Holy Communion is a rite-of-passage novel that follows a seven-year-old boy's first communion preparations and celebration.Throughout the four-day peroid the boy deals with cruel nuns,sadistic babysitters,his mother's unfortunate accident,a drunken father,plus a pedophile or two, but finds a way to cope in the midst of so much tragedy-first by indifference,later by defiance and rebellion.He also discovers that his urban surrondings in New York City give him autonomy,comfort, and satisfaction.Holy Communion is full of the boy's dispair and self-questioning,along with the author Mykola Dementiuk's powerful insights into the human condition.

    With a loan from Sergei, Jack opens a law office and transforms himself from a naive American to a steel baron with a personal army of ex-KGB mercenaries. Even Lena, Jack's new girlfriend, worries about his growing involvement in the criminal world. When his partner is murdered, Jack is given a choice: sell his interests to a competing Russian steel company or die. Based on real life events.

    Ivan Kulik has just become Headmaster of school number 7 in Hlaby, a rural village in the Pinsk Marshes. Through his eyes we witness the tragedy of Stalinist domination where people are randomly deported to labour camps or tortured in Zovty Prison in Pinsk. The author's individual gift that sets him apart from his contemporaries is the range of his sympathies and his unromantic, unsentimental approach to the sensual lives of females. His debt to Chekhov is obvious in his ability to capture the internal drama of his characters with psychological concision.

    One stormy night Icarus takes off, transporting Masha to an enchanted place. Masha has the chance to make a wish, but will she make the right wish so she and her mother can escape Uncle Igor's clutches?

    This book shows how history has been constructed, used, and misused in order to justify the existence of imperial and modern national projects, and how those projects have influenced the interpretation of history in Russia and Ukraine.

    Vera Smereka's nightmare continues in World War II when she is deported to Berlin to become a Nazi slave in Hitler's Ostarbeiter programme. This is a piece of European history as told by a survivor who finally finds her freedom in the City of Bradford, England.

    This volume examines the foreign and domestic policies of these republics with an eye to the lasting legacy of Russian domination and the growing attraction of Europe.

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