Download or read book Stalin and the Lubianka written by David R. Shearer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating documentary history is the first English-language exploration of Joseph Stalin's relationship with, and manipulation of, the Soviet political police. The story follows the changing functions, organization, and fortunes of the political police and security organs from the early 1920s until Stalin’s death in 1953, and it provides documented detail about how Stalin used these organs to achieve and maintain undisputed power. Although written as a narrative, it includes translations of more than 170 documents from Soviet archives.
Download or read book In Lubianka s Shadow written by Leopold Braun and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Lubianka's Shadow chronicles the life of a Catholic priest, Father Léopold Braun, who was a pastor near the Lubianka political prison in the heart of Moscow, witnessed Stalin's purges and the Soviet government's campaign against organized religion
Download or read book The Secret File of Joseph Stalin written by Roman Brackman and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of Stalin's life begins with his early years, the family breakup caused by the suspicion that the boy was the result of an adulterous affair, the abuse by his father and the growth of the traumatized boy into criminal, spy, and finally one of the 20th century's political monsters.
Download or read book Stalin s World written by Sarah Davies and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on declassified material from Stalin’s personal archive, this is the first systematic attempt to analyze how Stalin saw his world—both the Soviet system he was trying to build and its wider international context. Stalin rarely left his offices and viewed the world largely through the prism of verbal and written reports, meetings, articles, letters, and books. Analyzing these materials, Sarah Davies and James Harris provide a new understanding of Stalin’s thought process and leadership style and explore not only his perceptions and misperceptions of the world but the consequences of these perceptions and misperceptions.
Download or read book The Anatomy of Terror written by James Harris and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An edited volume which brings together the work of the leading historians on the subject of Stalin's Terror in the 1930s, underpinning new, innovative approaches and opening new perspectives in the field.
Download or read book Stalin s Master Narrative written by David Brandenberger and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 759 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical edition of the text that defined communist party ideology in Stalin's Soviet Union The Short Course on the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) defined Stalinist ideology both at home and abroad. It was quite literally the the master narrative of the USSR--a hegemonic statement on history, politics, and Marxism-Leninism that scripted Soviet society for a generation. This study exposes the enormous role that Stalin played in the development of this all-important text, as well as the unparalleled influence that he wielded over the Soviet historical imagination.
Download or read book Stalin and the Shaping of the Soviet Union written by Alex De Jonge and published by Fontana Press. This book was released on 1987-01 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agents of Terror written by Alexander Vatlin and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During Stalin's Great Terror, more than a million Soviet citizens were arrested or killed for political crimes they did not commit. Who carried out these purges, and what motivated them? Alexander Vatlin opens up the world of the Soviet perpetrators using detailed evidence from one Moscow suburb. Spurred by ambition or fear, local secret police rushed to fulfill quotas for arresting "enemies of the people"-even when it meant fabricating evidence. Vatlin confronts head-on issues of historical agency and moral responsibility in Stalin-era crimes.
Download or read book Moscow 1937 written by Karl Schlögel and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-01-08 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moscow, 1937: the soviet metropolis at the zenith of Stalin’s dictatorship. A society utterly wrecked by a hurricane of violence. In this compelling book, the renowned historian Karl Schlögel reconstructs with meticulous care the process through which, month by month, the terrorism of a state-of-emergency regime spiraled into the ‘Great Terror’ during which 1 1⁄2 million human beings lost their lives within a single year. He revisits the sites of show trials and executions and, by also consulting numerous sources from the time, he provides a masterful panorama of these key events in Russian history. He shows how, in the shadow of the reign of terror, the regime around Stalin also aimed to construct a new society. Based on countless documents, Schlögel’s historical masterpiece vividly presents an age in which the boundaries separating the dream and the terror dissolve, and enables us to experience the fear that was felt by people subjected to totalitarian rule. This rich and absorbing account of the Soviet purges will be essential reading for all students of Russia and for any readers interested in one of the most dramatic and disturbing events of modern history.
Download or read book Stalin and the Soviet Union written by Josh Brooman and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1988 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trotsky - Collectives & Kulaks - Five year plans - Labour camps - Purges - Show trials.
Download or read book Stalin and His Hangmen written by Donald Rayfield and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has a strong historical and political orientation but its main focus is the psychological chain that connected Stalin with those men he chose as executioners, in both the narrow and broad sense of the world. His successful manipulations depended on an attraction to figures like himself to laconic and ruthless controllers. To understand Stalin, the reader must understand the background of his life - abused child, trainee priest, resentful victim of imperial power, bandit and puppet master.
Download or read book The Inner Circle written by Andreĭ Mikhalkov-Konchalovskiĭ and published by William Morrow Paperbacks. This book was released on 1991-12 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official movie tie-in to the Columbia Pictures film, The Inner circle; includes the story of Alexander Ganshin, Stalin's personal projectionist. Includes bibliographical references (p. 145) and index.
Download or read book The Death of Stalin written by Georges Bortoli and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1975 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An 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.
Download or read book Russia Under Stalin written by Michael Gibson and published by Gower Publishing Company, Limited. This book was released on 1972 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An American Engineer in Stalin s Russia written by Zara Witkin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1932 Zara Witkin, a prominent American engineer, set off for the Soviet Union with two goals: to help build a society more just and rational than the bankrupt capitalist system at home, and to seek out the beautiful film star Emma Tsesarskaia. His memoirs offer a detailed view of Stalin's bureaucracy—entrenched planners who snubbed new methods; construction bosses whose cover-ups led to terrible disasters; engineers who plagiarized Witkin's work; workers whose pride was defeated. Punctuating this document is the tale of Witkin's passion for Tsesarskaia and the record of his friendships with journalist Eugene Lyons, planner Ernst May, and others. Witkin felt beaten in the end by the lethargy and corruption choking the greatest social experiment in history, and by a pervasive evil—the suppression of human rights and dignity by a relentless dictatorship. Finally breaking his spirit was the dissolution of his romance with Emma, his "Dark Goddess." In his lively introduction, Michael Gelb provides the historical context of Witkin's experience, details of his personal life, and insights offered by Emma Tsesarskaia in an interview in 1989.
Download or read book I was Stalin s Agent written by Walter G. Krivitsky and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stalin and His Hangmen written by Donald Rayfield and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-03-31 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stalin, like Hitler and other tyrants, won and held power because he had collaborators - hangmen. Drawing on newly released archival material, Donald Rayfield gives us a fuller and more colourful picture of Stalin's inner circle than ever before. Stalin was not the sole author of Stalinism. What motivated his chiefs of police, Feliks Dzierzynski, Viacheslav Manzhinsky, Genrikh Iagoda, Nikolai Ezhov and Lavrenti Beria? What did they want? What were their relations with the regime and its ruler? How did their upbringing and experience mould them? And how does the terror they create connect with the terror they felt? Stalin and His Hangmen reconstructs the psychological mechanism of a whole regime and what it held together. The extent of the misery caused by Stalin and his Hangmen can be compared in Europe only to that brought about by Hitler and his henchmen. But Stalin's heritage is, if possible, even worse than Hitler's. His rule enslaved three generations, not one, the horror of what he did has not yet been fully understood and his countrymen have not yet found the strenth to disavow him. All the more important, then, that this diabolical tale should be told.
