soviet union

A personal and political memoir in which the author, principal English interpreter for Mikhail Gorbachev and his foreign minister ?duard Shevardnadze, reveals his experiences as an eyewitness to the U.S.-Soviet summit talks that led to the end of the Cold War.

Chronicles the friendship between Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich and Josef Stalin, discussing how Stalin used their friendship to exploit Shostakovich's work and mental instabilities and how Shostakovich's compositions were impacted by Stalin's totalitarian rule.

Chronicles the life of Russian composer Sergey Prokofiev, following his personal and musical journey from his childhood on a Ukrainian country estate to the years he spent traveling in America and Europe as an interpreter of his own works.

A Ukrainian poet's memoirs of trial and imprisonment in a Soviet hard-labor camp, where he joined a distinguished group of prisoners.

Gleb Nerzhin, a brilliant mathematician, lives out his life in post-war Russia in a series of prisons and labor camps where he and his fellow inmates work to meet the demands of Stalin.

Depicts the 1945 funeral train of FDR and examines the disparity of its passengers inside including a Soviet spy, a bereaved Eleanor Roosevelt, the Supreme Court justices, and the incoming president, Harry Truman.

Presenting a new perspective on the Russian Revolution, a noted historian traces three generational phases to show how the revolution, while it changed in form and character, retained the same idealistic goals throughout.

In graphic novel format, Laika, the first dog in space, relates the history of space flight, from the earliest interest in the universe to his own historic ride into space in a Soviet space capsule in 1957.

A riveting and reflective account by one of the millions of anonymous soldiers who fought and died in that cruel terrain, this book conveys the brutality and horrors of the Eastern Front in detail never before available in English.