1917-1991, soviet union

After 350 years as a Fetch, or death escort, Calder breaks his vows and enters the body of Rasputin, whose spirit causes rebellion in the Land of Lost Souls while Calder struggles to convey Ana and Alexis, orphaned in the Russian Revolution, to Heaven.

A history of the end of the arms race describes the Soviet Union's development of an automatic retaliatory attack system, the United States's efforts to create space-based missile defenses, and the struggle to prevent nuclear weapons from being acquired by terrorists.

Drawing on interviews with Reagan administration officials, journalists, historians, and eyewitnesses, the author focuses on Ronald Reagan's June 1987 speech at the Brandenburg Gate and his historic challenge to Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.

Presents accounts, from both the United States and the Soviet Union, of meetings held between Henry Kissinger and Soviet Ambassador Anatoliy Dobrynin, chronicling their communications regarding foreign policy during the Cold War, and includes the full record of the first Moscow Summit between President Nixon and Soviet Secretary General Leonid Brezhnev in 1972.

Recounts the life of Rasputin from his his Siberian origins to his position at the right hand of Nicholas and Alexandra and ending with his murder.

History of Russia covering the period from the outbreak of the Civil War in 1918 to the death of Lenin in 1924.

Traces the history of Russia from the late seventeenth-early eighteenth century reign of Peter the Great through the establishment of a new republic in 1991.

Follows four generations of the Alliluyevs, from the 1860s to the present day, with personal accounts by the dictator's descendants.