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When twelve-year-old Arcady is sent to a children's home after his parents are declared enemies of the state in Soviet Russia, soccer becomes a way to secure extra rations, respect, and protection but it may also be his way out if he can believe in and love another person--and himself.

The reader controls the course of an adventure in which Indiana Jones travels through Russia and works as an undercover spy for the French embassy.

Examines the tense fifty-year power struggle between the communist world and the West, tracing the cold war through its various stages and explaining why the world began to change in the 1980s.

In 1945 Russia, those who own German shepherds are considered traitors, but thirteen-year-old Mikhail and his family are determined to keep the dog a dying man brought them, while his classmate Katia strives to learn his secret.

Provides Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Steinbeck's report on the realities of life for ordinary Russian people in the wake of World War II, based on his forty-day tour of the country in 1947 with photographer Robert Capa.

A novel in diary form in which the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II describes the privileged life her family led up until the time of World War I and the tragic events that befell them.

Follows a group of psychic teenagers in 1960s Soviet Russia who are forced to use their powers to spy for the KGB.