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Physicists epoch and personalities / by Feĭnberg, Evgeniĭ Lʹvovich

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A partisan from Vilna by Margolis, Raḥel

Subjects: “…World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, Lithuanian.…”
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The struggle for Russia power and change in the democratic revolution / by Khasbulatov, R. I. (Ruslan Imranovich)

“…Soviet Union History Attempted coup, 1991 Personal narratives.…”
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A small corner of hell dispatches from Chechnya / by Politkovskai͡a, Anna

“…Chechni͡a (Russia) History Civil War, 1994- Personal narratives, Russian.…”
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I, Maya Plisetskaya by Pliset͡skai͡a, Maĭi͡a Mikhaĭlovna, 1926-

Table of Contents: “…-- Stalin's birthday -- I dance in ʼDon Quixoteʼ -- I dance in Golovanov's opera -- Life on the road and the end of the Stalinist era -- My trip to India -- Persecution -- How I didn't go to London -- While the company was in London -- How I dressed -- What a person needs -- Shchedrin -- Life on Kutuzovsky Prospect -- I go to America -- Seventy-three days -- How we were paid -- Paris meetings -- Work with Yakobson -- Why I did not stay in the West -- Marc Chagall draws me -- November 20 -- How ʼCarmen Suiteʼ was born -- Work with Roland Petit and Maurice Bjart -- A lyrical digression -- My ballets -- My ballets (continued) -- I want justice -- Work in Italy -- Work in Spain -- Untitled -- Years of wandering -- Curfew.…”
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Russia's penal colony in the Far East a translation of Vlas Doroshevich's "Sakhalin" / by Doroshevich, V. M. (Vlas Mikhaĭlovich), 1864-1922

Table of Contents: “…-- Prison wardens -- The death penalty -- Executioners -- Corporal punishments -- Katorga's ways -- Matvey's trouble -- The indefinitely-sentenced probationer Glovatsky -- Katorga types -- Initiation into the penal laborers -- Educated persons in Katorga -- Talma on Sakhalin -- The card game -- Katorga's laws -- The language of Katorga -- Katorga songs -- Katorga and religion -- Sectarians on Sakhalin Island -- Criminals and crimes -- Criminals and justice (from observations on Sakhalin) -- Katorga labors of a Konovalova -- The most unfortunate of women -- Voluntary followers -- Natives of Sakhalin Island -- Golden hand -- Poluliakhov -- A famous Moscow murderer -- The specialist -- Cannibals -- The penal laborer baroness Heimbrück -- Landsberg -- The grandfather of Russian Katorga -- The apostate -- Katorga's aristocrat -- The plebeian -- The parricide -- Shkandyba -- Hired murderers -- The suicide -- The frenzied -- The educated man -- Poet-murderers (in the form of a preface) -- Mentally ill criminals -- Sakhalin's Monte Carlo (the Katorga almshouse in Derbinsk settlement).…”
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