Download or read book In the Soviet Union Without Toilet Paper written by Roman Vladimir Skulski and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Soviet Union Without Toilet Paper written by Roman Vladimir Skulski and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE REAL LIFE STORY OF A RED ARMY SOLDIER At the age of 20, Roman is conscripted into the Russian Red Army. He is trained as a soldier in tank and mortar battalions, marched 500 kilometres towards Stalingrad in one of Russia's coldest recorded winters, and then endures hard labour on the frozen steppe. He escapes, travelling thousands of miles across the Kara Kum desert to join General Anders' newly formed Polish Army. These memoirs relate, sometimes with unexpected humour, a young man's wartime experiences. The soldiers stay in cossack villages, in peasant huts, and in a lepers' village. He is challenged to avoid the Russian authorities as he escapes the work camp with a faded 6" map, a bag of onions and three companions. Journey in and out of the Soviet Union with this first-hand account of ordinary lives in extraordinary times.
Download or read book In the Soviet Union Without Toilet Paper written by Roman Vladimir Skulski and published by Stone Age Books. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that Poland was divided in half like a piece of cake between Germany and Russia in the very first two weeks of WWII? That Poland was always on the side of the allies, but Russia, in agreement with Germany, didn't join the allies until two years into the war? What do you think this meant for Poland as a nation, having to struggle against (underground and abroad) both German Nazis and, until 1941, the Soviet Communists? The end result, as you probably know, was that the Poles - having fought bravely on multiple fronts in Europe and the Middle East - lost their country to Communist rule and an Iron Curtain descended for decades, leaving generations of survivors divided from their homes and loved ones. Learn more by reading about the odyssey of a young schoolteacher conscripted from Poland into the Russian Red Army. These memoirs include the author's wartime diaries. Follow worldwide history as you follow a soldier's footsteps from a small village in the Carpathian Mountains through Georgia, the Siberian steppe, Uzbekistan, Khazakstan, Iran, Africa, Scotland, England and Canada. By the end of the book you will have a clear understanding of why, after the war, many Poles felt it impossible to return to a Soviet-run Poland. You will gain information on life in the Red army, peasant villages and hard labour as well as pilot training and civilian life in Britain following the war. Apart from pronouncing the names of foreign cities, this is a quick and easy-to-read book written in plain language with limited historical references. It follows a period of five years on an almost daily basis. Originally published for family and friends, it is suitable for both adults and teens. BOOK DESCRIPTION: With his earlier two books here combined into one, Roman's memoirs describe a young schoolteacher's impressions after he is conscripted from a small Polish village into the Russian Red Army. He encounters army training, a lepers' village, peasant life, hard labour, and marching to Stalingrad before making his escape with three companions, a 6" map and a bag of onions. His odyssey is a journey of thousands of miles from the Caucasus and Siberian steppe to the Kara Kum Desert, across the Caspian Sea, through Iran and Iraq, and around Africa by ship to his Royal Air Force (PAF) training in both Britain and Canada. These memoirs describe the outcome of a young man whom history plucked from his intended path and blew far, far off course.
Download or read book Prison Conditions in the Soviet Union written by Helsinki Watch (Organization : U.S.) and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1991 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Daily Life in the Soviet Union written by Katherine Eaton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-08-30 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details what ordinary life was like during the extraordinary years of the reign of Soviet Union. Thirty-six illustrations, thematic chapters, a glossary, timeline, annotated multimedia bibliography, and detailed index make it a sound starting point for looking at this powerful nation's immediate past. What was ordinary life like in the Soviet police state? The phrase daily life implies an orderly routine in a stable environment. However, many millions of Soviet citizens experienced repeated upheavals in their everyday lives. Soviet citizens were forced to endure revolution, civil war, two World Wars, forced collectivization, famine, massive deportations, mass terror campaigns perpetrated against them by their own leaders, and chronic material deprivations. Even the perpetrators often became victims. Many millions, of all ages, nationalities, and walks of life, did not survive these experiences. At the same time, millions managed to live tranquilly, work in factories, farm the fields, serve in the military, and even find joy in their existence. Structured topically, this volume begins with an historical introduction to the Soviet period (1917-1991) and a timeline. Chapters that follow are devoted to such core topics as: government and law, the economy, the military, rural life, education, health care, housing, ethnic groups, religion, the media, leisure, popular culture, and the arts. The volume also has two maps, including a map of ethnic groups and languages, and over thirty photographs of people going about their lives in good times and bad. A glossary, a list of student-friendly books and multimedia sources for classroom and/or individual use, and an index round out the work, making it a valuable resource for high school as well as undergraduate courses on modern Russian and Soviet history. Copious chapter endnotes provide numerous starting points for students and teachers who want to delve more deeply.
