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Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag by Figes Orlando
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-05-21 | Author:Figes, Orlando [Figes, Orlando]

Five days later, Sveta had not yet left Moscow. There were difficulties getting train tickets (not uncommon in the Soviet Union, where people queued for days at ticket-offices). ‘Goodness knows ...
( Category: Russia March 25,2014 )
A Writer at War by Vasily Grossman
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Vasily Grossman

‘When Germans had pushed us right back to the Volga, their sub-machine-gunners were shouting: “Rus, glug-glug!” And we shouted back: “Hey, come here, you’re thirsty, aren’t you?”’13 Soldiers burned to ...
( Category: Journalists March 25,2014 )
The Mystery of Olga Chekhova by Beevor Antony
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-08-30 | Author:Beevor, Antony [Beevor, Antony]

8. A rather larger Lulu Knipper, with Olga (behind),Ada and Lev on Konstantin’s lap. 9. The Cherry Orchard, with Vasily Kachalov as Trofimov and Olgal Knipper-Chekhova as Ranyevskaya. 10. Konstantin ...
( Category: Holocaust March 25,2014 )
Stalin: A Biography by Robert Service
epub |eng | 2005-06-15 | Author:Robert Service [Service, Robert]

32. THE CULT OF IMPERSONALITY The Lenin cult glistened like a film of oil over the dark ocean of Soviet reality in the late 1930s. Stalin had always presided over ...
( Category: Political March 24,2014 )

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