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The Russian Soviet republic / by Ross, Edward Alsworth,1866-1951.(CARDINAL)131555;
The communists and their aims -- The peace of Brest-Litovsk -- After Brest-Litovsk -- The brewing of the witches' broth -- The Ukraine -- Relations with the German imperial government -- The communists and the anarchists -- The Red Army -- Bolshevist propaganda abroad -- The fate of the bourgeoisie -- The Czecho-Slovaks -- Military intervention -- Encirclement and crisis -- Allied plots -- The red terror -- Peace efforts -- The attack from the north -- The attack from the east : The All-Russian Provisional Government -- The attack from the east : Kolchak's dictatorship -- The attack from the south : Denikin -- The attack from the south : Wrangel -- The attack from the west -- The poison gas attack -- The Soviet Republic and the eastern peoples -- The blockade and Russia's foreign trade -- The attack from Poland -- The Soviet political system -- The Communist Party -- The peasants under communism -- Production under communism -- Labor under communism -- Justice under communism -- Education under communism -- Religion and the church under communism -- Conclusion.
Subjects: Soviets (Councils); Communism; Old State Library Collection.;
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The Communist blueprint for the future; the complete texts of all four Communist manifestoes, 1848-1961. / by Whitney, Thomas P.(CARDINAL)124534;
Manifesto of the Communist Party, 1848 -- Critique of the Gotha Program, 1875 -- The program of the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party, 1903 -- The program of the All-Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), 1919 -- The program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (draft), 1961.Contains the complete texts of official Communist manifestoes of 1848, 1903, 1919, and 1961 plus an analytical introduction by Thomas P. Whitney.
Subjects: Communism; Communism;
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Economics. by World Book, Inc.(CARDINAL)170438;
Includes bibliographical references (page 47) and index.Features of an economy: tax collection -- Minted coins -- Banks -- Paper money -- Checks -- Stock markets -- Insurance -- Gold standard -- Labor unions -- Mail-order businesses -- Credit cards -- Bar code -- Automated teller machine -- Electronic commerce -- Economic systems: Feudalism -- Mercantilism -- Capitalism -- Communism -- Globalization -- Important dates in economics."An exploration of the transformative impact of inventions and discoveries in the field of economics. Features include fact boxes, sidebars, biographies, and a timeline, glossary, list of recommended reading and Web sites, and index"--Provided by publisher.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Economics; Economic history; Inventions;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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Underground notes / by Mihajlov, Mihajlo,1934-2010.(CARDINAL)130570;
Bibliography: pages 201-202.Introduction by Vladimir Maximov -- Two convergences -- The artists as the enemy -- The way into the impasse -- The shoots of hope -- Three paradoxes -- Religious rebirth -- Russia and communism -- The phenomenology of the kingdom of lies -- On responsibility: Marx and Lenin in their personal lives -- Letter to a friend in the west -- Dostoyevsky on the Catholic "left" -- Answers to ten questions of Mr. K.D. Pomerantzev for Russian thought -- The absurdity of nonideology -- Some timely thoughts -- Djilas verses Marx: the theory of alienation -- Comments on the unperfect society -- A new approach to Anna Karenina -- Mystical experiences of the labor camps.
