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Crisis in UkraineSummary: This searing investigative work shadows a group of activists risking unimaginable peril to confront ongoing anti-LGBTQ pogrom raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic. Unfettered access and a remarkable approach to protecting anonymity exposes this under-reported atrocity, and an extraordinary group of people confronting evil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WELGaleotti, Mark
Summary: "Putin's Wars is a timely overview of the conflicts in which Russia has been involved since Vladimir Putin became prime minister and then president of Russia, from the First Chechen War to the two military incursions into Georgia, the annexation of Crimea and the eventual invasion of Ukraine itself. But it also looks more broadly at Putin's recreation of Russian military power and its expansion...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Osprey Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.086 GALKalb, Marvin L.
Summary: Marvin Kalb, a former journalist and Harvard professor, traces how the Crimea of Catherine the Great became a global tinder box. The world was stunned when Vladimir Putin invaded and seized Crimea in March 2014. In the weeks that followed, pro-Russian rebels staged uprisings in southeastern Ukraine. The United States and its Western allies immediately imposed strict sanctions on Russia and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brookings Institution Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947 KALPickhart, Kalani
Summary: In 1913, a Russian ballet incited a riot in Paris at the new Théâtre de Champs-Elysées. "Only a Russian could do that," says Aleksandr Ivanovich. "Only a Russian could make the whole world go mad." A century later, in November 2013, thousands of Ukrainian citizens gathered at Independence Square in Kyiv to protest then-President Yanukovych's failure to sign a referendum with the European Union,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Dollar Radio 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PICHarding, Luke
Summary: On November 1, 2006, journalist and Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned in London. He died twenty-two days later. The cause of death was Polonium--a rare, lethal, and highly radioactive substance. This is the inside story of the life and death of Litvinenko. And it is the story of the aftermath: a decade of geopolitical disruptions still felt today. In A Very Expensive Poison,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 HARSummary: The documentary serves as a fascinating look at Putin in the earliest days of his presidency, when the seeds of his authoritarianism were already being sown. It also raises difficult questions about the role of Mansky himself. As a filmmaker who witnessed and, in some cases, shaped these events, is he in some way complicit?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PUTAro, Jessikka
Summary: "A chilling account of Russian information warfare, Putin's Trolls exposes the individuals and organizations behind the Kremlin's coordinated, military-style social media operations against the West. In this courageous and unflinching book, award-winning journalist Jessikka Aro interweaves her own dramatic story as a target of Russian social media propaganda with accounts from many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ig Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.47 AROIgort
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: Enlightening documentary about the Russian avant-garde and the role art played in the Russian Revolution. Explores the works and careers of important Russian artists, including Chagall, Kandinsky, Rodchenko, Malevich, and many others. Includes historical reenactments.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC REVSlaght, Jonathan C.
Summary: "A young field scientist and conservationist tracks the elusive Blakiston's Fish Owl in the forbidding reaches of eastern Russia"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.9 SLABabchenko, Arkadii.
Contents: Mountain Brigade -- The river Argun -- Chechens -- Chechens II -- Yakovlev -- The cow -- To Mozdok -- The ninth neighborhood -- Sharik -- The apartment -- The runway -- Mozdok-7 -- The summer of 1996 -- Special cargo -- New Year's Eve -- Alkhan-Yurt -- The storming operation -- Argun -- A soldier's dream -- Field deception -- The obelisk -- Lais -- Hello sister -- Traitors -- Chechen Penal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.5 BABCHENKO, ARKADY BABStepanova, Maria
Summary: "With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of an entire century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of an ordinary family that somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEJamali, Naveed
Summary: "In 2008, almost two decades after the Cold War was officially consigned to the history books, an average American guy in his twenties helped to bring down a top Russian spy based at the United Nations. This American had no formal espionage training. Everything he knew about spying he'd learned from books, movies, video games, and TV. And yet, with the help of an initially reluctant FBI duo, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JAMALI, NAVEED JAMSummary: Chronicles the uprising that toppled the government of Ukrainian president Victor Yanukovich and has since developed into an international crisis between Russia and the West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Guild 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MAIZimmerman, William
Summary: "When the Soviet Union collapsed, many hoped that Russia's centuries-long history of autocratic rule might finally end. Yet today's Russia appears to be retreating from democracy, not progressing toward it. Ruling Russia is the only book of its kind to trace the history of modern Russian politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the presidency of Vladimir Putin. It examines the complex...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Univ Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.947 ZIMPlokhy, Serhii
Summary: "Despite repeated warnings from the White House, Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. Why did Putin start the war--and why has it unfolded in previously unimaginable ways? Ukrainians have resisted a superior military; the West has united, while Russia grows increasingly isolated. Serhii Plokhy, a leading historian of Ukraine and the Cold War, offers a definitive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.7086 PLOBeer, Daniel
Summary: "The House of the Dead is a history of Siberia with a focus on the last four tsars (1801-1917). Daniel Beer explores the massive penal colony that became an incubator for the radicalism of revolutionaries who would one day rule Russia"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 BEEDoyle, Michael
Summary: "By 1990, the first Cold War was ending. The Berlin Wall had fallen and the Warsaw Pact was crumbling; following Russia's lead, cries for democracy were being embraced by a young Chinese populace. The post-Cold War years were a time of immense hope and possibility. They heralded an opportunity for creative cooperation among nations, an end to ideological strife, perhaps even the beginning of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1 DOYLin, Jeremy Atherton
Summary: Strobing lights and dark rooms; throbbing house and drag queens on counters; first kisses, last call: the gay bar has long been a place of solidarity and sexual expression—whatever your scene, whoever you’re seeking. But in urban centers around the world, they are closing, a cultural demolition that has Jeremy Atherton Lin wondering: What was the gay bar? How have they shaped him? And could...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.766 LINJudah, Tim
Summary: "From one of the finest journalists of our time comes a definitive, boots-on-the-ground dispatch from the front lines of the conflict in Ukraine. Ever since Ukraine's violent 2014 revolution, followed by Russia's annexation of Crimea, the country has been at war. Misinformation reigns, more than two million people have been displaced, and Ukrainians fight one another on a second front--the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tim Duggan Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.086 JUDRhodes, Benjamin
Summary: "In 2017, as Ben Rhodes was helping former president Barack Obama begin his next chapter, the legacy they worked to build for eight years was being taken apart. To understand what was happening in his own country, Rhodes decided to look outward, at the wider world. Over the next three years, he traveled to dozens of countries, meeting with politicians, dissidents, and activists confronting the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.83 RHOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 909.83 RHOBaiev, Khassan.
Summary: Dr. Khassan Baiev describes his experiences after leaving a promising surgical career in Moscow in 1994 to provide medical services to the people of Chechnya which was under attack by Russian troops, discussing how he managed with poor facilities and few supplies, as well as the constant threat of execution by the Russians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BAIEV, KHASSAN BAISakwa, Richard
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014