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Reading List:

A History of Russia, Mongolia and Central Asia part 1 by David Christian

A History of Russia, Mongolia and Central Asia part 2 by David Christian

Europe a History by Norman Davies

A History of Russia by Orlando Figes

The Rise of the West by William McNeil

Europe's Steppe Frontier 1500-1800 by William McNeil

The Story of the Russian Land by Alexander Dmitrevich Nechvolodov

Atrocities by Matthew White

Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder

The Dictators by Richard Overy

The Rise and Fall of Communism by Archie Brown

Disunited Nations by Peter Turchin

Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall

False Economy by Alan Beattie

The Age of Faith by Will Durant

The Reformation by Will Durant

The History of Western Warfare part 2 by JFC Fuller

Why Nations Fail by Acemoglu

The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama

Secular Cycles by Peter Turchin

End Times by Peter Turchin

War, Peace and War by Peter Turchin

Nothing is True and Everything is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev

Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quiggley

All the Kremlin's Men by Mikhail Zygar

Forces of Change by Henry Hobhouse

Poland by Adam Zamoyski

War in Human Civilization by Azar Gat

The Origins of Ideology by Emmanuel Todd