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A History of Eastern Europe<\/strong><\/a> is a series of videos that tell a broad history that includes episodes about early Soviet Russia, life during totalitarian regimes, the Cold War, and post-1989 eastern Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection has some watercolor scenes<\/a> of life in the early Soviet period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chechnya: War Without Trace<\/a><\/strong> is a documentary that explores the decades of silencing political dissent in the Chechen Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The author, Anthony Marra speaks<\/a> about the use of humor in dealing with tragic subject matter at Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C. The full book talk can be viewed\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brat [Brother]<\/em><\/strong> and Brat 2 [Brother 2]<\/em><\/strong>: These two films<\/a> from the late 1990s\/early 00’s (’97 and 2000, respectively) have cult classic status as representations of this period in post-Soviet history. The main character is a veteran of the First Chechen War who finds a career as a hitman after returning home. The first film was a surprise commercial hit, and the second is a much more big-budget action affair that takes place in Russia as well as Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Secondhand Time<\/em><\/strong> by Svetlana Alexievich: Perhaps a timely inclusion, since Alexievich was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2015. This is her ethnography<\/a> of the early post-Soviet period, originally published in 2013 and available in English translation at the Brown University Library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GULAG: A History<\/em><\/strong> by Anne Applebaum: This is a good exploration<\/a> of the GULAG system and its history, the way the camps were built and run, and what prisoners’ lives were like. Anne Applebaum is a frequent contributor to WaPo, the NY Review of Books, Slate, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Garden of Broken Statues: Exploring Censorship in Russia<\/em><\/strong> by Marianna Tax Choldin: Choldin is a librarian and a scholar of Soviet censorship. This book<\/a>, published last year, is more of a memoir, but it fuses both the contemporary and historical content that The Czar <\/i>addresses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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