Despite their political differences Nyl, a young Ukrainian farmer, and Alice, a Canadian girl whose father has come to the Soviet Union, struggle to survive the famine-genocide known as the Holodomor, when the forced collectivization of the Ukrainian farms and hard winters led to mass starvation and death.
Despite their political differences Nyl, a young Ukrainian farmer, and Alice, a Canadian girl whose father has come to the Soviet Union, struggle to survive the famine-genocide known as the Holodomor, when the forced collectivization of the Ukrainian farms and hard winters led to mass starvation and death.
how British spies thwarted Lenin's plot for global revolution
Milton, Giles
2014
In 1917, a band of communist revolutionaries stormed the Winter Palace of Russia's Tsar Nicholas II. Vladimir Lenin's Russian Revolution was now underway. But Lenin would not be satisfied with overthrowing the Tsar. His goal was a world-wide revolt that would topple all Western capitalist regimes---starting with the British Empire.
the inside story of how Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill won one war and began another
Fenby, Jonathan
2006
Examines the uneasy alliance between Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin throughout World War II, and describes how the three Allied leaders came together to defeat a common enemy and how that partnership led to the Cold War after 1945.
Explores the fate of the Russian Revolution in the years following Lenin's death, and explains how the Stalinist policies rejected the productive potential of the nationalized planned economy in favor of a corrupt, wasteful bureaucratic system.
Traces the history of revolutionary Russia through primary source documents, revealing the events that occurred between 1917 and the 1930s, and including news articles, government documents, memoirs, diaries, photographs, and facsimiles.
