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(Click for frequent words.) 52 Otilia Anamaria Marinca 51 Laura Vasiliu 49 Gabita Laura Vasiliu 48 Stalin Soviet Union 48 bleakly funny 47 Soviet totalitarianism 47 avant la lettre 47 Nicolae Ceausescu dictatorship 47 Ceauşescu 46 Nicolae Ceauşescu 46 Stalin gulag 45 Alexandr Solzhenitsyn 45 Ceausescu regime 45 Nicolae Ceausescu 45 Ceaucescu 45 Nazism communism 45 Dostoyevskian 44 Sayrafiezadeh 44 vividly evoked 44 backstreet abortion 44 unnameable 44 postrevolutionary 44 Zelary 44 unflinching portrait 44 tsarist Russia 44 Nussimbaum 44 Ceausescu dictatorship 43 Communism Nazism 43 Kharms 43 binary oppositions 43 philo Semitism 43 Katrin Sass 43 Neo Nazism 43 hermitic 43 constructivists 43 Babchenko 43 child's eye view 43 Mazarine Pingeot 43 twentysomething angst 43 Tsvetaeva 43 Fallada 43 Soviet Gulag 43 Larry Gopnik 43 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 43 Jean Francois Revel 42 philosophes 42 writer Milan Kundera 42 plague pestilence 42 profoundly depressing 42 Stalinist repression 42 Weimar Germany 42 Sylvia Pankhurst 42 Stalin gulags 42 traumatic childhoods 42 communist totalitarianism 42 Hitlerite 42 millenarianism 42 playwright Bertolt Brecht 42 communism fascism 42 lovelessness 42 Dostoevsky novel 42 Hitler Third Reich 41 psychological torment 41 Némirovsky 41 Susanne Lothar 41 morally repellent 41 outlawry 41 Osip Mandelstam 41 rampant misogyny 41 Bennite 41 Soviet Gulags 41 overdetermined 41 Sexual promiscuity 41 Bukharin 41 Communist dictatorships 41 Mao Cultural Revolution 41 stultification 41 fascist dictatorships 41 welfare statism 41 stomach churningly 41 Wang Jiazhi 41 Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 41 Schlöndorff 41 Gedeck 41 disillusionments 41 Soviet gulags 41 Enver Hoxha 41 vivid portrait 41 Vivie Warren 41 Simon Devon Bostick 41 syphilitic 41 Bildungsroman 41 Shosanna Melanie Laurent 41 presentiment 41 Gabita 41 Socialist Realist 41 philosopher Karl Marx 41 Countess Elizabeth Bathory 40 Sarajevan 40 Lacanian 40 degradingly 40 interwar 40 Boris Pasternak 40 gorily 40 harrowingly 40 Communist Czechoslovakia 40 hormonally challenged 40 Nazified 40 de humanised 40 infantilising 40 Bielski partisans 40 marxism 40 phantasmal 40 Alexander Solzhenitsyn 40 Treslove 40 totalitarian communism 40 Siberian gulags 40 Darkly funny 40 Marcell Nagy 40 mordantly 40 Emile Zola Germinal 40 Anamaria Marinca 40 tenebrous 40 Hussite 40 poet Anna Akhmatova 40 Gulags 40 Mitteleuropa 40 reification 40 Stalinist regimes 40 philosopher Hannah Arendt 40 Stalin Gulag 40 unflinching depiction 40 oubliette 40 blackly humorous 40 determinist 40 Stalinist dictatorship 40 Tito Yugoslavia 40 espionage thrillers 40 ideological dogmatism 40 Communist regimes 40 individualist anarchism 40 Zamyatin 40 Mao Zedong Cultural Revolution 39 VI Lenin 39 Cristian Mungiu 39 Pope decries 39 downright terrifying 39 Ravensbruck 39 communist Czechoslovakia 39 mental asylums 39 Variously described 39 Ryszard Kapuscinski 39 materialism consumerism 39 Unrequited love 39 Raskolnikov 