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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The little-known story of a spy on the atom-bomb project in World War II who had top security clearance -- American born, Soviet trained, he was never even suspected until after his information was in Soviet hands and he was safe in the USSR. It's LeCarre and "The Americans" for real"--
Author
Publisher
Overlook
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A child of the 1920s, Lilianna Lungina was a Russian Jew born to privilege, spending her childhood in Germany, France, and Palestine. But when her parents moved to the USSR when she was thirteen, Lungina became witness to many of the era's greatest upheavals. Exiled during World War II, dragged to KGB headquarters to report on her cosmopolitan friends, and subjected to her new country's ruthless, systematic anti-Semitism, Lungina nonetheless carved...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the October 1917 uprising, is one of the most misunderstood leaders of the twentieth century. In his own time, there were many, even among his enemies, who acknowledged the full magnitude of his intellectual and political achievements. But his legacy has been lost in misinterpretation; he is worshipped but rarely read. On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Tariq Ali explores the two major influences on Lenin's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Greenhill Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Pavlichenko was World War II's best scoring sniper and had a varied wartime career that included trips to England and America.In June 1941, when Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, she left her university studies, ignored the offer of a position as a nurse, to become one of Soviet Russia's 2000 female snipers.Less than a year later she had 309 recorded kills, including 29 enemy sniper kills. She was withdrawn from active duty after being injured....
13) Tchaikovsky
Author
Series
Publisher
Bookwright Press
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Presents a biography of the nineteenth-century Russian composer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
Description
Begun in 1934, this final volume of Gurdjieff's trilogy, All and Everything, is a primary source for Gurdjieff's ideas, methods, and biography. Gurdjieff offers guidance to his "community of seekers, " through a selection of talks given in 1930, autobiographical material crucial to understanding his ideas, and the incomplete essay "The Outer and Inner World of Man." Available for the first time in paperback, this is the ultimate piece of Gurdjieff's...
18) Women in space
Author
Series
Publisher
Childs World
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Provides a history of the space program and the accomplishments of the women--both American and Russian--who became astronauts.
19) Streets of gold
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Based on a memoir written in the early twentieth century, tells the story of a young girl and her life in Russia, her travels to America, and her subsequent life in the United States.
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