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  Nicholas and Alexandra

  An Intimate Account of the Last of the Romanovs and the Fall of Imperial Russia

  by Robert K. Massie

  Massie offers a moving, tragic, and unforgettable account of the extraordinary Imperial dynasty of Tsar Nicholas II, his doomed empire, and a revolution that would inexorably change the world forever. "A larger than life drama."--Saturday Review. Photo insert.
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  The Romanovs

  The Final Chapter

  by Robert K. Massie

  In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow mass grave near Ekaterinburg, Siberia, a few miles from the infamous cellar room where the last tsar and his family had been murdered seventy-three years before. But were these the bones of the Romanovs? And if these were their remains- revealed finally after over seven decades-where were the bones of the two younger Romanovs supposedly murdered with the... (more)
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  The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

  by Antony Beevor

  A fresh and acclaimed account of the Spanish Civil War by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Fall Of Berlin 1945 To mark the 70th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War’s outbreak, Antony Beevor has written a completely updated and revised account of one of the most bitter and hard-fought wars of the twentieth century. With new material gleaned from the Russian archives and numerous other ... (more)
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  To the Finland Station

  by Edmund Wilson

  To the Finald Station is one of the greatest works by 20th-century America’s heralded man of letters. This magisterial study of the revolutionary dream reaches from the French Revolution through the Paris Commune to Russia in 1917, and features brilliant portraits of such figures as Jules Michelet, the great historian of the French people; the utopians Robert Owen and Charles Fourier; the anarchist Mikhail... (more)
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  Iron in Her Soul: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and the American Left

  by Helen C. Camp

  Camp has written an informative study of one of the most important radicals to emerge out of the American labor movement. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890-1964) first made her mark as an organizer and speaker for the Industrial Workers of the World. She joined the Communist Party in the mid-1930s and was a leading member for many years. Also active in the area of free speech, Flynn was a founding member of the... (more)
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  Cuba Diaries: An American Housewife in Havana

  by Isadora Tattlin

  Isadora Tattlin was accustomed to relocating often for her husband’s work. But when he accepted a post in Cuba in the early 1990s, she resolved to keep a detailed diary of her time there, recording her daily experiences as a wife, mother, and foreigner in a land of contraband. The result is a striking, rare glimpse into a tiny country of enormous splendor and squalor. Though the Tattlins are provided with a... (more)
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  Modern Library Chronicles: Book 7

  Communism

  A History

  by Richard Pipes

  With astonishing authority and clarity, Richard Pipes has fused a lifetime’s scholarship into a single focused history of Communism, from its hopeful birth as a theory to its miserable death as a practice. At its heart, the book is a history of the Soviet Union, the most comprehensive reorganization of human society ever attempted by a nation-state. This is the story of how the agitation of Karl Marx and Friedrich... (more)
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  Russia & the West Under Lenin & Stalin

  by George F. Kennan

  "CONTENTS: Preface; Conflict of the Two Worlds; The Provisional Government; Brest-Litovsk; Unofficial Allied Agents; The North Russian Intervention; Collapse in the North; The Siberian Intervention; The Allies in Siberia; Russia and the Peace Conference I; Russia and the Peace Conference II; Germany and the Founding of the Comintern; 1920 - The Year of Transition; The Approach to Normal Relations; Western Reaction... (more)
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  The Prophet Armed

  Trotsky, 1879-1921

  by Isaac Deutscher

  Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused as much controversy as the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Trotsky's extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible mark on revolutionary conscience, yet there was a danger that his name would disappear from history. Originally published in 1954, Deutscher's magisterial three-volume biography was the first major publication to... (more)
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  The Long Loneliness

  by Dorothy Day

  A compelling autobiographical testament to the spiritual pilgrimage of a woman who, in her own words, dedicated herself "to bring<ing> about the kind of society where it is easier to be good.'
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  The Proud Tower

  A Portrait of the World Before the War 1890-1914

  by Barbara Tuchman

  "The diplomatic origins, so-called, of the War are only the fever chart of the patient; they do not tell us what caused the fever. To probe for underlying causes and deeper forces one must operate within the framework of a whole society and try to discover what moved the people in it." --Barbara W. Tuchman The fateful quarter-century leading up to the World War I was a time when the world of Privilege still... (more)
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  Cuba : A Short History (Cambridge History of Latin America)

  Cuba: A Short History brings together four chapters from Volumes 3, 5, and 7 of The Cambridge History of Latin America to provide for scholars, students and general readers a concise history of this important island nation. Contributors, top scholars in the field, trace the political, economic, and social development of Cuba from the middle of the eighteenth century to the present day. The concluding chapter,... (more)
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  Hammer and Hoe

  Alabama Communists During the Great Depression

  by Robin D. G. Kelley

  Between 1929 and 1941, the Communist Party organized and led a radical, militantly antiracist movement in Alabama—the center of Party activity in the Depression South. Hammer and Hoe documents the efforts of the Alabama Communist Party and its allies to secure racial, economic, and political reforms. Sensitive to the complexities of gender, race, culture and class without compromising the political narrative,... (more)
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  Marx's Das Kapital: A Biography (Books That Changed the World)

  by Francis Wheen

  In this brilliant book, “as gripping and as readable as a first-rate thriller,” Francis Wheen, author of the most successful biography of Karl Marx, tells the story of Das Kapital and Karl Marx’s twenty-year struggle to complete his unfinished masterpiece. ( The Sunday Telegraph ) Born in a two room flat in London’s Soho amid political squabbles and personal tragedy, the first volume of Das Kapital was published... (more)
• I speak my own piece: Autobiography of "The Rebel Girl"Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

  

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  I speak my own piece: Autobiography of "The Rebel Girl"

  by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

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  House of Meetings

  by Martin Amis

  An extraordinary novel that ratifies Martin Amis’s standing as “a force unto himself,” as The Washington Post has attested: “There is, quite simply, no one else like him.” House of Meetings is a love story, gothic in timbre and triangular in shape. In 1946, two brothers and a Jewish girl fall into alignment in pogrom-poised Moscow. The fraternal conflict then marinates in Norlag, a slave-labor camp above the... (more)
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  The Spanish Civil War

  by Hugh Thomas

  A masterpiece of the historian’s art, Hugh Thomas’s The Spanish Civil War remains the best, most engrossing narrative of one of the most emblematic and misunderstood wars of the twentieth century. Revised and updated with significant new material, including new revelations about atrocities perpetrated against civilians by both sides in this epic conflict, this "definitive work on the subject" (Richard Bernstein,... (more)
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  Ragtime

  by E. L. Doctorow

  Doctorow's big bestseller, made into a major movie and now repackaged, was first published in mass market paper by Bantam.
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  The Coming of the French Revolution

  by Georges Lefebvre

  This classic work details what happened in France during the year 1789, the first year of the French Revolution. First published in 1939 for the sesquicentennial of the Revolution, the book was suppressed by the Vichy government after the outbreak of the Second World War and the subsequent collapse of the Third Republic. Since most copies of the original French edition were destroyed, the work remained virtually... (more)
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  Vietnam

  A History

  by Stanley Karnow

  Provides a comprehensive look at both sides of the Vietnam War through a collection of personal tales and delves into the political and military events in the United States and elsewhere that originally caused the war and the brought it to an end. Reprint. TV tie-in."