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Illustrates African contributions to contemporary culture, including the significance of the African diaspora, and examines the continuing influence of the superpowers on the affairs of Africa.

A historical novel in which Leonka, an old man who served as a youth as kitchen boy in the Ipatiev House where the tsar and tsarina, Nicholas and Alexandra, were imprisoned, finally reveals what he saw, and what he did on the night the Imperial Family was executed in 1918.

A Jewish man plants himself in a lonely Russian baker's house and establishes a family while waiting for permission to go to America.

Color photos, diagrams, maps, and illustrations describe life in the Soviet Union.

Examines the origins of the Cold War after World War II, major players, and debates about how this major U.S. foreign policy should be implemented.

Examines the history of the causes leading up to the Russian Revolution, the actual revolution and its aftermath through Stalin.

In the first video, historical footage and personal interviews tell the story of the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the second film, Erich Neumeth, the former CIA officer who interpreted for Kennedy and Khrushchev on the final night of the crisis, reveals insights never before shared in public.