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Story of a boy born in Zhashkov, Ukraine before the start of WWII, surviving the Holocaust, traveling through the USSR and finally emigrating to Hollywood, Florida USA with his family. ... Read more

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A wry, cutting deconstruction of the Communist empire by one of Eastern Europe's exceptional authors.Called "a perceptive and amusing social critic, with a wonderful eye for detail" by The Washington Post, Slavenka Drakulic-a native of Croatia-has emerged as one of the most popular and respected critics of Communism to come out of the former Eastern Bloc. In A Guided Tour Through the Museum of ... Read more

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During the course of three decades, Joseph Stalin's Gulag, a vast network of forced labor camps and settlements, held many millions of prisoners. People in every corner of the Soviet Union lived in daily terror of imprisonment and execution. In researching the surviving threads of memoirs and oral reminiscences of five women victimized by the Gulag, author Paul R. Gregory has stitched together a ... Read more

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