EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

Book Red Army Legacies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Nolan Armstrong
  • Publisher : Schiffer Military History
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Red Army Legacies written by Richard Nolan Armstrong and published by Schiffer Military History. This book was released on 1995 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven essays show how the Soviet Army used its "Red Army Legacy."

Book Screening the Red Army Faction

Download or read book Screening the Red Army Faction written by Christina Gerhardt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Screening the Red Army Faction: Historical and Cultural Memory explores representations of the Red Army Faction (RAF) in print media, film and art, locating an analysis of these texts in the historical and political context of unfolding events. In this way, the book contributes both a new history and a new cultural history of post-fascist era West Germany that grapples with the fledgling republic's most pivotal debates about the nature of democracy and authority; about violence, its motivations and regulation; and about its cultural afterlife. Looking back at the history of representations of the RAF in various media, this book considers how our understanding of the Cold War era, of the long sixties and of the RAF is created and re-created through cultural texts.

Book Red Army Second World War Experiences

Download or read book Red Army Second World War Experiences written by Queen Jew and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Red Army, Russian Krasnaya Armiya, Soviet army created by the Communist government after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. The name Red Army was abandoned in 1946. This book reveals the Red Army's mastery of operational level deception during World War II which resulted in their ability to hide major regroupings for surprising breakthrough operations that rolled back the German invaders. This revised edition adds insight to the shadow war between German military intelligence collectors and Soviet deceivers and the Red Army's ability to collect lessons learned from their war experience. With a resurgent Russia, there is a renewed interest around the world for the Red Army legacy in deceptive practices. Colonel Armstrong's study illustrates not only the effort needed for success, but also a direct link to operational surprise. "

Book Red Army s World War II Victory

Download or read book Red Army s World War II Victory written by Jeanna Muchow and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Red Army, Russian Krasnaya Armiya, Soviet army created by the Communist government after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. The name Red Army was abandoned in 1946. This book reveals the Red Army's mastery of operational level deception during World War II which resulted in their ability to hide major regroupings for surprising breakthrough operations that rolled back the German invaders. This revised edition adds insight to the shadow war between German military intelligence collectors and Soviet deceivers and the Red Army's ability to collect lessons learned from their war experience. With a resurgent Russia, there is a renewed interest around the world for the Red Army legacy in deceptive practices. Colonel Armstrong's study illustrates not only the effort needed for success, but also a direct link to operational surprise. "

Book Russian civil military relations

Download or read book Russian civil military relations written by and published by Carnegie Endowment. This book was released on with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Soviet Polish War and its Legacy

Download or read book The Soviet Polish War and its Legacy written by Peter Whitewood and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-21 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed study traces the history of the Soviet-Polish War (1919-20), the first major international clash between the forces of communism and anti-communism, and the impact this had on Soviet Russia in the years that followed. It reflects upon how the Bolsheviks fought not only to defend the fledgling Soviet state, but also to bring the revolution to Europe. Peter Whitewood shows that while the Red Army's rapid drive to the gates of Warsaw in summer 1920 raised great hopes for world revolution, the subsequent collapse of the offensive had a more striking result. The Soviet military and political leadership drew the mistaken conclusion that they had not been defeated by the Polish Army, but by the forces of the capitalist world – Britain and France – who were perceived as having directed the war behind-the-scenes. They were taken aback by the strength of the forces of counterrevolution and convinced they had been overcome by the capitalist powers. The Soviet-Polish War and its Legacy reveals that – in the aftermath of the catastrophe at Warsaw –Lenin, Stalin and other senior Bolsheviks were convinced that another war against Poland and its capitalist backers was inevitable with this perpetual fear of war shaping the evolution of the early Soviet state. It also further encouraged the creation of a centralised and repressive one-party state and provided a powerful rationale for the breakneck industrialisation of the Soviet Union at the end of the 1920s. The Soviet leadership's central preoccupation in the 1930s was Nazi Germany; this book convincingly argues that Bolshevik perceptions of Poland and the capitalist world in the decade before were given as much significance and were ultimately crucial to the rise of Stalinism.

