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Author: Amy Knight
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780691010939
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the biography of Lavrentii Beria, Stalin's notorious police chief and for many years his most powerful lieutenant. Beria has long symbolized the evils of Stalinism, yet because his political opponents removed his name from public memory after his execution in 1953, little is known of him.
Author: Sergo Beria
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 436
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a memoir of the daily life of two men from Georgia--Stalin and Beria--who sent millions to their graves.
Author: Tadeusz Wittlin
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 648
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 1072
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Amy Knight
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-06-16
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 0691214247
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first comprehensive biography of Lavrentii Beria, Stalin's notorious police chief and for many years his most powerful lieutenant. Beria has long symbolized all the evils of Stalinism, haunting the public imagination both in the West and in the former Soviet Union. Yet because his political opponents expunged his name from public memory after his dramatic arrest and execution in 1953, little has been previously published about his long and tumultuous career.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Security Laws
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 260
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Oleksii Stus, Dmytro Finberg, Leonid Sinchenko
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2021-03-16
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 3838215516
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis anthology of seminal texts documents the development of the post-war anti-Soviet Ukrainian dissident movement. The collection is designed to introduce, via some crucial primary sources, Western and other non-Ukrainian readers to various forms of Ukrainian opposition to the communist regime. Stories of ideas and personal undertakings are unfolding before the reader in a vivid pulsation of texts that testify for themselves. The anthology gathers contributions from different genres. They range from poetry, public speeches, and samvydav—uncensored, self-published—texts to court speeches. They come from dissidents who were held in jails, special psychiatric hospitals (for not accepting the official ideology), and prison camps. Finally, they include self-reflections by dissidents on their personal experience of opposing the totalitarian system. This variety of contributions creates a multidimensional picture of the Ukrainian dissident movement—a generation of prominent Ukrainian public and cultural figures who, in one way or another, insisted on their freedom of speech and made history by daring to challenge the official ideology and culture. This remarkable book about the struggle for freedom has been compiled by Oleksii Sinchenko, Dmytro Stus, and Leonid Finberg. Scholarly reviewed by Myroslav Marynovych.
Author: Valentyn Moroz
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sheila Fitzpatrick
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015-09-15
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 1400874211
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first chronicle of Stalin's inner political and social circle—from a leading Soviet historian Stalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing. On Stalin's Team overturns this view, revealing that behind Stalin was a group of loyal men who formed a remarkably effective team with him from the late 1920s until his death in 1953. Drawing on extensive original research, Sheila Fitzpatrick provides the first in-depth account of this inner circle and their families. She vividly describes how these dedicated comrades-in-arms not only worked closely with Stalin, but also constituted his social circle. Stalin's team included the wily security chief Beria; Andreev, who traveled to provincial purges while listening to Beethoven on a portable gramophone; and Khrushchev, who finally disbanded the team four years after Stalin's death. Taking readers from the cataclysms of the Great Purges and World War II to the paranoia of Stalin's final years, On Stalin's Team paints an entirely new picture of Stalin within his milieu—one that transforms our understanding of how the Soviet Union was ruled during much of its existence.
Author: Jeri Laber
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2005-02-16
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 1586489666
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter Jeri Laber earned a Master's degree in Russian studies at Columbia University, she became a part-time writer and editor and a full-time wife and mother. Then one day in 1973 she read an article about torture that altered her life and subsequently the lives of countless others around the world. The Courage of Strangers tells how Laber became a founder and the executive director of Helsinki Watch, which grew to be Human Rights Watch, one of the world's most influential organizations. She describes her secret trips to unwelcoming countries, where she met with some of the great political activists of the time. She also recalls what it was like to come of age professionally in an era when women were supposed to follow rather than lead; how she struggled to balance work and family; and how her fight for human rights informed her own intellectual, spiritual and emotional development. This story of the birth of the human rights movement is also a sweeping history of dissent and triumph in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Elegantly written, full of passion, humor and political wisdom, it is exciting history as well as a moving, entertaining, inspiring story of a woman's life.
