{"id":120,"date":"2006-03-24T10:18:33","date_gmt":"2006-03-24T06:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=120"},"modified":"2006-03-28T11:48:10","modified_gmt":"2006-03-28T07:48:10","slug":"obsessed-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/120\/","title":{"rendered":"Obsessed? Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Books I have read over the past year:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Berlin: The Downfall, 1945<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> by Antony Beevor<\/p>\n

Crime and Punishment<\/a><\/em>, by Fyodor Dostoevsky<\/p>\n

Among the Russians<\/a><\/em>, by Colin Thubron<\/p>\n

The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia<\/em><\/a>, by Peter Hopkirk<\/p>\n

Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin’s Dream of an Empire in Asia<\/em><\/a>, by Peter Hopkirk<\/p>\n

Putin’s Russia<\/a><\/em>, by Anna Politkovskaya<\/p>\n

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian<\/em><\/a>, by Marina Lewycka<\/p>\n

Lost Heart of Asia<\/a><\/em>, by Colin Thubron<\/p>\n

In Siberia<\/a><\/em>, by Colin Thubron<\/p>\n

We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History<\/a><\/em>, by John Lewis Gaddis<\/p>\n

Chasing the Sea:\u00a0 Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia<\/em><\/a>, by Tom Bissell<\/p>\n

Cancer Ward<\/em><\/a>, by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn<\/p>\n

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich<\/em><\/a>, by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn<\/p>\n

Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Twentieth-Century Russia<\/em><\/a>, by Catherine Merridale<\/p>\n

Books I’m planning to read:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Khrushchev: The Man and His Era<\/em><\/a>, by William Taubman<\/p>\n

A Writer at War : Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945<\/em><\/a>, Vasily Grossman<\/p>\n

Ivan’s War : Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945<\/em><\/a>, by Catherine Merridale<\/p>\n

The Cold War: A New History<\/em><\/a>, by John Lewis Gaddis<\/p>\n

Black Earth: A Journey through Russia After the Fall<\/em><\/a>, by Andrew Meier<\/p>\n

In Denial: Historians, Communism, & Espionage<\/em><\/a>, by John Earl Haynes & Harvey Klehr<\/p>\n

God Lives in St. Petersburg<\/a><\/em>, by Tom Bissell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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