<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[subject results for "Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953."]]></title><description><![CDATA[subject results for "Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953."]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/burnaby/rss/search?query=%22Stalin%2C%20Joseph%2C%201878-1953.%22&amp;searchType=subject&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;page=2&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 03:22:07 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[The Allies]]></title><description><![CDATA["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"--]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1240335</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1240335</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Groom, Winston]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1240335002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Unlikely Alliance That Won World War II</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781426219665/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stalin]]></title><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1208460</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1208460</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kotkin, Stephen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1208460002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781594203800/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scorched Earth]]></title><description><![CDATA[EUROPEAN HISTORY. German scholar Jorg Baberowski is one of the world's leading experts on the Stalin era, but his work has seldom been translated into English. This book, an unremitting indictment of the mad violence with which Stalin ruled the Soviet Union, depicts Stalinism as a cruel and deliberate attack on Russian society, driven by "totalitarian ambitions" and the goal of modernizing and rationalizing a backward people. Baberowski takes a twofold approach, emphasizing Stalin's personal role and responsibility as well as the continuity he sees in Communist aims and ideology since 1917. Unlike recent apologist accounts that focus on the challenges of modernization or on the operational complexities of managing the Soviet state, this hard-hitting analysis unequivocally locates the origins of the terror in the culture of violence and the techniques of power.]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1180430</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1180430</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Baberowski, J]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1180430002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Stalin&apos;s Reign of Terror</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780300136982/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stalin]]></title><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1128678</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1128678</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Khlevniuk, O. V.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1128678002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>New Biography of A Dictator</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780300163889/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Operation Long Jump]]></title><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1214303</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1214303</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Yenne, Bill]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1214303002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Greatest Assassination Plot in History</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781621573463/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Stalin's Team]]></title><description><![CDATA["Stalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing. On Stalin's Team overturns this view, revealing that behind Stalin were a group of loyal men who formed a remarkably effective team with him from the late 1920s until his death in 1953. Drawing on extensive original research, Sheila Fitzpatrick provides the first in-depth account of this inner circle and their families, vividly describing how these dedicated comrades-in-arms not only worked closely with Stalin, whom they both feared and admired, but also constituted his social circle. Readers meet the wily security chief Beria, whom the rest of the team quickly had executed following Stalin's death; Stalin's number-two man, Molotov, who continued on the team even after his wife was arrested and exiled; the charismatic Ordzhonikidze, who ran the country's industry with entrepreneurial flair; Andreev, who traveled to provincial purges while listening to Beethoven on a portable gramophone; and Khrushchev, who finally disbanded the team four years after Stalin's death. Among the book's surprising findings is that Stalin almost always worked with the team on important issues, and after his death the team managed a brilliant transition to a reforming collective leadership. Taking readers from the cataclysms of the Great Purges and World War II to the paranoia of Stalin's final years, On Stalin's Team paints an entirely new picture of Stalin within his milieu--one that transforms our understanding of how the Soviet Union was ruled during much of its existence"--]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1136887</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1136887</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Fitzpatrick, Sheila]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1136887002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780691145334/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The War Symphonies]]></title><description><![CDATA[A look at the Stalinist purges and the musical response Dmitri Shostakovich made through his symphonies Four to Nine, which he called "tombstones."]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1160051</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1160051</guid><category><![CDATA[DVD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1160051002</comments><format>DVD</format><subtitle>Shostakovich Against Stalin</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=&amp;upc=044007431177</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Dictator Calls]]></title><description><![CDATA["In June 1934, Stalin allegedly called Boris Pasternak and they spoke about the arrest of Osip Mandelstam. A telephone call from the dictator was not something necessarily relished, and in the complicated world of literary politics it would have provided opportunities for potential misunderstanding and profound trouble. But this was a call one could not ignore. Stalin wanted to know what Pasternak thought of the idea that Mandelstam had been arrested. Ismail Kadare explores the afterlife of this phone call using accounts of witnesses, reporters, writers such as Isaiah Berlin and Anna Akhmatova, wives, mistresses, biographers, and even archivists of the KGB. The results offer a meditation on power and political structure, and how literature and authoritarianism construct themselves in plain sight of one another."-- Page [4] of cover]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1702498</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1702498</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kadare, Ismail]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1702498002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781640096080/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Train to Moscow]]></title><description><![CDATA["In a small, provincial town behind the Iron Curtain, Sasha lives in a house full of secrets, one of which is her own dream of becoming an actress. Before she leaves for Moscow to audition for drama school, Sasha discovers the hidden war journal of her uncle Kolya. His pages expose the official lies and the forbidden truth of Stalin's brutality. As a past secret comes to light, Sasha must decide if her dreams are truly worth the necessary sacrifice and if, as her grandmother likes to say, all will indeed be well."