books about: soviet     books:     Soviet      Enter The Kettlebell! Strength Secret of The Soviet Supermen Pavel Tsatsouline Dragon Door Publications, 2006 Learning from this book This book is an excelent introduction to exercising with kettlebells, that is what the name of the book sugests and what Pavel delivers. I didn't think there is lots of filler information in it and I appreciate the pictures showing the correct and wrong way to do the ...             The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin's Secret Service Andrew Meier W. W. Norton, 2008 THE LOST SPY "The Lost Spy" by Andrew Meier is above all, a masterpiece of research, and story telling. The author takes the reader into a dark but fascinating labyrinth of idealism, espionage, and...murder. Jaded by labor disputes, union battles with striking workers, social ...             The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002 Perhaps the best novel ever written in the history of mankind At the beginning of my freshman year at college, a girl told me to read this book, it would 'change my life'. She wouldn't elaborate further. Now that I've read it, maybe I shouldn't either. Read it. Odd, its one of the most painful books I have ever read, it ...             City of Thieves: A Novel David Benioff Viking Adult, 2008 Excellent! One of these rare books where one feels lucky to have read it! Engaging prose, subtle dark humour, brilliant descriptions of characters; just beautiful! Do not miss this one!             Child 44 Tom Rob Smith Grand Central Publishing, 2008 Better than Stalin's Ghost! This is probably the best mystery I have read in years. The background - Stalin's Russia, changing over the years to end in Kruschev's Russia - is perfectly, chillingly drawn. It gives a great but not arty or self-consciously literary sense of the Kafkaesque feel of ...             The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia Tim Tzouliadis Penguin Press HC, The, 2008 Disturbing stuff I saw a review of this book in the Economist a few weeks ago, and it reminded me of a brief newspaper article I read in about 1996. It talked of thousands of US POWs who had disappeared after WW2, apparently kidnapped by the Russians. At the time I thought that was ...             One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War Michael Dobbs Knopf, 2008 No One's in Charge Wow. Even though everybody knows how the Cuban Missile Crisis ended, this book had me sweating it out. The new info that Michael Dobbs turned up made me realize that no one really knew what was going to happen. The politicians, from Kennedy and Khrushchev on down, were ...             Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September ... Steve Coll Penguin (Non-Classics), 2004 Fascinating and well-researched history Though Osama Bin Laden became a household name after the 9-11 attacks, few people know the background of Afghanistan and the mujahideen fighters that birthed these radical groups. This book gives a well-researched, in-depth look into the interplay of the Cold War, the ...             Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects Dmitry Orlov New Society Publishers, 2008 Laughing All the Way to the Brink This is a truly funny book about the collapse of a major empire. That would seem impossible, except it's true. Orlov describes exactly what it's like when the wheels stop turning inside a huge country, something most Americans probably thought very little about ...             The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov Vintage, 1996 A extraordinary novel There is little I can add to the many excellent reviews of this unique novel; it repays re-reading and study. Professor Kevin Moss at Middlebury College maintains an excellent site dedicated to this novel. There are illustrations from various editions, maps of ...             We the Living Ayn Rand Signet, 1996 Brutal, Sincere, and Maybe Rand's Best Sometimes, after finishing a book, I feel deep within me that it is important that other people read it, too. I'm sure you feel the same way. We The Living is such a book. I can't say whether it is Rand's best fiction or not... certainly a better read than Atlas ...             The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol Nikolai Gogol Vintage, 1999 Sheer Genius (and a good translation) This is the kind of writing that makes me questions why movies even exist. The style, the sentences, the humor, the feel is all something unique, unpredictable, and unmistakable. These plots are bizarre, intriguing and it is nearly impossible to guess the endings. All ...             Putin's Labyrinth: Spies, Murder, and the Dark Heart of the New Russia Steve Levine Random House, 2008 Agree or Disagree with it, a Book To Read Steve LeVine's compelling and engagingly horrified study of the 'dark heart of the new Russia' stands head and shoulders above the spate of books triggered by the Litvinenko murder because it is not about one killing so much as 'a chronicle of violence in modern-day ...             The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar Robert Alexander Penguin (Non-Classics), 2004 Mystery Solved? I checked out this book on the recommendations of several bloggers. I have always been interested in the fate of Nicholas II and his family, so it seemed a natural choice. I was pleasantly surprised. The Kitchen Boy was a quick and very enjoyable read. Beginning as ...             The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (P.S.) Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2007 The best book I have read in years! A real eye-opener. For any who have any nostalgia for the Soviet Union, this book should put it to rest. This book is hard to categorize; it is more than one man's opinion, but less than an objective history. It is, as Solzhenitsyn puts it, "an experiment in literary investigation": a ...          products you might be interested in search for books afghanistan, archipelago, investigation, kettlebell, khrushchev, reinventing      toavi.com    web we recommend A extraordinary novel randomly chosen book: Preschool for Parents: What Every Parent Needs to Know About Preschool