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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
"Running from her father's brutal legacy, Joseph Stalin's daughter defects to the United States against the turbulence of the 1960s. For fans of We Were the Lucky Ones and A Gentleman in Moscow, this sweeping historical novel is inspired by the true story of Svetlana Alliluyeva. In one of the most momentous events of the Cold War, Svetlana Allilyueva, the forty-one-year-old daughter of the notorious tyrannical leader of the USSR, abruptly abandoned...
63) The relic
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Yuri Varienski, a Ukrainian emigre in Jersey, bequeaths to his daughter, Lucy, a gold filigree cross, to be taken to a former dissident leader, Volkov, now exiled in Geneva. Innocently accepting her father's trust, Lucy doesn't know she will be sacrificing home, heart - and perhaps even her life.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
In 1960, a group of Red Army officers are planning to have Khrushchev assassinated. At the same time a CIA officer linked to the planned Bay of Pigs invasion vows vengence after an ambush and disappears. The two plots converge at the 1961 summit in Vienna.
66) The last spy
Author
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Formats
Description
No one would suspect that Ash, David, or Corinna is different from any of Washington's other most successful citizens. Ash, a prizewinning reporter for The Washington Post, is as famous as the people whose secrets he turns into headlines. David, a former undersecretary of state, has friends in high places and a Virginia estate worthy of presidents. His lover, Corinna, is a Justice Department lawyer so beautiful that her legal adversaries sometimes...
67) Firefox
Author
Series
Publisher
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Pub. Date
[1977]
Language
English
Description
The Soviet Mig-31 is the deadliest warplane ever built. Codenamed FIREFOX by NATO, it can fly over 4,000 mph, is invisible to radar--and has a lethally sophisticated weapons system that its pilot can control by thought impulses. There's only one way for the West to fight the greatest threat since the Second World War: hijack the Firefox!--From publisher description.
68) The Moscow Club
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Charlie, a brilliant analyst for the CIA predicts a coup in the U.S.S.R. He finds links to his family history and becomes involved in a nightmare of violence and paranoia.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
An idealistic American in post-communist Russia offers marriage to save a Russian woman from her crooked American partner, the pair involved in selling sex slaves to the West. But does she want to be saved? By the author of Annunciation.
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[1968]
Language
English
Description
A comic novel about the theater world in early Soviet Russia and a "biting attack on censorship" (The Guardian, UK).
From the author of The Master and Margarita, this semi-autobiographical satirical novel paints a vibrant portrait of life behind the curtains of the Russian literary and theater arenas in the early decades of the twentieth century.
Maxudov is a failed novelist who, after contemplating suicide, adapts his novel into a play that-seemingly...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Presents a satirical drama about Satan's visit to Moscow, where he learns that the citizens no longer believe in God. He decides to teach them a lesson by perpetrating a series of horrific tricks. Combines two distinct yet interwoven parts, one set in contemporary Moscow, the other in ancient Jerusalem." --
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In April 1945, the Allies are charging toward Berlin from the west, the Russians from the east. For Hitler, the situation is hopeless. But at this turning point in history, another war is about to explode. To win World War II, the Allies dealt with the devil. Joseph Stalin helped FDR, Churchill, and Truman crush Hitler. But what if "Uncle Joe" had given in to his desire to possess Germany and all of Europe? In this stunning novel, Robert Conroy picks...
75) Omon Ra
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
A Soviet cosmonaut is ordered to secretly pilot a supposedly unmanned expedition to the moon, after which he is to die, to maintain the myth of unmanned space flights. A satire by the author of Yellow Arrow.
77) Dust and ashes
Author
Series
Arbat trilogy ; 3
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
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