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Hannah's Journal

The story of an immigrant girl
In the Russian shtetl where she and her family live, Hannah is given a diary for her tenth birthday and in it she records the dramatic story of her journey to America.
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Cold War

A history of the Cold War, focusing on the escalation of the stand-off between the United States and the Soviet Union from 1952 and 1963, and discussing the role of various leaders and other participants on both sides of the conflict.
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War and peace

Leo Tolstoy's classic nineteenth-century novel "War and Peace" that tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era.
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Risked

Jonah and Katherine travel to 1918 Russia just as the Romanovs, Russia's ruling family, are to be executed by the Bolsheviks.

Russia

This is an overview of the land, people, history, and culture of Russia from its earliest days to the present.

Babushka Baba Yaga

The villagers are afraid of her, so the legendary Baba Yaga disguises herself as an old woman in order to know the joys of being a grandmother.

Notes from underground

The passionate confessions of a suffering man who identifies himself as sick and spiteful.

The Cold War

Contains chronologically arranged essays that provide an event-by-event history of the Cold War, from the Soviet crackdown on Moscow's Helsinki Watch Group in February-March 1977, to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991. Includes a review of post-1991 developments.

The Cold War

Contains chronologically arranged essays that provide an event-by-event history of the Cold War, from Khrushchev's denoucement of the Stalinist regime in 1956, to the formation of a Soviet citizen group to investigate political abuses of psychiatry in 1977.

Celebrating birthdays in Russia

Discusses the parties, decorations, food, music, games, and presents found at Russian birthday celebrations.

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