1953-1985

Nina, a young girl unsure of her role in her communist society, befriends a dog named Laika, who dreams of finding a home and is being studied in Nina's father's lab as part of the Soviet space program.

"Drama, family secrets, and a KGB spy in his own kitchen! How will Yevgeny ever fulfill his parents' dream that he become a national hero when he doesn't even have his own room? He's not a star athlete or a legendary ballet dancer. In the tiny apartment he shares with his Baryshnikov-obsessed mother, poetry-loving father, continually outraged grandmother, and safely talented brother, all Yevgeny has is his little pencil, the underside of a massive table, and the doodles that could change everything. With equal amounts charm and solemnity, award-winning author and artist Eugene Yelchin recounts in hilarious detail his childhood in Cold War Russia as a young boy desperate to understand his place in his family"--Provided by the publisher.

Discusses the fall of the Soviet Union, which occurred after decades of economic chaos and a nuclear arms race with the West.

Follows a group of psychic teenagers in 1960s Soviet Russia who are forced to use their powers to spy for the KGB.

Follows a group of psychic teenagers in 1960s Soviet Russia who are forced to use their powers to spy for the KGB.

Briefly explores the rise and fall of the Soviet Union and the causes and effects of the end of the Cold War on both the United States and the Soviet Union.

Looks at the Soviet Union in the twentieth century, focusing on 'the planned economy' which was going to bring good things that capitalism could never match.

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