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"At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge swath of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to a completely new political and moral system: communism. In 'Iron Curtain,' . . . historian Anne Applebaum describes how the communist regimes of Eastern Europe were created and what daily life was like once they were complete....
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 450 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Philip and Elizabeth find themselves at odds over their daughter's future now that the KGB is determined to recruit her. FBI agent Stan Beeman rededicates himself to uncovering the identities of the Russian spies.
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 572 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Secrets can be deadly in this suspenseful thriller about undercover Russian spies in 1980s Washington D.C. Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings seem to be a typical suburban couple, but they're actually lethal KGB agents plotting to bring down America. As the Cold War escalates, Philip and Elizabeth must take extreme measures to continue their mission to keep their true identities hidden. But when an FBI agent movies in across the street, they become ensnared...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 526 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It is 1987, and an imminent Gorbachev-Reagan nuclear arms summit promises to ease world tensions. But life for the Jennings family is more precarious than ever: Elizabeth's relentless dedication as a KGB agent has dealt a potentially lethal blow to her marriage to Philip, who has left espionage behind. As Philip's friendship with FBI agent Stan Beeman grows, the danger of exposure of the family 'business,' which now includes Paige, reaches crisis...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 585 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Danger, disillusionment, and betrayal reach an all-time high in the suspense-laced fifth season of The Americans. KGB agents Philip and Elizabeth Jennings' unwavering dedication to their work comes at even more of a personal cost than before. And as Paige is drawn deeper into the reality of her parents' secret job, she realizes she will never have a normal life. Meanwhile, as Cold War tensions continue to escalate, Philip and Elizabeth are suspicious...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 585 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Technological advances have escalated Cold War tensions to an all-time high, and undercover KGB operatives Elizabeth and Philip Jennings face the growing threat of discovery. As their assignments grow more deadly, their family is in more danger, and their loyalties are tested like never before.
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Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xvii, 1154 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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English
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In 1929, Joseph Stalin, having already achieved dictatorial power over the vast Soviet Empire, formally ordered the systematic conversion of the world's largest peasant economy into "socialist modernity," otherwise known as collectivization, regardless of the cost. What it cost, and what Stalin ruthlessly enacted, transformed the country and its ruler in profound and enduring ways. Building and running a dictatorship, with life and death power over...
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English
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"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era comes the definitive volume on one of the most important and controversial figures of the 20th century. When Mikhail Gorbachev became its leader in March 1985, the USSR was still one of the world's two superpowers. By the end of his tenure six years later, the Communist system was dismantled, the cold war was over and, on 25th December 1991, the Soviet Union itself ceased to...
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xiii, 949 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In his biography of Stalin, Kotkin rejects the inherited wisdom about Stalin's psychological makeup, showing us instead how Stalin's near paranoia was fundamentally political and closely tracks the Bolshevik revolution's structural paranoia, the predicament of a Communist regime in an overwhelmingly capitalist world, surrounded and penetrated by enemies. At the same time, Kotkin posits the impossibility of understanding Stalin's momentous decisions...
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English
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"The epic tale of the rise to power of Russia's current president--of his emergence from shrouded obscurity and deprivation to become one of the most consequential and complicated leaders in modern history. Former New York Times Moscow bureau chief Steven Lee Myers has followed Vladimir Putin's path for many years, and gives us the fullest, most absorbing account we have of his rise to power. This gripping narrative elucidates a cool and calculating...
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xx, 876 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The definitive biography of the mercurial Soviet leader who succeeded and denounced Stalin. Nikita Khrushchev was one of the most complex and important political figures of the twentieth century. Ruler of the Soviet Union during the first decade after Stalin's death, Khrushchev left a contradictory stamp on his country and on the world. His life and career mirror the Soviet experience: revolution, civil war, famine, collectivization, industrialization,...
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Publisher
Picador, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Picador paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 624 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A chilling and revelatory expose of the KGB's renaissance, Putin's rise to power, and how Russian black cash is subverting the world. In Putin's People, former Moscow correspondent and investigative journalist Catherine Belton reveals the untold story of how Vladimir Putin and his entourage of KGB men seized power in Russia and built a new league of oligarchs. Through exclusive interviews with key inside players, Belton tells how Putin's people conducted...
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First paperback printing.
Physical Desc
viii, 345 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"When the Soviet Union collapsed, many hoped that Russia's centuries-long history of autocratic rule might finally end. Yet today's Russia appears to be retreating from democracy, not progressing toward it. Ruling Russia is the only book of its kind to trace the history of modern Russian politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the presidency of Vladimir Putin. It examines the complex evolution of communist and post-Soviet leadership in light of...
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English
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Presenting a new perspective on the Russian Revolution, a noted historian traces three generational phases to show how the revolution, while it changed in form and character, retained the same idealistic goals throughout.
In this elegant and incisive account, Orlando Figes offers an illuminating new perspective on the Russian Revolution. While other historians have focused their examinations on the cataclysmic years immediately before and after 1917,...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xi, 364 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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"Stalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing. On Stalin's Team overturns this view, revealing that behind Stalin were a group of loyal men who formed a remarkably effective team with him from the late 1920s until his death in 1953. Drawing on extensive original research, Sheila Fitzpatrick provides the first in-depth...