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Dersu Uzala (1975) is available for free, on HD, at Mosfilm's Youtube channel, along with other USSR-era classics.

https://www.youtube.com/@Mosfilm_eng

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Mosfilm is the best channel on youtube

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"Russia's Entangled Embrace" by Rieggs is quite good too - focusing on Russian contacts with the Armenians in the 19th century.

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Thank you for this.

Do you have a note taking process?

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I use a blank piece of paper as a bookmark and take notes on it as I read, with pages noted as well. If I read online I just keep a Word doc open beside the PDF of the book. But everything I wrote here is mostly from memory

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This was great, including the intro essay. Thank you!

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Thank you!

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This is great, thank for putting this list together!

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Thank you!

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I’m going to Uzbekistan next week, do you have any book recommendations for the trip?

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