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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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The Cold War: Books for Kids
2022 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 4 & 5
The Cold War: Books for Kids
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"Drama, family secrets, and a KGB spy in his own kitchen! How will Yevgeny ever fulfill his parents' dream that he become a national hero when he doesn't even have his own room? He's not a star athlete or a legendary ballet dancer. In the tiny apartment he shares with his Baryshnikov-obsessed mother, poetry-loving father, continually outraged grandmother, and safely talented brother, all Yevgeny has is his little pencil, the underside of a massive...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A stunningly inventive novel set in the Russian space program during the Cold War, about the heights of mankind's accomplishments, the depths of its folly, and the remarkable magic of loyalty, love, and home" --
Author
Publisher
Ninth of November Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Secret Communist Party of the Soviet Union documents stolen by the author, a famous dissident, reveal decades of Soviet infiltration of Western politics and confidential collaboration by Western leaders. Contains translated excerpts from the Communist Party archives, and 400 fact-checked footnotes on events affected"--Goodreads.com.
Author
Series
Alexander Vasin novels volume 1
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
It is the dawn of the 1960s. In order to investigate the gruesome death of a brilliant young physicist, KGB officer Major Alexander Vasin must leave Moscow for Arzamas-16, a top-secret research city that does not appear on any map. There he comes up against the brightest, most cutthroat brain trust in Russia who, on the ornuclear weaponsders of Nikita Khrushchev himself, are building a nuclear weapon with 3,800 times the destructive potential of the...
8) The partisan
Author
Publisher
Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Summer 1961: The brutal Cold War between East and West is becoming ever more perilous. Two young prodigies from either side of the Iron Curtain, Yulia and Michael, meet at a chess tournament in London. They don't know it, but they're about to compete in the deadliest game ever played. Shadowing them is Greta, a ruthless Lithuanian resistance fighter who is hunting down some of the most dangerous men in the world. Men who are also on the radar of...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Four teenagers grow inseparable in the last days of the Soviet Union-but not all of them will live to see the new world arrive in this powerful debut novel, loosely based on Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. Coming of age in the USSR in the 1980s, best friends Anya and Milka try to envision a free and joyful future for themselves. They spend their summers at Anya's dacha just outside of Moscow, lazing in the apple orchard, listening to Queen songs,...
Author
Series
Bolshoi saga volume 3
Publisher
Soho Teen
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The year is 1958, and sixteen-year-old Svetlana is stuck in a Moscow orphanage designated for the unwanted children of Stalin's enemies. Ballet is her obsession and salvation, her only hope at shedding a tainted family past. When she is invited to join the Bolshoi Ballet-the crown jewel of Russian culture and the pride of the Soviet Union-her dreams appear to have been realized. But she quickly learns that nobody's past or secrets are safe. The dreaded...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Joseph Stalin had been dead for three years when his successor, Nikita Khrushchev, stunned a closed gathering of Communist officials with a litany of his predecessor's abuses. Meant to clear the way for reform from above, Khrushchev's "Secret Speech" of February 25, 1956, shattered the myth of Stalin's infallibility. In a bid to rejuvenate the Party, Khrushchev had his report read out loud to members across the Soviet Union that spring. However, its...
12) Dog star
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Nina, a young girl unsure of her role in her communist society, befriends a dog from her father's lab named Laika, who dreams of finding a home.
13) Red plenty
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The Soviet Union was built on 20th-century magic called 'the planned economy', which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working. This book is about that moment in history, and how it came, and how it went away.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The story of a remarkable era of reform, controversy, optimism, and Cold War confrontation in the Soviet Union. Beginning with the death of Stalin in 1953, the “sixties” era in the Soviet Union was just as vibrant and transformative as in the West. The ideological romanticism of the revolutionary years was revived, with renewed emphasis on egalitarianism, equality, and the building of a communist utopia. Mass terror was reined in, great victories...
Author
Publisher
Titan Comics
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"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...
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