Lev Razgon has not written just another account of train rides, hunger, and interrogations. Rather, in a series of vignettes, he explores the political culture both of the Soviet gulag and of the Stalinist era as a whole. While some of these can be precious, and all require a reasonable knowledge of Soviet history (better annotation would have been useful), Razgon provides one of the last first-hand accounts of the prison culture--on both sides of the wire--in the Soviet Union.

If ever there was an excellent book on Soviet aircraft to emerge from the post cold war era, this is the one. Not only do the authors have a lot of knowledge on these impressive aircraft, but also a collection of photos never before published of many little-known aircraft. Some of these aircraft are truly impressive such as massive bombers from the pre-war period to the Strategic Bombers fielded by the former Soviet Union. Tupolev is also the constructor of most of Russia's commercial jets and the book is therefore useful for anyone interested in civil aviation. there are also tables giving the production levels of most Tupolev aircraft and also others indicating the registration numbers of Tupolev airliners. But most of all it describes the personality and contributions to aerospace of Andrei N.Tupolev, one of the world's greatest aircraft designers, who dominated his country's aircraft industry for much of this century.

The authors, two Leninist economists from the (then) Soviet Union, drive the last nail into the coffin of central economic planning, also known as the command economy. While still favoring Socialism (collective ownership of the means of production; as in Lenin's New Economic Policy of the middle 1920's), they point out in great detail why individual enterprises and individual workers must be free to make their own decisions in the marketplace. Countless examples illustrate the folly of one-size-fits-all regulation. The book shows how the Soviet economy, then one of the world's largest, was essentially reduced to operating on a barter basis for wholesale (what are now called Business-to-Business) transactions.

It will greatly temper expectations of what can be accomplished by, and the price to be paid for, government intervention into the economy, whether done from Moscow or (for example) Washington, D.C.

This is a wonderful book compiled from the papers of Tsar Nicholas II's children's English teacher. It was also published under the title "The House of Special Purpose".

This is the best translation of Akhmatova -- clear taut and beautiful

George Bird Grinnell is in one point different from other historians of the Old West. He personnally knew many of the cele-brities of that age, and what is written in his books are found-ed upon their stories. Major Frank North and his brother,Captain Luther North /Grinnell's close friend/ commanded this unique force of Indian auxiliaries. Unique,because they never lost a fight or even a single life during the long line of their battles and skirmishes. They patrolled the building of the railway and fought in major battles like the one of the Summit Springs.Also an important part of the book is the short history of the Pawnee Nation and it serves as well as a biography of the North brothers.And all this is in the highly readable style of George Bird Grinnell with full of westernisms.

Not really a book about Roman history, but a book which uses brief examples from Roman history to introduce the author's commentary on the modern labor movement. Daniel De Leon was a central figure in the Socialist Labor Party of the U.S. during the very early 20th century. That party is still around today and they are Marxist but they reject Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism, and Trotskyism in favor of "Marxism-De Leonism". He was also a central figure in the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or Wobblies) but broke with them over the issue of increasing anarchist influence in that union. For the curious, this book is a good example of De Leon's polemical style. He harshly criticizes the labor union leaders of his day for selling out the interests of workers. His alternative is to supplant the craft unions ("labor fakers" as he calls them) with radical industrial unions organized on a socialist basis.

This is a short book which may be of interest to those interested in American labor history or in the history of the socialist movement in this country. Those looking for books on Rome will probably be disappointed.

This is a great 'hidden wonder' of recent American Labor History.

As an unabashed and truly proud pro-labor, pro-New Deal and pro-working class Democrat and Progressive("Progressive" in the real, tough and true sense, not the ACLU-'save the spotted owl' and 'hug a treee' sense), I loved this book as both a study in recent history, and a tribute to one of the greatest movements ever produced on God's green earth.

The American Labor movement - as comparatively small as it may be - is one of this nation's greatest movements, alongside the abolitionist and civil rights ones. In the past 100 years, this movement, along with its allies in the Democratic party and other forward looking sections of the U.S., has given us the 40 Hour Work Week, the Minimum Wage, child labor laws, public works, Social Security, the safety net, Food Stamps, Medicare, Medicaid, consumer safety laws, public employment programs for the at-risk, OSHA and various anti-discrimination laws. This is the movement which has dared to look into the face of greed and demand true justice.

This is the grand story of the United Auto Workers - and their heroic leader, Mr. Walter Reuther - and their quest into traditional American liberalism in the Democratic party. Their quest for true social justice was never achieved, yet, their aims remain those of many forward looking, compassionate and decent Americans who know that the shaft of the workers is one which hurts not only these men and women on the job, but their families, loved ones and community in general.

The book is right when, in the end, it states that we need forward looking voices like the UAW in our culture to demand an end to injustice and keep the forces of injustice in check. We need voices to stand up to right wing efforts to scale back labor laws for the working man and woman, civil rights and health care, day care, family leave and wage oriented legislation of the past. We need more moral voices for American workers and their allies across the world. This book is such a voice. I especially loved the part of George Wallace. This bigoted demagogue constantly exploited the working class by giving out racist rhetoric which was - as some saw it unfortunately - 'pro worker.' Wallace's current followers of the past 20 years include Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Newt Gingrich and the Lott/Delay gang in the Congress. All of these overlook - and ignore - class in order to protect their rich special interests. Instead, they bash the welfare mother, the immigrant and the ghetto child - and call that 'progress.'

May the American labor movement not only stop falling, but may it rise again to successfully demand justice for the working American and his or her family. God would want nothing more from us.

This book is about a girl's hockey team that goes to Miss WestMisent's Fine School for Girls. It starts out when they are on the bus and Miss Westmisent is taking the hockey team to the game in Buffalo. When they get to the airport they get on the wrong plane and go to Moscow, Russia. They meet a Princess named Anastasia. She has a Ukranian Egg with her. The story goes on from there.

It is a really good book for kids. I read it in the fifth grade and liked it a lot. I would recommend it to all my friends.

"Ultrafast Processes In Chemistry And Photobiology"is a torough book on photobiology. A sample of few of the bestreaserchers on that topic. Perticullary I felt "UltrafastDynamics of the Chemical Bond: Femtochemistry" was outstanding work of science, and it wouldn't surprise me if the author would get a nobel prize some day. The book has been a basis on wich I and my college, rev. Benedikt Waage Ph. D., have conducted our reaserch. If you want to spend your money in a sensible way, buy this book. It's a masterpiece!