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Author: William Taubman
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2004-03-30
Total Pages: 929
ISBN-13: 0393324842
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTells the life story of twentieth-century Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, featuring information from previously inaccessible Russian and Ukrainian archives.
Author: Sergei N. Khrushchev
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 854
ISBN-13: 9780271021706
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA unique account of Cold War history during the Khrushchev era by one who witnessed it firsthand at his father's side.
Author: Jeremy Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011-01-25
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1136831827
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a new picture of the politics, economics and process of government in the Soviet Union under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev. Based in large part on original research in recently declassified archive collections, the book examines the full complexity of government, and provides an overview of the internal development of the Soviet Union in this period, locating it in the broader context of Soviet history.
Author: Rob Hornsby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-02-14
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1107030927
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert Hornsby draws on a range of declassified archival material to analyse political protest and government repression in post-Stalin USSR.
Author: Vladimir I. Lenin
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781410213006
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCONTENTS The Development of Capitalism in Russia The Theoretical Mistakes of the Narodnik Economists The Differentiation of the Peasantry The Landowners' Transition from Corvée to Capitalist Economy The Growth of Commercial Agriculture The First Stages of Capitalism in Industry Capitalist Manufacture and Capitalist Domestic Industry The Development of Large-Scale Machine Industry The Formation of the Home Market
Author: Robert William Davies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-03-28
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780521627429
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a comprehensive survey of Soviet economic development from 1917 to 1965 in the context of the pre-revolutionary economy. In these years the Soviet Union negotiated the first stages of modern industrialisation and then, after the defeat of Nazi Germany and its allies, emerged as one of the two world superpowers. This was also the first attempt to construct a planned socialist order. These developments resulted in great economic achievements at great human cost. Using the results of recent Russian and Western research, Professor Davies discusses the inherent faults and strengths of the system, and pays particular attention to the major controversies. Was the Russian Revolution doomed to failure from the outset? Could the mixed economy of the 1920s have led to a democratic socialist economy? What was the influence of Soviet economic development on the rest of the world?
Author: Archie Brown
Publisher:
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780333233368
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Aaron Todd Hale-Dorrell
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 0190644672
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScarcely making ends meet -- Industrial agriculture, the logic of corn -- Corn politics -- Better living through corn -- Growing corn, raising citizens -- From Kolkhoznik to wage earner -- American technology, Soviet practice -- Battles over corn
Author: Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 1016
ISBN-13: 9780271023328
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNikita Khrushchev&’s proclamation from the floor of the United Nations that &"we will bury you&" is one of the most chilling and memorable moments in the history of the Cold War, but from the Cuban Missile Crisis to his criticism of the Soviet ruling structure late in his career the motivation for Khrushchev&’s actions wasn&’t always clear. Many Americans regarded him as a monster, while in the USSR he was viewed at various times as either hero or traitor. But what was he really like, and what did he really think? Readers of Khrushchev&’s memoirs will now be able to answer these questions for themselves (and will discover that what Khrushchev really said at the UN was &"we will bury colonialism&"). This is the first volume of three in the only complete and fully reliable version of the memoirs available in English. In this volume, Khrushchev recounts how he became politically active as a young worker in Ukraine, how he climbed the ladder of power under Stalin to occupy leading positions in Ukraine and then Moscow, and how as a military commissar he experienced the war against the Nazi invaders. He vividly portrays life in Stalin's inner circle and among the generals who commanded the Soviet armies. Khrushchev&’s sincere reflections upon his own thoughts and feelings add to the value of this unique personal and historical document. Included among the Appendixes is Sergei Khrushchev&’s account of how the memoirs were created and smuggled abroad during his father&’s retirement.
Author: Jeffrey S. Hardy
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2016-10-18
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1501706047
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Gulag after Stalin, Jeffrey S. Hardy reveals how the vast Soviet penal system was reimagined and reformed in the wake of Stalin’s death. Hardy argues that penal reform in the 1950s was a serious endeavor intended to transform the Gulag into a humane institution that reeducated criminals into honest Soviet citizens. Under the leadership of Minister of Internal Affairs Nikolai Dudorov, a Khrushchev appointee, this drive to change the Gulag into a "progressive" system where criminals were reformed through a combination of education, vocational training, leniency, sport, labor, cultural programs, and self-governance was both sincere and at least partially effective. The new vision for the Gulag faced many obstacles. Reeducation proved difficult to quantify, a serious liability in a statistics-obsessed state. The entrenched habits of Gulag officials and the prisoner-guard power dynamic mitigated the effect of the post-Stalin reforms. And the Soviet public never fully accepted the new policies of leniency and the humane treatment of criminals. In the late 1950s, they joined with a coalition of party officials, criminologists, procurators, newspaper reporters, and some penal administrators to rally around the slogan "The camp is not a resort" and succeeded in reimposing harsher conditions for inmates. By the mid-1960s the Soviet Gulag had emerged as a hybrid system forged from the old Stalinist system, the vision promoted by Khrushchev and others in the mid-1950s, and the ensuing counterreform movement. This new penal equilibrium largely persisted until the fall of the Soviet Union.
