First published in the early twentieth century shortly after the Russian Revolution of 1917, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin has been translated by Natasha Randall and republished in 2006. We is considered a precursor to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Fourand has a feeling similar to Ray Bradbury's Fa
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It seemed very far fetched to me that a country or a person would try to subvert an entire religion. It seemed even less possible to me that anyone could hate the thought that a God exists, so much that he would devote his entire life to subverting the Catholic Church. Surely this book must be a
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The Secret Speech by Tom Rob Smith is a historical yet very intense and exciting novel. Another masterpiece Tom Rob Smith was published since Child 44. The setting of the story is on Soviet Grounds in 1956. During this war era between the government and the civilians, everyone had seen the terror
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The fire and subsequent disaster in Chernobyl on April 26, 1986, was one of the largest nuclear disasters of all time. Located in the Ukraine, which was then a part of the Soviet Union, the Chernobyl incident was mismanaged and covered up by a weakening government. Svetlana Alexievich's Voices fr
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