soviet union

Chronicles the events of 1929 to 1933 in the Ukraine when Stalin's Soviet Communist Party killed or deported millions of peasants; abolished privately held land and forced the remaining peasantry into "collective" farms; and inflicted impossible grain quotas on the peasants that resulted in mass starvation.

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.

A comparatiave study of violence and terror in the French and Russian revolutions, looking at the similarities between the 1789 and 1917 uprisings, and considering the role of vengeance, resistance, and religion in fueling the conflicts.

A companion volume to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's exhibition, chronicling the experiences of more than two thousand Polish Jewish refugees who escaped to safety only months before the Nazis began their campaign to exterminate the Jews of Europe.

Offers a brief introduction to the life and career of Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space.

Provides a brief introduction to the history of Sputnik, explaining what a satellite is, how it is launched, how the world reacted to Sputnik, and what modern-day satellites are like.

A biography of the Soviet leader, emphasizing his rise to power and his role in forming the present openness of the Soviet Union to the West.