Book A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to Its Legacy

Download or read book A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to Its Legacy written by Peter Kenez and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-24 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise yet comprehensive textbook examines political, social, and cultural developments in the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet period. It begins by identifying the social tensions and political inconsistencies that spurred radical change in Russia's government, from the turn of the century to the revolution of 1917. Peter Kenez presents this revolution as a crisis of authority that the creation of the Soviet Union resolved. The text traces the progress of the Soviet Union through the 1920s, the years of the New Economic Policies, and into the Stalinist order. It illustrates how post-Stalin Soviet leaders struggled to find ways to rule the country without using Stalin's methods - but also without openly repudiating the past - and to negotiate a peaceful but antipathetic coexistence with the capitalist West. This updated third edition includes substantial new material, discussing the challenges Russia currently faces in the era of Putin.

Book Contemporary Soviet Military Affairs

Download or read book Contemporary Soviet Military Affairs written by Jonathan R. Adelman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1989, is a comprehensive examination of the profound impact of World War II on Soviet military affairs. It systematically assesses the costs and lessons of the war and their substantial impact on Soviet military and Party leaders in the Cold War era and particularly in the 1980s. Starting with the experiences of the war and its influence on the development of Soviet military thinking, the book addresses the relationship between the military and the Soviet political system, threat perception, decision making, and crisis and risk assessment. Also discussed are the war’s influence on the structure and operations of the military in the 1980s, focusing on doctrine, conventional forces, the defence industry and historiography.

Book Maximilian Voloshin   s Poetic Legacy and the Post Soviet Russian Identity

Download or read book Maximilian Voloshin s Poetic Legacy and the Post Soviet Russian Identity written by M. Landa and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-06-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famed and outspoken Russian poet, Maximilian Voloshin's notoriety has grown steadily since his slow release from Soviet censorship. For the first time, Landa showcases his vast poetic contributions, proving his words to be an overlooked solution both to the political and cultural turmoil engulfing the Soviet Union in the early twentieth century.

Book Culture and Legacy of the Russian Revolution

Download or read book Culture and Legacy of the Russian Revolution written by Christopher Balme and published by Frank & Timme GmbH. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Russian Revolution of October 1917 was an event of global significance. Despite this fact, public attention and even research mostly focused on Russia and the other states that became part of USSR for many decades. The impact of these dramatic events on other parts of the world was neglected or not systematically explored until recently. And in analyzing the events, political history still dominates the field. This volume, which is largely based on papers presented at the third annual conference of the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, adds to this image some valuable perspectives by exploring the culture as well as the political and cultural legacy of the Russian Revolution. Three focal points are taken here: the revolution’s rhetoric and performance, its religious semantics, and its impact on Asia.

Book Bitter Legacy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Zvi Y. Gitelman
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 1997-11-22
  • ISBN : 9780253333599
  • Pages : 358 pages

Download or read book Bitter Legacy written by Zvi Y. Gitelman and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1997-11-22 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how over a million Jewish civilians were murdered by the Nazis and their local collaborators in the Soviet Union. Topics include Soviet Jewry before the Holocaust; the Holocaust of Ukrainian Jews; Jewish refuges from Poland in the USSR, 1939-1946; Jewish warfare and the participation of Jews in combat in the Soviet Union; Jewish-Lithuanian relations during World War II. Among the documents included are Nazi directives, Nazi actions, eyewitness accounts, and accounts of collaboration and resistance, and rescue. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Empire of Friends

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rachel Applebaum
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2019-04-15
  • ISBN : 1501735594
  • Pages : 203 pages

