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Book In Search of Recognition  the First Decade of the Soviet State

Download or read book In Search of Recognition the First Decade of the Soviet State written by R. H. Haigh and published by Perpetuity Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Abstracts of Completed Doctoral Dissertations for the Academic Year

Download or read book Abstracts of Completed Doctoral Dissertations for the Academic Year written by United States. Department of State. Office of Intelligence Research and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Thank You  Comrade Stalin

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  • Author : Jeffrey Brooks
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2021-04-13
  • ISBN : 1400843928
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Thank You Comrade Stalin written by Jeffrey Brooks and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thank you, our Stalin, for a happy childhood." "Thank you, dear Marshal [Stalin], for our freedom, for our children's happiness, for life." Between the Russian Revolution and the Cold War, Soviet public culture was so dominated by the power of the state that slogans like these appeared routinely in newspapers, on posters, and in government proclamations. In this penetrating historical study, Jeffrey Brooks draws on years of research into the most influential and widely circulated Russian newspapers--including Pravda, Isvestiia, and the army paper Red Star--to explain the origins, the nature, and the effects of this unrelenting idealization of the state, the Communist Party, and the leader. Brooks shows how, beginning with Lenin, the Communists established a state monopoly of the media that absorbed literature, art, and science into a stylized and ritualistic public culture--a form of political performance that became its own reality and excluded other forms of public reflection. He presents and explains scores of self-congratulatory newspaper articles, including tales of Stalin's supposed achievements and virtue, accounts of the country's allegedly dynamic economy, and warnings about the decadence and cruelty of the capitalist West. Brooks pays particular attention to the role of the press in the reconstruction of the Soviet cultural system to meet the Nazi threat during World War II and in the transformation of national identity from its early revolutionary internationalism to the ideology of the Cold War. He concludes that the country's one-sided public discourse and the pervasive idea that citizens owed the leader gratitude for the "gifts" of goods and services led ultimately to the inability of late Soviet Communism to diagnose its own ills, prepare alternative policies, and adjust to new realities. The first historical work to explore the close relationship between language and the implementation of the Stalinist-Leninist program, Thank You, Comrade Stalin! is a compelling account of Soviet public culture as reflected through the country's press.

Book Russian and East European Books and Manuscripts in the United States

Download or read book Russian and East European Books and Manuscripts in the United States written by Tanya Chebotarev and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gain a better understanding of the past and cultures of Slavic and East European peoples with American archival collections! Russian and East European Books and Manuscripts in the United States, the first collection of its kind, offers perspectives from leading Slavic librarians, archivists and historians on the cultural history of Russian and East European exiles and immigrants to North America in the twentieth century. Editor Tanya Chebotarev—curator of the Bahkmeteff Archive at Columbia University—and a group of leading authorities document the concerted effort to preserve Russian and East European written culture outside the bounds of Communist power. This book is a vital addition to the collections of archivists, librarians, historians, and graduate students in Russian studies and American immigrations. Russian and East European Books and Manuscripts in the United States explores the role of Russian émigrés, librarians, and scholars in the United States in providing a haven for archival collections of Russian literature, art, and historical manuscripts at the height of panic during the Cold War. This essential resource celebrates the efforts made by archivists and librarians in collecting émigré materials. This book addresses many important related topics, such as: an introduction to the life and work of Boris Aleksandrovich Bakhmeteff—financial contributor to the Archive and the last Russian ambassador to the United States before the Bolsheviks’ seizure of power the Eurasianist movement—its roles and views on science, culture, and empire reflections of Russian émigrés on Soviet nationality policies during the 1920s and 1930s American collections on immigrants from the Russian Empire the New York Public Library—its role in collecting and describing vernacular Slavic and East European language and history materials to a diverse readership Columbia University Libraries’ Slavic and East European Collections—a historical overview of these extraordinarily rich collections of materials from or about the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the countries and people of Eastern Europe the Hoover Institution’s Polish émigré collections and the Polish state archives Russian archives online—present status and future prospects This book also details recent efforts to “repatriate” archival collections and libraries abroad and return them to their countries of origin. Disagreements between countries are already emerging, and Russian and East European Books and Manuscripts in the United States discusses their implications and the future of America’s Slavic archives.

