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Timothy Garton AshThe Magic Lantern
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Further Reading & Resources
Further Reading: Beyond Literature (Nonfiction)
Gale Stokes, editor. From Stalinism to Pluralism A Documentary History of Eastern Europe Since 1945. Oxford University Press, 1996.
A collection of primary-source documents from the Soviet bloc to create a personalized history of Stalinism and beyond in Eastern Europe.
John Connolly, From Peoples Into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe. Princeton University Press, 2020.
A comprehensive history of Eastern Europe from the 18th century to today.
Jussi Hanhimaki and Odd Arne Westad, editors. The Cold War: A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts. Oxford University Press, 2004.
A collection of official and unofficial documents from the Soviet Union to provide a firsthand account of the Cold War era.
William Taubman, Gorbachev, His Life and Times. WW Norton, 2017.
The definitive biography of Mikhail Gorbachev by Pulitzer-Prize winning author William Taubman, who also authored the biography of Nikita Khrushchev.
Katherine Verdery, What Was Socialism And What Comes Next? Princeton University Press, 1996.
A collection of essays that offers an anthropological look at Eastern Europe after the fall of communism.
