soviet union

An analysis of the modern Soviet Union under Gorbachev, discussing his mandate for radical reform and the implications for Soviet citizens and for the West.

A little Russian girl is desolate when she loses a reputedly magic ring in the snow.

Provides an account of the Great Terror, which raged in the Soviet Union between 1936 and 1938, during which General Secretary Joseph Stalin ordered the executions of thousands of people who opposed his policies.

An examination of the experiences of the survivors of Joseph Stalin's Gulag that draws on interviews with victims to describe the challenges they faced after returning home and the political conflict that was caused by their imprisonment.

British novelist Martin Amis describes the harsh realities--including slave labor and famine--of the Soviet Union in the early and mid-twentieth century, and examines the beliefs of Communist apologists of the West, including his father and his own peers at Oxford.