Subjects: Communism;
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I chose freedom, the personal and political life of a Soviet official / by Kravchenko, Victor,1905-1966.(CARDINAL)170098;
Flight in the night -- A Russian childhood -- Glory and hunger -- Youth in the red -- Break with the past -- A student in Kharkov -- Triumph of the machine -- Horror in the village -- Harvest in hell -- My first purge -- Eliena's secret -- Engineer at Nikopol -- Faster, faster! -- Super-purge -- My ordeal begins -- A search for justice -- Torture after midnight -- Labor : free and slave -- While history is edited -- Siberian hoax -- While Europe fights -- The unexpected war -- Panic in Moscow -- The Kremlin in wartime -- The two truths -- Prelude to America -- Stalin's subjects abroad -- Fugitive from injustice.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Kravchenko, Victor, 1905-1966.; Communism; Political refugees; Old State Library Collection.;
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A dictionary of 20th-century communism / by Epstein, Mark.(CARDINAL)688450; Pons, Silvio.(CARDINAL)682256; Service, Robert,1947-(CARDINAL)353235; Townsend, Charles.(CARDINAL)499690;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The first book of its kind to appear since the end of the Cold War, this reference provides encyclopedic coverage of communism and its impact throughout the world in the 20th century. With the opening of archives in former communist states, scholars have found new material that has expanded and sometimes altered the understanding of communism as an ideological and political force. The book explains what communism was, the forms it took, and the enormous role it played in world history from the Russian Revolution through the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond. It examines the political, intellectual, and social influences of communism around the globe, and features contributions from an international team of 160 scholars. It includes more than 400 entries on major topics, such as: Figures: Lenin, Mao, Stalin, Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot, Castro, Gorbachev ; Events: Cold War, Prague Spring, Cultural Revolution, Sandinista Revolution ; Ideas and concepts: Marxism-Leninism, cult of personality, labor ;Organizations and movements: KGB, Comintern, Gulag, Khmer Rouge ; Related topics: totalitarianism, nationalism, antifascism, anticommunism, McCarthyism.
Subjects: Dictionaries.; Communism;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich / by Solzhenit͡syn, Aleksandr Isaevich,1918-2008,author.(CARDINAL)139300; Bogosian, Eric.(CARDINAL)751073; Parker, Ralph,translator.(CARDINAL)743700; Tvardovskiĭ, A.(Aleksandr),1910-1971.(CARDINAL)711211; Yevtushenko, Yevgeny Aleksandrovich,1933-2017.(CARDINAL)146053;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-151).Recounts the experiences of Shukhov, a prisoner at a Soviet work camp in Siberia, as he struggles for survival.900L
Subjects: Fiction.; Communism in literature.; Forced labor; Internment camps; Nazi concentration camps; Prisons;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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Tangled : organizing the southern textile industry, 1930-1934 / by Byrd, Travis Sutton,author.(CARDINAL)338850;
"In Travis Sutton Byrd's second exploration of the North Carolina textile industry, he probes more broadly the 1929 labor strikes and connects them with the events of 1934 and a larger, economically depressed North Carolina over a five year period. Byrd contends that the five years of labor strife discussed in this study broadly represent the death of the New South resurgence in North Carolina as a myriad of small, industrial towns throughout the mountain and Piedmont region felt the weight of the Great Depression"--Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: maps and legends, history and historiography -- 1930-1931 -- To organize the South -- Coalitionism, communism, and the politics of labor -- A long season for malcontents -- Greensboro and Bessemer City -- Riding that Danville train -- Many unhappy returns -- 1932 -- "Southern labor stirs" -- "Calibre tests" -- 1934 -- Infamous eagle -- "The pit and the pendulum, 1934" -- Denouement -- All the tangled threads, 1934-1939 -- Postscript: where do we go from there?
Subjects: Strikes and lockouts; Textile workers; Textile industry;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich / by Solzhenit͡syn, Aleksandr Isaevich,1918-2008.(CARDINAL)139300; Tvardovskiĭ, A.(Aleksandr),1910-1971.(CARDINAL)711211; Yevtushenko, Yevgeny Aleksandrovich,1933-2017.(CARDINAL)146053; Parker, Ralph,translator.(CARDINAL)743700; Bogosian, Eric,author of afterword.(CARDINAL)751073;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-181).Autobiographical story of the plight of a Russian citizen imprisoned in one of Stalin's slave labor compounds.
Subjects: Fiction.; Forced labor; Communism;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 8
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One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich / by Solzhenit͡syn, Aleksandr Isaevich,1918-2008.(CARDINAL)139300; Willetts, H. T.(CARDINAL)365253;
One of the most chilling novels ever written about the oppression of totalitarian regimes--and the first to open Western eyes to the terrors of Stalin's prison camps, this book allowed Solzhenitsyn, who later became Russia's conscience in exile, to challenge the brutal might of the Soviet Union.900LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fiction.; Communism; Forced labor;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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