Download or read book Empire of Friends written by Rachel Applebaum and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The familiar story of Soviet power in Cold War Eastern Europe focuses on political repression and military force. But in Empire of Friends, Rachel Applebaum shows how the Soviet Union simultaneously promoted a policy of transnational friendship with its Eastern Bloc satellites to create a cohesive socialist world. This friendship project resulted in a new type of imperial control based on cross-border contacts between ordinary citizens. In a new and fascinating story of cultural diplomacy, interpersonal relations, and the trade of consumer-goods, Applebaum tracks the rise and fall of the friendship project in Czechoslovakia, as the country evolved after World War II from the Soviet Union's most loyal satellite to its most rebellious. Throughout Eastern Europe, the friendship project shaped the most intimate aspects of people's lives, influencing everything from what they wore to where they traveled to whom they married. Applebaum argues that in Czechoslovakia, socialist friendship was surprisingly durable, capable of surviving the ravages of Stalinism and the Soviet invasion that crushed the 1968 Prague Spring. Eventually, the project became so successful that it undermined the very alliance it was designed to support: as Soviets and Czechoslovaks got to know one another, they discovered important cultural and political differences that contradicted propaganda about a cohesive socialist world. Empire of Friends reveals that the sphere of everyday life was central to the construction of the transnational socialist system in Eastern Europe—and, ultimately, its collapse.

Book Hitler s Scandinavian Legacy

Download or read book Hitler s Scandinavian Legacy written by Jill Stephenson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scandinavian [Nordic] countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland experienced the effects of the German invasion in April 1940 in very different ways. Collaboration, resistance, and co-belligerency were only some of the short-term consequences. Each country's historiography has undergone enormous changes in the seventy years since the invasion, and this collection by leading historians examines the immediate effects of Hitler's aggression as well as the long-term legacies for each country's self-image and national identity. The Scandinavian countries' war experience fundamentally changed how each nation functioned in the post-war world by altering political structures, the dynamics of their societies, the inter-relationships between the countries and the popular view of the wartime political and social responses to totalitarian threats. Hitler was no respecter of the rights of the Scandinavian nations but he and his associates dealt surprisingly differently with each of them. In the post-war period, this has caused problems of interpretation for political and cultural historians alike. Drawing on the latest research, this volume will be a welcome addition to the comparative histories of Scandinavia and the Second World War.

Book Russia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward Acton
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2014-09-19
  • ISBN : 1317895886
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book Russia written by Edward Acton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text has established itself as the best general introduction to Russian history, providing a forceful and highly readable survey from earliest times to the post-Soviet State. At the heart of the book is the changing relationship between the State and Russian society at large. The second edition has been substantially rewritten and updated and new material and fresh insights from recently accessible research have been incorporated into every chapter.

Book The Legacy of Alexander Orlov

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book The Legacy of Alexander Orlov written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Legacy of Alexander Orlov

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book The Legacy of Alexander Orlov written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Holocaust Legacy in Post Soviet Lithuania

Download or read book Holocaust Legacy in Post Soviet Lithuania written by Shivaun Woolfson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once regarded as a vibrant centre of intellectual, cultural and spiritual Jewish life, Lithuania was home to 240,000 Jews prior to the Nazi invasion of 1941. By war's end, less than 20,000 remained. Today, approximately 4,000 Jews reside there, among them 108 survivors from the camps and ghettos and a further 70 from the Partisans and Red Army. Against a backdrop of ongoing Holocaust dismissal and a recent surge in anti-Semitic sentiment, Holocaust Legacy in Post-Soviet Lithuania presents the history and experiences of a group of elderly Holocaust survivors in modern-day Vilnius. Using their stories and memories, their places of significance as well as biographical objects, Shivaun Woolfson considers the complexities surrounding Holocaust memory and legacy in a post-Soviet era Lithuania. The book also incorporates interdisciplinary elements of anthropology, psychology and ethnography, and is informed at its heart by a spiritual approach that marks it out from other more conventional historical treatments of the subject. Holocaust Legacy in Post-Soviet Lithuania includes 20 images, comes with comprehensive online resources and weaves together story, artefact, monument and landscape to provide a multidimensional history of the Lithuanian Jewish experience during and after the Holocaust.