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1) Nicholas and Alexandra

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Biography of Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra, the last of the Romanovs to rule Russia, describing their life together and the fall of Imperial Russia which cost them their lives.

2) Rasputin: faith, power, and the twilight of the Romanovs

Author

Smith, Douglas

Pub. Date

2016.

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" On the centenary of the death of Rasputin comes a definitive biography that will dramatically change our understanding of this fascinating figure. A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the personification of evil. Numerous biographies, novels, and films recount his mysterious rise to power as Nicholas and Alexandra's confidant and the guardian of the sickly heir to the Russian throne. His debauchery...

3) The Bolshevik Revolution

Author

O'Neill, Joseph R

Series

Essential events

Pub. Date

[2009]

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 2

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Explores the history leading up to the Bolshevik Revolution and the aftermath of the events that took place.

4) Lenin: a biography

Author

Service, Robert

Pub. Date

2000

5) Trotsky: a graphic biography

Author

Geary, Rick

Pub. Date

2009.

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A graphic tribute to the polarizing public figure sets his life in a historical context that reveals his role in key twentieth-century events and includes coverage of his relationships with Stalin and Frida Kahlo.

6) Khrushchev: the man and his era

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Taubman, William

Pub. Date

[2003]

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Drawing on newly opened archives in Russia and Ukraine, Taubman (political science, Amherst College) writes a thorough biography of one of the most complex and important political figures of the 20th century whose life and career spanned revolution, civil war, famine, collectivization, industrialization, terror, world war, the Cold War, Stalinism, and post-Stalinism. Includes two sections of good quality b&w photographs.

7) The race to save the Romanovs: the truth behind the secret plans to rescue the Russian imperial family

Author

Rappaport, Helen

Pub. Date

2018.

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The murder of the Romanov family in July 1918 horrified the world. What has never been investigated in detail are the various plots behind the scenes to save the family--on the part of their royal relatives, other governments, and Russian monarchists loyal to the Tsar. The question of asylum for the Tsar and his family was an extremely complicated issue that presented enormous political, logistical and geographical challenges at a time when Europe...