1917-1991, soviet union

An intimate account of the last of the Romanovs and the fall of Imperial Russia--Cover.

Examines the life of the daughter of the czar who ruled during the Russian Revolution and discusses the question of whether she escaped or was killed along with the rest of her family.

On a visit to promote friendship and understanding between Soviets and Americans, a young boy from Atlanta, Georgia observes life in the Soviet republic of Georgia.

A history of the Soviet Union which begins with the conditions leading up to the revolution of 1917 and concludes with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Profusely illustrated text discusses the campaigns and battles between German and Russian forces in 1942, when the Russians successfully defended Stalingrad and won their first offensive campaign of World War II.

After 350 years as a Fetch, or death escort, Calder breaks his vows and enters the body of Rasputin, whose spirit causes rebellion in the Land of Lost Souls while Calder struggles to convey Ana and Alexis, orphaned in the Russian Revolution, to Heaven.

A history of the end of the arms race describes the Soviet Union's development of an automatic retaliatory attack system, the United States's efforts to create space-based missile defenses, and the struggle to prevent nuclear weapons from being acquired by terrorists.

Drawing on interviews with Reagan administration officials, journalists, historians, and eyewitnesses, the author focuses on Ronald Reagan's June 1987 speech at the Brandenburg Gate and his historic challenge to Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.

Presents accounts, from both the United States and the Soviet Union, of meetings held between Henry Kissinger and Soviet Ambassador Anatoliy Dobrynin, chronicling their communications regarding foreign policy during the Cold War, and includes the full record of the first Moscow Summit between President Nixon and Soviet Secretary General Leonid Brezhnev in 1972.