--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1547804</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1547804</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gorokhova, Elena]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1547804002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781542033862/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Last Days of Stalin]]></title><description><![CDATA[A scholarly, absorbing narrative of Stalin's last days and the turbulent wake of his dictatorship.Joshua Rubenstein's riveting account takes us back to the second half of 1952, when no one could foresee an end to Joseph Stalin's murderous regime. He was poised to challenge the newly elected US president Dwight Eisenhower with armed force and was also broadening a vicious campaign against Soviet Jews. Stalin's sudden collapse and death in March 1953 was as dramatic and mysterious as his life. It is no overstatement to say that his passing marked a major turning point in the twentieth century.The Last Days of Stalin is an engaging, briskly told account of the dictator's final active months, the vigil at his deathbed, and the unfolding of Soviet and international events in the months after his death. Rubenstein throws fresh light on the devious plotting of Beria, Malenkov, Khrushchev, and other "comrades-in-arms" who well understood the significance of the dictator's impending death; the witness-documented events of his death as compared to official published versions; Stalin's rumored plans to forcibly exile Soviet Jews; the responses of Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles to the Kremlin's conciliatory gestures after Stalin's death; and the momentous repercussions when Stalin's regime of terror was cut short.]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1179064</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1179064</guid><category><![CDATA[MP3_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rubenstein, Joshua]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1179064002</comments><format>MP3_CD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781504718714/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Strategists]]></title><description><![CDATA["Churchill. Hitler. Stalin. Mussolini. Roosevelt. Five of the most impactful leaders of WW2, each with their own individualistic and idiosyncratic approach to warfare. But if we want to understand their military strategy, we must first understand the strategist. In The Strategists, Professor Phillips Payson O'Brien shows how the views these five leaders forged in WW1 are crucial to understanding how they fought WW2. For example, Churchill's experiences of facing the German Army in France in 1916 made him unwilling to send masses of British soldiers back there in the 1940s, while Hitler's mistakes on the Eastern Front were influenced by his reluctance to accept that conditions had changed since his own time fighting. The implications of the power of leaders remain with us to this day: to truly understand what is happening in Ukraine, for example, requires us to know what has influenced the leaders involved. This is a history in which leaders--and their choices--matter. For better or worse"--]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1769178</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1769178</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[O'Brien, Phillips Payson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1769178002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler : How War Made Them, and How They Made War</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781524746483/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Strategists]]></title><description><![CDATA["Churchill. Hitler. Stalin. Mussolini. Roosevelt. Five of the most impactful leaders of WW2, each with their own individualistic and idiosyncratic approach to warfare. But if we want to understand their military strategy, we must first understand the strategist. In The Strategists, Professor Phillips Payson O'Brien shows how the views these five leaders forged in WW1 are crucial to understanding how they fought WW2. For example, Churchill's experiences of facing the German Army in France in 1916 made him unwilling to send masses of British soldiers back there in the 1940s, while Hitler's mistakes on the Eastern Front were influenced by his reluctance to accept that conditions had changed since his own time fighting. The implications of the power of leaders remain with us to this day: to truly understand what is happening in Ukraine, for example, requires us to know what has influenced the leaders involved. This is a history in which leaders--and their choices--matter. For better or worse"--]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1764193</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1764193</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[O'Brien, Phillips Payson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1764193002</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler : How War Made Them, and How They Made War</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781524746506/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sell Us the Rope]]></title><description><![CDATA["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.]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1569500</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1569500</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[May, Stephen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1569500002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781913207885/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sell Us the Rope]]></title><description><![CDATA[Revolutionary, poet, lover. Robber, murderer, spy. May 1907 and a young Stalin is in London for a conference of Russian communists. With Lenin, Trotsky, and Rosa Luxemburg among others he battles to keep the party radical, while dodging the attentions of the Czar's secret police. He also finds himself drawn to a fiery Finnish activist, Elli Vuokko, beginning a relationship that is as dangerous as it is complicated. Electrically-imagined, immersive and compulsively readable, Sell Us the Rope hums with the visceral energy of revolutionary fervour - Liz Jensen Original, adept and confident ... What can I say, except that I wish I had written it myself - Hilary Mantel A fascinating and immersive imagining of real events that both challenges and illuminates history. - Benjamin Myers Boldly conceived, precisely imagined, beautifully written. - Michael Stewart Stephen May's writing is convincing and engaging in this brilliant tale of revolutionary shenanigans in London. - Suzanne Joinson]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1641189</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1641189</guid><category><![CDATA[EAUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[May, Stephen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1641189002</comments><format>EAUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781004079582/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Osenʹ patriarkha]]></title><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1646242</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1646242</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[rus]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Spit͡syn, E. I͡U.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1646242002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Sovetskai͡a derzhava v 1945--1953 godakh : kniga dli͡a uchiteleĭ, prepodavateleĭ i studentov</subtitle><language>rus</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9785907472358/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cherchillʹ, Ruzvelʹt, Stalin]]></title><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1646288</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1646288</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[rus]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Feis, Herbert]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1646288002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>voĭna, kotorui͡u oni veli, i mir, kotorogo oni dobilisʹ</subtitle><language>rus</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9785952457621/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before Evil]]></title><description><![CDATA[Historian Brandon K. Gauthier looks at the lives of Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini, Mao Zedong, Kim Il Sung, and Vladimir Lenin, with a focus on their youths. ]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1689669</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1689669</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gauthier, Brandon K.