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[quote=Anonymous]For Eastern Europe, I would read Milan Kundera— really good depiction of what life was like in thr 1960s.

There was also a great article that came out about 20 years ago about how the stasi had infiltrated the East German leftist poet scene.  It was amazing.  Maybe someone can find it.

For a Russia, I think the book mastering the art of Soviet cooking: a memoir is maybe the best thing I’ve ever read on the good and bad of living under Soviet communism in Russia.

The movie Burnt by the Sun is an amazing movie about the Stalinist purges that I think dealt gives it the right flavor.

There is also an old memoir by a dissident about growing up in Stalinist Russia, if you can find a translation, see this article here:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03064229008534989

And the book about the publication of Dr zhivago has a lot of detail about the lives of the intelligentsia  weunder the first half of Soviet rule.

In general,Soviet life was very different in the 70s-80s than it was in the 50’s or in the 30’s, or during the war.  [/quote]

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