soviet union

Recounts the experiences of Shukhov, a prisoner at a Soviet work camp in Siberia, as he struggles for survival.

Explores the role the Einsatzgruppen, the professional killing squads deployed in Poland and the Soviet Union early in World War II, played in the Holocaust.

When Danina Petroskova dies, her granddaughter discovers a box that hold a pair of satin toe shoes, a gold locket, and a stack of letters that reveal Danina's hidden past.

Explains how electronic combat is changing ground, air, and naval warfare as well as peacetime conflicts and the secret world of espionage.

Describes the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989, and argues that what most people think about the occupation is wrong, explaining how the Russian conscripts suffered badly from mismanagement and strategic errors, but they were never defeated on the battlefield, and withdrew in good order.

Presents Vladimir Lenin's significant written works on capitalism, communism, class consciousness, social democracy, revolution, and Marxism, including the complete "Imperialism, the Highest State of Capitalism" and "What Is to Be Done?" and sections from "The Development of Capitalism in Russia.".

Describes the background to and the events of the 1942 siege of the Russian city of Stalingrad by Hitler's army during World War II.

An account of the "Doctor's Plot" that persecuted Jews in the Soviet Union.