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Fear No Evil: The Classic Memoir of One Man's Triumph Over a Police State
by Anatoly Shcharansky  Publisher Comments Temperamentally and intellectually, Natan Sharanskey is a man very much like many of us -- which makes this account of his arrest on political grounds, his trial, and ten years' imprisonment in the Orwellian universe of the Soviet gulag particularly...
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Russia: The Roots of Confrontation
by Robert Daniels Publisher Comments Robert V. Daniels' book Russia: The Roots of Confrontation, first published in 1985, examines the historical contrasts between East and West and elucidates the Russian enigma. The book springs from the thesis that Russia's national character and its...
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My Dear Mr. Stalin: The Complete Correspondence of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin
by Susan Butler Publisher Comments "M""y Dear Mr. Stalin" is the first publication that contains the complete correspondence between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin. This collection of more than three hundred hot-war messages, never before fully available in any language, is an...
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Journey Into the Whirlwind
by Eugenia Ginzburg Publisher Comments Both witness to and victim of Stalin's reign of terror, a courageous woman tells the story of her harrowing eighteen-year odyssey through Russia's prisons and labor camps. Translated by Paul Stevenson and Max Hayward. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book<BR>...
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Stalin's Successors: Leadership, Stability, and Change in the Soviet Union
by Seweryn Bialer Publisher Comments This book provides a comprehensive overview of the ways in which the structure and process of Soviet politics have been transformed since Stalin’s death, and particularly during the years of the Brezhnev regime. In explaining the Soviet Unionâ€...
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Russia: The Soviet Period and After
by Woodford Mcclellan Publisher Comments This up-to-date history of Russia -- from the cataclysmic events of 1917 to the uncertain, explosive present -- is based on the latest findings of scholars from Russia and the West. The book reflects the author's "own" extensive research in many Russian...
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Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin : the Social Dynamics of Repression (07 Edition)
by Wendy Z. Goldman Publisher Comments Terror and Democracy in Stalin’s Russia is the first book devoted exclusively to popular participation in the ‘Great Terror’, a period in which millions of people were arrested, interrogated, shot, and sent to labor camps...
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The Voices of the Dead: Stalin's Great Terror in the 1930s
by Hiroaki Kuromiya Publisher Comments Swept up in the maelstrom of Stalin’s Great Terror of 1937–1938, nearly a million people died. Most were ordinary citizens who left no records and as a result have been completely forgotten. This book is the first to attempt to retrieve their...
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The Great Terror: A Reassessment
by Robert Conquest Publisher Comments The definitive work on Stalin's purges, Robert Conquest's The Great Terror was universally acclaimed when it first appeared in 1968. Harrison Salisbury called it "brilliant...not only an odyssey of madness, tragedy, and sadism, but a work of scholarship...
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Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
by William Taubman 
Publisher Comments Brimming with the life and excitement of Nikita Krushchev, a man whose story personified his era, this biography reflects the full range of sources that have become available since the Soviet Union collapsed. of photos....
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My Life in Stalinist Russia: An American Woman Looks Back
by Mary M Leder Publisher Comments In 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 miles from her family, with whom she had emigrated to...
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The Dictatorship of Sex: Lifestyle Advice for the Soviet Masses
by Frances Bernstein Book News Annotation Concerns about prostitution and rising rates of venereal disease combined with other forms of unease over sexuality in Soviet Russia of the 1920s, prompting the Soviet medical profession, at the behest of the People's Commissariat of Public Health, to...
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Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
by William Taubman
Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 793-824) and index....
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Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million
by Martin Amis
Publisher Comments Koba the Dread is the successor to Martin Amis's celebrated memoir, Experience. It is largely political while remaining personal. It addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth-century thought: the indulgence of communism by intellectuals of the...
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The Gates of November: The Epic True Story of a Jewish Family
by Chaim Potok Publisher Comments "REMARKABLE . . . A WONDERFUL STORY."<BR>--The Boston Globe <BR>The father is a high-ranking Communist officer, a Jew who survived Stalin's purges. The son is a "refusenik," who risked his life and happiness to protest everything his father...
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In Confidence: Moscow's Ambassador to America's Six Cold War Presidents
by Anatoly Dobrynin Book News Annotation Dobrynin was the Soviet ambassador to Washington from the Kennedy to the Reagan administrations, and became the confidential channel for informal discussions, secret negotiations, and arranging summit meetings, in addition to his public duties. His...
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Inside the Kremlin's Cold War : From Stalin To Khrushchev (96 Edition)
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, who...
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Poverty in the Soviet Union
by Mervyn Matthews Publisher Comments The book deals with the continuing problem of poverty in Soviet society, a problem which the Revolution of 1917 was supposed to solve in a planned and expeditious manner. The topic is important both because it involves large numbers of people, and...
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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...
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Russia's Last Capitalists: The Nepmen, 1921-1929
by Alan M Ball Publisher Comments In 1921 Lenin surprised foreign observers and many in his own Party, by calling for the legalization of private trade and manufacturing. Within a matter of months, this New Economic Policy (NEP) spawned many thousands of private entrepreneurs, dubbed...
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