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I highly reccomend 'The Captive Mind' by Czesław Miłosz. It's written by a Polish author and it discusses the fall of Poland during and after WW2. The author recounts how many other Polish writers known to him fell into the fold and ideology of Stalanism. Super interesting read. The Polish perspective is highly overlooked from WW2. It's harrowing to see how Stalanism rooted itself into Poland after the war.
I've ended up in exactly the same spot, needing to learn Russian history because it wasn't covered extensively in school. You've already found some excellent works! If you don't mind recommendations, some works I've enjoyed a great deal thus far: The Romanovs by Simon Sebag Montefiore (for a broad 200+ year lead-up to the revolution); A People's Tragedy by Orlando Figes (best book on the revolution itself that I've found up to this point); The House of Government by Yuri Slezkine (on the grim fates of the many officials and their families after the revolution); The Harvest of Sorrow by Robert Conquest (for all the miseries of collectivization); Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (both a bio of Stalin & overview of his Terror in one); Kolyma Stories by Varlam Shalamov (similar to the Gulag Archipelago; grim, painful stories of those who suffered beneath Stalinism); and The Whisperers by Orlando Figes (for more voices of those who suffered across the full span of Stalin's rule). Since you're already sunken beneath the waves of Red history, might as well dive even deeper. Hope these boost your future reading!
I highly reccomend 'The Captive Mind' by Czesław Miłosz. It's written by a Polish author and it discusses the fall of Poland during and after WW2. The author recounts how many other Polish writers known to him fell into the fold and ideology of Stalanism. Super interesting read. The Polish perspective is highly overlooked from WW2. It's harrowing to see how Stalanism rooted itself into Poland after the war.
Thank you for that! Most of my family has actually been to Poland before, so that would be super neat to read about & experience.
I've ended up in exactly the same spot, needing to learn Russian history because it wasn't covered extensively in school. You've already found some excellent works! If you don't mind recommendations, some works I've enjoyed a great deal thus far: The Romanovs by Simon Sebag Montefiore (for a broad 200+ year lead-up to the revolution); A People's Tragedy by Orlando Figes (best book on the revolution itself that I've found up to this point); The House of Government by Yuri Slezkine (on the grim fates of the many officials and their families after the revolution); The Harvest of Sorrow by Robert Conquest (for all the miseries of collectivization); Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (both a bio of Stalin & overview of his Terror in one); Kolyma Stories by Varlam Shalamov (similar to the Gulag Archipelago; grim, painful stories of those who suffered beneath Stalinism); and The Whisperers by Orlando Figes (for more voices of those who suffered across the full span of Stalin's rule).
Since you're already sunken beneath the waves of Red history, might as well dive even deeper. Hope these boost your future reading!
Goodness, thank you so much! I’ll take these books into account for sure. I appreciate this a lot!
Дякую за огляд цікавих книг!