soviet union history

I realise how little I understand how communism worked in the Soviet Union and how a day to day existence was in comparison to living under Capitalism. Can you recommend a couple of resources that will help me understand better? For example, I don't understand how money worked in the USSR if...

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/05/world/new-study-supports-idea-stalin-was-poisoned.html

So there's a truism that Stalin killed more than Hitler, having killed 20 million. However, according to historian Tim Snyder... He goes on.... and finally. http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2011/01/27/hitler-vs-stalin-who-was-worse/ I have heard from other sources that the death figures...

To avoid derailing discussion about North Korea.... I'm with Craig B on this one

I remember as a freshman in college I used got to the university library to read out-of-town news papers. Our library even had a subscription to Pravda and Tass: and I loved reading those papers. Gawd...Pravda and Tass were such rags - and such bad propaganda - that it occurred to me that the...

Having gone through a dozen or so monographs, textbooks and biographies on Hitler, the politics of Nazi Germany and the evolution and nature of the Holocaust, I feel that it is only appropriate to move on to that other great tyrant of the 20'th century. The problem I've had in tracking down...

I'm trying to remember the title/author of a book. It was published in the 80's and discussed, et al, the Iranian revolution, the disintegration of the Soviet Union and analyzed the shifts in popular sentiment. In particular the author noted that people reluctant to criticize their regime...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial_of_the_Holodomor I'm familiar with the Holocaust Denial movement but not so much with this one. I'm reading that it's mostly concentrated in Eastern Europe (due to the numerous references in the Cyrillic languages) and was, unsuccessfuly, promoted by a few...

From the Daily Telegraph newspaper: Well, that's a interesting bit of denialism.