Results for: books tagged ‘Stalin’
Story of a Friendship: Dimitri Shostakovich and Isaak Glikman
Dmitri Shostakovich wrote regularly to his close friend Isaak Glikman during their forty-year relationship from the early 1930s to the composer's death in 1975. The core of Chronicle of a ... More
Stalin's Nemesis: Bertrand Patenaude
The story of one of the twentieth century’s most notorious political murders: the assassination of Leon Trotsky. Trotsky was the charismatic intellectual of the Russian Revolution, and a brilliant writer ... More
Eye of the Red Tsar: Sam Eastland
It is the time of the Great Terror.Inspector Pekkala - known as the Emerald Eye - was once the most famous detective in all Russia, the favourite of the Tsar. ... More
Molotov's Magic Lantern: Rachel Polonsky
A luminous exploration of one country and its literature, viewed through the eyes of Vyacheslav Molotov, one of Stalin's fiercest henchmen. More
The Red Coffin: Sam Eastland
Russia On the Brink of War - Stalin's Secret Weapon Sabotaged ...It is 1939. In the Soviet Union, years of revolution, fear and persecution have left the country unprepared to ... More
Collaborators: John Hodge
Moscow, 1938. A dangerous place to have a sense of humour; even more so a sense of freedom. Mikhail Bulgakov, living among dissidents, stalked by secret police, has both. And ... More
Siberian Red: Sam Eastland
Where is the Missing Treasure of Tsar Nicholas II?It is September 1939. With the Nazis fighting in Poland and poised to invade Russia, Stalin's need for the Tsar's gold is ... More