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22) 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.
23) 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.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Examines the economic collapse, declining populations, and alcohol-related abuses that the author believes are indicative of Russia's communism-related decline, as the author follows the life of a dissident Orthodox priest, Father Dimitry Dudko.
Author
Publisher
ForeEdge, an imprint of University Press of New England
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Born and raised in the Bronx Morris Cohen and his wife, Lona, were as American as football and fried chicken, but for one detail: they'd spent their entire adult lives stealing American military secrets for the Soviet Union.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A critical biography of Alexei Ratmansky-the most significant international classical choreographer of our day-written with his full cooperation and the support of American Ballet Theatre, the company of which he is resident choreographer"--
"The Boy from Kyiv is the life story of Alexei Ratmansky, the most celebrated ballet choreographer of our time. “[A] spirited, engaging biography . . . Ms. Harss analyzes each of Mr. Ratmansky’s ballets,...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
A comprehensive biography of the final leader of the Soviet Union chronicles Gorbachev's rise from peasant to politician and describes how his liberal policies ended the Cold War and unintentionally provoked the breakup of the USSR.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Born in a surreal Moscow communal apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen, the author grew up singing odes to Lenin, black-marketeering Juicy Fruit gum at school, and longing for a taste of the mythical West. It was a life by turns absurd, drab, naively joyous, melancholy and, finally, intolerable.
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused such intensities of fierce admiration and reactionary fear as Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. His extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible mark on the revolutionary consciousness. Yet there was once a danger that his life and influence would be relegated to the footnotes of history. Published over the course of ten years, beginning in 1954, Deutschers magisterial...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Artyom Borovik, who died in 2000, was considered one of the preeminent journalists in Russia. The first glimpse inside the Soviet military machine, The Hiden War captured the soldiers' terror, helplessness, and despair at waging war in a foreign land against an unseen enemy for unclear purposes. When first published, Borovik's groundbreaking revelations exposed the weaknesses beneath the Soviet Union's aura of military might, creating an enormous...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Journey into the Whirlwind is Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg's courageous memoir of her harrowing eighteen-year odyssey through the Soviet Union's prisons and labor camps. By the late 1930s, Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg had been a loyal and very active member of the Communist Party for many years. Yet like millions of others who suffered during Stalin's reign of terror, she was arrested—on trumped-up charges of being a Trotskyist terrorist and counter-revolutionary—and...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia. Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive documentary style, Secondhand Time is a monument to the collapse of the USSR, charting the decline of Soviet culture and speculating on what will rise from the ashes of communism....
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Few Cold War spy stories approach the sheer daring and treachery of George Blake's. After fighting in the Dutch resistance during World War II, Blake joined the British spy agency MI6 and was stationed in Seoul. Taken prisoner after the North Korean army overran his post in 1950, Blake later returned to England to a hero's welcome, carrying a dark secret: while in a communist prison camp in North Korea, he had secretly switched sides to the KGB after...
Author
Publisher
Planeta Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Esta es la historia, por primera vez contada en toda su verdad, de Oleg Gordievski, que llegó a ser un alto mando de la KGB soviética a la vez que actuaba como informador del MI6 británico: el hombre que con sus advertencias a los gobiernos británico y norteamericano consiguió evitar que en 1985 se desencadenase un holocausto atómico y ayudó a acelerar el fin de la Guerra Fría. Ben Macintyre, maestro de la literatura de espionaje, consigue...
Author
Publisher
Gold Star Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Five former Soviet hockey players who wound up in Detroit in the 1990s and helped to catapult a beleaguered hockey franchise to the top of the summit played a pivotal role in that citys celebrated comeback. They are The Russian Five, and while they changed their sport forever they also helped bridge rival cultures with their unique style of diplomacy. This is their remarkable story of espionage, defection, heartbreak and triumph and remarkable courage...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Since the birth of Soviet Russia, Vladimir Lenin has been viewed as a controversial figure, revered and reviled for his rigid political ideals. He continues to fascinate as a man who made history, and created the first Communist state, a model that would later be imitated by nearly half the countries in the world. Drawing on new research, including the diaries, memoirs, and personal letters of both Lenin and his friends, Victor Sebestyen's biography--the...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale Momentum, the nonfiction imprint of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Millions watched the CBS 60 Minutes special on Jack Barsky in 2015. Now, in this fascinating memoir, the Soviet KGB agent tells his story of gut-wrenching choices, appalling betrayals, his turbulent inner world, and the secret life he lived for years without getting caught. On October 8, 1978, a Canadian national by the name of William Dyson stepped off a plane at OHare International Airport and proceeded toward Customs and Immigration. Two days...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In The Zhivago Affair, Peter Finn and Petra Couvée bring us intimately close to this charming, passionate, and complex artist. First to obtain CIA files providing concrete proof of the agency's involvement, the authors give us a literary thriller that takes us back to a fascinating period of the Cold War--to a time when literature had the power to stir the world."--www.Amazon.com.
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