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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 295 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style, Last Witnesses is Svetlana Alexievich's collection of the memories of those who were children during World War II. These men and women were both witnesses and sometimes soldiers as well, and their generation grew up with the trauma of the war deeply embedded in them--a trauma that would forever change the course of the Russian nation. This is a new version of the war we're so familiar with....
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Russia, 1986. In a run-down apartment block in Moscow, a nine-year-old piano prodigy practices silently for fear of disturbing the neighbors. In a factory on the outskirts of the city, his aunt makes car parts, trying to hide her dissident past. In the hospital, a surgeon immerses himself in his work to avoid facing his failed marriage. And in a rural village in Belarus, a teenage boy wakes up to a sky of the deepest crimson. Outside, the ears of...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 264 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A collection of personal narratives told by those who were children during World War II and survived harrowing experiences. So many children were separated from their loved ones in the midst of the terror and chaos. As a result, some grew up in orphanages or were raised by grandparents or extended family; others were taken in and cared for by strangers who risked punishment for such acts. Still others lived on their own or became underage soldiers...
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
"A Jewish child deported to Kazakhstan is saved and adopted by Kasym, an old Kazakh railway-man. Kasym gives him a Kazakh name, Sabyr, that in Kazakh language means humble. The child grows up in the small Kazakh village along with other deportees: Vera, a traitor's wife, and Ezhik, a Polish doctor. As Sashka makes friends with the wild-eyed local kids who live to play pranks on others, he sees a newspaper story about a nationwide contest to find the...
Author
Publisher
University of Missouri Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
ix, 248 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A childhood memoir of Stalin's Soviet Union that details the daily trials of people trapped in this regime. Left fatherless by Stalin's purges, then forced to flee the Germans and live as an impoverished refugee in Kazakhstan during World War II, Konstantin eventually escapes to Western Europe at war's end"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1967]
Edition
[1st ed.].
Physical Desc
246 p. port. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this riveting, New York Times bestselling memoir-first published by Harper in 1967-Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva, subject of Rosemary Sullivan's critically acclaimed biography, Stalin's Daughter, describes the surreal experience of growing up in the Kremlin in the shadow of her father, Joseph Stalin. In 1967, she fled the Soviet Union for India, where she approached the U.S. Embassy for asylum. Once there, she showed her CIA handler something remarkable:...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The true story of two spies and their families on opposite sides of the Cold War, told from the first-person perspective of Eva Dillon, the daughter of one of these spies. With impeccable insider access to both families as well as CIA officers, Dillon offers a riveting true-life spy thriller told in the tradition of a family memoir"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Running from her father's brutal legacy, Joseph Stalin's daughter defects to the United States against the turbulence of the 1960s. For fans of We Were the Lucky Ones and A Gentleman in Moscow, this sweeping historical novel is inspired by the true story of Svetlana Alliluyeva. In one of the most momentous events of the Cold War, Svetlana Allilyueva, the forty-one-year-old daughter of the notorious tyrannical leader of the USSR, abruptly abandoned...
13) White gardenia
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Gallery Books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 481 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"From internationally bestselling author Belinda Alexandra comes a sweeping, emotional journey that depicts vividly the powerful lifelong bond between mothers and daughters"--
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 741 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A painstakingly researched, revelatory portrait of the Soviet dictator's daughter traces her formative years in the Kremlin, the losses of numerous loved ones and her controversial defection to the United States.
"The award-winning author of Villa Air-Bel returns with a painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history's most monstrous dictators--her father, Josef Stalin....
16) The lost year
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, thirteen-year-old Matthew discovers a shocking secret about his great-grandmother's past as he learns about her life during the Holodomor famine in Soviet Ukraine.
18) Only one year
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1969]
Edition
[1st ed.].
Physical Desc
viii, 444 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Among the great Russian autobiographical works: Herzen, Kropotkin, Tolstoy's My Confession." - Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker, ORIGINAL EDITION
"It's a rich and absorbing book that could be endlessly quoted, by…a woman who stands free in the sunlight." - Saturday Review, ORIGINAL EDITION
19) Dogs in space
Author
Publisher
Wren & Rook, an imprint of Hachette Children's Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"Meet Belka and Strelka, the two dogs who changed the face of space history and became international celebrities in the process! In 1960, two stray dogs were plucked from the streets of Moscow to become space pioneers. This quirky and delightful picture book tells the incredible true story of these heroic strays. Selected from a number of potential canine cosmonauts, Belka and Strelka are put through their paces on the ground, as they practice rocket...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
417 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The extraordinary true story of Polish-Jewish child refugees who escaped the Nazis and found refuge in Iran. More than a million Jews escaped east from Nazi occupied Poland to Soviet occupied Poland. There they suffered extreme deprivation in Siberian gulags and "Special Settlements" and then, once "liberated," journeyed to the Soviet Central Asian Republics. The majority of Polish Jews who survived the Nazis outlived the war in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan;...
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