The Last Days of Stalin
Author: Joshua Rubenstein
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2016-01-01
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 0300192223
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMonografie over de laatste maanden in het leven van Stalin en de periode daarna.
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The Death of Stalin
Author: Fabien Nury
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2018-03-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1785866362
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe graphic novel which inspired the hotly tipped and highly controversial new movie directed by Armando Iannucci, due in theatres in March, and starring a host of high profile actors, including Michael Palin, Steve Buscemi and Jason Isaacs. Fear, corruption and treachery abound in this political satire set in the aftermath of Stalin's death in the Soviet Union in 1953. When the leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, has a stroke - the political gears begin to turn, plunging the super-state into darkness, uncertainty and near civil war. The struggle for supreme power will determine the fate of the nation and of the world. And it all really happened.
The Death of Stalin
Author: Georges Bortoli
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn account of the circumstances, activities, and personalities of the Soviet dictator's final months, the circumstances of his death, and the subsequent political maneuverings and intrigues and the emergence of a collective leadership.
Life and Death under Stalin
Author: Kees Boterbloem
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13: 0773567593
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first Western scholar to have access to the records of the Communist Party of the Kalinin province, Boterbloem supplements archival evidence with published accounts and interviews with those who survived the last years of Stalin's life, taking us into their lives. Covering a wide range of topics, such as industry, agriculture, party affairs, repression, and education, Life and Death under Stalin looks at the complicated relationship between the political elite of the Communist Party, its rank and file members, and the Russian population during what was perhaps the grimmest period in Soviet history. The result is a fascinating study of how the postwar Stalinist regime dealt with those in the Kalinin Province, from ordinary Communist Party members and Red Army veterans to collective farmers and labour camp inmates.
Stalin's Folly
Author: Konstantin Pleshakov
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 0618773614
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStalin's cunning and ruthlessness brought him to supreme power in the Soviet Union. Yet in the summer of 1941 he appeared to lose his touch. With unparalleled access to the Soviet archives, this text reveals why the dictator behaved as he did.
Lenin's Tomb
Author: David Remnick
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2014-04-02
Total Pages: 626
ISBN-13: 0804173583
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the Pulitzer Prize One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times From the editor of The New Yorker: a riveting account of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which has become the standard book on the subject. Lenin’s Tomb combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism. Remnick takes us through the tumultuous 75-year period of Communist rule leading up to the collapse and gives us the voices of those who lived through it, from democratic activists to Party members, from anti-Semites to Holocaust survivors, from Gorbachev to Yeltsin to Sakharov. An extraordinary history of an empire undone, Lenin’s Tomb stands as essential reading for our times.
The Life and Death of Stalin
Author: Louis Fischer
Publisher:
Published: 1958
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStalin's Last Crime
Author: Jonathan Brent
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2010-06-15
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 006201367X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new investigation, based on previously unseen KGB documents, reveals the startling truth behind Stalin's last great conspiracy. On January 13, 1953, a stunned world learned that a vast conspiracy had been unmasked among Jewish doctors in the USSR to murder Kremlin leaders. Mass arrests quickly followed. The Doctors' Plot, as this alleged scheme came to be called, was Stalin's last crime. In the fifty years since Stalin's death many myths have grown up about the Doctors' Plot. Did Stalin himself invent the conspiracy against the Jewish doctors or was it engineered by subordinates who wished to eliminate Kremlin rivals? Did Stalin intend a purge of all Jews from Moscow, Leningrad, and other major cities, which might lead to a Soviet Holocaust? How was this plot related to the cold war then dividing Europe, and the hot war in Korea? Finally, was the Doctors' Plot connected with Stalin's fortuitous death? Brent and Naumov have explored an astounding arra of previously unknown, top-secret documents from the KGB, the presidential archives, and other state and party archives in order to probe the mechanism of on of Stalin's greatest intrigues -- and to tell for the first time the incredible full story of the Doctors' Plot.
Stalin's Library
Author: Geoffrey Roberts
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2022-01-01
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 0300179049
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal library "[A] fascinating new study."--Michael O'Donnell, Wall Street Journal In this engaging life of the twentieth century's most self-consciously learned dictator, Geoffrey Roberts explores the books Stalin read, how he read them, and what they taught him. Stalin firmly believed in the transformative potential of words, and his voracious appetite for reading guided him throughout his years. A biography as well as an intellectual portrait, this book explores all aspects of Stalin's tumultuous life and politics. Stalin, an avid reader from an early age, amassed a surprisingly diverse personal collection of thousands of books, many of which he marked and annotated, revealing his intimate thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. Based on his wide-ranging research in Russian archives, Roberts tells the story of the creation, fragmentation, and resurrection of Stalin's personal library. As a true believer in communist ideology, Stalin was a fanatical idealist who hated his enemies--the bourgeoisie, kulaks, capitalists, imperialists, reactionaries, counter-revolutionaries, traitors--but detested their ideas even more.
Stalin's Genocides
Author: Norman M. Naimark
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2010-07-19
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1400836069
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe chilling story of Stalin’s crimes against humanity Between the early 1930s and his death in 1953, Joseph Stalin had more than a million of his own citizens executed. Millions more fell victim to forced labor, deportation, famine, bloody massacres, and detention and interrogation by Stalin's henchmen. Stalin's Genocides is the chilling story of these crimes. The book puts forward the important argument that brutal mass killings under Stalin in the 1930s were indeed acts of genocide and that the Soviet dictator himself was behind them. Norman Naimark, one of our most respected authorities on the Soviet era, challenges the widely held notion that Stalin's crimes do not constitute genocide, which the United Nations defines as the premeditated killing of a group of people because of their race, religion, or inherent national qualities. In this gripping book, Naimark explains how Stalin became a pitiless mass killer. He looks at the most consequential and harrowing episodes of Stalin's systematic destruction of his own populace—the liquidation and repression of the so-called kulaks, the Ukrainian famine, the purge of nationalities, and the Great Terror—and examines them in light of other genocides in history. In addition, Naimark compares Stalin's crimes with those of the most notorious genocidal killer of them all, Adolf Hitler.
