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Diary of Georgi Dimitrov, 1933-1949
Häftad, 2012
872 kr
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Georgi Dimitrov (1882–1949) was a high-ranking Bulgarian and Soviet official, one of the most prominent leaders of the international Communist movement and a trusted member of Stalin’s inner circle. Accused by the Nazis of setting the Reichstag fire in 1933, he successfully defended himself at the …
Gulag Voices
An Anthology
Häftad, 2012
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
166 kr
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A unique anthology of Gulag memoirs, edited and annotated by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anne ApplebaumAnne Applebaum wields her considerable knowledge of a dark chapter in human history and presents a collection of the writings of survivors of the Gulag, the Soviet concentration camps. Although …
Kirov Murder and Soviet History
Inbunden, 2010
1526 kr
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Drawing on hundreds of newly available, top-secret KGB and party Central Committee documents, historian Matthew E. Lenoe reexamines the 1934 assassination of Leningrad party chief Sergei Kirov. Joseph Stalin used the killing as the pretext to unleash the Great Terror that decimated the Communist …
Stalin's Letters to Molotov
1925-1936
Av Josef Stalin, Lars T. Lih m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
561 kr
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"It is thus important to a) fundamentally purge the Finance and Gosbank bureaucracy, despite the wails of dubious Communists like Briukhanov-Piatakov; b) definitely shoot two or three dozen wreckers from these apparaty, including several dozen common cashiers."— J. Stalin, no earlier than 6 August …
War Against the Peasantry, 1927-1930
The Tragedy of the Soviet Countryside, Volume one
Av Denis Kozlov, Lynne Viola m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
1073 kr
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The collectivization of Soviet agriculture in the late 1920s and 1930s forever altered the country’s social and economic landscape. It became the first of a series of bloody landmarks that would come to define Stalinism. This revelatory book presents—with analysis and commentary—the most important …
Road to Terror
Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939
Av J. Arch Getty, Oleg V. Naumov
Häftad, 2010
331 kr
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Now updated with new facts, and abridged for use in Soviet history courses, this gripping book assembles top secret Soviet documents, translated into English, from the era of Stalin’s purges. The dossiers, police reports, private letters, secret transcripts, and other documents expose the hidden …
Secret World of American Communism
Av Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
619 kr
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For the first time, the hidden world of American communism can be examined with the help of documents from the recently opened archives of the former Soviet Union. By interweaving narrative and documents, the authors of this book present a convincing new picture of the Communist Party of the United …
Fall of the Romanovs
Political Dreams and Personal Struggles in a Time of Revolution
Av Mark D. Steinberg, Vladimir M. Khrustalëv
Häftad, 1997
775 kr
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"All around me is treachery, cowardice, and deceit!"—diary of Nicholas II, on the day he abdicated"Behave with dignity; do not allow the former tsar and his family to be insulted or treated rudely."—Commissar Vasily Pankratov's instructions to the guard, September 1917"The bullets...ricocheted off …
Soviet World of American Communism
Av Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
1016 kr
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The Secret World of American Communism (1995), filled with revelations about Communist party covert operations in the United States, created an international sensation. Now the American authors of that book, along with Soviet archivist Kyrill M. Anderson, offer a second volume of profound social, …
Unknown Lenin
From the Secret Archive
Av Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Richard Pipes
Häftad, 1999
483 kr
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Was Lenin a visionary whose ideals were subverted by his followers? Or was he a cynical misanthrope, even crueler than Stalin? This book, which contains newly released documents from the Lenin archive in Russia, lays bare Lenin the man and the politician, leaving little doubt that he was a ruthless …
Enemies Within the Gates?
The Comintern and the Stalinist Repression, 1934-1939
Inbunden, 2002
859 kr
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This compelling work of documentary history tells a story of idealism betrayed, a story of how the Comintern (Communist International), an organization established by Lenin in 1919 to direct and assist revolutionary movements throughout the world, participated in and was ultimately destroyed by the …
Stalin-Kaganovich Correspondence, 1931–36
Av R. W. Davies, R. W. Davies m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
1125 kr
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From 1931 to 1936, Stalin vacationed at his Black Sea residence for two to three months each year. While away from Moscow, he relied on correspondence with his subordinates to receive information, watch over the work of the Politburo and the government, give orders, and express his opinions. This …
Stalinism as a Way of Life
A Narrative in Documents
Av Lewis Siegelbaum, Andrei Sokolov m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
601 kr
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“Maybe some people are shy about writing, but I will write the real truth. . . . Is it really possible that people at the newspaper haven’t heard this. . . that we don’t want to be on the kolkhoz [collective farm], we work and work, and there’s nothing to eat. Really, how can we live?”—a farmer’s …
Voices of Revolution, 1917
Häftad, 2003
425 kr
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Although much has been written about the political history of the Russian revolution, the human story of what the revolution meant to ordinary people has rarely been told. This book gives voice to the experiences, thoughts, and feelings of the Russian people—workers, peasants, soldiers—as expressed …
Stalin's Secret Pogrom
The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee
Av Joshua Rubenstein, Vladimir P. Naumov
Häftad, 2005
752 kr
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In the spring and summer of 1952, fifteen Soviet Jews, including five prominent Yiddish writers and poets, were secretly tried and convicted; multiple executions soon followed in the basement of Moscow’s Lubyanka prison. The defendants were falsely charged with treason and espionage because of …
Soviet Culture and Power
A History in Documents, 1917-1953
Av Katerina Clark, Evgeny Dobrenko
Inbunden, 2007
1216 kr
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A history of Soviet repression of cultural and artistic life, based on remarkable archival documents never published in English beforeLeaders of the Soviet Union, Stalin chief among them, well understood the power of art, and their response was to attempt to control and directit in every way …
KGB File of Andrei Sakharov
Av Joshua Rubenstein, Alexander Gribanov
Inbunden, 2005
1023 kr
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Andrei Sakharov (1921–1989), a brilliant physicist and the principal designer of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, later became a human rights activist and—as a result—a source of profound irritation to the Kremlin. This book publishes for the first time ever KGB files on Sakharov that became available …
Sedition
Everyday Resistance in the Soviet Union under Khrushchev and Brezhnev
Av Vladimir A. Kozlov, Sheila Fitzpatrick m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1129 kr
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This book explores Soviet prosecution records to tell the hidden story of ordinary citizens who were arrested for expressing discontent during the Khrushchev and Brezhnev years.
