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Churchill, Winston 1874-1965 Heads of state Soviet Union Biography Impressionism (Art) Realism in art Romanticism in art Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) 1882-1945 Soviet Union History 1925-1953 Soviet Union Politics and government 1936-1953 Stalin, Joseph 1878-1953 Stalin, Joseph 1879-1953Svanidze, Budu.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kessinger Publishing 1953
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 947.08 SVAKotkin, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STALIN, JOSEPH KOTKotkin, Stephen
Summary: Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin continues his definitive biography of Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror through to the coming of the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history. As the shadows of the 30's deepen, Stalin's drive to militarize Soviet society takes on increasing urgency, and the ambition of Nazi Germany becomes the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin continues his definitive biography of Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror through to the coming of the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history. As the shadows of the 30's deepen, Stalin's drive to militarize Soviet society takes on increasing urgency, and the ambition of Nazi Germany becomes the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 STALIN, JOSEPH KOTKhlevniuk, O. V. (Oleg Vitalʹevich)
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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STALIN, JOSEPH KHLMeade, Glenn.
Summary: On hearing the Soviet Union's dictator, Joseph Stalin, is preparing a nuclear strike against America, the U.S. parachutes two agents--Alex and Anna--to assassinate him. When the U.S. learns the Russians have discovered the plot, a man is sent to kill the agents, but with the help of a renegade Soviet general, Alex and Anna outwit everyone and penetrate the Kremlin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MEABerthon, Simon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 BERConquest, 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 CONEastland, Sam, (Paul Watkins)
Summary: A soldier returns from the frontline of battle to report that Inspector Pekkala's charred body has been found at the site of an ambush. But Stalin refuses to believe that the indomitable Pekkala is dead. On Stalin's orders, Pekkala's assistant Kirov travels deep into the forests of Western Russia, following a trail of clues to a wilderness where partisans wage a brutal campaign against the Nazi...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EASPringle, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947 PRIButler, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 BUTEastland, Sam, (Paul Watkins)
Summary: The German Army begins to shatter before the advancing Soviet forces in 1944. Two Russian soldiers burrow into the crypt of a German church, where, clutched in the hands of a priest's skeleton, they discover a priceless icon last seen in the grasp of Rasputin, the mad monk who mesmerized the Romanovs. When news of the discovery reaches Moscow, Stalin calls upon his most trusted investigator,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: OPUS 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EASErickson, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 1999
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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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STALIN, JOSEPH MONGellately, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.084 GELMontefiore, Sebag
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STAMontefiore, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STALIN, JOSEPH MONPleshakov, Konstantin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 PLESteinberg, Mark D.
Summary: Thirty-six 30 minute lectures by Mark Steinberg on the history of Russia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947 HISTzouliadis, 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 TZOHarris, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISSummary: It is the story of the most influential figures of the 20th century, those who caused and those who cured our most troubled times. A parallel biography of the most significant figures of the twentieth century from the last shot fired in the First World War to the victory of Mao Zedong. A story of the power to lead and mislead, to inspire and to cause mass destruction. This is a series, at its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020