A gripping historical account of President Ronald Reagan's battle to end the Cold War, adapted for young readers from the book by #1 bestselling author and Fox News Channel anchor Bret Baier On May 31, 1988, President Ronald Reagan...
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Author:Baier, BretSummary: -
Author:Baier, BretSummary:1,000 MILES BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN, HE STOOD FOR FREEDOM The #1 bestselling author and award-winning anchor of the #1 rated Special Report with Bret Baier reveals as never before Reagan's dramatic battle to win the Cold War. In his...
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Author:Lebedev, SergeĭSummary:A story of a Russian boyhood and coming of age as the Soviet Union is on the brink of collapse.
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Author:Fitch, JanetSummary:Marina Makarova is a woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints of her genteel life. Swept up on the tides of the Russian Revolution, Marina joins the marches for workers' rights, falls in love with a radical young...
- Author:Dietrich, JohnSummary:
Contrary to what is often reported in history books, the Morgenthau Plan was a major element in postwar planning led by Washington, before the war was even over. This book traces the roles played by Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary of...
- Author:Meier, AndrewSummary:
A brilliant Columbia University graduate, Isaiah Oggins went to Berlin to establish a safe house and spy for his country--but he turned coat. Working for the Soviets, he was nevertheless poisoned in 1947 on Stalin's orders.
- Author:Rubenstein, JoshuaSummary:
This book takes us back to 1952, when no one could foresee an end to Joseph Stalin's murderous regime. Rubenstein vividly describes Stalin's mysterious, sudden death and the unfolding of Soviet and international events in the months...
- Author:Tregebov, RheaSummary:
When Annette Gershon was ten, growing up in her father's delicatessen in Winnipeg in the 1930s, her parents decided to escape the devastation of the Depression by returning to Russia. These were the years of Stalin and the threat...
- Author:Tregebov, RheaSummary:
Annette Gershon's odyssey from depression-era Winnipeg to Stalinist Russia and back to Canada in the 1950s is both the seldom-told story of those who actually made that hopeful, doomed, journey, and a testament to the tenacity of the...
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Author:Slezkine, YuriSummary:Published on the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction.
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Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a...
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Author:Gaddis, John LewisSummary:From "the dean of Cold War historians" (New York times): an important new reckoning with the hostile relationship that defined our age.
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Author:DeMille, NelsonSummary: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: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...
- 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...
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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...
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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...
- 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: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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