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Vladimir Lenin presents an overview of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' socialist program; Marx's philosophical, economic, and social teachings; and the components, sources, and historical development of Marxism.

A reprint of the early twentieth-century text in which Russian leader V. I. Lenin elaborates the principles upon which the Bolshevik, or Communist Party was founded.

Profiles Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin through interviews and photos, including descriptions of his childhood, his family, his time in the KGB, and other topics.

Four generation story of the Khanga family spanning 125 years and three continents from nineteenth century Mississippi through Stalin's dictatorship to today.

A biography detailing how Gorbachev rises through the ranks of the Communist Party and becomes the leader of the 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.

A Russian biography of Krushchev, containing new information on his private and political life.

Discusses the nuclear arms race, its historical background, technological ramifications, and impact on contemporary life.