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1) Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin

Author

Snyder, Timothy

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook

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In this revelatory book, Timothy Snyder offers a groundbreaking investigation of Europe's killing fields and a sustained explanation of the motives and methods of both Hitler and Stalin. He anchors the history of Hitler's Holocaust and Stalin's Terror in their time and place and provides a fresh account of the relationship between the two regime.

2) Darkness at noon

Author

Koestler, Arthur

Series

Bantam modern classic edition

Language

English

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Fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an aging revolutionary, imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the Party to which he has dedicated his life. As the pressure to confess preposterous crimes increases, he re-lives a career that embodies the terrible ironies and human betrayals of a totalitarian movement masking itself as an instrument of deliverance.

3) Stalin: Volume 1,Paradoxes of power, 1878-1928

Author

Kotkin, Stephen

Pub. Date

2014.

Physical Desc

xiii, 949 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Language

English

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In his biography of Stalin, Kotkin rejects the inherited wisdom about Stalin's psychological makeup, showing us instead how Stalin's near paranoia was fundamentally political and closely tracks the Bolshevik revolution's structural paranoia, the predicament of a Communist regime in an overwhelmingly capitalist world, surrounded and penetrated by enemies. At the same time, Kotkin posits the impossibility of understanding Stalin's momentous decisions...

4) Bitter harvest

Pub. Date

[2017]

Physical Desc

1 videodisc (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Language

English

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Set against the explosive, war-torn backdrop of 1930s Ukraine, this action-filled epic follows a young artist as he battles famine, imprisonment, and torture to save his childhood love and free his country.

5) Stalin: waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941

Author

Kotkin, Stephen

Pub. Date

2017.

Physical Desc

xvii, 1,154 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Language

English

6) Stalin's genocides

Author

Naimark, Norman M

Series

Human rights and crimes against humanity

Pub. Date

[2010]

Physical Desc

ix, 163 pages ; 23 cm.

Language

English

7) Stalin's meteorologist: one man's untold story of love, life, and death

Author

Rolin, Olivier

Pub. Date

2017.

Physical Desc

179 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm

Language

English

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"In 1934, the highly respected head of the Soviet Union's meteorology department, Alexei Feodosievich Wangenheim, was suddenly arrested without cause and taken to a gulag. Less than a year after being hailed by Stalin as a national hero, he ended up with thousands of other 'political prisoners' in a camp on an island in the north, under vast skies and surrounded by water that was, for more than six months of the year, a sheet of motionless ice. He...

8) Lenin: the man, the dictator, and the master of terror

Author

Sebestyen, Victor

Pub. Date

2017.

Physical Desc

xix, 569 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Language

English

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"Drawing on new research, including the diaries, memoirs, and personal letters of both Lenin and his friends, Victor Sebestyen's biography--the first in English in nearly two decades--is not only a political examination of one of the most important historical figures of the twentieth century, but a portrait of Lenin the man."-- "Victor Sebestyen's riveting biography of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin--the first major biography in English in nearly two decades--is...

9) Flirting with danger: the mysterious life of Marguerite Harrison, socialite spy

Author

Wallach, Janet

Pub. Date

[2023]

Physical Desc

xi, 326 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Language

English

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"The true story of socialite spy Marguerite Harrison, who slipped behind enemy lines in Russia and Germany in the fraught period between the world wars Foreign correspondent. Author. Filmmaker. Spy. Marguerite Harrison was born into Gilded Age American privilege and launched a successful career as a culture writer for the Baltimore Sun as a young widow. But when America entered World War I, Harrison secretly applied for a position in intelligence....

10) Joseph Stalin: Red terror

Series

Biography)

Pub. Date

2002.

Physical Desc

1 videodisc (50 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Language

English

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A biographical account of the Soviet Union's infamous dictator from his childhood in Georgia to his seminary studies and domination of the Soviet people.

11) Communism: a history

Author

Pipes, Richard

Series

Modern Library chronicles volume 7

Pub. Date

2001.

Physical Desc

xi, 175 pages ; 20 cm.

Language

English

12) The formation of the Soviet Union: communism and nationalism, 1917-1923 : with a new preface

Author

Pipes, Richard

Series

Russian Research Center studies volume 13

Pub. Date

1997.

Physical Desc

xvi, 365 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Language

English

13) Lenin: a new biography

Author

Volkogonov, D. A

Pub. Date

[1994]

Physical Desc

xxxix, 529 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Language

English

14) Children of the Arbat

Author

Rybakov, Anatoliĭ

Series

Arbat trilogy volume 1

Pub. Date

[1988]

Physical Desc

685 pages ; 24 cm.

Language

English

15) The little Russian

Author

Sherman, Susan

Pub. Date

2012.

Physical Desc

332 pages ; 24 cm

Language

English

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"The Little Russian spotlights an exciting new voice in historical fiction, an assured debut that should appeal to readers of Away by Amy Bloom or Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier. The novel tells the story of Berta Alshonsky, who revels in childhood memories of her time spent with a wealthy family in Moscow--a life filled with salons, balls, and all the trappings of the Upper Class--very different from her current life as a grocer's daughter in the...