Stalin, Paperback

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In the late 1920s, Stalin was determined to turn Russia into a "Soviet Paradise." For thousands of Russian Mennonites that meant exorbitant taxes, ...

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Reducere. After the success of her New York Times-bestselling childhood memoir Twenty Letters to a Friend, Josef Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva--subje...

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Sergei Eisenstein was born in Riga in 1898. His father was a Jew of German origin who had converted to Russian Orthodoxy and who passed himself off...

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Reducere. Near the end of August 1939, a nineteen-year-old rabbinical student by the name of Samuel Cywiak returned home to Wyszk w, Poland to visit his fami...

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*Includes quotes from Anne Frank's diary about life, love, religion, persecution, and more. *Includes pictures of important people and places in An...