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The Long Walk
The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
by Slavomir Rawicz
"I hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all those who for many reasons could not speak for themselves."--Slavomir Rawicz In 1941, the author and six other fellow prisoners escaped a Soviet labor camp in Yakutsk--a camp where enduring hunger, cold, untended wounds, untreated illnesses, and avoiding daily executions were everyday feats. Their march--over... (more)
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The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Idiot (Russian: Идиот, Idiot) is a novel written by 19th century Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published serially in Russkiy Vestnik between 1868 and 1869. The Idiot is ranked beside some of Dostoevsky's other works as one of the most brilliant literary achievements of the Russian "Golden Age" of Literature. It was not published in English until the 20th century
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Arbat Trilogy: Book 1
Children of the Arbat
by Anatoli Naumovich Rybakov
On a street called the Arbat in Moscow's intellectual and artistic center in the 1930s, Sasha, one of a group of idealistic young communists, is sentenced to three years in Siberia for publishing a newspaper. Reissue.
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The Communist Manifesto
by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
Originally published on the eve of the 1848 European revolutions, The Communist Manifesto is a condensed and incisive account of the worldview Marx and Engels developed during their hectic intellectual and political collaboration. Formulating the principles of dialectical materialism, they believed that labor creates wealth, hence capitalism is exploitive and antithetical to freedom. This new edition... (more)
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Righteous Gentile: The Story of Raoul Wallenberg, Missing Hero of the Holocaust
by John Bierman
Half a century after he disappeared into the Soviet prison system, the fate of Raoul Wallenberg--who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust--remains a mystery. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, KGB files were opened, but the Wallenberg file had been destroyed, thereby eliminating any evidence to support the Kremlin's claim that Wallenberg died in prison in 1947. Bierman concludes that we... (more)
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Dancing Under the Red Star: The Extraordinary Story of Margaret Werner, the Only American Woman to Survive Stalin's Gulag
by Karl Tobien
The shocking and inspirational saga of Margaret Werner and her miraculous survival in the Siberian death camps of Stalinist Russia. Between 1930 and 1932, Henry Ford sent 450 of his Detroit employees plus their families to live in Gorky, Russia, to operate a new manufacturing facility. This is the true story of one of those families–Carl and Elisabeth Werner and their young daughter Margaret–and their terrifying... (more)
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The Harvest of Sorrow
Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine
by Robert Conquest
The Harvest of Sorrow is the first full history of one of the most horrendous human tragedies of the 20th century. Between 1929 and 1932 the Soviet Communist Party struck a double blow at the Russian peasantry: dekulakization, the dispossession and deportation of millions of peasant families, and collectivization, the abolition of private ownership of land and the concentration of the remaining peasants in... (more)
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The Gulag Archipelago
1918-1956 Volumes I-II
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
<This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition of VOLUME 1 in vinyl case.> **Time Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of the 20th Century** In this masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn has orchestrated thousands of incidents and individual histories into one narrative of unflagging power and momentum. Written in a tone that encompasses Olympian wrath, bitter calm, savage irony, and sheer comedy, it combines history,... (more)
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A Mountain of Crumbs
A Memoir
by Elena Gorokhova
A Mountain of Crumbs is the moving story of a young Soviet girl's discovery of the hidden truths of adulthood and her country's profound political deception. Elena, born with a desire to explore the world beyond her borders, finds her passion in the complexity of the English language -- but in the Soviet Union of the 1960s, such a passion verges on the subversive. Elena's home is no longer the majestic Russia of... (more)
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Red Star Rogue
by Kenneth Sewell
March 7, 1968: Several hundred miles northwest of Hawaii, the nuclear-armed K-129 surfaces and then sinks; all of its crewmen and officers perish at sea. Who was commanding the rogue Russian sub? What was its target? How did it infiltrate American waters undetected? Navy veteran Kenneth Sewell, drawing from newly declassified documents and extensive confidential interviews, exposes the stunning truth behind an... (more)
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Masters of Deceit the Story of Communism in American and How to Fight it
by J. Edgar Hoover
Contents: Who is Your Enemy? How Communism Began; The Communist Appeal in the U.S.; Life in the Party; The Communist Trojan Horse in Action; The Communist Underground; Bibliography of Major Communist Classics.
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Cancer Ward
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Cancer Ward examines the relationship of a group of people in the cancer ward of a provincial Soviet hospital in 1955, two years after Stalin's death. We see them under normal circumstances, and also reexamined at the eleventh hour of illness. Together they represent a remarkable cross-section of contemporary Russian characters and attitudes. The experiences of the central character, Oleg Kostoglotov, closely... (more)
MOSCOW STATION How the KGB Penetrates the American EmbassyRonald Kessler
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MOSCOW STATION How the KGB Penetrates the American Embassy
by Ronald Kessler
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The last 100 days : the tumultuous and controversial story of the final days of World War II in Europe
by John Toland
A dramatic countdown of the final months of World War II in Europe, The Last 100 Days brings to life the waning power and the ultimate submission of the Third Reich. To reconstruct the tumultuous hundred days between Yalta and the fall of Berlin, John Toland traveled more than 100,000 miles in twenty-one countries and interviewed more than six hundred people—from Hitler’s personal chauffeur to Generals von... (more)
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Katyn? : the untold story of Stalin's Polish massacre
by Allen Paul
Powerful examination of Stalin's infamous WW II campaign against Poland's professional and middle classes, exemplified by the 1940 execution (denied by the Soviets until 1990) of most of Poland's officer corps in the Katy Forest and at still-unknown sites. The Katy Forest massacre, in which 15,000 Polish officers held by the Bolsheviks were shot by the NKVD, has become the ``complex symbol of Polish... (more)
Memoirs / Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty ; [translated by Richard and Clara Winston ; documents translated by Jan van Heurck]
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Memoirs / Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty ; [translated by Richard and Clara Winston ; documents translated by Jan van Heurck]
Confess! Confess!: Eight Years In Soviet PrisonsYehoshua Gilboa; A.; Translator Dov Ben Aba
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Confess! Confess!: Eight Years In Soviet Prisons
by Yehoshua Gilboa; A.; Translator Dov Ben Aba
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The Vatican and the Kremlin
by Camille Maximilian Cianfarra
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The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine
by Alina Bronsky
Originally published in German as "Die schärfsten Gerichte der tatarischen Küche."Rosa Achmetowna, the frightening narrator of Bronsky's dark and wily latest (after Broken Glass Park), is a difficult person to like, much less love. She lives in a cramped Soviet apartment with her husband, teenage daughter Sulfia, and a nosy, disagreeable roommate. Brusque, brimming with bile, and ever judgmental, she is... (more)
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Young Philby: A Novel
by Robert Littell
An elegant, twisty spy story by a true master of the craft Bestselling novelist Robert Littell employs all his considerable skills in telling the story of Kim Philby through the eyes of more than twenty true-life characters. As each layer is revealed, the question arises: Who really was this man? When Kim Philby fled to Moscow in 1963, he became the most infamous double agent in history. A member... (more)