Download or read book Inside the Soviet Union Without a Passport written by Johann Urwich-Ferry and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quality Of Life In The Soviet Union written by Horst Herlemann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Quality of life" is a difficult concept to define, and particularly so when referring to the Soviet Union because Westerners have many preconceptions about Soviet living conditions. This volume goes a long way toward illuminating the realities of daily Soviet life and stands as an important contribution to our understanding of the Soviet Union. Contributors focus primarily on the relation of quality of life to living conditions but also discuss the quality and availability of state-provided services such as education, health care, and housing. Of special interest is their coverage of problems in Soviet society, including working conditions in factories, living conditions in rural areas, alcohol abuse, and the status of the elderly. Together these essays show that although the Soviet government has made great strides in improving the living conditions of its citizens, Soviet living standards and services are relatively poor by Western standards and several important social problems continue to burden the Soviet people.
Download or read book Shelltown and the Hind Site without special title written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book CIA s Analysis of the Soviet Union 1947 1991 written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book CIA s Analysis of the Soviet Union 1947 1991 written by United States. Central Intelligence Agency and published by Central Intelligence Agency. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides key documents used to analyze and explain the intentions and capability of the Soviet Union to US policymakers.
Download or read book Age of Delirium written by David Satter and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first state in history to be based explicitly on atheism, the Soviet Union endowed itself with the attributes of God. In this book, David Satter shows through individual stories what it meant to construct an entire state on the basis of a false idea, how people were forced to act out this fictitious reality, and the tragic human cost of the Soviet attempt to remake reality by force. “I had almost given up hope that any American could depict the true face of Russia and Soviet rule. In David Satter’s Age of Delirium, the world has received a chronicle of the calvary of the Russian people under communism that will last for generations.†?—Vladimir Voinovich, author of The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin “Spellbinding. . . . Gives one a visceral feel for what it was like to be trapped by the communist system.†?—Jack Matlock, Washington Post “Satter deserves our gratitude. . . . He is an astute observer of people, with an eye for essential detail and for human behavior in a universe wholly different from his own experience in America.†?—Walter Laqueur, Wall Street Journal “Every page of this splendid and eloquent and impassioned book reflects an extraordinarily acute understanding of the Soviet system.†?—Jacob Heilbrunn, Washington Times
Download or read book How Not to Network a Nation written by Benjamin Peters and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-03-25 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How, despite thirty years of effort, Soviet attempts to build a national computer network were undone by socialists who seemed to behave like capitalists. Between 1959 and 1989, Soviet scientists and officials made numerous attempts to network their nation—to construct a nationwide computer network. None of these attempts succeeded, and the enterprise had been abandoned by the time the Soviet Union fell apart. Meanwhile, ARPANET, the American precursor to the Internet, went online in 1969. Why did the Soviet network, with top-level scientists and patriotic incentives, fail while the American network succeeded? In How Not to Network a Nation, Benjamin Peters reverses the usual cold war dualities and argues that the American ARPANET took shape thanks to well-managed state subsidies and collaborative research environments and the Soviet network projects stumbled because of unregulated competition among self-interested institutions, bureaucrats, and others. The capitalists behaved like socialists while the socialists behaved like capitalists. After examining the midcentury rise of cybernetics, the science of self-governing systems, and the emergence in the Soviet Union of economic cybernetics, Peters complicates this uneasy role reversal while chronicling the various Soviet attempts to build a “unified information network.” Drawing on previously unknown archival and historical materials, he focuses on the final, and most ambitious of these projects, the All-State Automated System of Management (OGAS), and its principal promoter, Viktor M. Glushkov. Peters describes the rise and fall of OGAS—its theoretical and practical reach, its vision of a national economy managed by network, the bureaucratic obstacles it encountered, and the institutional stalemate that killed it. Finally, he considers the implications of the Soviet experience for today's networked world.
