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Soviet Union

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The story of one man's struggle to survive in a Soviet workcamp during the Stalin era.

Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union

Kevin Cunningham

Examines Stalin's rise to power as a terrible and terrorizing figure.

Living Through the End of the Cold War

This book is a collection of primary and secondary accounts of the end of the Cold War, describing the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Communist government in Czechoslovakia, Boris

The Collapse of the Soviet Union

This book traces the rapid demise of the Soviet Communist system from the death of Leonid Brezhnev, to the reforms implemented by Mikhail Gorbachev, to the reactionary coup against these reforms, and

Russia

Kathleen Berton Murrell

An overview of the land, people, history, and culture of Russia from its earliest days to the present.

Soldier X

Don L. Wulffson

In 1943 sixteen-year-old Erik experiences the horrors of war when he is drafted into the German army and sent to fight on the Russian front.

The Cuban Missile Crisis

Catherine Hester Gow

Examines the events preceding, during, and after the confrontation between the United States and Cuba over the presence of Soviet missiles there.

The Russian Federation

Laurel Corona

Explore how twenty-first century Russia struggles to make a new and independent destiny for itself against great economic, political, and social odds.

The Wild Children

Felice Holman

Left behind when his family is arrested by soldiers during the dark days following the Bolshevik Revolution, twelve-year-old Alex falls in with a gang of other desperate homeless children, but never l

The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union

John R. Matthews

This book discusses the history of the Soviet Union, from the revolution of 1917, through the Lenin and Stalin eras and the rule of such leaders as Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and Gorbachev, up to the forma

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