39 Salem witch hunts 39 war famine pestilence 39 playwright Clifford Odets 39 polymorphously perverse 39 Communist totalitarianism 39 Petr Ginz 39 paranoic 39 Mühe 39 Grimm fairytales 39 Stasiland 39 musty corridors 39 Victor Frankl 39 vivid portrayals 39 Nadezhda Mandelstam 39 morbid obsession 39 dew breaker 39 Brezhnev era 39 thinly fictionalized 39 Oedipal complex 39 Vlad Ivanov 39 unbearably sad 39 inescapability 39 salient characteristic 39 perpetual adolescence 39 Ofelia Ivana Baquero 39 overly romanticized 39 Marinca 39 inextricably entangled 39 Georg Lukacs 39 morally relativistic 39 Ida Dalser 39 ruthlessly repressed 39 Manichaean 39 infantilizes 39 totalitarian societies 39 unlovely 39 Captive Mind 39 Mikhail Gorbachev perestroika 39 Siberian Gulag 39 cherchez la femme 39 Sovietism 39 Dostoevskian 39 Hanna Saoirse Ronan 39 Idi Amin Uganda 39 demi monde 39 Boogie Scott Speedman 39 oppressive dictatorships 39 romanticisation 39 Sandinista Nicaragua 39 utopian dreams 39 unrelievedly 39 Baiev 38 radical egalitarianism 38 postbellum 38 Isakowicz Zaleski 38 romanticises 38 Sighet 38 mercilessness 38 Bezmozgis 38 repressiveness 38 hypochondriacal 38 Faderman 38 communist dictatorships 38 phantasms 38 anticommunist 38 Nikolai Bukharin 38 latent homosexuality 38 Totalitarian regimes 38 Walter Rathenau 38 unimaginably cruel 38 bewitchment 38 Transylvanian accent 38 Stalin repressions 38 Anton Mikael Persbrandt 38 cautionary fable 38 foetid 38 Lenin Trotsky 38 meticulously recreates 38 vividly portrayed 38 protag 38 grotesqueness 38 moral ambiguities 38 Napola 38 inky shadows 38 lonliness 38 gratuitously cruel 38 bleakly comic 38 nongraphic 38 Tolstoyan 38 hellholes 38 Peasant Revolt 38 postcommunist 38 utopian socialism 38 GULAG 38 Father Lankester Merrin 38 metanarrative 38 romantic fable 38 Nicolae Ceaucescu 38 desolating 38 morally degenerate 38 familial discord 38 communism 38 Suha Lubna Azabal 38 Orwellian dystopia 38 Goodbye Lenin 38 Meinhof 38 unplanned parenthood 38 pitiless 38 Communism 38 medievalism 38 atheistic regimes 38 Mitfords 38 Magda Goebbels 38 Yuri Zhivago 38 morbidly funny 38 Nazism Communism 38 psychological underpinnings 38 Strangelovian 38 serial killer Andrei Chikatilo 38 Svetlana Alliluyeva 37 Faulknerian 37 unrepressed 37 Stalinism 37 Michael Herr Dispatches 37 limning 37 Herzen 37 Adulterous 37 Shukhov 37 socialist republics 37 Damien Cillian Murphy 37 anarchist Mikhail Bakunin 37 endlessness 37 catharses 37 disjuncture between 37 Nazi extermination camps 37 Nazism fascism 37 Trotsky 37 Kubrickian 37 Mike Marqusee 37 existential dread 37 unspeakable brutality 37 Mikael Blomkvist Michael Nyqvist 37 evanescence 37 brother Branwell 37 widows divorcees 37 Whiggish 37 immiserated 37 Žižek 37 Slavoj Žižek 37 alley abortionist 37 STASI 37 threnody 37 tyrannised 37 oedipal 37 immured 37 hellishness 37 Czernowitz 37 Spufford 37 Terezin ghetto 37 Slezkine 37 Burghart Klaussner 37 shiksa goddess 37 Nazi Germany 37 rackety 37 verminous 37 dystopian vision 37 solipsist 37 totalitarian regimes 37 Tsarist regime 37 Bukovina 