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The war against the peasantry, 1927-1930 the tragedy of the Soviet countryside /

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A partisan from Vilna by Margolis, Raḥel

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Stalinism as a way of life a narrative in documents /

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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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Against their will the history and geography of forced migrations in the USSR / by Poli͡an, P. M.

Table of Contents: “…Forced migrations: pre-history and classification -- Forced migrations before Hitler and Stalin: historical excursus -- Forced migrations and Second World War -- Classification of forced migrations -- Part I. …”
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The church of Constantinople in the nineteenth century an essay in historical research / by Sokolov, I. I.

“…Greece History War of Independence, 1821-1829.…”
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August 1914 / by Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-

A small corner of hell dispatches from Chechnya / by Politkovskai͡a, Anna

“…Chechni͡a (Russia) History Civil War, 1994- Press coverage.…”
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Stalin's secret pogrom the postwar inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee /

Subjects: “…Lozovskiĭ, A., 1878-1952 Trials, litigation, etc.…”
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Framing Russian art from early icons to Malevich / by Tarasov, Oleg

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Russian avant-garde and radical modernism an introductory reader /

Subjects: “…Arts, Russian 20th century.…”
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In Search of the Free Individual : The History of the Russian-Soviet Soul / by Aleksievich, Svetlana, 1948-

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In Search of the Free Individual : The History of the Russian-Soviet Soul / by Aleksievich, Svetlana, 1948-

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Master of the house Stalin and his inner circle / by Khlevni͡uk, O. V. (Oleg Vitalʹevich)

Table of Contents: “…The Stalinization of the politburo, 1928-1930 -- Power in crisis, 1931-933 -- A facade of liberalization, 1934 -- Terror and conciliation, 1935-1936 -- Stalin and the great terror, 1937-1938 -- On the eve of war : the new structure of Stalin's government -- Conclusion : master of the houses.…”
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Creating the empress politics and poetry in the age of Catherine II / by Proskurina, V. I͡U

“…Ars Rossika.…”
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"Tsar and God" and other essays in Russian cultural semiotics by Uspenskii, Boris Andreevich

“…Ars Rossika.…”
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The word that causes death's defeat poems of memory / by Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna, 1889-1966

Table of Contents: “…Youth and early fame, 1889-1916 -- Revolution and civil war, 1917-1922 -- Outcast in the new order, 1922-1935 -- Terror and the muse, 1936-1941 -- War and late Stalinism, 1941-1953 -- Late fame and final years, 1953-1966 -- Requiem -- The way of all the earth -- Poem without a hero -- Bearing the burden of witness : Requiem -- Forward into the past : The way of all the earth -- Rediscovering a lost generation : Poem without a hero -- Commentary on Poem without a hero.…”
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Katyn a crime without punishment /

Table of Contents: “…Prisoners of an undeclared war, 23 August 1939-5 March 1940 -- Extermination, March-June 1940 -- Katyn and its echoes, 1940 to the present.…”
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Russia under Yeltsin and Putin neo-liberal autocracy / by Kagarlitsky, Boris, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…The inevitable reaction -- The Russian intelligentsia between 'Westernism' and 'Patriotism' -- The rise of the Yeltsin regime -- Word and deed -- The corporatist model and social conflict -- The post-Soviet left -- The road to default -- The twilight of the 'Second Republic' -- The drift to the left (1998-99) -- The war of the Kremlin succession -- The Putin regime.…”
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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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