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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A gripping account of the months before and after Joseph Stalin's death and how his demise reshaped the course of twentieth-century history.
Joshua Rubenstein's riveting account takes us back to the second half of 1952 when no one could foresee an end to Joseph Stalin's murderous regime. He was poised to challenge the newly elected U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower with armed force, and was also broadening a vicious campaign against Soviet...
Joshua Rubenstein's riveting account takes us back to the second half of 1952 when no one could foresee an end to Joseph Stalin's murderous regime. He was poised to challenge the newly elected U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower with armed force, and was also broadening a vicious campaign against Soviet...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"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...
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Series
Publisher
John Birmingham
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Ten years have passed since Admiral Kolhammer's 21st century battlefleet was dragged into a wormhole and thrown across oceans of time, emerging with disastrous consequences and shattering the history of the Second World War. Hitler and the Nazis have fallen, but Stalin rules half of Europe and Asia. The great Soviet engines of state power turn and burn to 'set history right'. Not just of the war, but of all future time. In Rome with his lover Julia...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"In June 1934, Stalin allegedly called Boris Pasternak and they spoke about the arrest of Osip Mandelstam. A telephone call from the dictator was not something necessarily relished, and in the complicated world of literary politics it would have provided opportunities for potential misunderstanding and profound trouble. But this was a call one could not ignore. Stalin wanted to know what Pasternak thought of the idea that Mandelstam had been arrested....
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Draws on newly released Russian documentation to explore Stalin's commitment to expanding the Soviet empire and his seeming collaboration with Roosevelt and Churchill, offering insight into his true motives and role in triggering the Cold War.
Author
Series
Inspector Pekkala volume 5
Publisher
Opus
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A soldier returns from the frontline of battle to report that Inspector Pekkala's charred body has been found at the site of an ambush. But Stalin refuses to believe that the indomitable Pekkala is dead. On Stalin's orders, Pekkala's assistant Kirov travels deep into the forests of Western Russia, following a trail of clues to a wilderness where partisans wage a brutal campaign against the Nazi invaders. Unknown to Kirov, he is being led into a trap...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When the tyrannical ruler Stalin dies, his hapless inner circle scrambles to come up with the next evolution of the revolution, but it's clear everyone is really out for themselves. Proof that comedy, like politics, is all in the execution.
14) Joseph Stalin
Author
Series
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Stalin turned the Soviet Union into a world power--at an unimaginable cost. He uprooted millions of peasants and starved millions to death.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In this exciting, meticulously researched narrative, best-selling author and historian Winston Groom returns to tell one of the most monumental stories of the twentieth century. It is the tale of three remarkably different men, joined in a mission to end World War II and restore order. Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin redefined a generation and transformed its political future. Their leadership--wise, decisive, and sometimes...
Author
Series
Inspector Pekkala volume 7
Publisher
Opus
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"April, 1945. East of Berlin, the Red Army stands poised to unleash its final assault upon the ruined capital of Hitler's Thousand Year Reich. To the north, at a lonely outpost near the Baltic Sea, German scientists perfect a guidance system for the mighty V2 rocket, which has already caused massive damage to the cities of London and Antwerp. This device, known only by the codename Diamond Stream, will allow the rocket to arrive at its target with...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Language
English
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"Americans call the Second World War "The Good War." But before it even began, America{u2019}s wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens{u2014}and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was finally defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At war{u2019}s end, both the German and the Soviet killing sites fell behind the iron curtain, leaving the history of mass killing...
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Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy, The Nazi Conspiracy tells the little-known true story of a Nazi plot to kill FDR, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill at the height of the second World War. In 1943, as the war against Nazi Germany raged abroad, President Franklin Roosevelt wanted one thing: a face-to-face meeting with his allies Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill. This meeting of the...
Author
Publisher
Titan Comics
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
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 Unions leading physicians. And so began the bureaucratic merry-go-round that became the intense...
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