A Documentary History of Communism: Communism and the world
Author: Robert Vincent Daniels
Publisher: University of Vermont Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13:
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Stalin and the Lubianka
Author: David R. Shearer
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015-01-01
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 0300171897
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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 1920s until Stalin’s death in 1953, and it provides documented detail about how Stalin used these organs to achieve and maintain undisputed power. Although written as a narrative, it includes translations of more than 170 documents from Soviet archives.
The Soviet Union
Author: Edward Acton
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCombining narrative commentary with over 270 contemporary documents, this title provides an entree to debate over humanity's most momentous and tragic experiment. It is suitable for students at all levels.
It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway
Author: David Satter
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011-12-13
Total Pages: 530
ISBN-13: 0300178425
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA veteran writer on Russia and the Soviet Union explains why Russia refuses to draw from the lessons of its past and what this portends for the future Russia today is haunted by deeds that have not been examined and words that have been left unsaid. A serious attempt to understand the meaning of the Communist experience has not been undertaken, and millions of victims of Soviet Communism are all but forgotten. In this book David Satter, a former Moscow correspondent and longtime writer on Russia and the Soviet Union, presents a striking new interpretation of Russia's great historical tragedy, locating its source in Russia's failure fully to appreciate the value of the individual in comparison with the objectives of the state. Satter explores the moral and spiritual crisis of Russian society. He shows how it is possible for a government to deny the inherent value of its citizens and for the population to agree, and why so many Russians actually mourn the passing of the Soviet regime that denied them fundamental rights. Through a wide-ranging consideration of attitudes toward the living and the dead, the past and the present, the state and the individual, Satter arrives at a distinctive and important new way of understanding the Russian experience.
A Documentary History of Communism in Russia
Author: Robert V. Daniels
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2001-02-01
Total Pages: 812
ISBN-13: 1611680581
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn extensive revision of the valued but unobtainable 1960 edition. Nearly 300 key documents are now readily available in translation.
Russian and Soviet History
Author: Steven A. Usitalo
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780742555914
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn original and thought-provoking text, Russian and Soviet History uses noteworthy themes and important events from Russian history to spark classroom discussion. Consisting of twenty essays written by experts in each area, the book showcases current thinking on Russian cultural, political, economic, and social history from the sixteenth century to the demise of the Soviet "experiment." Informed by both archival work and published sources, this text introduces students to Russian history in an accessible and provocative format, and its eclectic essays offer readers an incomparable taste of the complexity and richness of Russia.
The Soviet Theater
Author: Laurence Senelick
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014-06-24
Total Pages: 781
ISBN-13: 0300194765
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this monumental work, Laurence Senelick and Sergei Ostrovsky offer a panoramic history of Soviet theater from the Bolshevik Revolution to the eventual collapse of the USSR. Making use of more than eighty years’ worth of archival documentation, the authors celebrate in words and pictures a vital, living art form that remained innovative and exciting, growing, adapting, and flourishing despite harsh, often illogical pressures inflicted upon its creators by a totalitarian government. It is the first comprehensive analysis of the subject ever to be published in the English language.
The Black Book of Communism
Author: Stéphane Courtois
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 920
ISBN-13: 9780674076082
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the accomplishments of communism around the world. The book is the first attempt to catalogue and analyse the crimes of communism over 70 years.
A Documentary History of Communism and the World
Author: Robert Vincent Daniels
Publisher: University Press of New England
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe final edition of a valuable reference work documenting the story of Communism from its beginnings to its amazing collapse.
Russia in War and Revolution, 1914-1922
Author: Jonathan W. Daly
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780872209879
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on newly available Russian sources--many of which appear in English for the first time here--this volume covers a broad array of topics, including the Bolshevik rise to power and World War I as the catalyst and cradle, respectively, of the Revolution. The authors convey the boldness and diversity of the revolutionaries' aspirations as well as the ways in which the Revolution affected the lives of ordinary people, from the workers of Petrograd to Siberian peasants and Ukrainian Jews. Maps, illustrations, and a glossary of terms are included, as are a chronology of the Revolution, a list of works cited, and a thorough index.
