soviet union

A collection of letters written by Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev to family, friends, classmates, and Russian cultural figures.

A biography of the brilliant and controversial First Lady of the Soviet Union tells the story of her childhood problems, her academic truimphs, and her marriage to and partnership with the leader of her country.

Grisha Kossover, arriving in Russia in 1972, twenty years after his father, poet Paltiel Kossover, was executed by Stalin, is finally able to read the written testament his parent left behind and finds that it illuminates the shadowed places of his own life.

Provides a history of the Russian secret service, from the days of the czars to the present.

Examines the historical, social, and cultural roles of women in the Soviet Union, from early Russia to the Communist era.