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In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout visited Russia's greatest living poet, Boris Pasternak. He left carrying the original manuscript of Dr. Zhivago. Pasternak believed his novel was unlikely ever to be published in the Soviet Union, where the authorities regarded it as an irredeemable assault on the 1917 Revolution. But Pasternak thought it stood a chance of being published and read in the West. From Italy it made its way around the world to earn Pasternak the 1958 Pulitzer Prize in Literature. Copies were sold in Moscow and Leningrad on the Black Market and when Pasternak died in 1960 in Russia his funeral was attended by thousands of admirers who defied their government to bid him farewell.

The 1986 Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Iceland was the turning point of the Cold War. Initially planned as a short gathering to outline future talks, the meeting quickly turned to major international issues including SDI (Star Wars) and the possibility of eliminating all nuclear weapons. Both men were at the height of their powers and this move toward peace laid the groundwork for the most sweeping arms accord in history, adopted in 1987, and the end of the Soviet Union five years later. In one weekend the world was changed.

In the time of the Russian Revolution, Kira is torn between two men who love her, one a Communist, the other an aristocrat.

After the wife and daughters of Leo Demidov, a former member of Moscow's secret police, are killed while on a "Peace Tour" to New York City, he watches helplessly from the other side of the world as the tragic event unfolds. Leo sets out on a quest to find out exactly what really happened that fateful night in New York even if it takes decades to get the answer from the one man who knows the truth.

Collects issues one through four of the Red Star graphic novels in which the Heroes of the Red Star embark on a quest to liberate their people from a powerful sorcerer.

Offers critical analysis of Arthur Koestler's "Darkness at Noon", examing the novel's themes, characters, and symbols.

Presents the memoirs of Walter Krivitsky, who chronicles his involvement with Russia's dangerous OGPU, his role in Stalin's dictatorship, and his defection to America.

The story of the Russian Revolution as it unfolded. Describes both the luxurious lives of the Romanovs and the plight of Russia's peasants and their eventual uprising.