Download or read book Soviet Baby Boomers written by Donald J. Raleigh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soviet Baby Boomers traces the collapse of the Soviet Union and the transformation of Russia into a modern, highly literate, urban society through the life stories of the country's first post-World War II, Cold War generation.
Download or read book Two Years in a Gulag written by Frank Pleszak and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of a Polish peasant exiled to the harsh Gulags of north-eastern Siberia during the Second World War
Download or read book Soviet Women Everyday Lives written by Melanie Ilic and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on an extensive reading of a broad range of women’s accounts of their lives in the Soviet Union, this book focuses on many hidden aspects of Soviet women’s everyday lives, thereby revealing a great deal about how the Soviet Union operated on a day-to-day basis and about the place of the individual within it. Including testimony from both celebrated literary and cultural figures and from many ordinary people, and from both enthusiastic supporters of the regime and dissidents, the book considers women’s daily routines, attitudes and behaviours. It highlights some of the hidden inequalities of an ostensibly egalitarian society, and considers many wider questions, including how extensive was the ‘reach’ of the Soviet regime; how ‘modern’ was it; how far were there continuities after 1917 between the new Bolshevik regime and Russia’s imperial past; and how homogenous and how mobile was Soviet society?
Download or read book The Socialist Temptation written by Iain Murray and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IT'S BACK! Just thirty years ago, socialism seemed utterly discredited. An economic, moral, and political failure, socialism had rightly been thrown on the ash heap of history after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Unfortunately, bad ideas never truly go away—and socialism has come back with a vengeance. A generation of young people who don’t remember the misery that socialism inflicted on Russia and Eastern Europe is embracing it all over again. Oblivious to the unexampled prosperity capitalism has showered upon them, they are demanding utopia. In his provocative new book, The Socialist Temptation, Iain Murray of the Competitive Enterprise Institute explains: Why the socialist temptation is suddenly so powerful among young people That even when socialism doesn’t usher in a bloody tyranny (as, for example, in the Soviet Union, China, and Venezuela), it still makes everyone poor and miserable Why under the relatively benign democractic socialism of Murray's youth in pre-Thatcher Britain, he had to do his homework by candlelight That the Scandinavian economies are not really socialist at all The inconsistencies in socialist thought that prevent it from ever working in practice How we can show young people the sorry truth about socialism and turn the tide of history against this destructive pipe dream Sprightly, convincing, and original, The Socialist Temptation is a powerful warning that the resurgence of socialism could rob us of our freedom and prosperity.
Download or read book Talking to Rudolf Hess written by Desmond Zwar and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2010-12-26 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rudolf Hess was Adolf Hitler’s Deputy Führer until, in 1941, he flew to Scotland, ostensibly to negotiate peace between Germany and Britain. Captured by the British, he was held for the rest of the war, before being convicted of war crimes at the Nuremberg Trials in 1946.Desmond Zwar collaborated with Col. Burton C. Andrus, who was Commandant of Nuremberg Prison during the Trials, for his book The Infamous of Nuremberg, and with Col. Eugene K. Bird, US Governor of Spandau Prison (where Hess was held for over forty years), for The Loneliest Man in the World. For reasons of practicality, neither of these books told the full story, which is now revealed for the first time in Talking to Rudolf Hess.As well as his interviews with Hess and others, Zwar tells the incredible story of how this book came to be written, including how Hess hid proofs in his underpants, how Bird was sacked and how the CIA tried to recover the transcripts.