Voice of the People
Letters from the Soviet Village, 1918-1932
Av A.K. Sokolov, C. J. Storella
Inbunden, 2013
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
1242 kr
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This book presents the first comprehensive collection in English of peasant writings during the early years of the Bolshevik regime. Drawn entirely from Russian archival sources, it features more than 150 previously unpublished letters addressed to newspapers, government officials, and Communist …
Complete Maisky Diaries
Volumes 1-3
Av Ivan Maisky, Gabriel Gorodetsky
Inbunden, 2018
3342 kr
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The complete diaries that Ivan Maisky, Soviet ambassador to London, kept between 1932 and 1943Confiscated by Soviet authorities in the 1950s, the diaries of Ivan Maisky, the USSR’s ambassador to Great Britain from 1932 to 1943, have been unearthed, annotated, and edited for publication in a …
Children of the Gulag
Av Semyon Samuilovich Vilensky, Cathy A. Frierson
Inbunden, 2010
1096 kr
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This groundbreaking book offers a comprehensive documentary history of children whose parents were identified as enemies of the Soviet regime from its inception through Joseph Stalin's death. When parents were arrested, executed, or sent to the Gulag, their children also suffered. Millions of …
Last Diary of Tsaritsa Alexandra
Av Tsaritsa Alexandra, Vladimir M. Khrustalëv m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
541 kr
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The last Tsaritsa of Russia, Alexandra Feodorovna, was murdered with her family on the night of 16-17 July 1918 by agents acting on behalf of the revolutionary Bolshevik government. The dramatic story of the demise of the Romanov dynasty has been recounted many times and has captivated the …
Spain Betrayed
Av Ronald Radosh, Mary Habeck m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
846 kr
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The Spanish Civil War has long been the stuff of legend. Thousands of brave young men from all over the Western world, most of them organized by their local Communist parties, rushed to Spain to support the democratic Republic against right-wing forces led by rebellious generals in the Spanish …
Silence Was Salvation
Child Survivors of Stalin’s Terror and World War II in the Soviet Union
Inbunden, 2015
989 kr
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Roughly ten million children were victims of political repression in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist era. As the sons and daughters of Soviet citizens considered by the regime to be dangerous to the political order, these children lost parents, siblings, homes, educational and work …
Katyn
A Crime Without Punishment
Av Wojciech Materski, Anna M. Cienciala m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
884 kr
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The first collection of Russian documents in English on the Soviet massacre of Polish prisoners of war in 1940 and the fifty-year cover-up that followedThe 14,500 Polish army officers, police, gendarmes, and civilians taken prisoner by the Red Army when it invaded eastern Poland in September 1939 …
Leningrad Blockade, 1941-1944
A New Documentary History from the Soviet Archives
Av Richard Bidlack, Nikita Lomagin
Häftad, 2013
865 kr
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Based largely on formerly top-secret Soviet archival documents (including 66 reproduced documents and 70 illustrations), this book portrays the inner workings of the communist party and secret police during Germany's horrific 1941–44 siege of Leningrad, during which close to one million citizens …
Secret Cables of the Comintern, 1933-1943
Av Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov, Harvey Klehr m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
1167 kr
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Drawing on secret and therefore candid coded telegraphs exchanged between Communist Party leaders around the world and their overseers at the Communist International (Comintern) headquarters in Moscow, this book uncovers key aspects of the history of the Comintern and its significant role in the …
History of the Gulag
From Collectivization to the Great Terror
Häftad, 2013
676 kr
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"What a long, extraordinary process digging into the deepest secrets of the Gulag has been. Now, here is its history, fully, factually, and humanly effected for the present day by Oleg Khlevniuk."- Robert Conquest, from the forwardThe human cost of the Gulag, the Soviet labor camp system in which …
Stalin and the Lubianka
A Documentary History of the Political Police and Security Organs in the Soviet Union, 1922–1953
Av David R. Shearer, Vladimir Khaustov
Inbunden, 2015
880 kr
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This fascinating documentary history is the first English-language exploration of Joseph Stalin's relationship with, and manipulation of, the Soviet political police. The story follows the changing functions, organization, and fortunes of the political police and security organs from the early …
