The ordeal of Captain Roeder : from the diary of an officer in the First Battalion of Hessian Lifeguards during the Moscow campaign of 1812-13 / by Roeder, Franz, 1774-1840

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Time of troubles, the diary of Iurii Vladimirovich Gotʹe : Moscow, July 8, 1917 to July 23, 1922 / by Gotʹe, I︠U︡. V. 1873-1943

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The year I was Peter the Great : 1956--Khrushchev, Stalin's ghost, and a young American in Russia / by Kalb, Marvin L.

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Roots -- War, college, and basketball -- Teddy, Joyce, and journalism -- From Cambridge to Moscow -- Govorit Moskva -- "Moscow calling" -- De-Stalinization=destabilization -- The thaw -- From Zhukov to Poznan -- Into the heartland -- A summertime break in Central Asia -- Where Stalin is still worshipped -- Back to a familiar chill -- "Dark, frightening, and tragic days" -- Uvarov, Sasha, and Stalin's ghost -- At the end of the arc -- Postscript. …”
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The inconvenient journalist : a memoir / by Doder, Dusko, Branson, Louise

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: the assassination -- The story that died -- Rookie reporter in Cold War Moscow -- Evading the KGB to make contacts -- Hired by the Washington Post -- Perils covering my native Yugoslavia -- Back at a paper changed by Watergate -- Post Moscow correspondent at last -- Covering Russia's KGB Tsar -- The price for breaking a rule of journalism -- Love changes everything -- Reluctant intelligence reporter -- Casey's revenge -- Seeking a new life in China -- A reckoning in Yugoslavia -- Assassination by Time magazine -- Epilogue: dogs bark.…”
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The inconvenient journalist a memoir by Doder, Dusko, Branson, Louise

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: the assassination -- The story that died -- Rookie reporter in Cold War Moscow -- Evading the KGB to make contacts -- Hired by the Washington Post -- Perils covering my native Yugoslavia -- Back at a paper changed by Watergate -- Post Moscow correspondent at last -- Covering Russia's KGB Tsar -- The price for breaking a rule of journalism -- Love changes everything -- Reluctant intelligence reporter -- Casey's revenge -- Seeking a new life in China -- A reckoning in Yugoslavia -- Assassination by Time magazine -- Epilogue: dogs bark…”
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From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg : memoir and testimony / by Sutzkever, Abraham, 1913-2010

Table of Contents: “…Afterword: "Written in Moscow, Summer 1944" -- Vilna Ghetto Chronology -- List of Place Names in Vilna -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Index…”
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Persepolis / by Satrapi, Marjane, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Veil -- Bicycle -- Water cell -- Persepolis -- Letter -- Party -- Heroes -- Moscow -- Sheep -- Trip -- F-14s -- Jewels -- Key -- Wine -- Cigarette -- Passport -- Kim Wilde -- Shabbat -- Dowry.…”

Two years of wandering : a Menshevik leader in Lenin's Russia / by Dan, F. 1871-1947

Table of Contents: “…Socialist-Revolutionary leader Viktor Chernov's speech to the mass meeting in Moscow in honour of the British Labour delegation, May 1920 -- II. …”
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The accused / by Weissberg-Cybulski, Alexander, 1901-1964

Table of Contents: “…. -- The confrontations begin -- Every inch of the way -- The provacateur -- The conveyer -- The confessoin -- Kholodnaya Gora -- Witches' sabbath -- Enemies of the people -- The anteroom of Hell -- G.P.U. men in the cells -- The great change -- Kiev -- A real spy -- Moscow -- The bridge of Brest-Litovsk -- The memory hole.…”
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Leningrad, 1943 : inside a city under siege / by Werth, Alexander, 1901-1969

Table of Contents: “…Preface by Nicholas WerthMoscow to LeningradFirst ContactSt. Petersburg -- LeningradThe Observation TowerSightseeingKamenny IslandLeningrad AirmenA Factory in the FamineSunday Evening in LeningradChildren in the Famine and NowThe Bristles of the HedgehogEndurance : The Kirov WorksAt the Writer's UnionAll-day ShellingThe Mayor of Leningrad SpeaksThe Last DayLeningrad's Liberation : The Second Visit.…”
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Red sky, black death : a Soviet woman pilot's memoir of the Eastern Front / by Timofeeva-Egorova, A. A.

