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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 36
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Comprehensive picture of pre revolutionary upper-class Russian society and the revolutionary transition. Deals with the life of an intellectual and his heroic effort to preserve his capacity for reflection.
Yuri Zhivago, doctor and poet, lives and loves during the first three decades of 20th-century Russia.
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To those who found Ayn Rand's "Atlas shrugged" a powerful voice raised in defense of the individual, this book continues the theme. It proclaims the same philosophy, and its theme is the right of the individual to the pursuit of his own happiness. It portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three people who demand the right to live their own lives. It tells of a girl's passionate love, held like a fortress against the viciousness, cruelty,...
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The Revolution of Marina M volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
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"Marina Makarova is a woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints of her genteel life. Swept up on the tides of the Russian Revolution, Marina joins the marches for workers' rights, falls in love with a radical young poet, and betrays everything she holds dear, before being betrayed in turn. As her country goes through tremendous upheaval, Marina's own coming-of-age unfolds, marked by deep passion, devastating loss, and the private...
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Ten Days That Shook the World is an undisputed classic of political reportage. A stunning first-hand account overflowing with urgency and immediacy, Reed's masterpiece lives and breathes the streets, meeting halls, posters and pamphlets of the revolution he witnessed. Like no other work, it places the reader shoulder to shoulder with the people's militias, factory committees, propagandists and crowds which thronged St Petersburg's squares to protest,...
5) Romanov
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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Anastasia 'Nastya' Romanov was given a mission: to smuggle an ancient spell into her suitcase on her way to exile in Siberia. It might be her family's only salvation. But the leader of the Bolshevik army is after them, and he's hunted Romanov before. Her only chances of survival are to either release the spell and deal with the consequences, or enlist help from Zash, the handsome soldier who doesn't act like the average Bolshevik. She thinks he might...
6) Risked
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The missing volume 6
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Jonah, thirteen, and Katherine, eleven, travel through time to 1918 Russia just as Alexei, Anastasia, and the rest of Tsar Nicholas II's family is about to be executed. Author's note includes facts about the Romanov's and the mystery surrounding their deaths.
7) Open fire
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
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"In 1917 Russia, seventeen-year-old Katya joins the first all-female battalion to fight the Germans, but she soon finds that patriotism alone won't help her survive the realities of war"--
8) Granny Dan
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Pub. Date
1999
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A Russian ballerina's memoir of life as the mistress of the Tsar's physician. A bout of influenza brings them together, there are balls at the royal palace, an abortion, then the revolution separates them and she flees to America.
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Century trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 52
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Follows the fates of five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh--as they move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
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"It is 1914 and the world has been on the brink of war so many times, many New Yorkers treat the subject with only passing interest. Eliza Ferriday is thrilled to be traveling to St. Petersburg with Sofya Streshnayva, a cousin of the Romanovs. The two met years ago one summer in Paris and became close confidantes. Now Eliza embarks on the trip of a lifetime, home with Sofya to see the splendors of Russia. But when Austria declares war on Serbia and...
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This work looks at the many upheavals of the Russian Revolution as successive stages in a single process. Focusing on the Russian Revolution in its widest sense, the author covers not only the events of 1917 and what preceded them, but the nature of the social transformation brought about by the Bolsheviks after they took power. Making use of a huge amount of previously secret information in Soviet archives and unpublished memoirs, this detailed chronology...
13) Doctor Zhivago
Pub. Date
[2010]
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Traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet he finds himself in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse. Zhivago becomes torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the Bolshevik revolution, but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism.
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Century trilogy volume 2
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In Book Two of the 'Century Trilogy,' Follett continues the story of the five families who would witness and impact many of the great events of the 20th Century. He takes readers into World War II, going inside Nazi Germany, above Pearl Harbor, to the halls of power in London and Washington, D.C., and to the dawn of the atomic age. Century Trilogy series
16) Red winter
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Pub. Date
2013.
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In 1920s Russia, a deserter from the Red Army returns home to find his village empty, the men murdered, and the women and children gone, and searches the forests in the bitter cold, desperate to find his wife and sons.
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Russians series (Judith Pella) volume 7
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 17
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In 1917, amid the turmoil in Russia, Anna Fedorcenko's sons face the consequences of their personal and political choices. Unless they are able to cast off the blinders of the past, they too may be caught in the chaos sweeping throughout the Motherland.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
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Set during the height of the Russian Revolution and told in alternating voices, sixteen-year-old Evgenia--a peasant and proud member of the Bolshevik party--agrees to help a seventeen-year-old bourgeois girl traverse the war-torn countryside in search of safety, but Anna is harboring a secret that could cost them their lives. Includes historical note and author's note.
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 12
Description
The award-winning author of The Lincolns traces the story of the Russian Revolution, the lives of the Romanov family and the story of their tragic deaths, in an account that draws on primary source materials and includes period photography.
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