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Joshua Rubenstein
A clear-eyed exploration of the career of Leon Trotsky, the tragic hero who dreamed of justice and then wreaked havoc, by a leading expert on human rights and the former…
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Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine, Trotsky was an effective military strategist and an adept diplomat, who staked the fate of the Bolshevik revolution on the meagre foundation of…
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A gripping account of the months before and after Stalin’s death and how his demise reshaped the course of twentieth-century history
Powerful testimonies by Holocaust survivors
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Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989), a brilliant physicist and the principal designer of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, later became a human rights activist and-as a result-a source of profound irritation to the…
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David M. Rubenstein
An illustrated study of Abraham Lincoln's reading life.
Few people in history are written about more than Abraham Lincoln, and deservedly so, for as America's sixteenth president he oversaw both…
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Tamara Petkevich
In an abridged translation that retains the grace and passion of the original, Klots and Ufberg present the stunning memoir of a young woman who became an actress in the…
In 1952, 15 Soviet Jews, including five prominent Yiddish writers and poets, were secretly tried and convicted; multiple executions soon followed in the basement of Moscow’s Lubyanka prison. This book…
