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The girl from the Metropol Hotel : growing up in communist Russia / by Petrushevskai͡a︡, Li͡u︡dmila.;
Introduction: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya's War / by Anna Summers -- The Girl from the Metropol Hotel -- Family Circumstances : The Vegers -- The War -- Kuibyshev -- Kuibyshev : Survival Strategies -- How I Was Rescued -- The Durov Theater -- Searching for Food -- Dolls -- Victory Night -- The Officers' Club -- The Courtiers' Language -- The Bolshoi Theater -- Down the Ladder -- Literary Sleep-Ins -- My Performances : Green Sweater -- The Portrait -- The Story of a Little Sailor -- My New Life -- The Hotel Metropol -- Mumsy -- Summer Camp -- Chekhov Street : Grandpa Kolya -- Trying to Fit In -- Children's Home -- I Want to Live! -- Snowdrop -- The Wild Berries -- Gorilla -- Dying Swan -- Sanych -- Foundling."The prizewinning memoir of one of the world's great writers, about coming of age and finding her voice amid the hardships of Stalinist Russia. Like a young Edith Piaf, wandering the streets singing for alms, and like Oliver Twist, living by his wits, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya grew up watchful and hungry, a diminutive figure far removed from the heights she would attain as an internationally celebrated writer. In The Girl from the Metropol Hotel, her prizewinning memoir, she recounts her childhood of extreme deprivation, made more acute by the awareness that her family of Bolshevik intellectuals, now reduced to waiting in bread lines, once lived large across the street from the Kremlin in the opulent Metropol Hotel. As she unravels the threads of her itinerant upbringing--of feigned orphandom, of sleeping in freight cars and beneath the kitchen tables of communal apartments, of the fugitive pleasures of scraps of food--we see, both in her remarkable lack of self-pity and in the more than two dozen photographs throughout the text, her feral instinct and the crucible in which her gift for giving voice to a nation of survivors was forged"--Provided by publisher.LSC
Subjects: Petrushevskai͡a︡, Li͡u︡dmila; Petrushevskai͡a︡, Li͡u︡dmila; Petrushevskai͡a︡, Li͡u︡dmila; Hotel Metropol (Moscow, Russia); Authors, Russian; Communism; Coming of age;
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Xi Jinping : president of China / by Rowell, Rebecca.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.RL: 5-6; IL: 5-9.LSC
Subjects: Xi, Jinping; Presidents; Heads of state; Communists; Communist leadership;
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The sympathizer / by Nguyen, Viet Thanh,1971-author.;
Includes bibliographical references.Follows a Viet Cong agent as he spies on a South Vietnamese army general and his compatriots as they start a new life in 1975 Los Angeles.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Spy stories.; Communists; Soldiers; Vietnam War, 1961-1975;
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Ethel Rosenberg : an American tragedy / by Sebba, Anne,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."New York Times bestselling author Anne Sebba's moving biography of Ethel Rosenberg, the wife and mother whose execution for espionage-related crimes defined the Cold War and horrified the world. In June 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a couple with two young sons, were led separately from their prison cells on Death Row and electrocuted moments apart. Both had been convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union, despite the fact that the US government was aware that the evidence against Ethel was shaky at best and based on the perjury of her own brother. This book is the first to focus on one half of that couple for more than thirty years, and much new evidence has surfaced since then. Ethel was a bright girl who might have fulfilled her personal dream of becoming an opera singer, but instead found herself struggling with the social mores of the 1950's. She longed to be a good wife and perfect mother to her two small boys, while battling the political paranoia of the McCarthy era, anti-Semitism, misogyny, and a mother who never valued her. Because of her profound love for and loyalty to her husband, she refused to incriminate him, despite government pressure on her to do so. Instead, she courageously faced the death penalty for a crime she hadn't committed, orphaning her two young sons. Seventy years after her trial, this is the first time Ethel's story has been told with the full use of the dramatic and tragic prison letters she exchanged with her husband, her lawyer and her psychotherapist over a three-year period, two of them in solitary confinement. Hers is the resonant story of what happens when a government motivated by fear tramples on the rights of its citizens"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Rosenberg, Ethel, 1915-1953.; Communists; Spies;
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American Marxism / by Levin, Mark ,author.;
"The six-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, Fox News star, and radio host Mark R. Levin explains how the dangers he warned against in the "timely yet timeless" (David Limbaugh, author of Jesus Is Risen) bestseller Liberty and Tyranny have come to pass"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Communist Party of the United States of America.; Communism; Socialism;
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The Briar Club : a novel / by Quinn, Kate,author.;
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns with a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse during the McCarthy era"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Political fiction.; Recipes.; Novels.; Anti-communist movements; Boardinghouses; Female friendship; Nineteen fifties;
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The Briar Club [text (large print)] : a novel / by Quinn, Kate,author.;
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns with a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse during the McCarthy era"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Large print books.; Political fiction.; Recipes.; Novels.; Anti-communist movements; Boardinghouses; Female friendship; Nineteen fifties;
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Polostan / by Stephenson, Neal,author.;
"Born in the American West to a clan of cowboy anarchists, Dawn is raised in Leningrad after the Russian Revolution by her Russian father, a party line Leninist who re-christens her Aurora. She spends her early years in Russia but then grows up as a teenager in Montana, before being drawn into gunrunning and revolution in the streets of Washington, D.C., during the depths of the Great Depression. When a surprising revelation about her past puts her in the crosshairs of U.S. authorities, Dawn returns to Russia, where she is groomed as a spy by the organization that later becomes the KGB"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Historical fiction.; Military fiction.; Novels.; Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.); Communists; Depressions; Disasters; Nuclear physics; Women spies;
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Closer to the moon [videorecording] / by Caranfil, Nae,film director,screenwriter.; Farmiga, Vera,actor.; Lloyd, Harry,1983-actor.; Strong, Mark,1963-actor.; IFC Films,publisher.; MPI Media Group,film distributor.;
Vera Farmiga, Mark Strong, Harry Lloyd.A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of old friends from the World War II Jewish Resistance to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they are only filming a movie.PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Bank robberies; Caper films.; Comedy films.; Communist parties; Feature films.; Police; Propaganda films; Thieves;
For private home use only.
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A good American family : the red scare and my father / by Maraniss, David,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A personal story of the author's father's involvement in HUAC that offers a rich portrait of McCarthy era America"--
Subjects: Maraniss, David; Maraniss, Elliott, 1918-2004.; United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities.; Anti-communist movements;
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