soviet union

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.

After selling her vast jewelry collection in an attempt to put her past to rest, Nina Revskaya, who was once a star of the ballet in Russia, is forced to confront dark secrets of her heart in order to help an auction house associate director and a Russian professor solve a literary mystery.