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An overview of the significant events and individuals associated with the collapse of the Soviet Union that discusses the rise of communism, Joseph Stalin, Mikhail Gorbachev, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Boris Yeltsin, and more.

Chronicles the history of Russia from the tenth century to the post-Soviet period, discussing the country's social, economic, and political changes and crises.

Examines the assassination of the Romanovs in 1918, exploring how the czar and his family were killed and discussing World War I, the Russian Revolution, and social and economic conditions in Russia at the time.

Documents Russia's history in regards to its rulers, such as Russe, Vikings, Kiev and Ivan the Terrible.

Raskolnikov, a former Russian student, murders an old pawnbroker and her sister, and the subsequent guilt with which he struggles results in a tragedy of tension and terror.

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Nikolai Gogol.

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Boris Pasternak.

In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.

"Presents an overview of the war between Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union that raged between 1941 and 1945 and was unprecedented in the scale of the destruction that it wrought and the deep scars that it left behind"--Provided by publisher.

"A summary of the history of the Russian Revolution of 1917"--Provided by publisher.