On a dark road deep inside Russia, a young American tourist picks up a most unusual passenger a US POW on the run with an incredible secret to reveal to an unsuspecting world. The secret concerns a place called Mrs. Ivanova's Charm...
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Author:DeMille, NelsonSummary: -
Author:May, James L.Summary:A political prisoner incarcerated on the island of Solovetsky, the most notorious Russian prison camp of the 1920s, is mysteriously conscripted to solve the murder of a fellow inmate.
- Author:Hadfield, ChrisSummary:
1973: a final, top-secret mission to the Moon. As Russian and American crews sprint for a secret bounty hidden away on the lunar surface, old rivalries blossom and the political stakes are stretched to the breaking point back on Earth...
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Author:REED, JohnSummary:"Ten Days That Shook the World" is American journalist and socialist John Reed's first-hand account of the Russian October Revolution of 1917. While it is intended as an impartial and unbiased historical account, by Reed...
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Author:Johansen, Ilse, Marshall, Heather, Gahler, Hans Rudolf, Seadle, MichaelSummary:“The terrified yell of my comrades makes me stop. I drop the potatoes into the grass and turn around. He has pulled out the pistol and is taking aim. Slowly I come back.” Surviving the Gulag is the first-person account of a resourceful...
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“The terrified yell of my comrades makes me stop. I drop the potatoes into the grass and turn around. He has pulled out the pistol and is taking aim. Slowly I come back.” Surviving the Gulag is the first-person account of a resourceful...
- Author:Kotkin, StephenSummary:
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 Russian Empire, reinvents himself as a...
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Author:Sullivan, RosemarySummary:The award-winning author of Villa Air-Bel returns with a painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history's most monstrous dictators--her father, Josef...
- Author:Kotkin, StephenSummary:
Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin continues his definitive biography of Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror through to the coming of the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history...
- Author:Montefiore, Simon SebagSummary:
Fifty years after his death, Stalin remains a figure of powerful and dark fascination. The almost unfathomable scale of his crimes - as many as 20 million Soviets died in his purges and infamous Gulag - has given him the lasting...
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Author:Platonov, Andreĭ PlatonovichSummary:The Soviet writer Andrey Platonov saw much of his work suppressed or censored in his lifetime. In recent decades, however, these lost works have reemerged, and the eerie poetry and poignant humanity of Platonov’s vision have become ever...
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Author:Francis, DanielSummary:At the end of World War I, Canada was poised on the brink of social revolution. At least that is what many Canadians, inspired by the success of the Russian Revolution in 1917, hoped and others dreaded. Seeing Reds tells the story of...
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Author:Rutherfurd, EdwardSummary:This epic historical novel tells the story of four families who are divided by ethnicity but united in shaping the destiny of Russia. Peter the Great, Ivan the Terrible, Catherine the Great, and Lenin all play their roles in creating...
- Author:Golden, ChristopherSummary:
A documentary film crew in Siberia encounters otherworldly beasts and inexplicable phenomena along a highway built over a massive graveyard, as if the ghosts of Stalin's victims were haunting them.
- Author:Zacharias, RobertSummary:
Despite the fact that Russian Mennonites began arriving in Canada en masse in the 1870s, Mennonite Canadian literature has been marked by a compulsive retelling of the mass migration of some 20,000 Russian Mennonites to Canada following...
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Author:Applebaum, AnneSummary:From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain, a revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes-the consequences of which still resonate today In 1929 Stalin launched...
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Author:Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr IsaevichSummary:In the madness of World War II, a dutiful Russian soldier is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to ten years in a Siberian labor camp. So begins this masterpiece of modern Russian fiction, a harrowing account of a man who has...
- Author:Heaton, Colin D.Summary:
Occupation and Insurgency details German policies toward civilians and captured military forces in the Soviet Union from 1941–1945 and examines them in the context of the laws of war. The results of these policies illustrate how an...
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Author:Rich, BettySummary:When the Nazis invaded her small town of Zduńska Wola, Poland, in 1939, sixteen-year-old Basia Kohn (later Betty Rich) escaped into Soviet-occupied Poland. Over the next five years, her journey took her thousands of kilometres from a...
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Author:LeBlanc, Perrine, Hamilton, David ScottSummary:Set against the backdrop of Stalinism and then the collapse of the USSR, Kolia is a luminous and unforgettable story about a boy born in a Siberian Gulag and his eventual freedom and life as a clown in the Moscow circus in the 1960s....
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