communism

It's 1951, and 12-year-old Pete Collison is a regular kid in Brooklyn, New York, who loves Sam Spade detective books and radio crime dramas, but when an FBI agent shows up at Pete's doorstep, accusing Pete's father of being a Communist, Pete is caught in a real-life mystery.

Explores the Russian Revolution, Communism, and the economic, political, and military events surrounding the revolution.

The Tet Offensive of 1968 was the turning point of the Vietnam War. It convinced many Americans that the war could not be won. In this book, readers will learn about the different factions of the war: the North Vietnamese Army, the Viet Cong, the South Vietnamese, and the American military forces.

A one-man show based on the true story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, an East Berlin transvestite who survived World War II and received the Order of Merit from the German government after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

In the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, ten-year-old Sasha idolizes his father, a devoted Communist, but when police take his father away and leave Sasha homeless, he is forced to examine his own perceptions, values, and beliefs.

Presents a comprehensive history of world communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union that examines the social and political regimes and their leaders which include Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Fidel Castro, and Mao Zedong.

A young boy, one of the Tuvan sheepherding people of Mongolia, begins to doubt the traditional belief that the sky is a sheltering force when the communist regime begins to push a program of societal homogenization in the 1940s, while closer to home, his siblings go off to boarding school, he loses his beloved grandmother, and his dog is poisoned.