Examines the life of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, drawing from Soviet archival film and a wealth of interviews, including a discussion with Mikhail Gorbechev, to reveal the atrocities of Stalin's twenty-nine-year reign of tyranny.
In a retelling of a Russian folktale set in the American South, little Buddy Earl keeps his family from being the laughingstock of the county Peach Pickin' Festival. Includes a recipe for peach cobbler.
A biography of the Russian explorer who discovered a species of wild horse in Mongolia. Also discusses several attempts by zookeepers to breed these horses in captivity.
Tevye, a poor Jewish milkman living in the village of Anatevka in anti-Semitic, czarist Russia, relies on love, pride, and faith to help him deal with his vexations with his scolding wife, five unmarried and willful daughters, and God.
Provides an account of the Great Terror, which raged in the Soviet Union between 1936 and 1938, during which General Secretary Joseph Stalin ordered the executions of thousands of people who opposed his policies.
An examination of the experiences of the survivors of Joseph Stalin's Gulag that draws on interviews with victims to describe the challenges they faced after returning home and the political conflict that was caused by their imprisonment.
