Catherine An Fitzpatrick

Catherine A. Fitzpatrick

Catherine Ann Fitzpatrick, also known under her pen name and virtual worlds pseudonym "Prokofy Neva", is a former human rights activist, RussianEnglish...

The Future Belongs to Freedom

The Fate Of Marxism In Russia

Stalin's Letters to Molotov: 1925-1936

The Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archive

The Fate Of Marxism In Russia

The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia--Past, Present, and Future

The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia--Past, Present, and Future

Russia's Secret Rulers

Blood and Sweat

We, the Kazakhs…So little is known about this people and their vast country, the world’s ninth largest, though the Kazakhs have seen much of man’s vast history. From their roots as traders and herdsmen during the Silk Route period to their modern experience with atomic bomb testing and space age tri...

Midnight Diaries

The first democratically elected leader of Russia--and the first ever to resign voluntarily--reviews his tumultuous years in office and the changes and challenges in his country.. Midnight Diaries is Boris Yeltsin's pithy, personal, and revealing account of the struggles and upheavals in Russia over...

Going on Nine

A child swipes her mother's ring, snatches her sister's nightgown, and runs outside to play "bride." She soon loses the ring, rips the gown, correctly assumes it's about to rain daggers, and runs away from home to find a better; family. What happens next is a summer-long journey in which Grace Towns...

Privacy for Me and Not for Thee: The Movement for Invincible Personal Encryption, Radical State Transparency, and the Snowden Hack

Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old computer systems administrator who worked as a contractor for the CIA and NSA, perpetrated the greatest assault on American intelligence in US history. Yet the select brotherhood of adversarial journalists, radical activists and anarchist hackers who have been admitted ...

The Future Belongs to Freedom

Shevardnadze discusses his relationship with Gorbachev, his role in the resolution of the Afghan War, the Soviet withdrawal from Eastern Europe, the reunification of Germany, the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, and his role in the opposition to the August 1991 coup.

The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia-Past, Present, and Future

Chronicling the KGB's growth in strength and influence despite its official dissolution, a journalist for Newsweek in Moscow notes its control over the changes in Soviet society, its infiltration into daily Russian life, and its transformation into a state power.

The Solzhenitsyn Files: Secret Soviet Documents Reveal One Man's Fight Against the Monolith

This groundbreaking controversial biography examines the neglected topic of Goethe's homoereticism. While Gothe celebrated the love for women in his poetry, in his own life he enjoyed lasting yet ambiguous friendships with men. This biography relies on Goeth's letters and poems and on firsthand ob...