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1) Snow wolf
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
On hearing the Soviet Union's dictator, Joseph Stalin, is preparing a nuclear strike against America, the U.S. parachutes two agents--Alex and Anna--to assassinate him. When the U.S. learns the Russians have discovered the plot, a man is sent to kill the agents, but with the help of a renegade Soviet general, Alex and Anna outwit everyone and penetrate the Kremlin.
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" --
3) The orchard
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
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,...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When the tyrannical ruler Stalin dies, his hapless inner circle scrambles to come up with the next evolution of the revolution, but it's clear everyone is really out for themselves. Proof that comedy, like politics, is all in the execution.
5) Red plenty
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2012], c2010
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.
6) Sekret
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Follows a group of psychic teenagers in 1960s Soviet Russia who are forced to use their powers to spy for the KGB.
Author
Series
Sekret volume 1
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In 1960s Soviet Russia, seventeen-year-old Yulia is captured by the KGB to work on a team of teen psychic spies.
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...
8) Black sun
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A chilling and cinematic thriller set in 1961 in one of the most secretive locations in Soviet history. Ten days before the test of largest nuclear device in history--the Tsar Bomba--a KGB officer must investigate the murder of one of the architects of the bomb, and unravel a conspiracy that could set the world on fire"--
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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