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Ohio

A Small Town in Germany

Ji-Li Jiang

New York

A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution

Red Scarf Girl

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Lindsay Smith

An empty mind is a safe mind. Yulia's father always taught her to hide her thoughts and control her emotions to survive the harsh realities of Soviet Russia. But when she's captured by the KGB and forced to work as a psychic spy with a mission to undermine the U.S. space program, she's thrust into a world of suspicion, deceit, and horrifying power. Yulia quickly realizes she can trust no one—not her KGB superiors or the other operatives vying for her attention—and must rely on her own wits and skills to survive in this world where no SEKRET can stay hidden for long.

Sekret

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Richard Wurmbrand

Florida

The Book that Shocked the Nation 

Tortured for Christ

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

Khrushchev’s Communism

The War Called Peace

Jack Cole

Arizona

A Biography of the Rev. Richard Wurmbrand and His Wife Sabina

"Richard and Sabina" is a biography of the Reverend Richard Wurmbrand and his wife Sabina who are listed in the "70 Great Christians" by Geoffrey Hanks.

Richard and Sabina

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Allen Weinstein

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Tennessee

An account of the case when a senior editor of Time magazine named Wittaker Chambers shocked the country by alleging before the House Un-American Activities Committee that Alger Hiss, president of the venerated Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and previously a high State Department official, had served with him in the Communist underground.

Perjury -"The Hiss-Chambers Case

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Joe Scarborough

New Jersey

Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization

The host of MSNBC's Morning Joe reveals how President Harry Truman defended democracy against the Soviet threat at the dawn of the Cold War. Harry Truman had been vice president for less than three months when President Franklin Roosevelt died. Suddenly inaugurated the leader of the free world, the plainspoken Truman candidly told reporters he, "felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me." He faced a hostile world stage. Even as World War II drew to a close, the Cold War was around the corner. The Soviet Union went from America's uneasy ally to its number one adversary. Through shrewd diplomacy and military might, Joseph Stalin gained control of Eastern Europe, and soon cast an acquisitive eye toward the Balkans--and beyond. Newly liberated from fascism, Europe's future was again at risk, its freedom on the line. Alarmed by the Soviets' designs, Truman acted. In a speech before a joint session of Congress on March 12, 1947, he announced a policy of containment that became known as the "Truman Doctrine"--a pledge that the United States would "support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." In Saving Freedom, Joe Scarborough moves between events in Washington and those in Europe--in Greece, where the U.S.-backed government was fighting a civil war with insurgent Communists, and in Turkey, where the Soviets pressed for control of the Dardanelles--to analyze and understand the changing geopolitics that led Truman to deliver his momentous speech. The story of the passage of the Truman doctrine is an inspiring tale of American leadership, can-doism, bipartisan unity, and courage in the face of an antidemocratic threat. Saving Freedom highlights a pivotal moment of the Twentieth Century, a turning point where patriotic Americans worked together to defeat tyranny.

Saving Freedom

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Howard Blum

1st Edition. In 1910, a huge explosion rocked the country. Here's the true story with Clarence Darrow, D W Griffith, Mary Pickford and others.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Wisconsin

Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century

Details a deadly explosion that ripped through the offices of the "Los Angeles Times" in October 1910, part of a planned assault on one hundred American cities, the investigation that followed, and the arrest and trial of two union activists for the crime

American Lightning 1st Edition 

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The Law

Eric Bentley

Frank Rich

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Excerpts from Hearings Before the House Committee on un-American Activities 1938-1968

The testimony that the author has gleaned for this book from the thirty-year record of the House Un-American Activities Committee focuses on HUAC's treatment of artists, intellectuals, and performers. This highly readable and absorbing collection of significant excerpts from the hearings shows with painful clarity how HUAC grew from a panel that investigated possible subversive activities in a "dignified" manner to a huge, unrelenting accusatory finger from which almost no one was safe. This book serves as a warning for the future and creates living history from the documentary record. "The basic document with which all future studies of the [House Un-American Activities] Committee will have to begin." —Dalton Trumbo "...what he has done is give us HUAC as spectacle, and the perspective is shattering."—Victor Navasky, The New York Times

