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Book The First Fifty Years  Soviet Russia  1917 67

Download or read book The First Fifty Years Soviet Russia 1917 67 written by Ian Grey and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fifty Years of Communism

Download or read book Fifty Years of Communism written by Geoffrey Francis Hudson and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fifty Years of Communism in Russia

Download or read book Fifty Years of Communism in Russia written by Milorad M. Drachkovitch and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October of 1967, on the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University sponsored a week-long conference on "Fifty Years of Communism in Russia." In addition to the United States, participants came from Great Britain, Germany, France, and Canada--and the Soviet Embassy in Washington was also concerned enough to send several observers. The papers included in this volume give a well rounded picture of all aspects of the first fifty years of Soviet history: Bertram D. Wolfe, "Marxism and the Russian Revolution"; Leonard Schapiro, "The Basis and Development of the Soviet Polity"; G. Warren Nutter, "The Soviet Economy: Retrospect and Prospect", John N. Hazard, "Rigidity and Adaptability of Soviet Law"; Ivo J. Lederer, "Soviet Foreign Policy"; Jean Laloy, "Proletarian Internationalism", Raymond L. Garthoff, "Military Theory and Practice"; John Turkevich, "Fifty Years of Soviet Science"; Max Hayward, "Themes and Democratic Challenge to Communism."

Book The Soviet Union

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  • Author : Harrison Evans Salisbury
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1967
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 584 pages

Download or read book The Soviet Union written by Harrison Evans Salisbury and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Russia Forty Years On

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  • Author : M. Philips Price
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2021-12-23
  • ISBN : 1000508501
  • Pages : 137 pages

Download or read book Russia Forty Years On written by M. Philips Price and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-23 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1961 Russia Forty Years On presents a comparative overview of Russian history from the Tsarist days to the Stalin Era. Morgan Philips Price looks back on Russia over a period of fifty years - the Tsarist time, the First World War, the October Revolution, and the time of Stalin; and describes his last visit there in the autumn of 1959. Though the book is mainly about Russia there are two chapters at the end about Germany and especially about that part which was under Russian influence. Having seen Russian Communism in its homeland, author compares it with what can be seen of it in Central Europe. This book will be an interesting read for scholars and researchers of Russian history, Communist history, and European history.

Book Fifty Years of World Communism  1917 1967

Download or read book Fifty Years of World Communism 1917 1967 written by George J. Prpic and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fifty Years War

Download or read book The Fifty Years War written by Richard Crockatt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-08 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an authoritative and comprehensive history of the Fifty Years' war and the relationship that dominated world politics in the second half of the twentieth century. For fifty years relations between the United States and the Soviet Union were deciding factors in international affairs. Available for the first time in paperback, Richard Crockatt's acclaimed book is an examination of this relationship in its global context. It breaks new ground in seeking a synthesis of historical narrative and analysis of the global structures within which superpower relations developed. Attention is given to economic as well as political and military factors.

Book Fifty Years of Soviet Communism

Download or read book Fifty Years of Soviet Communism written by Louis Fischer and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fifty Russian Winters

Download or read book Fifty Russian Winters written by Margaret Wettlin and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1994-03-31 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping account of Soviet life as experienced by an American who lived for 50 years on an absolutely equal basis with Russians. Packed with details of everyday life from giving birth in a Soviet hospital to living in a Moscow communal apartment. Forced to give up her American citizenship during Stalin's reign, Wettlin was coerced into becoming an informant for the KGB. She describes what Russia was like during and after World War II, her travels from the Baltic states to Siberia, Outer Mongolia, Leningrad, Uzbekistan and Georgia. Her mesmerizing book offers a background for understanding Soviet events that molded the Russian mind--from revolutionary enthusiasm to a complete repudiation of communism.

Book Black on Red

Download or read book Black on Red written by Robert Robinson and published by Acropolis Books (NY). This book was released on 1988 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Robert Robinson (1907?-1994) was a Jamaican-born toolmaker who worked in the auto industry in the United States. At the age of 23, he was recruited to work in the Soviet Union, where he spent 44 years after the government refused to give him an exit visa for return. Starting with a one-year contract by Russians to work in the Soviet Union, he twice renewed his contract. He became trapped by the German invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II and the government's refusal to give him an exit visa. He earned a degree in mechanical engineering during the war. He finally left the Soviet Union in 1974 on an approved trip to Uganda, where he asked for and was given asylum. He married an African-American professor working there. He finally gained re-entry to the United States in 1976, and gained attention for his accounts of his 44 years in the Soviet Union."--Wikipedia.

Book Bureaucratism Or Workers  Power

Download or read book Bureaucratism Or Workers Power written by Roger Silverman and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Black Book of Communism

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  • Author : Stéphane Courtois
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780674076082
  • Pages : 920 pages

Download or read book The Black Book of Communism written by Stéphane Courtois and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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.