37 samizdat 37 Stalin purges 37 vivid depiction 37 incubus 37 Ajami depicts 37 ambisexual 37 booze addled 37 termagant 37 compulsive womanizer 37 Nazi extermination camp 37 Frailty thy name 37 fictionalisation 37 squalour 37 Chandleresque 37 Wellesian 37 graphic novel Maus 37 philosopher Emmanuel Levinas 37 Katja Riemann 37 Erik Eric Bana 37 Ogarev 37 horror subgenre 37 homoerotic subtext 37 handmaids 37 Germany Die Tageszeitung 37 bluestocking 37 disjunction between 37 allegory 37 fictionalization 37 murderousness 37 folie à deux 37 disjunctions 37 nostalgic longing 37 unrelentingly grim 37 Georgi Staykov 37 squalid dungeon 37 Tear jerking 36 famine pestilence 36 depravities 36 frigidity 36 Anita Cobby 36 Hemingway esque 36 Günter Grass 36 Olanna 36 muddleheaded 36 postmillennial 36 macabre fascination 36 Alexander Herzen 36 vitalism 36 hyper individualism 36 grotesque caricature 36 dictator Enver Hoxha 36 Weimar republic 36 objective correlative 36 warped worldview 36 Fr Jerzy 36 poet Vladimir Mayakovsky 36 Le Carré 36 Armenian Golgotha 36 deathlike 36 historiographical 36 joylessness 36 Stalin USSR 36 Czechoslavakia 36 Collectible Spoons 36 irrevocably intertwined 36 sheer ordinariness 36 desuetude 36 inveterate womanizer 36 Stalinist purges 36 Partisan Daughter 36 Absurdistan 36 Lisbeth Salander Noomi Rapace 36 insiderism 36 Lazar Kaganovich 36 slyly funny 36 Václav Havel 36 descriptive prose 36 Hogarthian 36 eroticised 36 Elisabeth Sevre 36 blithe disregard 36 dehumanisation 36 Hannah Arendt 36 Bebe Vlad Ivanov 36 Corinna Harfouch 36 aristocratic upbringing 36 perceptive observer 36 metaphor 36 Dreyman 36 purblind 36 unrelieved 36 neo feudal 36 charnel house 36 urban ghettos 36 grisliness 36 utter hopelessness 36 authoritarian 36 purposelessness 36 ambivalences 36 Johanna Wokalek 36 sentimentalize 36 becomes romantically entangled 36 tyrannized 36 unlived 36 familial dysfunction 36 leftist intellectuals 36 Ulrich Mühe 36 consumerist mentality 36 Pinsk 36 uncanniness 36 revisionist histories 36 Soviet 36 Stalin Hitler 36 Stalinist 36 Sukhanov 36 velvet revolutions 36 Goldengrove 36 Bielski brothers 36 declinist 36 czarist Russia 36 incestual 36 mustache twirling villains 36 voluptuous blond 36 forced collectivization 36 fascist regimes 36 Jewish émigrés 36 foundlings 36 Hungarian countess 36 slavelike 36 Arthur Michael Angarano 36 Akhmatova 36 quasi autobiographical 36 bitterly resentful 36 Romanian orphanages 36 Monika Hertwig 36 German expressionism 36 Vasily Grossman 36 unwanted unloved 36 tragi 36 intertwined fates 36 comfortless 36 director Cristian Mungiu 36 Securitate 36 Anneliese Michel 36 rapine 36 Maycomb Alabama 36 Larry Gopnik Michael Stuhlbarg 36 repetition compulsion 36 borning 35 Khaldei 35 socialist realism 35 Ostalgie 35 filmmaker Cristian Mungiu 35 premonitory 35 bourgeois housewife 35 drabness 35 dykey 35 Triumph Forsaken 35 cultureless 35 unbeautiful 35 Shaun Thomas Turgoose 35 sexually precocious 35 existential crises 35 Bolshevism 35 hellish 35 unknowability 35 adultress 35 Clotilde Hesme 35 Irena Gut Opdyke 