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Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust by Miron Dolot Publisher Comments In 1929, in an effort to destroy the well-to-do peasant farmers, Joseph Stalin ordered the collectivization of all Ukrainian farms. In the ensuing years, a brutal Soviet campaign of confiscations, terrorizing, and murder spread throughout Ukrainian... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag by Orlando Figes Publisher Comments A heroic love story and an unprecedented inside view of one of Stalin's most notorious labor camps, based on a remarkable cache of letters smuggled in and out of the Gulag "I went to get the letters for our friends, and couldn't help but feel a little... (read more) Your price: $28.00 New - Hardcover
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The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia by Tim Tzouliadis Publisher Comments A remarkable piece of forgotten history- the never-before-told story of Americans lured to Soviet Russia by the promise of jobs and better lives, only to meet tragic ends In 1934, a photograph was taken of a baseball team. These two rows of young men... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz Publisher Comments The harrowing true tale of escaped Soviet prisoners¿ desperate march out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin by Adam Hochschild Publisher Comments Although some twenty million people died during Stalins reign of terror, only with the advent of glasnost did Russians begin to confront their memories of that time. In 1991, Adam Hochschild spent nearly six months in Russia talking to gulag survivors... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Intimacy and Terror: Soviet Diaries of the 1930s by Veronique Garros Publisher Comments The private diary accounts of daily life in Russia at the height of Stalinism.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Midland Book #0536: Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russias City of Steel by John Scott Synopsis Students reading Scott have come away with a real appreciation of the hardships under which these workers built Magnitogorsk and of the nearly incredible enthusiasm with which many of them worked. --Ronald Grigor Suny A genuine grassroots account of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Stalin : Biography (06 Edition) by Robert Service Publisher Comments Overthrowing the conventional image of Stalin as an uneducated political administrator inexplicably transformed into a pathological killer, Robert Service reveals a more complex and fascinating story behind this notorious twentieth-century figure... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Motherland in Danger: Soviet Propaganda During World War II by Karel C Berkhoff Publisher Comments Much of the story about the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany has yet to be told. In Motherland in Danger, Karel Berkhoff addresses one of the most neglected questions facing historians of the Second World War: how did the Soviet leadership... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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A Mountain of Crumbs by Elena Gorokhova Publisher Comments A Mountain of Crumbs is the moving story of a young Soviet girl's discovery of the hidden truths of adulthood and her country's profound political deception. Elena, born with a desire to explore the world beyond her borders, finds her passion in the... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum Publisher Comments The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners--was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz Publisher Comments MORE THAN HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD The classic adventure story that inspired the new major motion picture The Way Back, directed by Peter Weir *** I hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia (07 Edition) by Orlando Figes Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book of 2007 "A tremendous achievement."--The Sunday Times (London) The Whisperers is a triumphant act of recovery. In this powerful work of history, Orlando Figes chronicles the private history of family life during the violent... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s by Sheila Fitzpatrick Publisher Comments Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by one of our foremost authorities on modern Russian history. Focusing on urban areas in the 1930s, Sheila Fitzpatrick shows that with the adoption of collectivization and the first Five-... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (In-Formation) by Alexei Yurchak Publisher Comments Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it... (read more) List Price $36.75 Your price: $18.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Eitingons: A Twentieth-Century Story by Mary Kay Wilmers Publisher Comments Mary-Kay Wilmers began looking into aspects of her remarkable family twenty years ago. The result is a book of astonishing scope and originality that throws light into some of the darkest corners of the last century. At the center of the story stands the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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A Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir by Elena Gorokhova Publisher Comments Elena Gorokhovas A Mountain of Crumbs is the moving story of a Soviet girl who discovers the truths adults are hiding from her and the lies her homeland lives by. Elenas country is no longer the majestic Russia of literature or the tsars, but a nation... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Inside the Kremlinus Cold War: From Stalin to Krushchev by Vladislav Zubok Publisher Comments Covering the volatile period from 1945 to 1962, Zubok and Pleshakov explore the personalities and motivations of the key people who directed Soviet political life and shaped Soviet foreign policy. They begin with the fearsome figure of Joseph Stalin... (read more) List Price $36.75 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lenin's Private War: The Voyage of the Philosophy Steamer and the Exile of the Intelligentsia by Lesley Chamberlain Publisher Comments In 1922, Lenin personally drew up a list of some 160 'undesirable' intellectuals - mostly philosophers, academics, scientists and journalists - to be deported from the new Soviet State. 'We're going to cleanse Russia once and for all' he wrote to Stalin,... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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White on Black by Ruben Gallego Publisher Comments This is an extraordinary personal testament, the story of one boy's triumph in the face of impossible obstacles. Born with cerebral palsy in Moscow, Ruben Gallego was hidden away in Soviet state institutions by his maternal grandfather, the secretary... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $2.75 Used - Hardcover
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