Book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States

Download or read book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States written by United States. President and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President", 1956-1992.

Book The House of Government

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  • Author : Yuri Slezkine
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2017-08-07
  • ISBN : 1400888174
  • Pages : 1128 pages

Download or read book The House of Government written by Yuri Slezkine and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Grossman’s Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, Yuri Slezkine’s gripping narrative tells the true story of the residents of an enormous Moscow apartment building where top Communist officials and their families lived before they were destroyed in Stalin’s purges. A vivid account of the personal and public lives of Bolshevik true believers, the book begins with their conversion to Communism and ends with their children’s loss of faith and the fall of the Soviet Union. Completed in 1931, the House of Government, later known as the House on the Embankment, was located across the Moscow River from the Kremlin. The largest residential building in Europe, it combined 505 furnished apartments with public spaces that included everything from a movie theater and a library to a tennis court and a shooting range. Slezkine tells the chilling story of how the building’s residents lived in their apartments and ruled the Soviet state until some eight hundred of them were evicted from the House and led, one by one, to prison or their deaths. Drawing on letters, diaries, and interviews, and featuring hundreds of rare photographs, The House of Government weaves together biography, literary criticism, architectural history, and fascinating new theories of revolutions, millennial prophecies, and reigns of terror. The result is an unforgettable human saga of a building that, like the Soviet Union itself, became a haunted house, forever disturbed by the ghosts of the disappeared.

Book Recognition

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  • Author : Axel Honneth
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2020-10-22
  • ISBN : 1108836860
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book Recognition written by Axel Honneth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the complex history, development and multiple associations of 'Recognition' as a central political idea in Britain, France and Germany.

Book Taboo Genocide

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  • Author : Kris Dietrich
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2015-09-11
  • ISBN : 1499056079
  • Pages : 989 pages

Download or read book Taboo Genocide written by Kris Dietrich and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page 989 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of war and peace. It may have been the greatest crime of the century after the Bolshevik coup and Russian Revolution and the murder of the Russian Romanov Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra and their five young children: four Grand Duchesses Olga, Anastasia, Tatiana, Marie and the Tsarevich, Alexis. It is our story. And I want to share it with you now because it is your story too.

Book Stalin   s Gamble

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  • Author : Michael Jabara Carley
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2023-07-26
  • ISBN : 1487545916
  • Pages : 564 pages

Download or read book Stalin s Gamble written by Michael Jabara Carley and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2023-07-26 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shedding light on the origins of the Second World War in Europe, Stalin’s Gamble aims to create a historical narrative of the relations of the USSR with Britain, France, the United States, Poland, Germany, Italy, Czechoslovakia, and Romania during the 1930s. The book explores the Soviet Union’s efforts to organize a defensive alliance against Nazi Germany, in effect rebuilding the anti-German Entente of the First World War. Drawing on extensive research in Soviet as well as Western archives, Michael Jabara Carley offers an in-depth account of the diplomatic manoeuvrings which surrounded the rise of Hitler and Soviet efforts to construct an alliance against future German aggression. Paying close attention to the beliefs and interactions of senior politicians and diplomats, the book seeks to replace one-sided Western histories with records from both sides. The book also offers an inside look at Soviet foreign policy making, with a focus on Stalin as a foreign policy maker as well as nd his interactions with his colleagues. Told in a fascinating narrative style, Stalin’s Gamble attempts to see the European crisis of the 1930s through Soviet eyes.

