperial Knowledge: Russian Literature and Colonialism 4.52 avg rating — 407 ratings
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The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century
The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century 4.17 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Microcosm: A Portrait of a Central European City
Microcosm: A Portrait of a Central European City 4.01 avg rating — 254 ratings
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The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45 4.25 avg rating — 79,655 ratings
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Farewell to Matyora
Farewell to Matyora 3.79 avg rating — 805 ratings
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Soul
Soul 4.08 avg rating — 2,185 ratings
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Medaliony
Medaliony 4.04 avg rating — 6,147 ratings
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Treblinka
Treblinka 4.17 avg rating — 2,480 ratings
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Trotsky: A Biography
Trotsky: A Biography 3.77 avg rating — 923 ratings
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The Cambridge History of Poland, Vol. 2: From Augustus II to Pilsudski
The Cambridge History of Poland, Vol. 2: From Augustus II to Pilsudski 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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A Handful of Earth
A Handful of Earth 3.83 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany 3.38 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Paradise Rediscovered: The Roots of Civilisation
Paradise Rediscovered: The Roots of Civilisation 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Hope Dies Last: The Autobiography of Alexander Dubcek
Hope Dies Last: The Autobiography of Alexander Dubcek 4.08 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Legacy of Rescue: A Daughter's Tribute
Legacy of Rescue: A Daughter's Tribute 4.38 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall 4.37 avg rating — 12,274 ratings
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The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939 (The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture)
The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939 (The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture) 4.09 avg rating — 142 ratings
64.
Рицари и юнаци. Йоанитите (#2)
Рицари и юнаци. Йоанитите (#2) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Oxford History of Poland-Lithuania Volume I: The Making of the Polish-Lithuanian Union, 1385-1569
The Oxford History of Poland-Lithuania Volume I: The Making of the Polish-Lithuanian Union, 1385-1569 4.29 avg rating — 51 ratings
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The Collapse of the Soviet Union: Causes and Lessons: For the Revolutionary Revival of the International Communist Movement
The Collapse of the Soviet Union: Causes and Lessons: For the Revolutionary Revival of the International Communist Movement really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain 4.09 avg rating — 4,627 ratings
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Wind of Change: An American Journey in Post-Soviet Russia
Wind of Change: An American Journey in Post-Soviet Russia really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Glass Wall: Lives on the Baltic Frontier
The Glass Wall: Lives on the Baltic Frontier 3.47 avg rating — 101 ratings
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The Cambridge History of Poland, Vol. 1: From the Origins to Sobieski
The Cambridge History of Poland, Vol. 1: From the Origins to Sobieski 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Paradise Rediscovered: The Roots of Civilisation, Vol 2
Paradise Rediscovered: The Roots of Civilisation, Vol 2 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Cry Hungary!: Uprising 1956
Cry Hungary!: Uprising 1956 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Familiar Strangers: The Georgian Diaspora and the Evolution of Soviet Empire
Familiar Strangers: The Georgian Diaspora and the Evolution of Soviet Empire 4.32 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Цар Шишман и Дан Войвода (#1)
Цар Шишман и Дан Войвода (#1) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Bitter Waters: Life And Work In Stalin's Russia
Bitter Waters: Life And Work In Stalin's Russia 3.93 avg rating — 46 ratings
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USSR: The Velvet Counter Revolution
USSR: The Velvet Counter Revolution really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Paradise Rediscovered: The Roots of Civilisation, Vol 1
Paradise Rediscovered: The Roots of Civilisation, Vol 1 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
85.
So Many Heroes
So Many Heroes
by: Alan Levy
4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
85.
Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey 3.94 avg rating — 3,973 ratings
85.
Perestroika: The Complete Collapse of Revisionism
Perestroika: The Complete Collapse of Revisionism 4.50 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 4.03 avg rating — 8,270 ratings
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The Civilian Population and the Warsaw Uprising of 1944
The Civilian Population and the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Skylark
Skylark 3.86 avg rating — 3,256 ratings
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Escape From Auschwitz
Escape From Auschwitz 4.18 avg rating — 313 ratings
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The Captive Mind
The Captive Mind 4.27 avg rating — 4,725 ratings
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The Polish-Lithuanian State, 1386-1795
The Polish-Lithuanian State, 1386-1795 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Another View of Stalin
Another View of Stalin 4.01 avg rating — 378 ratings
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The Magic Circle of Rudolf II: Alchemy and Astrology in Renaissance Prague
The Magic Circle of Rudolf II: Alchemy and Astrology in Renaissance Prague 3.74 avg rating — 165 ratings
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The Battle for Budapest: 100 Days in World War II
The Battle for Budapest: 100 Days in World War II really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 189 ratings
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Ballet's Magic Kingdom: Selected Writings on Dance in Russia, 1911–1925
Ballet's Magic Kingdom: Selected Writings on Dance in Russia, 1911–1925 3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Nothing but Honour: The Story of the Warsaw Uprising, 1944 (Hoover Institution Publication, 183)
Nothing but Honour: The Story of the Warsaw Uprising, 1944 (Hoover Institution Publication, 183) 4.09 avg rating — 11 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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