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What is a good book to learn about the history of the USSR?

Question by regalsegal: What is a good book to read to learn about the history of the USSR?
I want to understand the personal relationships and philosophies of the various players of the USSR between the late 19th century and mid twentieth century -e.g. marx, engels, lenin, stalin, kruschev. I just finished reading John Adams so I am looking for something provocative and interesting, not just a dry history book.

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From Russia with love by Ian Flemming

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  1. bookmuscle says

    Orlando Figes–A People's Tragedy
    Robert Service–Lenin: A Biography
    Robert Service–Stalin: A Biography
    Simon Sebag-Montefiore–Young Stalin
    –Stalin: The Court of the Red Czar
    Robert Service–A History of Modern Russia

    Richard Pipes and W. Bruce Lincoln have both written multi-volume histories of the Russian Revolution.

    I hope this helps.

    Oh, for Marx read:
    David Mclellan–Karl Marx

    The classic study on its subject is:
    GDF Cole–A History of Socialist Thought (7 volumes, I think)

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