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c2010., Basic Books Call No: 940.54 S67b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In this revelatory book, Timothy Snyder offers a groundbreaking investigation of Europe's killing fields and a sustained explanation of the motives and methods of both Hitler and Stalin. He anchors the history of Hitler's Holocaust and Stalin's Terror in their time and place and provides a fresh account of the relationship between the two regime.
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2017., Titan Comics Call No: GN Fic Nur Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "On March 1, 1953, the Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union -- Joseph Stalin -- had a severe stroke. A doctor could not be called until the Central Committee had convened, voted, and agreed on which doctor to use, a task made more complex by the fact that Stalin had just ordered the deaths of many of the Soviet Union's leading physicians. And so began the bureaucratic merry-go-round that became the intense and underhanded struggle for control of a nation."--page 4 of cover.
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2015., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: 940.53 B985r Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Making use of previously classified materials from the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History, and the Archive of the Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation, as well as the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and three hundred hot war messages between Roosevelt and Stalin, Butler tells the story of how the leader of the capitalist world and the leader of the Communist world became more than allies of convenience during World War II. Butler reassess in-depth how the two men became partners, how they shared the same outlook for the postwar world, and how they formed an uneasy but deep friendship, shaping the worldœs political stage from the war to the decades leading up to and into the new century.
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2005., Specialized, Cambridge University Press Call No: 946.084 S782s Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This study challenges many assumptions about Stalin from his early life to his contributions across the political, economic, social, cultural and ideological spectrum and provides a deeper understanding of the nature of Stalin's power and ideas, presenting a more nuanced image of this historic figure.
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c2004., Random House Call No: 947.084 S782r Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryContributor biographical information Sample text More...
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2015., Adult, HarperCollins Call No: Bio A436s Edition: First edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history's most monstrous dictators--her father, Josef Stalin. Born in the early years of the Soviet Union, Svetlana Stalin spent her youth inside the walls of the Kremlin. Communist Party privilege protected her from the mass starvation and purges that haunted Russia, but she did not escape tragedy--the loss of everyone she loved, including her mother, two brothers, aunts and uncles, and a lover twice her age, deliberately exiled to Siberia by her father. As she gradually learned about the extent of her father's brutality after his death, Svetlana could no longer keep quiet and in 1967 shocked the world by defecting to the United States--leaving her two children behind. But although she was never a part of her father's regime, she could not escape his legacy. Her life in America was fractured; she moved frequently, married disastrously, shunned other Russian exiles, and ultimately died in poverty in Spring Green, Wisconsin. With access to KGB, CIA, and Soviet government archives, as well as the close cooperation of Svetlana's daughter, Rosemary Sullivan pieces together Svetlana's incredible life in a masterful account of unprecedented intimacy. Epic in scope, it's a revolutionary biography of a woman doomed to be a political prisoner of her father's name. Sullivan explores a complicated character in her broader context without ever losing sight of her powerfully human story, in the process opening a closed, brutal world that continues to fascinate us."--Provided by publisher.