Book The Future Is History

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  • Author : Masha Gessen
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2017-10-03
  • ISBN : 159463453X
  • Pages : 530 pages

Download or read book The Future Is History written by Masha Gessen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE, SEATTLE TIMES, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, NEWSWEEK, PASTE, and POP SUGAR The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. Award-winning journalist Masha Gessen's understanding of the events and forces that have wracked Russia in recent times is unparalleled. In The Future Is History, Gessen follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each of them came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children and grandchildren of the very architects of the new Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their own--as entrepreneurs, activists, thinkers, and writers, sexual and social beings. Gessen charts their paths against the machinations of the regime that would crush them all, and against the war it waged on understanding itself, which ensured the unobstructed reemergence of the old Soviet order in the form of today's terrifying and seemingly unstoppable mafia state. Powerful and urgent, The Future Is History is a cautionary tale for our time and for all time.

Book Armageddon Averted

Download or read book Armageddon Averted written by Stephen Kotkin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring extensive revisions to the text as well as a new introduction and epilogue--bringing the book completely up to date on the tumultuous politics of the previous decade and the long-term implications of the Soviet collapse--this compact, original, and engaging book offers the definitive account of one of the great historical events of the last fifty years. Combining historical and geopolitical analysis with an absorbing narrative, Kotkin draws upon extensive research, including memoirs by dozens of insiders and senior figures, to illuminate the factors that led to the demise of Communism and the USSR. The new edition puts the collapse in the context of the global economic and political changes from the 1970s to the present day. Kotkin creates a compelling profile of post Soviet Russia and he reminds us, with chilling immediacy, of what could not have been predicted--that the world's largest police state, with several million troops, a doomsday arsenal, and an appalling record of violence, would liquidate itself with barely a whimper. Throughout the book, Kotkin also paints vivid portraits of key personalities. Using recently released archive materials, for example, he offers a fascinating picture of Gorbachev, describing this virtuoso tactician and resolutely committed reformer as "flabbergasted by the fact that his socialist renewal was leading to the system's liquidation"--and more or less going along with it. At once authoritative and provocative, Armageddon Averted illuminates the collapse of the Soviet Union, revealing how "principled restraint and scheming self-interest brought a deadly system to meek dissolution." Acclaim for the First Edition: "The clearest picture we have to date of the post-Soviet landscape." --The New Yorker "A triumph of the art of contemporary history. In fewer than 200 pagesKotkin elucidates the implosion of the Soviet empire--the most important and startling series of international events of the past fifty years--and clearly spells out why, thanks almost entirely to the 'principal restraint' of the Soviet leadership, that collapse didn't result in a cataclysmic war, as all experts had long forecasted." -The Atlantic Monthly "Concise and persuasive The mystery, for Kotkin, is not so much why the Soviet Union collapsed as why it did so with so little collateral damage." --The New York Review of Books

Book WORKERS  PARADISE LOST

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  • Author : Eugene Lyons
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1967
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book WORKERS PARADISE LOST written by Eugene Lyons and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Swans of the Kremlin

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  • Author : Christina Ezrahi
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
  • Release : 2012-11-30
  • ISBN : 0822978075
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Swans of the Kremlin written by Christina Ezrahi and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical ballet was perhaps the most visible symbol of aristocratic culture and its isolation from the rest of Russian society under the tsars. In the wake of the October Revolution, ballet, like all of the arts, fell under the auspices of the Soviet authorities. In light of these events, many feared that the imperial ballet troupes would be disbanded. Instead, the Soviets attempted to mold the former imperial ballet to suit their revolutionary cultural agenda and employ it to reeducate the masses. As Christina Ezrahi's groundbreaking study reveals, they were far from successful in this ambitious effort to gain complete control over art. Swans of the Kremlin offers a fascinating glimpse at the collision of art and politics during the volatile first fifty years of the Soviet period. Ezrahi shows how the producers and performers of Russia's two major troupes, the Mariinsky (later Kirov) and the Bolshoi, quietly but effectively resisted Soviet cultural hegemony during this period. Despite all controls put on them, they managed to maintain the classical forms and traditions of their rich artistic past and to further develop their art form. These aesthetic and professional standards proved to be the power behind the ballet's worldwide appeal. The troupes soon became the showpiece of Soviet cultural achievement, as they captivated Western audiences during the Cold War period. Based on her extensive research into official archives, and personal interviews with many of the artists and staff, Ezrahi presents the first-ever account of the inner workings of these famed ballet troupes during the Soviet era. She follows their struggles in the postrevolutionary period, their peak during the golden age of the 1950s and 1960s, and concludes with their monumental productions staged to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the revolution in 1968.

Book World Communism  1964 1969  a Selected Bibliography

Download or read book World Communism 1964 1969 a Selected Bibliography written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: