MS - ZIS Middle School Library Resources: Russian Revolution

An introduction to the life and ideas of Carl Marx, the father of communism.

Chronicles the Czarist Russian Empire in the 1800s, the birth of Bolshevism, events leading to the Russian Revolution of 1917, and the development of new political structures in its aftermath.

Text and illustrations present a factual overview and analysis of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath, discussing the Communist triumph, the Soviet Union, and world communism. Also includes a glossary, time line, and further-reading list.

Discusses the Bolshevik Revolution, also known as the October Revolution, in which the Bolshevik armed forces overthrew the Russian Provisional Government and gave power to the Soviets, which ultimately led to the formation of the Soviet Empire.

A biography of Grigory Rasputin, a poor peasant from Siberia who charmed his way into the court of Czar Nicholas and his wife Alexandra of Russia.

Details the history of Russia's last royal family, the Romanovs.

Describes Russia's geography, wildlife, history, government, economy, people, religion, and culture.

Profiles the history, geography, people, culture, government, economy, environmental problems, and future of Russia.

An overview of the land, people, history, and culture of Russia from its earliest days to the present.

Text and illustrations present a factual overview and analysis of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath, discussing the Communist triumph, the Soviet Union, and world communism. Also includes a glossary, time line, and further-reading list.

Presents an introduction to the city of St. Petersburg, Russia, in simple text with illustrations, providing an overview of the history, geography, and people, with information on what it is like to live, work, and play there.

Photographs and excerpts from personal letters tell the story of Anastasia, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, who is believed to have been executed along with the rest of her family during the Russian revolution in 1918.

Presents eighteen essays on Communism's founders, its rise in Russia, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe, and its political, social, and cultural impacts, and includes a collection of primary source documents, a chronology, and a bibliography.

Presents the diary Nina Lugovskaya wrote while living in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, where she records the thoughts, feelings, and emotions the Soviet government interpreted as subversive before she and her family were sent to a labor camp in Siberia.

A historical novel in which Leonka, an old man who served as a youth as kitchen boy in the Ipatiev House where the tsar and tsarina, Nicholas and Alexandra, were imprisoned, finally reveals what he saw, and what he did on the night the Imperial Family was executed in 1918.

Set at the time of the Russian Revolution, the end of a centuries old dynasty, the rise of the Bolsheviks sent shockwaves around the world. This is the story of one man who was there. It's real history - about the riches and excesses, the glory of the Russian nobility, Nicholas and Alexandra, their haemophiliac son, Alexei, notorious Rasputin, Lenin and Trotsky who ruled from palaces where the Czars had once danced till dawn. The man was real too, his name was Arthur Ransome. He was a writer, accused of being a spy, perhaps even a double agent, and he left his wife and beloved daughter and fell in love with Russia and a Russian woman, Evgenia.

In the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, ten-year-old Sasha idolizes his father, a devoted Communist, but when police take his father away and leave Sasha homeless, he is forced to examine his own perceptions, values, and beliefs.

"Impoverished Russian country girl Elena Rudina and the aristocratic Ekatrina meet and set in motion an escapade that includes mistaken identity, a monk locked in a tower, a prince traveling incognito, and the witch Baba Yaga"--OCLC.

In 1913 Russia, twelve-year-old Katya eagerly anticipates leaving her St. Petersburg home, though not her older cousin Misha, to join her mother, a lady in waiting in the household of Tsar Nicholas II, but the ensuing years bring world war, revolution, and undreamed of changes to her life.

Rifka, a young Jewish girl, writes to her cousin, chronicling her family's experiences fleeing Russia in 1919, and her own trials after being left in Belgium on her own while the others emigrate to America.

In the days before the Russian Revolution, twelve-year-old Feodora sets out to rescue her mother when the Tsar's Imperial Army imprisons her for teaching tamed wolves to fend for themselves.

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.