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In Meals in Russia, young readers will learn learn about the foods and cultural practices that make up mealtime in Russia.

Wanting a son, an old man and woman make a clay boy who comes to life and begins eating everything in sight until he meets a clever goat.

"An early reader's guide to KGB spies, introducing Russian espionage history, famous agents such as Oleg Penkovsky, techniques such as dead drops, and the dangers all spies face"--Provided by publisher.

Unveils new facts behind Gregory Rasputin's life, controversial relationships, and much-discussed death. Fuhrmann unearths previously unknown details from Rasputin's childhood and his early years as a farmer and itinerant preacher and his decade-long relationship with the Romanovs.

Kim Philby, the so-called Third Man in the Cambridge spy ring, was the Cold War's most infamous traitor. He headed up the section that was supposed to catch Russian spies within MI6. As a Soviet spy at the heart of British intelligence, he betrayed hundreds of British and U.S. agents to the Russians and compromised numerous covert operations inside the Soviet Union. Philby's lifelong treachery was a huge shock to his close friend and co-worker at MI6, Tim Milne, and after Milne retired, he wrote a highly revealing description of Philby's time at MI6. But publication of Milne's memoirs was banned at the time, due to sensitivity. Milne died in 2010 and his family remained determined to publish his memoirs, hence this book.

From the 1930's to the 1970's the Soviet police state underwent many changes. With the end of Stalin's rule, indiscriminate violence and arbitrary arrests became a thing of the past. But its underlying principles remained the same to forestall any threat, even the smallest, to the ruling Communist Party. This book shows what life was like for people in the Soviet police state.

Robert Bruce Lockhart, British diplomat and secret agent, arrived in revolutionary Russia in 1918. His official mission was Britain's envoy to the new Bolshevik government but his real assignment was to create a network of agents and plot the downfall of Lenin. He soon got to know Russian aristocrat Baroness Moura Budberg and they began a passionate affair even though Moura was spying on him for the Bolsheviks. When Lockhart's plot unraveled, she would forsake everything in an attempt to protect him from Lenin's secret police. But he betrayed their love. She fled to a life of exile in England, and later spied for Stalin and for Britain, but Lockhart never returned to her.

Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia was the second of four daughters of Tsar Nicholas II. Tatiana was acknowledged for her beauty, poise, elegance, and dignity. Her diaries show a remarkably down-to-earth and humorous young woman, full of life and compassion. She was a detail-oriented and observant participant in some of the most historical events of the twentieth century.

Aleksandr Shozhenitsyn recounts four decades of oppression in the Soviet Union, describing how the government tried to control every aspect of Russian society.