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Khlevniuk, O. V. (Oleg Vitalʹevich)

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Summary: Josef Stalin exercised supreme power in the Soviet Union from 1929 until his death in 1953. During that quarter-century, by Oleg Khlevniuk’s estimate, he caused the imprisonment and execution of no fewer than a million Soviet citizens per year. Millions more were victims of famine directly resulting from Stalin's policies. What drove him toward such ruthlessness? This essential biography, by...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2015

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Kotkin, Stephen

Summary: In his biography of Stalin, Kotkin rejects the inherited wisdom about Stalin's psychological makeup, showing us instead how Stalin's near paranoia was fundamentally political and closely tracks the Bolshevik revolution's structural paranoia, the predicament of a Communist regime in an overwhelmingly capitalist world, surrounded and penetrated by enemies. At the same time, Kotkin posits the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2014

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Berthon, Simon.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2006

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Conquest, Robert.

Summary: The definitive work on Stalin's purges, the author's The Great Terror was universally acclaimed when it first appeared in 1968. It was "hailed as the only scrupulous, nonpartisan, and adequate book on the subject". And in recent years it has received equally high praise in the Soviet Union, where it is now considered the authority on the period, and has been serialized in Neva, one of their...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1990

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.0842 CON

Butler, Susan

Summary: Draws on newly unclassified files to examine the relationship between the two world leaders, revealing FDR's methodical role in the reintroduction of religion in the Soviet Union and the related influence of J. Edgar Hoover.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015

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Gellately, Robert

Summary: This book is a chilling, riveting account based on newly released Russian documentation that reveals Joseph Stalin's true motives -- and the extent of his enduring commitment to expanding the Soviet empire -- during the years in which he seemingly collaborated with Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and the capitalist West. At the Big Three conferences of World War II, Stalin...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013

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Montefiore, Sebag

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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2004

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Montefiore, Sebag

Summary: 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: a merciless psychopath who was, as well, a consummate politician, the dynamic world statesman who helped create and industrialize the USSR, outplayed Churchill and Roosevelt, and defeated Hitler? Historian Montefiore tells...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007

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Pleshakov, Konstantin.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2005

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Tzouliadis, Tim.

Contents: The Joads of Russia -- Baseball in Gorky Park -- "Life has become more joyful!" -- "Fordizatsia" -- "The Lindbergh of Russia" -- "The captured Americans" -- "The arrival of spring" -- The terror, the terror -- Spetzrabota -- "A dispassionate observer" -- "Send views of New York" -- "Submission to Moscow" -- Kolyma znaczit smert -- The Soviet gold rush -- "Our selfless labor will restore us to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.004 TZO

Pringle, Peter.

Summary: Describes the life and career of Nikolai Vavilov, a Soviet botanist who created the world's first seed bank, and his political problems and persecution later in life that resulted in his imprisonment and death.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008

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Erickson, John

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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 1999

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Montefiore, Sebag

Contents: Prologue: The holiday dinner: 8 November 1932. -- That wonderful time: Stalin and Nadya, 1878-1932. The Georgian and the schoolgirl ; The Kremlin family ; The charmer ; Famine and the country set ; Holidays and hell: the Politburo at the seaside ; Trains full of corpses ; Stalin the intellectual. -- The jolly fellows: Stalin and Kirov, 1932-1934. The funeral ; The omnipotent widower and his...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2005

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Meltzer, Brad

Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy, The Nazi Conspiracy tells the little-known true story of a Nazi plot to kill FDR, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill at the height of the second World War. In 1943, as the war against Nazi Germany raged abroad, President Franklin Roosevelt wanted one thing: a face-to-face meeting with his allies...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 MEL

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Groom, Winston

Summary: "In this exciting, meticulously researched narrative, best-selling author and historian Winston Groom returns to tell one of the most monumental stories of the twentieth century. It is the tale of three remarkably different men, joined in a mission to end World War II and restore order. Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin redefined a generation and transformed its political...

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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2018

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Hett, Benjamin Carter

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Summary: "Berlin, November 1937. In a secret meeting with his top advisors, Adolf Hitler proclaims the urgent necessity for a war of aggression in Europe. Some conservatives are unnerved by this grandiose plan, but they are soon silenced, setting in motion events that will lead to the most calamitous war in history. Benjamin Carter Hett, the author of The Death of Democracy, his acclaimed history of the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020

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Kotkin, Stephen

Summary: When we left Stalin at the end of Stalin: Paradoxes of Power: 1878-1928, it was 1928, and he had finally climbed the mountaintop and achieved dictatorial power of the Soviet empire. The vastest peasant economy in the world would be transformed into socialist modernity, whatever it took. What it took, or what Stalin believed it took, was the most relentless campaign of shock industrialization...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2017

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Rees, Laurence

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Summary: The bestselling historian on the dramatic wartime relationship - and shocking similarities - between two tyrants. This compelling book on Hitler and Stalin - the culmination of thirty years' work - examines the two tyrants during the Second World War, when Germany and the Soviet Union fought the biggest and bloodiest war in history. Yet despite the fact they were bitter opponents, Laurence Rees...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5343 REE

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