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The Whisperers
Orlando Figes
“an astonishing book”
“there's there's an astonishing book ... Orlando figus has a amazing book called The Whisperers that traces several families history in the Stalin period”— Vejas Liulevicius
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Witness
Whittaker Chambers
“one of the most amazing books of the 20th century”
“one of the most amazing books of the 20th century is is the book written by Whitaker Chambers ... his book is entitled witness”— Vejas Liulevicius
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Fifth Business
Robertson Davies
“my favorite author my favorite author is a uh now uh a late Canadian author by the name of Robertson Davies”
“he's most famous probably for the depford trilogy three novels in in a series that are linked and they're just masterful”— Vejas Liulevicius
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The Manticore
Robertson Davies
“my favorite author ... they're just masterful”
“the Deford Trilogy fifth business the Manticore world of Wonders and he got a really nice beard”— Vejas Liulevicius
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World of Wonders
Robertson Davies
“my favorite author ... they're just masterful”
“the Deford Trilogy fifth business the Manticore world of Wonders and he got a really nice beard”— Vejas Liulevicius
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Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
“it was magical for the sheer sweep and tragedy and human resilience”
“seeing the film of Dr zivago and then later reading the novel on which it was based by pastan ... it was magical for the sheer sweep and tragedy and human resilience”— Vejas Liulevicius
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Doctor Zhivago
David Lean (inferred)
“it was magical for the sheer sweep and tragedy and human resilience”
“seeing the film of Dr zivago ... it was magical for the sheer sweep and tragedy and human resilience that it showed”— Vejas Liulevicius
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Rocky IV
Sylvester Stallone (inferred)
“one of my favorite movies”
“Rocky four one of my favorite movies well that's canonical right”— Lex Fridman
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The Great Courses Plus
The Great Courses
“I recommend people sign up ... they're just incredible”
“I recommend people sign up for GR courses plus which I think is like a monthly membership uh where you get access to all these courses and they're just incredible”— Lex Fridman
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Perplexity
Perplexity AI (inferred)
“let me give a shout out to perplexity ... which is extremely useful”
“let me give a shout out to perplexity that I'm using here for to uh to sort of summarize and take quick notes ... which is extremely useful”— Lex Fridman
The guest's own work
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The German Myth of the East
Vejas Liulevicius
“my second book uh which is entitled uh the German myth of the East which appeared with Oxford University press um examines centuries in the German encounter with Eastern Europe”— Vejas Liulevicius
Also referenced (named, not recommended)
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The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“the stories soja nen's Gulag archipelago is full of stories of dedicated Communists uh who find themselves in the GG”— Vejas Liulevicius
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Main Currents of Marxism
Leszek Kolakowski
“the Polish philosopher Lea kovski ... wrote a three volume study of marxist thought called currents of Marxism”— Vejas Liulevicius
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The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
“the Communist Manifesto uh is uh a brief pamphlet that ended up affecting the lives of many millions worldwide”— Vejas Liulevicius
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Das Kapital
Karl Marx
“DUS Capital uh is an enormous multivolume work that that Marx worked at and only got the first volume out”— Vejas Liulevicius
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Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler
“the Nazis moreover in their in many different expressions of their ideology had made clear that their plans you can read this in mine comp for Eastern Europe”— Vejas Liulevicius
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The Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli
“it gets said about Stalin that he used to spend a lot of time flipping through makaveli's the prince”— Vejas Liulevicius
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The Big Lebowski
Joel and Ethan Coen (inferred)
“nihilism is introduced in the brilliant philosophical work I don't know if you're familiar with it uh by the name of uh the big Labowski”— Vejas Liulevicius
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