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The silver crest
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Korneĭ Chukovskiĭ |
Relates a young Russian boy's experiences growing up in Odessa in the 1890's. |
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Conspirator
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Helen Rappaport |
The father of Communist Russia, Vladimir Ilych Lenin now seems to have emerged fully formed in the turbulent wake of World War I and the Russian Revolution. But Lenin's character was in fact forged m… |
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Architect of Soviet victory in World War II
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Richard W. Harrison |
"This book draws from analysis of Isserson's works, his arrest file in the KGB archives, and interviews with his family. The bulk of this narrative deals with the flowering of his intellectual talent… |
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Gulag voices
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Jehanne M. Gheith |
"In this volume, the powerful voices of Gulag survivors will become accessible to English-speaking audiences for the first time through oral histories, rather than written memoirs. It brings together… |
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Kaia, heroine of the 1944 Warsaw Rising
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Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm |
Kaia, Heroine of the 1944 Warsaw Rising tells the story of one woman, whose life encompasses a century of Polish history. Full of tragic and compelling experiences such as life in Siberia, Warsaw bef… |
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Inside Russia today
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John Gunther,John Gunther |
An informal study of post-Stalin Russia--its accessibility, attractions, government and politics, culture, society, foreign relations, and current trends in many of these areas--based on the author's… |
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Michael Kort |
Discusses the life of Mikhail Gorbachev from his formative years to the present, and examines the reforms he has introduced to the Soviet Union. |
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Andrew Langley |
Describes the life and political career of Mikhail Gorbachev and his legacy in the context of the demise of the Soviet Union and conditions in Russia today. |
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Caught in the revolution
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Helen Rappaport |
"Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye-witness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold. Between the… |
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The last days of Stalin
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Joshua Rubenstein |
"Joshua Rubenstein's riveting account takes us back to the second half of 1952 when no one could foresee an end to Joseph Stalin's murderous regime. He was poised to challenge the newly elected U.S. … |
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Stalin
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Stephen Kotkin |
"A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world. It has the quality of myth: a poor cobbler's son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russ… |
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Half-life
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F. E. Close |
Bruno Pontecorvo dedicated his career to hunting for the Higgs boson of his day-- the neutrino, a nearly massless particle considered essential to the process of nuclear fission. His work on the Manh… |
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Differential equations of my young years
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V. G. Mazʹi͡a |
Vladimir Maz'ya (born 1937) is an outstanding mathematician who systematically made fundamental contributions to a wide array of areas in mathematical analysis and in the theory of partial differenti… |
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Aquarium
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Viktor Suvorov |
"We have a very simple rule. It's a rouble to get in, but two to get out." Thus begins the extraordinary chronicle of Viktor Suvorov's early preferment within the Soviet Army which brought him to Vie… |
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My life in Stalinist Russia
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Mary M. Leder |
"In January 1931, Mary M. Leder, an American teenager, was attending high school in Santa Monica California. By year's end, she was living in a Moscow commune and working in a factory, thousands of m… |
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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David Downing |
Follows the life of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, who became the first head of the Soviet state. |
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Charles R. Bennett |
An account of the life and times of this leader who is promoting reform in the Soviet Union. |
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In the land of white death
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Valerian Albanov,Linda Dubosson,Valerian Ivanovich Alʹbanov |
In 1912, six months after Robert Falcon Scott and four of his men came to grief in Antarctica, a thirty-two-year-old Russian navigator named Valerian Albanov embarked on an expedition that would prov… |
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Young Stalin
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Simon Sebag-Montefiore |
The shadowy journey from obscurity to power of the Georgian cobbler's son who became the Red Tsar--the man who, along with Hitler, remains the modern personification of evil: a merciless psychopath w… |
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Korolev
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James Harford |
In the late 1950s and early 1960s when the West was stunned by the space accomplishments of the Soviet Union, the identity of their "Chief Designer" was a state secret in keeping with the tradition o… |
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