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Big ideas simply explained Glories of Spanish literature Lenin's story Reconstruction, the second civil war Red chapters Russia, ten years after the fall of the Soviet Union Russian revolution in colour The Indians of North America The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and historySummary: No episode of history illustrates the interplay between violence and radical idealism more clearly than the overthrow of Russia’s czar and aristocracy. Using vivid reenactments and colorized archival footage, this program depicts the seizure of power by a political party which, although initially representing a small fraction of the Russian nation, rapidly engulfed it. Viewers learn about the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Shortly after the establishment of Bolshevik rule in Russia, brewing conflict threatened the party’s leadership. This program depicts Lenin’s response to those threats through ruthless campaigns against political rivals and foreign forces. Drawing on letters and personal accounts, the film also makes use of dramatic reconstructions and colorized archival footage, portraying the era as those at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In segment one of this program, ABC News anchor Ted Koppel and correspondent John Donvan investigate the endemic nature of corruption in Russia, where bribery is commonplace and paying protection money is considered a business expense. In segment two, Koppel and billionaire Boris Berezovsky, identified as the unseen force behind Vladimir Putin's rise to power, discuss Berezovsky's recent foray...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Soviet film showing the advances in the USSR since the Revolution. VO is in Russian. Quick succession of shots including Lenin, logging, children getting food, factories, rocket taking off, etc.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1917
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Bjornlund, Lydia
Summary: Details the Bolshevik revolution from the perspectives of those involved, including the protesters, Vladimir Lenin, Tsar Nicholas II, and others. Additional features include a bullet-point summary of the events, compelling narrative descriptions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, questions to spark critical thinking, sources to guide further research, historical photographs,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 947.084 BJOSummary: Menshevik Counter-Revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1917
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Summary: Russian Revolution: Fighting near Petrograd after Bolshevik seizure of power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1917
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Summary: This program documents the achievements of the Russian avant-garde movement and the impact of the Russian Revolution, which at first nurtured modern art as an emblem of communist culture and then banned it in favor of socialist realism. Set within the context of the life of the pivotal art critic Nikolai Punin, the key events of the Lenin/Stalin years and the contributions of major artists such...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: On the night of October 24, 1917, a police patrol stopped two men on the streets of St. Petersburg, but failing to recognize their quarry, the police let them pass. One of them-disguised as a tramp-was the future founder and leader of the Soviet Union: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. In this program, Cambridge University's Orlando Figes, author of A People's Tragedy, and Vitaly Startsev, of St....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: In segment one of this program, ABC News anchor Ted Koppel reports on issues related to the new openness in Russia surrounding sexuality, including the growth of prostitution, resistance to contraception, and the spread of AIDS. In segment two, Koppel and correspondent John Donvan examine the ongoing controversy revolving around the political sellout of the independent Russian media. And in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Slezkine, Yuri
Summary: "On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction. The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Grossman's Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, Yuri...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.084 SLEDaughters of the American Revolution
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Publisher / Publication Date: Daughters of the American Revolution 0000
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.373Rappaport, Helen
Summary: "From Helen Rappaport, the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes After the Romanovs, the story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought freedom and refuge in the City of Light. Paris has always been a cityof cultural excellence, fine wine and food and the latest fashions. But it has also been a place of refuge for those fleeing persecution,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944 RAPDaughters of the American Revolution
Summary: Highlights some of the members of the Daughters of the American Revolution who made an impact during the suffrage era. Book published to accompany an exhibit by the same name.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.6 ORDSons of the American Revolution
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Society 0000
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3774Summary: Instigated in the name of the Russian people, the overthrow of Tsar Nicholas II was actually guided by moderates and aristocrats. What parallels can be drawn between the February and October Revolutions, and in what ways did the two events differ? Did the Tsar's ouster set the stage for Lenin's rise to power, or was it an attempt to stem the tide of true radicalism? This program provides...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Russian circles
Contents: I carpe -- Death rides a horse -- You already did -- New macabre.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mousetrap 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK RUSSummary: This episode of Reconstruction shows how, in just a few years, a series of stunning events - the Emancipation Proclamation, the Fourteenth Amendment granting ex-slaves citizenship in 1868, the enfranchisement of blacks the following year - reversed centuries-old patterns of race relations in America. People who for generations had been the property of others were now free to run their own lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2004
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Ruoff, A. LaVonne Brown.
Summary: Examines the history, evolution, and culture of the American Indians, discussing both oral and written literature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 RUOIgort
Summary: Graphic novelist Igort illuminates two harrowing moments in recent history--the Ukraine famine and the assassination of a Russian journalist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.52 IGOSummary: Characterized by expressions of individuality, popularismo, criticism, stoicism, humor, piety, and dignity, the literature of Spain spans ten centuries, includes some of history's most significant writers, and contains landmark works of every major literary genre. This program provides an overview of Iberian history as it relates to Spanish literature. The formation of regional tongues and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Examines "the greatest works of world literature, from the Iliad to Don Quixote to The Great Gatsby. Around 100 ... articles explore landmark novels, short stories, plays, and poetry that reinvented the art of writing in their time, whether Ancient Greece, post-classical Europe, or modern-day Korea"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 809 LITSmith, S. A. (Stephen Anthony)
Summary: "The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the face of the Russian empire, politically, economically, socially, and culturally, and also profoundly affected the course of world history for the rest of the twentieth century. Now, to mark the centenary of this epochal event, historian Steve Smith presents a panoramic account of the history of the Russian empire, from the last years of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2017
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Contents: The unmaking of a revolution -- Rethinking revolutions -- Going Dutch: English society in 1685 -- English politics at the accession of James II -- The ideology of Catholic modernity -- The practice of Catholic modernity -- Resistance to Catholic modernity -- Popular revolution -- Violent revolution -- Divisive revolution -- Revolution in foreign policy -- Revolution in political economy --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2009