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The death of Stalin [videorecording] / by Beale, Simon Russell,actor.; Buscemi, Steve,1957-actor.; Considine, Paddy,actor.; Iannucci, Armando,1963-screenwriter,film director.; Kurylenko, Olga,1979-actor.; Martin, Ian,screenwriter.; McLoughlin, Adrian,actor.; Nury, Fabien,screenwriter.; Palin, Michael,actor.; Schneider, David,1963-screenwriter.; Tambor, Jeffrey,1944-actor.; motion picture adaptation of (work) :Nury, Fabien.Death of Stalin.; motion picture adaptation of (work) :Robin, Thierry,1958-Death of Stalin.; Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Music, Christopher Willis ; director of photography, Zac Nicholson ; editor, Peter Lambert.Olga Kurylenko, Paddy Considine, Adrian McLoughlin, Simon Russell Beale, Jeffrey Tambor, Steve Buscemi, Michael Palin, Andrea Riseborough, Rupert Friend, Jason Isaacs.When the tyrannical ruler Stalin dies, his hapless inner circle scrambles to come up with the next evolution of the revolution, but it's clear everyone is really out for themselves. Proof that comedy, like politics, is all in the execution.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R; for language throughout, violence and some sexual references.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 DVS.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Dark comedy films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Political films.; Satirical films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953; Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953; Cold War;
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The allies : Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the unlikely alliance that won World War II / by Groom, Winston,1944-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Best-selling author Winston Groom tells the complex story of how Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin--the three iconic and vastly different Allied leaders--aligned to win World War II and created a new world order. By the end of World War II, 59 nations were arrayed against the axis powers, but three great Allied leaders--Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin--had emerged to control the war in Europe and the Pacific. Vastly different in upbringing and political beliefs, they were not always in agreement--or even on good terms. But, often led by Churchill's enduring spirit, in the end these three men changed the course of history. Using the remarkable letters between the three world leaders, enriching narrative details of their personal lives, and riveting tales of battles won and lost, best-selling historian Winston Groom returns to share one of the biggest stories of the 20th century: The interwoven and remarkable tale, and a fascinating study of leadership styles, of three world leaders who fought the largest war in history"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965.; Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.; Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953.; Heads of state; World War, 1939-1945;
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Comrade Koba : a novel / by Littell, Robert,1935-author.;
After the sudden death of his nuclear physicist father and the arrest of his mother during the Stalinist purge of Jewish doctors, young Leon Rozental--intellectually precocious and possessing a disarming candor--is hiding from the NKVD in the secret rooms of the House on the Embankment, a large building in Moscow where many Soviet officials and apparatchiks live and work. One day after following a passageway, Leon meets Koba, an old man whose apartment is protected by several guards. Koba is a high-ranking Soviet officer with troubling insight into the thoughts and machinations of Comrade Stalin. Through encounters between a naive boy and a paranoid tyrant, Robert Littell creates in Comrade Koba a nuanced portrayal of the Soviet dictator, showing his human side and his simultaneous total disregard for and ignorance of the suffering he inflicted on the Russian people. The charm and spontaneity of young Leon make him an irresistible character--and not unlike Holden Caulfield, whom he admits to identifying with--caught in the spider's web of the story woven by this enigmatic old man.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953; Dictators; Jews; Storytelling; Intergenerational communication;
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Sell us the rope : a novel / by May, Stephen,1964-author.;
"May 1907. Young Stalin - poet, bank-robber, spy - is in London for the 5th Congress of the Russian Communist Party. As he builds his powerbase in the party, Stalin manipulates alliances with Lenin, Trotsky, and Rosa Luxemburg under the eyes of the Czar's secret police. Meanwhile he is drawn to the fiery Finnish activist Elli Vuokko and risks everything in a relationship as complicated as it is dangerous."--Publisher.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Political fiction.; Novels.; Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953; Communism; Interpersonal relations; Social change;
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The Nazi menace : Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the road to war / by Hett, Benjamin Carter,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Berlin, November 1937. In a secret meeting with his top advisors, Adolf Hitler proclaims the urgent necessity for a war of aggression in Europe. Some conservatives are unnerved by this grandiose plan, but they are soon silenced, setting in motion events that will lead to the most calamitous war in history. Benjamin Carter Hett, the author of The Death of Democracy, his acclaimed history of the fall of the Weimar Republic, takes us from Berlin to London, Moscow, and Washington to show how anti-Nazi forces inside and outside Germany came to understand Hitler's true menace to European civilization and learned to oppose him. Drawing on original sources in German, English, French, and Russian, including newly released intelligence documents, he paints a sweeping portrait of governments under siege, populated by larger-than-life figures like Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Neville Chamberlain, Franklin Roosevelt, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Vyacheslav Molotov. The Nazi Menace evokes a time when the verities of life were subverted, a time marked by fake news, cultural unrest over refugees, and the challenges of national security in a consumerist democracy. To read Hett's book is to see the 1930s-and our world today-in a new and unnerving light."--
Subjects: Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965.; Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.; Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.; Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953.; Anti-Nazi movement; World War, 1939-1945;
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The Nazi conspiracy : the secret plot to kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill / by Meltzer, Brad,author.; Mensch, Josh,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From the New York Times bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy, The Nazi Conspiracy tells the little-known true story of a Nazi plot to kill FDR, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill at the height of the second World War. In 1943, as the war against Nazi Germany raged abroad, President Franklin Roosevelt wanted one thing: a face-to-face meeting with his allies Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill. This meeting of the Big Three in Tehran, Iran, would decide some of the most crucial strategic details of the war. Yet when the Nazis found out about the meeting, their own secret plan took shape-an assassination plot that would've changed history. A true story filled with daring rescues, body doubles, and political intrigue, The Nazi Conspiracy details FDR's pivotal meeting in Tehran, and the deadly Nazi plot against the heads of state of the three major Allied powers who attended it. With all the hallmarks of a Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch page-turner, The Nazi Conspiracy examines the great political minds of the 20th century, exploring the early years of the war in gripping detail. This meeting of The Big Three changed the course of World War II. Here's the inside story of how it all almost went terribly wrong"--
Subjects: Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965.; Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.; Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953.; Teheran Conference (1943 : Tehran, Iran); Conspiracies; Conspiracies; Operation Long Jump.; World War, 1939-1945;
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