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Russia: Middle School

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CULTURAL
$   ​​Old Peter's Russian Tales  by Arthur Ransome
"After mastering Russian, Ransome lived in that country for nearly ten years, most of the time as a journalist covering the tumultuous events of the First World War and the Russian Revolution. It was during this time that he collected the tales contained in this book."
♥   Russia   by L. Edna Walter (1910)
Peeps at Many Lands
♦   $   ​Swan Lake  ill. by Chris van Allsburg
Beautifully illustrated version of Tchaikovsky's ballet.
HISTORICAL
FC   S9-274   The Charge of the Light Brigade
FC   W10-1   Story of Russia
FC   W11-43   17th Century East of Europe
FC   W12-407    Making of a Patriot:   Mary Antin
♥   A Brief History of Russia   by Frances Shaw (1877)
An extremely brief overview of Russian rulers over the ages.
$   ​Landmark   ​Chief of the Cossacks by Harold Lamb (1630-1671)
$   ​Landmark   ​Catherine the Great by Scherman (1729-1796)
♥   The Promised Land   by Mary Antin (1912)
True story of 12 year old's immigration to America with her Jewish family in the late 1800s.
♥   ​The Story of Russia by Mary Benson (1885)
A very picturesque introductory look at Russian history before her upheavals and revolution.
♥   The Story of Russia  by Robert VanBergen (1905)
HISTORIAL FICTION
♥   Boy Travellers in Russian Empire  by Thomas Knox (1886) 
Boy Traveller Series
$   ​Dvora's Journey  by Marge Blaine
"After fleeing from Russia in 1904, 12-year-old Dvora and her family face unexpected problems."
♥   Henty, G.A.   A Jacobite Exile—Swedish-Russian War, King Charles XII of Sweden (1695)
♥   Henty, G.A.   Through Russian Snows—the story of Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow (1812)
♥   Henty, G.A.   Jack Archer—a tale of the Crimean War (1854)
♥   ​Henty, G.A.  ​ Condemned as a Nihlist—escape from Siberia (1880)
♦   Struggle is Our Brother by Henry Gregor Felsen
♦   $   ​The Endless Steppe  by Esther Hautzig
"In June 1942, the Rudomin family is arrested by the Russians. They are "capitalists -- enemies of the people." Forced from their home and friends in Vilna, Poland, they are herded into crowded cattle cars. Their destination: the endless steppe of Siberia. For five years, Ester and her family live in exile, weeding potato fields and working in the mines, struggling for enough food and clothing to stay alive. Only the strength of family sustains them and gives them hope for the future."
♦   $   ​The Wild Children  by Felice Holman
"Left behind when his family is arrested by soldiers during the dark days following the Bolshevik Revolution, twelve-year-old Alex falls in with a gang of other desperate homeless children, but never loses his hope for a better life."
BIOGRAPHIES
FC   G6-99   Peter the Great
FC   W12-42   Story of Catherine
FC   W12-12   Vladimir the Great
$   ​​Dancing Star: The Story of Anna Pavlova by Gladys Malvern
Gladys Malvern shares the incredible story of Anna Pavlova, one of the most revered and celebrated ballerinas of all time.
♦   Joseph Stalin and Communist Russia by Wyatt Blassingame
Garrard​
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