Book International Relations  5th Edition

Download or read book International Relations 5th Edition written by V.N. Khanna and published by Vikas Publishing House. This book was released on with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth edition of International Relations covers the subject from the historical perspective—from the eve of the First World War to the end of the Cold War and beyond. This book is divided into two sections—the first deals with the theoretical perspectives, while the second provides an historical overview of events. These include the two World Wars, problems faced in peace-making, system of alliances, search for security, Nazism and Fascism, rise of communism, the arms race and disarmament, the Cold War and its end, Non-Aligned Movement, and the emergence of regional organizations. The book is a useful resource for teachers and students of history and political science, those appearing for civil services examinations, as well as those interested in international relations. KEY FEATURES • Thoroughly revised and updated to cover the latest developments • Enlarged to cover theoretical aspects— realism, neo-realism, liberalism and neo-liberalism, dependency, and feminist approaches • Covers recent historical developments such as the Gulf War and the new international economic order

Book Policy and Direction  the First Year

Download or read book Policy and Direction the First Year written by James F. Schnabel and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Parameters

Download or read book Parameters written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States  Richard M  Nixon  1970

Download or read book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States Richard M Nixon 1970 written by Nixon, Richard M. and published by Best Books on. This book was released on 1971-01-01 with total page 1362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States

Book Setting the Course  the First Year

Download or read book Setting the Course the First Year written by Richard Milhous Nixon and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first year of the Nixon Administration there have been many such moments of beginning. Moments that set new policies, new programs to solve the problems of a troubled nation. All of these are mirrored in Setting the Course - a collection of the major speeches and messages that marked President Nixon's first twelve months in office. Speeches that define the philosophy and plans of the Administration, messages that reveal what direction the government - and the nation - will take in the years ahead. The words are important historically. But they are much more than that: they disclose a broad and inclusive view of the forces that motivate this Administration, and the goals that give it direction. -- from back cover.

Book Historical Dictionary of Chinese Foreign Affairs

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Chinese Foreign Affairs written by Lawrence R. Sullivan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an act of totally unnecessary and wanton destruction, British forces in China during the Second Opium War (1856-1860) looted and destroyed much of the Old Imperial Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan) including three imperial gardens and hundreds of halls, pavilions, and temples stock full of ancient artwork, antiquities, and literary works. More than a hundred years later, President Xi Jinping (2013- ) of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) proclaimed the “rejuvenation” of the Chinese nation with the economic and especially military power to prevent any such recurrence of “national humiliation.” Though not yet a superpower equal in global stature to the United States, the PRC is undoubtedly poised to become the equal if not the superior power in the Asia-Pacific region expanding its territorial claims in the South China Sea and asserting undisputed economic dominance. With government, business, and academic leaders debating how regional and global powers should respond to a rising China. Historical Dictionary of Chinese Foreign Affairs contains a chronology, an introduction, a glossary, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on major events, national institutions, foreign nations, and personages impacting Chinese foreign affairs along with the many institutions of the post-World War II international order that the PRC has engaged especially since the 1970s. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Chinese foreign affairs.

Book Forging Global Fordism

Download or read book Forging Global Fordism written by Stefan J. Link and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new global history of Fordism from the Great Depression to the postwar era As the United States rose to ascendancy in the first decades of the twentieth century, observers abroad associated American economic power most directly with its burgeoning automobile industry. In the 1930s, in a bid to emulate and challenge America, engineers from across the world flocked to Detroit. Chief among them were Nazi and Soviet specialists who sought to study, copy, and sometimes steal the techniques of American automotive mass production, or Fordism. Forging Global Fordism traces how Germany and the Soviet Union embraced Fordism amid widespread economic crisis and ideological turmoil. This incisive book recovers the crucial role of activist states in global industrial transformations and reconceives the global thirties as an era of intense competitive development, providing a new genealogy of the postwar industrial order. Stefan Link uncovers the forgotten origins of Fordism in Midwestern populism, and shows how Henry Ford's antiliberal vision of society appealed to both the Soviet and Nazi regimes. He explores how they positioned themselves as America's antagonists in reaction to growing American hegemony and seismic shifts in the global economy during the interwar years, and shows how Detroit visitors like William Werner, Ferdinand Porsche, and Stepan Dybets helped spread versions of Fordism abroad and mobilize them in total war. Forging Global Fordism challenges the notion that global mass production was a product of post–World War II liberal internationalism, demonstrating how it first began in the global thirties, and how the spread of Fordism had a distinctly illiberal trajectory.

Book Soviet Life

Download or read book Soviet Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1990-10 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: