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  Archangel

  by Robert Harris

  The murderous search for Josef Stalin's personal notebook takes an American professor to the vast forests of northern Russia, where Stalin's final, shocking secret waits to be discovered... "A gratifying reminder that it is possible to write popular fiction with intelligence and grace."-- The Washington Post "His best plotted and most absorbing."-- Philadelphia Inquirer "Beautifully blends fact and... (more)
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  The Coldest Winter

  America and the Korean War

  by David Halberstam

  David Halberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the defining book for the Vietnam War. More than three decades later, Halberstam used his unrivalled research and formidable journalistic skills to shed light on another dark corner in our history: the Korean War. The Coldest Winter is a successor to The Best and the Brightest, even though in historical terms it precedes it.Halberstam... (more)
• Hiroshima: Fifty Years of Debate (Both Sides)Robert Young

  

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  Hiroshima: Fifty Years of Debate (Both Sides)

  by Robert Young

  Gr 6-9--These series entries feature an attractive layout, readable typeface, plenty of white space, and informative sidebars and captions for the well-chosen, well-reproduced black-and-white archival photographs and prints. Young's prose is crisp, to-the-point, and insightful; he makes use of appropriate quotes, although they are not documented. The presentation of ``both sides'' of the events under discussion... (more)
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  Josef Stalin (Leading Lives)

  by David Downing

  This series covers key leaders in history and explores their lives and achievements. Each book examines the person's early years, studies and interests, professional life, low points and their legacy. An underlying theme throughout the series is whether an individual can change the course of history. Each book contains: - feature panels detailing the lives of colleagues, rivals and others, sources, quotes and... (more)
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  Execution by Hunger

  The Hidden Holocaust

  by Miron Dolot

  In 1929, in an effort to destroy self-sufficient peasant farmers, Stalin ordered the collectivization of all Ukrainian farms. In the ensuing years, a brutal Soviet campaign of confiscations, terror and murder spread through the villages. What food remained was insufficient to support the population. In the resulting famine as many as seven million Ukrainians starved to death. This poignant eyewitness account... (more)
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  Yalta: The Price of Peace

  by S. M. Plokhy

  A major new history of the eight days in February 1945 when FDR, Churchill, and Stalin decided the fate of the world Imagine you could eavesdrop on a dinner party with three of the most fascinating historical figures of all time. In this landmark book, a gifted Harvard historian puts you in the room with Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt as they meet at a climactic turning point in the war to hash out the... (more)
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  The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag After Stalin

  by Stephen F. Cohen

  Joseph Stalin's reign of terror in the Soviet Union has been called "the other holocaust." Over the course of 24 years, more innocent men, women, and children perished than died in Hitler's murder of European Jews. This book originated 30 years ago when Stephen F. Cohen, a professor of Russian studies and history at New York University, first began researching the lives of those victims released after Stalin's... (more)
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  Caught Red Starred

  by Curtis B Robinson

  Curtis B. Robinson is an upstart and well read historian whose interest span from modern European international history to history of socialism and fascism to methods of historical analysis. He was born in Montréal in 1986 before moving to North Bay Ontario where he currently resides. He earned an undergraduate degree in history and fine arts before attaining a Masters in history at Nipissing University. He is... (more)
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  The Perfect Dictator Manual

  by Ghetau Gh. Florin

  The Perfect Dictator Manual is a shocking, revealing and interesting book. The author strips off myths and legends the personalities of the most sinister dictators: Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, or Ceausescu. At the same time, the functioning mechanisms of tyrannical regimes are highlighted. In other words, it is an essay on dictators, dictatorships and their true nature. It is a clear,... (more)
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  Stalin

  The Court of the Red Tsar

  by Simon Sebag Montefiore

  This widely acclaimed biography provides a vivid and riveting account of Stalin and his courtiers—killers, fanatics, women, and children—during the terrifying decades of his supreme power. In a seamless meshing of exhaustive research and narrative ?lan, Simon Sebag Montefiore gives us the everyday details of a monstrous life. We see Stalin playing his deadly game of power and paranoia at debauched dinners at... (more)
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  Reilly: The First Man

  by Robin Bruce Lockhart

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  Stalin

  The Man and His Era

  by Adam Bruno Ulam

  With a new Introduction by the Author
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  Young Stalin

  by Simon Sebag Montefiore

  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 formed this merciless psychopath who was, as well, a consummate politician, the dynamic world statesman who helped create and industrialize the USSR, outplayed Churchill and... (more)
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  Joseph Stalin (Impact Biographies Series)

  by Janet Caulkins

  A biography of the Soviet leader, focusing on his formative years in Soviet Georgia, his rise to the top of the Communist party, and his leadership during World War II.
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  Animal Farm

  by George Orwell

  The satirical, allegorical fable of a revolution being corrupted by a wicked, greedy dictator and the blind faith of ignorant citizens, destroying the possibility of a democracy. Written during the rise of the USSR in the WWII, this book is hailed as a classic due to its powerful message and simple storytelling.