From Dallas nightclub reporter Tony Zoppi, who found himself carrying the president's casket; Secret Service agent Clint Hill beating his hands in despair on the trunk of the limousine as he watches Kennedy die; Howard Brennan, a construction worker on a lunch break watching a man take aim on the motorcade with a rifle; reporter Hugh Aynesworth with only an electricity bill on which to write notes for the scoop of his career; DJ John Peel a few feet from Oswald as he's questioned by the press; to Robert Kennedy sitting in the dark in the back of an empty army truck, waiting for his brother's body to arrive. 'The Assassination of JFK: Minute by Minute' is pure chronological narrative, giving a blow by blow account of the terrible events as they unfolded.

    An ethnic Armenian in the multicultural atmosphere of Tbilisi, Georgia, he was one of the most innovative directors of postwar Soviet cinema. Parajanov succeeded in creating a small but marvelous body of work whose style embraces such diverse influences as folk art, medieval miniature painting, early cinema, Russian and European art films, surrealism, and Armenian, Georgian, and Ukrainian cultural motifs.            The Cinema of Sergei Parajanov is the first English-language book on the director's films and the most comprehensive study of his work. James Steffen provides a detailed overview of Parajanov's artistic career: his identity as an Armenian in Georgia and its impact on his aesthetics; his early films in Ukraine; his international breakthrough in 1964 with Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors; his challenging 1969 masterpiece, The Color of Pomegranates, which was reedited against his wishes; his unrealized projects in the 1970s; and his eventual return to international prominence in the mid-to-late 1980s with The Legend of the Surami Fortress and Ashik-Kerib. Steffen also provides a rare, behind-the-scenes view of the Soviet film censorship process and tells the dramatic story of Parajanov's conflicts with the authorities, culminating in his 1973–77 arrest and imprisonment on charges related to homosexuality.            Ultimately, the figure of Parajanov offers a fascinating case study in the complicated dynamics of power, nationality, politics, ethnicity, sexuality, and culture in the republics of the former Soviet Union.

    The Guillotine At Work serves one main purpose: “to dispel the aura which Lenin’s disciples have bestowed on him by showing that Lenin was primarily concerned with attaining power and holding on to it as a dictator by means of terror.”Originally published in two volumes in 1940, this is the (partly eyewitness) account of the Leninist terror inflicted on Russia and the then Soviet Union. Maximoff, a life-long anarchist, fought in the Russian Revolution, and was imprisoned by Lenin’s secret police in 1920 when he refused to join the Red Army (he was happy to fight the Whites, but not put down workers’ and peasants’ uprisings). Exiled, he wrote this incredible indictment, in English. Over the course of nearly 400 pages, he recounts not only the Leninist terror and reaction against the popular revolution, but shows how the actions of Stalin followed deliberately in his master’s—and mentor’s—footsteps. Volume 2, a collection of supporting documents/primary evidence, etc., was never reprinted by Cienfuegos Press, but a Kindle e-Book will be published in the course of 2013-14. Regardless, this volume stands alone as a stunning, and sadly relevant indictment of the Bolshevik terror.Grigori Petrovitch Maximov (1893-1950), Russian anarcho-syndicalist. After studying for the priesthood, Maximov moved to Saint Petersburg, where he graduated in 1915 as an agronomist at the Agricultural Academy. As a student he joined the revolutionary movement and was an active propagandist. After the 1917 revolution he joined the Red Army, but when the Bolsheviks employed the Army in police work to disarm the workers, he refused to obey orders and was sentenced to death. Only the intervention and solidarity of the metalworkers’ union saved his life. In 1918 Maximov edited the anarchist-syndicalist papers Golos Truda (Voice of Labour) and Novy Golos Truda (New Voice of Labour). He became a leading figure in NABAT (Anarchist Organizations of Ukraine, organized by Voline) and secretary of the Confederation of Russian Anarcho-Trade Unions. On March 8 1921, during the Kronstadt revolt, he was arrested and imprisoned in Moscow’s Taganka Prison, along with other members of NABAT. Four months later he began a hunger strike for 10 days and ended it only after the intervention of European Syndicalists attending the Congress of the Red Trade Union International secured their exile abroad. Expelled, along with Voline and others, Maximov moved to Berlin, where he edited Rabotchy Put' (Labour's Path, or, Worker’s Way), a paper of the Russian Syndicalists in exile and participated in founding the A.I.T. (the umbrella organization of anarcho-syndicalists of 12 countries - FORA, USI, SAC, FAUD, CNT, etc. - which encompassed several million members and was headed by Rudolf Rocker, Augustin Souchy and Aleksandr Schapiro), as well as the “Defence Committee for the Revolutionists Imprisoned in Russia”. Maximov then moved to Paris, then to the USA, where he settled in Chicago and worked as a tapestry maker, becoming a leading newspaper trade unionist of the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World).