Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The Eitingons The Eitingons 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… OL15569564W
Gulag Voices Gulag Voices Otto Kernberg,Anne Applebaum Collects the writings of a diverse group of people who survived imprisonment in the Gulag, recounting their experiences and relationships, and offering insight into the psychological aspects of life … OL15572224W
Inventing the enemy Inventing the enemy Wendy Z. Goldman "Ordinary people and the Stalinist terror uses stories of personal relationships to explore the behavior of ordinary people during Stalin's terror. Communist Party leaders targeted specific groups fo… OL16528476W
Время сэконд хэнд Время сэконд хэнд Светлана Алексиевич "From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the … OL16813790W
Writing the Stalin era Writing the Stalin era Golfo Alexopoulos,Kiril Tomoff,Julie Hessler "This book weaves together elements of biography, historiography, and historical writing to explore the writings and legacy of Sheila Fitzpatrick, the University of Chicago's eminent scholar of Sovie… OL16938544W
The Nationalities factor in Soviet politics and society The Nationalities factor in Soviet politics and society Mark R. Beissinger,Lubomyr Hajda 1990 OL18319352W
Caught in the revolution Caught in the revolution 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… OL19667232W
Radioecology and the Restoration of Radioactive-Contaminated Sites Radioecology and the Restoration of Radioactive-Contaminated Sites Felix F. Luykx Most of the nuclear facilities built since the Second World War have ceased active operation and have been decommissioned. Some of the sites are heavily contaminated with radioactive substances. Corr… OL19898476W
1990 1990 I. Prokhorova "Although 1989 and 1991 witnessed more spectacular events, 1990 was a year of embryonic change in Russia: Article 6 of the constitution was abolished, and with it the Party's monopoly on political po… OL20035774W
Архипелаг ГУЛАГ Архипелаг ГУЛАГ Александр Исаевич Солженицын The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-… OL272388W
The food revolution in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe The food revolution in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe Robert Deutsch xxii, 256 p. ; 23 cm OL5108729W