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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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The Eitingons
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Mary-Kay Wilmers |
"Leonid Eitingon was a KGB assassin who dedicated his life to the Soviet regime. He was in China in the early 1920s, in Turkey in the late 1920s, in Spain during the Civil War and, crucially, in Mexi… |
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Soviet women on the frontline in the Second World War
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Roger D. Markwick |
"More than 800,000 Soviet women fought against Hitler's onslaught during the 'Great Patriotic War,' 1941-45. Female participation in military conflict on such a scale is historically unique. This is … |
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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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The dilemmas of Lenin
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Tariq Ali |
"Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the October 1917 uprising, is one of the most misunderstood leaders of the twentieth century. In his own time, there were many, even among his enemies, who acknowled… |
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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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Game Plan
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Zbigniew K. Brzezinski,Samuel P. Huntington |
Comparative analysis of Soviet and American institutions, sponsored jointly by the Russian Institute and The Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University. |
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Retreat from the Finland Station
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Kenneth Murphy |
In 1940, when Marxism seemed at its apex as a moral and political force, Edmund Wilson published To the Finland Station, his landmark work on the growth of the socialist idea from Vico and Michelet t… |
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Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler
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Robert Gellately |
A bold new accounting of the great social and political upheavals that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945--from the Russian Revolution through the Second World War.In Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, a… |
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Leninism
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Alfred G. Meyer |
Written by a former Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University, 'Leninism' attempts a definitive and dispassionate study of Lenin's teachings and their influence in the formation of … |
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Stalin
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Simon Sebag-Montefiore |
The fascination with evil; that is how I describe reading this book. Because the main character - Josyp Stalin - fascinated like a snake. His evil is unwavering; from the early 1920's until his dea… |
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