35 Wilhelmine Germany 35 Tessa Rachel Weisz 35 Gorbachev glasnost 35 Arta Dobroshi 35 Szekal 35 sadnesses 35 neo imperialism 35 dystopian nightmare 35 Sergi Lopez 35 Alzheimer's afflicted 35 Marx Freud 35 Lars Lindstrom 35 unnamed narrator 35 Terezín 35 repressive societies 35 spy Alger Hiss 35 tawdrier 35 chillingly reminiscent 35 unbearably poignant 35 Braunau Austria 35 graphic descriptions 35 Mungiu 35 uncannily reminiscent 35 Nazism Fascism 35 Stalinist tyranny 35 Traudl 35 visceral revulsion 35 picturesquely 35 enervation 35 shabbiest 35 Daniel Goldhagen 35 Maribel Verdú 35 limns 35 Bertold Brecht 35 endless fascination 35 Claude Zane Pais 35 Frozen Bryony Lavery 35 darkly comic 35 Julie Depardieu 35 voyeuristic fascination 35 parallelisms 35 bureaucratic collectivism 35 Adolf Hitler Nazi 35 darkly 35 shrewish wife 35 cleareyed 35 interwar period 35 Dwight Clive Owen 35 husbandless 35 Nazism 35 juxtapositioning 35 morally vacuous 35 murderous 35 Nikolai Viggo Mortensen 35 Stalins 35 Oskar Kare Hedebrant 35 Stalinist bureaucracy 35 Czeslaw Milosz 35 lonely spinster 35 bipolar manic depressive 35 prelapsarian 35 shapelessness 35 medieval blood libels 35 squalid 35 blackly funny 35 vivid 35 darkly comical 35 Vronsky 35 correspondent Martha Gellhorn 35 Transcendentalists 35 documentarylike 35 religious obscurantism 35 Vertov 35 Loktev 35 personalistic 35 George Orwell 35 Clinton Lewinsky scandal 35 Adam Michnik 35 dankness 35 Shakespearean drama 35 Wahhabi conservatism 35 Brest Litovsk 35 utter pointlessness 35 Hungarian Jewry 35 Herzogian 35 girl Ivana Baquero 35 feminist critique 35 totalitarianism 35 innkeeper sheltering refugees 35 Deborah Kara Unger 35 Nazis 35 inextricable link 35 paints bleak portrait 35 nightmarishly 35 fluorescent lit 35 Nikita Khrushchev 35 Hitlerism 35 Emma Bovary 35 darkly satirical 35 Nicolai Ceausescu 35 Iron Curtain 35 intertextual 35 totalitarian 35 utopian visions 35 fictionalizing 35 Eurasianism 35 datedness 35 coups mutinies 35 nineteen thirties 35 matricidal 35 grubbiest 35 postmodernity 35 Soviet Communism 35 voyeuristically 35 realistic depictions 35 romanticization 34 Christa Maria Sieland 34 Francois Papa Doc Duvalier 34 phantasmagoria 34 Humbert Humbert 34 rigid hierarchies 34 supernatural goings 34 spies counterspies 34 angsty teenager 34 Thekla Reuten 34 Julia Jentsch 34 insane asylums 34 Hapsburg Empire 34 Socialist Realism 34 Beckettian 34 cripplingly shy 34 journalist Walter Lippmann 34 choiceless 34 maiden aunts 34 Sverak 34 savage satire 34 Moni Moshonov 34 lodestars 34 Bolshevik 34 overthrew communism 34 Belsen concentration camp 34 Gilbert Melki 34 Harvey Klehr 34 pauperism 34 Mazower 34 anomie 34 touchingly vulnerable 34 wreaks vengeance 34 rivetingly 34 shtupping 34 moral equivalencies 34 opiated 34 Klement Gottwald 34 homicidal 34 Eastern Bloc 34 blithely unconcerned 34 demimonde 34 psychologically astute 34 Astrov 34 depravations 34 hectoring hegemons 34 Clara Bellar 34 Wieviorka 34 cinematic portrayals 34 Dickens Bleak House 34 paradoxical 34 archetypally 34 Mélanie Laurent 34 