Thirty Years of Treason

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Richard McGregor

The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers

An eye-opening investigation into China's Communist Party and its integral role in the country's rise as a global superpower and rival of the United States China's political and economic growth in the past three decades is one of astonishing, epochal dimensions. The country has undergone a remarkable transformation on a scale similar to that of the Industrial Revolution in the West. The most remarkable part of this transformation, however, has been left largely untold—the central role of the Chinese Communist Party. As an organization alone, the Party is a phenomenon of unique scale and power. Its membership surpasses seventy-three million, and it does more than just rule a country. The Party not only has a grip on every aspect of government, from the largest, richest cities to the smallest far-flung villages in Tibet and Xinjiang, it also has a hold on all official religions, the media, and the military. The Party presides over large, wealthy state-owned businesses, and it exercises control over the selection of senior executives of all government companies, many of which are in the top tier of the Fortune 500 list. In The Party, Richard McGregor delves deeply into China's inner sanctum for the first time, showing how the Communist Party controls the government, courts, media, and military, and how it keeps all corruption accusations against its members in-house. The Party's decisions have a global impact, yet the CPC remains a deeply secretive body, hostile to the law, unaccountable to anyone or anything other than its own internal tribunals. It is the world's only geopolitical rival of the United States, and is steadfastly poised to think the worst of the West. In this provocative and illuminating account, Richard McGregor offers a captivating portrait of China's Communist Party, its grip on power and control over China, and its future.

The Party

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Carl Lawrence

How it survives & prospers under Communism 

The Church in China

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#paperback #nonfiction #communism #sociology #cilvilliberties #politicalscience 

Georgia

If there is a-"desert island" book in the conduct of social research, it is arguably this book. Whether in terms of sociological structures or psychological nuances, Communism, Conformity, and Civil Liberties, originally published in 1955, is a recognized landmark. Stouffer helped strengthen the fundamental liberties of all Americans by showing dangerous consequences of efforts to thwart a perceived Communist conspiracy, including some of the very real liberties that can be destroyed in the process of a witch-hunt.

Stouffer explores attitudes of Americans against a backdrop of a history of intolerance that dates back to the Know-Nothing party before the Civil War and extending through the Ku Klux Klan after World War I. The overall results show a markedly strong relationship between perception of high national risk and personal intolerance of differences, and also the perception of threat and tolerance that operates as a predisposing tendency that affects judgments about specific political movements and events.

Stouffer enriches the sense and meaning of survey research by emphasizing patterns of percentages rather than actual amounts; survey craftsmanship; the use of paired sampling techniques to reduce problems of chance; the importance of completion rates in survey research work; the importance of interruptions during a questioning period; the choice of field workers in performing the surveys. The actual survey instruments are included as prepared by the National Opinion Research Center and the Gallup Organization. They remain a model for large-scale samples of this kind.

The beautiful, highly personal, introduction by James Davis places Stouffer in an appropriate academic and professional context. Stouffer was a great sociologist with two landmark efforts to his credit: The American Soldier and then Communism, Conformity and Civil Liberties. Professor Davis calls this "a great classic of empirical sociology." It is indeed that: a model of craftsmanship, exemplary argumentation, and presentation of data still unsurpassed. The book is not part of ancient history, but of living, democratic culture.

Communism, Conformity and Liberties

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Eugene Yelchin

A Newbery Honor Book.

Sasha Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet Young Pioneers since the age of six:
The Young Pioneer is devoted to Comrade Stalin, the Communist Party, and Communism.
A Young Pioneer is a reliable comrade and always acts according to conscience.
A Young Pioneer has a right to criticize shortcomings.
But now that it is finally time to join the Young Pioneers, the day Sasha has awaited for so long, everything seems to go awry. He breaks a classmate's glasses with a snowball. He accidentally damages a bust of Stalin in the school hallway. And worst of all, his father, the best Communist he knows, was arrested just last night.