Table of Contents: “…A deception of sunlight and mist -- Land of our fathers -- Moscow -- Volodovo -- Dizzy with success -- Underground -- Red gates -- From the mine to the sky -- A partisan character -- First flight -- I am a pilot -- The trousseau -- Into the abyss -- False accusation -- Himself -- Kokkinaki -- Daughter, you'll fall! …”

Panzer destroyer : memoirs of a Red Army tank commander / by Krysov, Vasiliĭ, 1922-

Table of Contents: “…My journey to the Front -- Stalingrad -- Kursk 1943 -- Operation Kutuzov -- To the Dnieper River, August-September 1943 -- Reorganization near Moscow, September-October 1943 -- The liberation of Kiev, November 1943 -- The pursuit to Fastov -- Von Manstein attempts another 'backhand blow' -- Rest and refitting -- The December Zhitomir-Berdichev Offensive -- From the Front to a hospital and back again -- The July 1944 Offensive on the Kovel Axis -- From the Western Bug to Siedlce, Poland -- In East Prussia.…”
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1917 : revolution in Russia and its aftermath / by Berkman, Alexander, 1870-1936, Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940, Mett, Ida, Bookchin, Murray, 1921-2006

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Table of Contents -- MY DISILLUSIONMENT IN RUSSIA -- Preface To First Volume of American Edition -- Preface To Second Volume of American Edition -- I -- Deportation to Russia -- II -- Petrograd -- III -- Disturbing Thoughts -- IV -- Moscow: First Impressions -- V -- Meeting People -- VI -- Preparing For American Deportees -- VII -- Rest Homes for Workers -- VIII -- The First of May in Petrograd -- IX -- Industrial Militarization -- X -- The British Labour Mission -- XI -- A Visit from the Ukraina -- XII -- Beneath the Surface -- XIII -- Joining the Museum of the Revolution…”
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American Commander in Spain Robert Hale Merriman and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade / by Merriman, Marion, 1909-1991

Table of Contents: “…Across America, To Russia -- 5. Probing About in Moscow -- 6. The Lively Americans -- 7. The Decision to Fight -- 8. …”
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The underground army : fighters of the Bialystok ghetto / by Grosman, Ḥaiḳah

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Preface -- Childhood Ideas -- A New Name -- The Emissary From Warsaw -- Tosya and the Joys of Life -- Bialystok, My City -- Warsaw-Groping in the Dark and Looking for Allies -- Frumka -- The Debate -- Lublin -- The First Weapons -- Among German Soldiers -- Mission to Moscow -- Sheine Patt -- The Judenrat -- The Explosives Expert in the Lion's Den -- Olla's Home -- Grodno's Time -- Once Again: The Ghetto and The Forest -- The Girl From Grodno -- Jan -- On Pain and Action -- Mordechai-Last Days -- Those Who Left and Those Who Rebelled -- We Seek Our Brothers -- Marylka -- The Factory -- The Wall of the 71 -- Rivkele -- Fraternity in the Underground -- Germans Lend a Hand -- A Jewish Sigh -- The Soviet Partisans -- The Oath -- The Combrig's Victory -- Germany Collapses Before Our Eyes -- Eternal Glory for the Fighters -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Appendix -- Glossary.…”

A writer at war : Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945 / by Grossman, Vasiliĭ

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Napoleon against Russia : a concise history of 1812 / by Smith, Digby, 1935-

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The war within : diaries from the Siege of Leningrad / by Peri, Alexis

A small corner of hell : dispatches from Chechnya / by Politkovskai︠a︡, Anna

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Guns against the Reich : memoirs of an artillery officer on the Eastern Front / by Mikhin, Petr

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