Wojtyła 34 cross pollinations 34 Solzhenitzyn 34 vividly 34 smug complacency 34 insuperable odds 34 eerie parallels 34 Color Revolutions 34 Cameronism 34 Xavier Romain Duris 34 Sophoclean 34 evocations 34 Dantean 34 Manichean struggle 34 Brieskow 34 Stalin 34 Orwellian doublespeak 34 recrudescence 34 Dante inferno 34 coke addict 34 Interweaving 34 Alex Gabe Nevins 34 Communist 34 slatternly 34 pantomimic 34 Hitchcock Vertigo 34 Muratova 34 grubbiness 34 tragicomic 34 Khruschev 34 Lady Murasaki 34 chronicles 34 lunatic asylums 34 guilt inducing 34 ghetto 34 Kundera 34 Molotov Ribbentrop 34 Jean Louis Trintignant 34 psychodramas 34 utter depravity 34 Soviet communism 34 Czechoslovak communist 34 heartstring pulling 34 Uxbal Javier Bardem 34 dank basements 34 eccentric loner 34 Hungarian Uprising 34 inextricably interwoven 34 Sheehy Skeffington 34 gruesomely 34 poignantly 34 affectionate portrait 34 contemporary resonances 34 supernatural overtones 34 Tereus 34 Communist witch hunts 34 incurability 34 Brigitte Helm 34 post structuralism 34 skillfully interweaves 34 La Vellini 34 miserabilism 34 evocation 34 sheer banality 34 Abu Graib prison 34 neoliberal orthodoxy 34 internecine wars 34 moral absolutism 34 morbidly fascinating 34 sheer strangeness 34 cruelness 34 George Orwell '# 34 vengeful ghost 34 Stasi 34 Stasi secret 34 Dickensian squalor 34 Ribbentrop Molotov pact 34 Königsberg 34 wonderfully readable 34 Fascist Italy 34 Arletty 34 Lwow 34 Andrei Voznesensky 34 Lyla Garrity Minka Kelly 34 elegaic 34 Zylberstein 34 Norma Aleandro 34 Sís 34 Tsarist 34 sheer pointlessness 34 moonfaced 34 Clausewitzian 34 Nazi collaborators 34 unhealed scars 34 unremittingly bleak 34 Joseph Stalin 34 conflations 34 euthenasia 34 Roman Polanski Chinatown 34 subhuman conditions 34 Fictional characters 34 unflinching candor 34 cultural signifiers 34 obsessive stalker 34 Soviet Union 34 abstract noun 34 Buchenwald Concentration Camp 34 folie deux 34 Generalizing 33 Althusser 33 hyper capitalistic 33 Dante esque 33 pathologically shy 33 Juliet Nicolson 33 dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn 33 institutionalism 33 self lacerating 33 Pill popping 33 Soviet Bloc 33 Hitler 33 surrealist imagery 33 futuristic dystopian 33 eugenic 33 stiflingly 33 incommensurability 33 thoroughly indoctrinated 33 Flossenburg concentration camp 33 grand guignol 33 darkly humourous 33 sci fi dystopia 33 squalid slums 33 mythologizes 33 Wladyslaw Szpilman 33 sheer awfulness 33 Potemkin villages 33 leader Erich Honecker 33 utter bleakness 33 Felliniesque 33 stalag 33 Lajos Kossuth 33 incorrect Gramer 33 nihilistic 33 bored housewife 33 primally 33 ominous overtones 33 vermin infested 33 rejecter 33 vividly captures 33 unpeopled 33 Fascist 33 verité 33 Decembrists 33 humanistic ideals 33 Communist dictatorship 33 Parisian courtesan 33 Merriam Webster Dictionary defines 33 mythmakers 33 Adriana Iliescu 33 concentration camps 33 bourgeois nationalist 33 Kenneth Patchen 33 self abnegating 33 societal stigma 33 intersectionality 33 Solzhenitsyn 33 analogizing 33 essayistic 