Eugene Yelchin's moving story of a ten-year-old boy's world shattering is masterful in its simplicity, powerful in its message, and heartbreaking in its plausibility.

Breaking Stalin's Nose is one ofHorn Book's Best Fiction Books of 2011

Breaking Stalin's Nose

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Slight stain on bottom corner throughout half of the book 

Vintage book

Bantam Book, 1962, 280 pages 

EYEWITNESS: RED CHINA Here are first-hand, on-the-spot reports from Free World journalists, writers and correspondents on life inside Red China today. They come from many countries and from many walks of life-British Lord, Canadian scientist, Swiss theater critic, Brazilian foreign correspondent, Danish travel sriter, Indian population expert, Anglo-American TV com-mentator. They answer such questions about Red China as: How do you get a divorce in Red China? How much does a Chinese film actor earn? Has the West over- or under-estimated Chinese industrial capacity? Why is there virtually no stealing in Red China?

California

Report from Red China 

#Guatemala #Communism #MiddleGrade #ComingOfAge￼

Set in 1981 Guatemala, a lyrical debut novel tells the powerful tale of a boy who must decide what it means to be a man during a time of war.

Carlos knows that when the soldiers arrive with warnings about the Communist rebels, it is time to be a man and defend the village, keep everyone safe. But Mama tells him not yet -- he's still her quiet moonfaced boy. The soldiers laugh at the villagers, and before they move on, a neighbor is found dangling from a tree, a sign on his neck: Communist. Mama tells Carlos to run and hide, then try to find her. . . . Numb and alone, he must join a band of guerillas as they trek to the top of the mountain where Carlos's abuela lives. Will he be in time, and brave enough, to warn them about the soldiers? What will he do then? A novel in verse inspired by actual events during Guatemala's civil war, Caminar is the moving story of a boy who loses nearly everything before discovering who he really is.

Caminar

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Pennsylvania

Jian

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Eric Bogosian

Maryland

(50th Anniversary Edition)

Recounts the experiences of Shukhov, a prisoner at a Soviet work camp in Siberia, as he struggles for survival.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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Massachusetts

Dan Norman Jacobs

1963 copyright 
Hardcover with no dust jacket 

Government

Excerpt from The Masks of Communism Today, the United States is threatened by an enemy dedicated to its destruction. That enemy is Communism, whose leaders promise that in two generations or less they will bury the American way of life and the system it represents. There can be little doubt that the men who guide the Communist machine are not only convinced that this can be done, but they are determined that it will and must be done. It must be done because two rival systems (communist doctrine claims) cannot continue for long to exist side by side without one being conquered by the other. It will be done, they believe, because their basic philosophy of marxism-leninism teaches them that the American system has outlived its usefulness and the Communist sys tem represents the wave of the future. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Masks of Communism 

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Living in exile with her mother in turbulent 1928 China, young Lydia Ivanova, who had fled Russia after the murder of her father by the Bolsheviks, falls in love with Chang An Lo, a young freedom fighter, but their love is threatened by the violence and danger that surrounds them and by the arrival of Chiang Kai Shek and his troops, whose goal is to destroy revolutionaries like Chang. A first novel. Original.

The Russian Concubine

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Paul Hollander

Intellectuals, Revolutionaries, and Political Morality

The seduction of some of the twentieth century's great thinkers by the most corrupt ideologies of the age, communism and Nazism, is one of the most intriguing stories in the history of that ill-fated century. In The End of Commitment, the distinguished sociologist Paul Hollander investigates how and why these zealots finally fell away from the causes that moved them. His is the first book to take a comprehensive, historically comparative view of disillusionment with Communist systems and ideologies. In the course of his study Hollander examines the sentiments of former revolutionaries, high-ranking officials, and intellectuals in the Soviet Union as well as in the Soviet bloc countries and in third-world Communist states.

The End of Commitment

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