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Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
Nikita Mikhalkov directs and stars as Colonel S. Kotov, a hero of the Revolution, who is spending the summer in the country with his young daughter (Mikhalkov's real-life daughter), his wife and her eccentric family. But when his wife's childhood love suddenly appears, the idyllic summer day takes a surprising turn. A lyrical film filled with beauty and warmth, it is also an indelible account of a man dedicated to family and fatherland, cruelly destroyed...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
191 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The writer daughter of a Cuban dissident falls in love with an actor making a documentary about her father, but soon discovers that neither the actor nor her father are who she thought they were --
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Persian
Description
The four stories that are variations on the crucial themes of moral strength and the death penalty that ask to what extent individual freedom can be expressed under a despotic regime and its seemingly inescapable threats.
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xix, 275 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The pain inflicted by the gulags has cast a long and dark shadow over Soviet-era history. Zgustová's collection of interviews with former female prisoners not only chronicles the hardships of the camps, but also serves as testament to the power of beauty in face of adversity. Where one would expect to find stories of hopelessness and despair, Zgustová has unearthed tales of the love, art, and friendship that persisted in times of tragedy. Across...
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a world uncomfortably like our own, a young woman called Amalantis is arrested for asking a question. Her question is this: Who is the Prisoner? When Amalantis disappears, her lover Karnak goes looking for her. He searches desperately at first, then with a growing realization. To find Amalantis, he must first understand the meaning of her question. Karnak's search leads him into a terrifying world of lies, oppression and fear at the heart of which...
15) The good cop
Author
Series
Willi Geismeier novels volume 1
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Munich, 1920. Detective Willi Geismeier has a problem: how do you uphold the law when the law goes bad? The First World War has been lost and Germany is in turmoil. The new government in Berlin is weak. The police and courts are corrupt. Fascists and Communists are fighting in the streets. People want a savior, someone who can make Germany great again. To many, Adolf Hitler seems perfect for the job. When the offices of a Munich newspaper are bombed,...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 700 pages 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Long neglected by European historians, the unspeakable atrocities of Franco's Spain are finally brought to tragic light in this definitive work by Paul Preston, the world's foremost historian of 20th-century Spain.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the modern world. As a child Eunsun loved her country--despite her school field trips to public executions, daily self-criticism sessions, and the increasing gnaw of hunger as the country-wide famine escalated ... Her mother decided to escape North Korea with Eunsun and her sister, not knowing that they were embarking on a journey that would take them nine long...
19) The slaughter: mass killings, organ harvesting, and China's secret solution to its dissident problem
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
368 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The inside story of China's organ transplant business and its macabre connection with internment camps and killing fields for arrested dissidents, especially the adherents of Falun Gong. Mass murder is alive and well. That is the stark conclusion of this comprehensive investigation into the Chinese state's secret program to get rid of political dissidents while profiting from the sale of their organs--in many cases to Western recipients. Based on...
Publisher
St. James Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxvii, 427 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Addresses heavily debated questions by offering different critical perspectives on major historical events, drawn from all time periods and from all parts of the globe. This volume covers the Red Scare after 1945. Provides students with an enhanced understanding of events only summarized in history texts, helps stimulate critical thinking and provides ideas for papers and assignments.
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