33 Jeffersonian ideals 33 Otilia 33 denunciatory 33 Aubrey Beardsley 33 sclerotic bureaucracy 33 Sabina Spielrein 33 Russianness 33 chilling 33 Biblical allusions 33 Jettel 33 Czechoslovaks 33 suburban ghettoes 33 Krushchev 33 Nazi 33 wifely duty 33 appeased Hitler 33 inextricably entwined 33 Marechera 33 unmarriageable 33 smoking waterpipe 33 psychopathic serial killer 33 Josip Tito 33 crack whores 33 Reagonomics 33 Anne Parillaud 33 fascism 33 Gorbachev perestroika 33 platonic relationships 33 adumbrate 33 Bolsheviks 33 abject squalor 33 Josef Fritzl imprisoned 33 Soviet Jewry movement 33 prefigure 33 involving Georgi Ivanov 33 Belle de Jour 33 Ceausescu 33 Verging 33 shtetls 33 emotionally repressed 33 utter lawlessness 33 determinists 33 jarring juxtapositions 33 non derogable 33 intricately entwined 33 horrors 33 uncanny parallels 33 Lisa Loomer 33 ideological fervor 33 sheer randomness 33 Ana Geislerova 33 Linda Riss 33 teenhood 33 loveless marriages 33 paradoxes 33 freethinking 33 aborning 33 Walter Ulbricht 33 banal 33 Yanar Mohammed 33 Mysterious Stranger 33 EL Doctorow Ragtime 33 Lech Walesa Solidarity 33 repressions 33 Anatoly Kuznetsov 33 prefiguring 33 Von Donnersmarck 33 sends shudders 33 dictator Ceausescu 33 Grégoire Colin 33 gratuitously violent 33 Khalezin 33 Natalie Krinsky 33 raddled 33 Siberian gulag 33 Pol Pot genocidal 33 Marina Golbahari 33 suppurating 33 oppressive regimes 33 Milan Kundera 33 fabulism 33 Enigma encryption 33 vivid evocation 33 Squalid 33 innocent preborn 33 counterpoised 33 Ravensbrück concentration camp 33 Kafkaesque 33 DEIDRE SAYS 33 depiction 33 philosopher Isaiah 33 instils fear 33 Maw Maw Cloris Leachman 33 Communism Socialism 33 Nazi henchmen 33 comically absurd 33 demonically possessed 33 Soviets 33 godless communism 33 subtextual 33 disjuncture 33 morally corrosive 33 contracted venereal disease 33 sheer relentlessness 33 existential ennui 33 Benoît Magimel 33 murderous madman 33 unaffecting 33 Czarist 33 Rodchenko 33 phantasmagoric 33 contradistinction 32 unavoidable byproduct 32 arch villains 32 novice nun 32 Dubcek 32 Winona Natalie Zea 32 womanless 32 cuckolds 32 unspeakably evil 32 Kolya Spiridonov 32 Dalton Ty Simpkins 32 diseased outcasts 32 cheerless 32 author Alexander Solzhenitsyn 32 Procrustean bed 32 destitution 32 allegories 32 eponymous heroine 32 totalitarian regime 32 grotesque 32 Nazi propagandists 32 Fritzl incest 32 waxing indignant 32 longue durée 32 irresolvable conflict 32 Derg regime 32 unadorned prose 32 bloodiness 32 Thereby hangs 32 Engrossing 32 repressive regimes 32 communist regimes 32 Isaac Deutscher 32 Sovietologists 32 agoraphobe 32 Omar Metwally 32 dystopian 32 utter squalor 32 downright spooky 32 wretching 32 bone crunchingly 32 Wislawa Szymborska 32 grimness 32 Balkan Wars 32 Magdalene laundries 32 Sergi López 32 existential loneliness 32 intimately entwined 32 dissident Vladimir Bukovsky 32 expiating 32 Sylvie Testud 32 Jenny Mia Kirshner 32 Aushwitz 32 nineteen eighties 32 Kitty Genovese 32 Leninism 32 Maria Heiskanen 32 shabbiness 32 Fionnula Flanagan