Stalin's Russia, 1924-41
Author: Bernard Barker
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Published: 1979-01-01
Total Pages: 22
ISBN-13: 9780701612849
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Author: Bernard Barker
Publisher:
Published: 1979-01-01
Total Pages: 22
ISBN-13: 9780701612849
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tamara Pimlott
Publisher: VCTA
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 60
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTsar Nicholas II - Lenin - Russian Revolution.
Author: Robert W. Thurston
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1998-11-10
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780300074420
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining Stalin's reign of terror, this text argues that the Soviet people were not simply victims but also actors in the violence, criticisms and local decisions of the 1930s. It suggests that more believed in Stalin's quest to eliminate internal enemies than were frightened by it.
Author: Michael Lynch
Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780340965894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRevised and updated for the 2008 AQA and Edexcel AS specifications.
Author: Josh Brooman
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Allan Todd
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-04-14
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 1316503690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprehensive books to support study of History for the IB Diploma Paper 3, revised for first assessment in 2017. This coursebook covers Paper 3, History of Europe, Topic 16: The Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia (1924-2000) of the History for the IB Diploma syllabus for first assessment in 2017. Tailored to the Higher Level requirements of the IB syllabus and written by experienced IB History examiners and teachers, it offers authoritative and engaging guidance through the topic.
Author: Michael Lynch
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephen Kotkin
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2017-10-31
Total Pages: 1249
ISBN-13: 073522448X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Monumental.” —The New York Times Book Review Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin has written the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror to the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history In 1929, Joseph Stalin, having already achieved dictatorial power over the vast Soviet Empire, formally ordered the systematic conversion of the world’s largest peasant economy into “socialist modernity,” otherwise known as collectivization, regardless of the cost. What it cost, and what Stalin ruthlessly enacted, transformed the country and its ruler in profound and enduring ways. Building and running a dictatorship, with life and death power over hundreds of millions, made Stalin into the uncanny figure he became. Stephen Kotkin’s Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941 is the story of how a political system forged an unparalleled personality and vice versa. The wholesale collectivization of some 120 million peasants necessitated levels of coercion that were extreme even for Russia, and the resulting mass starvation elicited criticism inside the party even from those Communists committed to the eradication of capitalism. But Stalin did not flinch. By 1934, when the Soviet Union had stabilized and socialism had been implanted in the countryside, praise for his stunning anti-capitalist success came from all quarters. Stalin, however, never forgave and never forgot, with shocking consequences as he strove to consolidate the state with a brand new elite of young strivers like himself. Stalin’s obsessions drove him to execute nearly a million people, including the military leadership, diplomatic and intelligence officials, and innumerable leading lights in culture. While Stalin revived a great power, building a formidable industrialized military, the Soviet Union was effectively alone and surrounded by perceived enemies. The quest for security would bring Soviet Communism to a shocking and improbable pact with Nazi Germany. But that bargain would not unfold as envisioned. The lives of Stalin and Hitler, and the fates of their respective dictatorships, drew ever closer to collision, as the world hung in the balance. Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941 is a history of the world during the build-up to its most fateful hour, from the vantage point of Stalin’s seat of power. It is a landmark achievement in the annals of historical scholarship, and in the art of biography.
Author: Chris Ward
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 1999-05-28
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780340731512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ebb and flow of debate about Stalin's Russia is brilliantly captured in this book. Chris Ward conceptualizes the field in a clear and helpful way, offers a synthesis of the vast secondary literature in the area, and provides evaluation of the key issues at stake. This second edition includes the necessary updating, the provision of more maps, and a new chapter on foreign policy.
Author: David R. Shearer
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 0300156227
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPolicing Stalin's Socialism is one of the first books to emphasize the importance of social order repression by Stalin's Soviet regime in contrast to the traditional emphasis of historians on political repression. Based on extensive examination of new archival materials, David Shearer finds that most repression during the Stalinist dictatorship of the 1930s was against marginal social groups such as petty criminals, deviant youth, sectarians, and the unemployed and unproductive. It was because Soviet leaders regarded social disorder as more of a danger to the state than political opposition that they instituted a new form of class war to defend themselves against this perceived threat. Despite the combined work of the political and civil police the efforts to cleanse society failed; this failure set the stage for the massive purges that decimated the country in the late 1930s.