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Stalin the Court of the Red Tsar
by Simon Montefiore  Synopsis The story of the men and women who sustained Stalin in power in the Soviet Union for nearly 30 years....
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Gulag: A History
by Anne Applebaum 
Publisher Comments The Gulag — the vast array of Soviet concentration camps — was a system of repression and punishment whose rationalized evil and institutionalized inhumanity were rivaled only by the Holocaust. The Gulag entered the world's historical...
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The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
by Orlando Figes Publisher Comments From the award-winning author of A People’s Tragedy and Natasha’s Dance, a landmark account of what private life was like for Russians in the worst years of Soviet repression There have been many accounts of the public aspects of...
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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 a leading authority on modern Russian history. Focusing on the urban population, Fitzpatrick depicts a world of privation, overcrowding, endless lines, and broken homes, in which the...
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Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip: The 1935 Travelogue of Two Soviet Writers
by Ilya Ilf Publisher Comments In 1935, well into the era of Soviet communism, Russian satirical writers Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov came to the U.S as special correspondents for the Russian newspaper Pravda. They drove cross-country and back on a ten-week trip, recording images of...
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The Long Walk, New PB Edition: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
by Slavomir Rawicz Publisher Comments "I hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all those who for many reasons could not speak for themselves."--Slavomir Rawicz In 1941, the author and six other fellow prisoners escaped a Soviet labor...
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The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine
by Robert Conquest Publisher Comments The Harvest of Sorrow is the first full history of one of the most horrendous human and social tragedies of our century. As Robert Conquest shows in heart-rending detail, Stalin's plan to collectivize Soviet agriculture amounted to an unparalleled...
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Long Walk : the True Story of Trek To Freedom (97 Edition)
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....
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Thank You, Comrade Stalin! : Soviet Public Culture From Revolution To Cold War (00 Edition)
by Jeffrey Brooks Publisher Comments Thank you, our Stalin, for a happy childhood." "Thank you, dear Marshal [Stalin], for our freedom, for our children's happiness, for life." Between the Russian Revolution and the Cold War, Soviet public culture was so dominated by the power of the state...
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The Best Sons of the Fatherland: Workers in the Vanguard of Soviet Collectivization
by Lynne Viola Publisher Comments 'In this ground-breaking study Lynne Viola--the first Western scholar to gain access to the Soviet state archives on collectivization--brilliantly examines a lost chapter in the history of the Stalin revolution. Looking in detail at the backgrounds...
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Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936
by Wendy Z Goldman Publisher Comments This book focuses on how women, peasants, and orphans responded to Bolshevik attempts to remake the family, and how their opinions and experiences in turn were used by the state to meet its own needs....
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A Failed Empire Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev the Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev
by Vladislav Zubok Publisher Comments Western interpretations of the Cold War--both realist and neoconservative--have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin's pragmatism or its aggressiveness, argues Vladislav Zubok. Explaining the interests, aspirations, illusions, fears, and...
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Blockade Diary
by Lidiya Ginzburg Publisher Comments The 900-day siege of Leningrad was one the turning points of the Second World War. It slowed down the German advance into Russia and became a national symbol of survival and resistance. From her own experience of the blockade and using facts...
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Last of the Empires: A History of the Soviet Union 1945-1991
by John L H Keep Publisher Comments 'Designed with the general reader in mind, this clearly written narrative history of the Soviet Union from the end of World War II to its collapse in 1991 provides an integrated introduction to the \"Last of the Empires.\" There were more than one...
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Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953
by Geoffrey Roberts Publisher Comments This breakthrough book provides a detailed reconstruction of Stalin’s leadership from the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 to his death in 1953. Making use of a wealth of new material from Russian archives, Geoffrey Roberts challenges a...
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Great Terror 40 Anniversary Edition
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 Includes bibliographical references (p. 793-824) and index....
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Young Stalin
by Simon Se Montefiore Publisher Comments A revelatory account that finally unveils the shadowy journey from obscurity to power of the Georgian cobbler’s son who became the Red Tsar—the man who, along with Hitler, remains the modern personification of evil. What makes a Stalin? What...
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Stalinism as a Way of Life: A Narrative in Documents (Annals of Communism)
by Lewis Siegelbaum Publisher Comments In this unique book, an abridged edition of an earlier highly praised work, we hear the poignant voices of those who experienced firsthand the complex and perilous wold of the Soviet Union under Stalin....
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A Red Boyhood: Growing Up Under Stalin
by Anatole Konstantin Publisher Comments Many children growing up in the Soviet Union before World War II knew the meaning of deprivation and dread. Bur for the son of an enemy of the people, those apprehensions were especially compounded. When the secret police came for his father in 1938, ten-...
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