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1689669002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Young Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Mao, and Kim</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781948954617/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Last Green Valley]]></title><description><![CDATA[In late March 1944, as Stalin's forces push into Ukraine, young Emil and Adeline Martel decide they must run in retreat from their land with murderous Nazi officers they despise to escape the Soviets and go in search of freedom.]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1459878</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1459878</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sullivan, Mark T.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1459878002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781503958760/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Last Green Valley]]></title><description><![CDATA["In late March 1944, as Stalin's forces push into Ukraine, young Emil and Adeline Martel must make a terrible decision: Do they wait for the Soviet bear's intrusion and risk being sent to Siberia? Or do they reluctantly follow the wolves - murderous Nazi officers who have pledged to protect "pure-blood" Germans? The Martels are one of many families of German heritage whose ancestors have farmed in Ukraine for more than a century. But after already living under Stalin's horrifying regime, Emil and Adeline decide they must run in retreat from their land with the wolves they despise to escape the Soviets and go in search of freedom. Caught between two warring forces and overcoming horrific trials to pursue their hope of immigrating to the West, the Martels' story is a brutal, complex, and ultimately triumphant tale that illuminates the extraordinary power of love, faith, and one family's incredible will to survive and see their dreams realized"--]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1463210</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1463210</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sullivan, Mark T.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1463210002</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781643589244/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comrade Koba]]></title><description><![CDATA[Moscow. After the death of his nuclear-physicist father and the arrest of his mother during the Stalinist purge of Jewish doctors, ten-year-old Leon Rozental hides in the secret rooms of the House on the Embankment. There he encounters Koba, a high-ranking Soviet officer with disturbing insights into the thoughts and actions of Joseph Stalin.]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1413016</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1413016</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Littell, Robert]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1413016002</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781647000035/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deti Arbata]]></title><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1454524</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1454524</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[rus]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rybakov, Anatoliĭ]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1454524002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle/><language>rus</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9785389108059/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stalin and the Scientists]]></title><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1183385</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1183385</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ings, Simon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1183385002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A History of Triumph and Tragedy 1905-1953</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780802125989/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Death of Stalin]]></title><description><![CDATA["On March 1, 1953, the Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union -- Joseph Stalin -- had a severe stroke. A doctor could not be called until the Central Committee had convened, voted, and agreed on which doctor to use, a task made more complex by the fact that Stalin had just ordered the deaths of many of the Soviet Union's leading physicians. And so began the bureaucratic merry-go-round that became the intense and underhanded struggle for control of a nation."--Page [4] of cover.]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1206114</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1206114</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nury, Fabien]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1206114002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781785863400/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Last Days of Stalin]]></title><description><![CDATA["Joshua Rubenstein's riveting account takes us back to the second half of 1952 when no one could foresee an end to Joseph Stalin's murderous regime. He was poised to challenge the newly elected U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower with armed force, and was also broadening a vicious campaign against Soviet Jews. Stalin's sudden collapse and death in March 1953 was as dramatic and mysterious as his life. It is no overstatement to say that his passing marked a major turning point in the twentieth century. The Last Days of Stalin is an engaging, briskly told account of the dictator's final active months, the vigil at his deathbed, and the unfolding of Soviet and international events in the months after his death. Rubenstein throws fresh light on: the devious plotting of Beria, Malenkov, Khrushchev, and other 'comrades in arms' who well understood the significance of the dictator's impending death; the witness-documented events of his death as compared to official published versions; Stalin's rumored plans to forcibly exile Soviet Jews; the responses of Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles to the Kremlin's conciliatory gestures after Stalin's death; and the momentous repercussions when Stalin's regime of terror was cut short"--]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1150036</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1150036</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rubenstein, Joshua]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1150036002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780300192223/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Noise of Time]]></title><description><![CDATA[The book begins in 1936, with Dmitri Shostakovich petrified at the age of thirty and fearing for his livelihood and even his life. His opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District has just been denounced in Pravda in an article that certainly reflects the opinion of Joseph Stalin himself. Every night he waits on the landing outside his apartment, expecting NKVD agents to come and whisk him away. Shostakovich reflects on not only his predicament but also his own personal history, his parents and his various women and wives and his children, and all who are still alive themselves hang in the balance of his fate. When the interrogation he fears does eventually arrive, a stroke of luck prevents him from becoming a casualty of the Great Terror that claims so many of his friends and contemporaries--"chips that had flown while the wood was being chopped." Still, the spectre of the government hovers over him for several further decades, forcing him to constantly weigh the merits of appeasing those in power against the integrity of his music. Barnes elegantly guides us through subsequent stages of Shostakovich's life, from being ground into the dirt under the thumb of despotism to being made to serve as a figurehead of Soviet values at a cultural conference in New York, and finally being forced into joining the Party. The trajectory of his career illuminates the evolution of the Soviet Union, with Nikita Khrushchev assuming its leadership, this providing no great joy to Shostakovich.]]></description><link>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1147563</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2C1147563</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Barnes, Julian]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://burnaby.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1147563002</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780345816573/MC.GIF&amp;client=burnabypl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>