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1) Tina
Author
Series
Publisher
Debols!llo
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
A chronicle of the life of the Mexican photographer whose beauty inspired artists and whose devotion to Communism involved her in an infamous murder case.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
320 pages
Description
"In June 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a couple with two young sons, were led separately from their prison cells on Death Row and electrocuted moments apart. Both had been convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union, despite the fact that the US government was aware that the evidence against Ethel was shaky at best and based on the perjury of her own brother. This book is the first to focus on one half of that couple for more...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
xvii, 206 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Explores the history of socialist feminism by examining the careers of five prominent socialist women active in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, revealing lives filled with inner conflicts, contradictions, and sometimes outrageous privilege as theymoved forward with their own political projects through perseverance and dedication to their cause.
6) 1900
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (315 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two boys are born in Parma, Italy on the day of composer Giuseppe Verdi's death in 1901. Alfredo Berlinghieri is the son of a wealthy landowner and Olmo Dalco is the son of a poverty-stricken peasant who becomes a communist and labor organizer. Though the boys are childhood friends, they increasingly come into conflict as adults as Alfredo panders to the increasingly powerful fascists while Olmo fights relentlessly against Mussolini's followers.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
233 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
Anticipating a divorce against a backdrop of the fall of communism, Arvid Jansen is further dismayed by his mother's diagnosis with cancer, a situation that prompts his emotionally charged quest for understanding and balance.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (149 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Germany 1967: murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism, and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the still-fragile German democracy. The radicalized children of the Nazi generation, led by Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, and Gudrun Ensslin, are fighting a violent war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism. The man who understands them is also their hunter, the head of the German police force, Horst...
9) Jimmy's hall
Publisher
Sony Pictures
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1921 Jimmy Gralton's sin was to build a dance hall on a rural crossroads in an Ireland on the brink of Civil War. The Pearse-Connolly Hall was a place where young people could come to learn, to argue, to dream; but above all to dance and have fun. As the hall grew in popularity its socialist and free-spirited reputation brought it to the attention of the church and politicians who forced Jimmy to flee and the hall to close.
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on audaciously true events. In 1959 Bucharest, five high-ranking Jewish members of the Communist party staged a bank heist that baffled the repressive regime and left the public in an uproar. Their motives were never known. Having been captured, arrested, and sentenced to death, the unusual gang of so-called criminals is given one last punishment before facing the execution squad: reenact the heist for the benefit of a Communist propaganda film....
11) Neruda
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After Chilean poet and communist Pablo Neruda criticizes the president, he becomes the target of a manhunt led by a fascist police prefect and needs to go into hiding.
Author
Series
Zuckerman novels volume 7
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
323 p. ; 24 cm.
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