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Series
Modern Library chronicles volume 7
Language
English
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Description
Here is an exporation of a promising theory that, when put into practice, wreaked havoc on the world. An expert on communism, Richard Pipes follows the history of the Soviet Union from the 1917 revolution to the Cold War, and finally, to its deterioration and collapse.
Author
Series
Foul lady Fortune volume 1
Language
English
Description
1931, Shanghai. Four years ago Rosalind Lang was brought back from the brink of death, but the experiment that saved her also stopped her from sleeping and aging-- and allows her to heal from any wound. Desperate for redemption from her traitorous past, she uses her abilities as an assassin for her country. Code name: Fortune. When the Japanese Imperial Army begins its invasion march, Rosalind's mission pivots. A series of murders is causing unrest...
Author
Series
Publisher
World Almanac Library
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores why the Cold War ended, including such reasons as the changing relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union, economic problems, and the increase in nuclear weaponry worldwide.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Russia, 1918. With the execution of Tsar Nicholas and his family, the empire crumbles. Russia is on the edge of civil war. Anna, a bourgeois girl, narrowly escaped the massacre of her entire family in Yekaterinburg. Desperate to get away from the Bolsheviks, she offers a peasant girl a diamond to take her as far south as possible-- not realizing that the girl is a communist herself. With her brother in desperate need of a doctor, Evgenia accepts Anna's...
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