communism

No nation is more in the news than Ukraine, a country that has strong ties with both Russia and western countries. This book examines the events that led to Soviet control and the dramatic and sometimes harrowing political, economic, and social changes that Ukrainian people have experienced—both during the Soviet era and since the Soviet collapse.

The Soviet Union occupied the Baltic nations for decades. This resulted in disasters such as catastrophic shortages of food; suppression of Baltic languages, religions, and customs; and the terrors of forced labor camps. With the Soviet Unions collapse, the Baltics gained independence and have become vibrant members of the European community..

The Communist takeover of South Vietnam in 1975 is very hard for fourteen-year-old Viet Nguyen and his family, but when Viet foolishly tries to speed up their plans to escape he is arrested and sentenced to the harsh life of a labor camp in the jungle.

In a small town near Chicago in 1953, twelve-year-old Tommy faces escalating problems at home, among his Catholic school friends, and with the threat of a communist living nearby, but taking over his hospitalized sister's paper route introduces him to neighbors who he comes to rely on for help.

Provides an introduction to communism, discussing how it developed, how it works, and more.

Yugoslavian writer Slavenka Drakulic writes of everyday life in communist Eastern Europe before the Iron Curtain fell.