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By Richard Pipes

ISBN-10: 0679736603

ISBN-13: 9780679736608

Mr. Pipes writes trenchantly, and now and then superbly....No unmarried quantity identified to me even starts off to cater so appropriately to people who are looking to become aware of what relatively occurred to Russia....Nor do i do know the other publication larger designed to assist Soviet electorate to fight out of the darkness."

-- Ronald Hingley, the hot York occasions e-book Review

Ground-breaking in its inclusiveness, enchanting in its narrative of a circulate whose objective, within the phrases of Leon Trotsky, used to be "to overthrow the world," The Russian Revolution attracts conclusions that experience already aroused nice controversy during this country-and which are sure to be explosive while the ebook is released within the Soviet Union. Richard Pipes argues convincingly that the Russian Revolution used to be an highbrow, instead of a category, rebellion; that it was once steeped in terror from its very outset; and that it was once no longer a revolution in any respect yet a coup d'etat -- "the trap of governmental energy by way of a small minority."

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By Andrei Tsygankov

ISBN-10: 0230614183

ISBN-13: 9780230614185

The ebook explains why the US-Russia post-9/11 partnership didn't undergo. Washington subsidized clear of its preliminary dedication to a brand new point of cooperation with Moscow in addressing problems with terrorism, power protection, political instability and guns proliferation. a lot of America’s coverage is formed via an ambition to stay the one world’s superpower and by means of actions of curiosity teams with the schedule of separating Russia from the Western global. even supposing those teams don't dictate the authentic coverage, their effect has been remarkable. The e-book analyzes the unfavorable position played by Russophobia and formulates a special method of Russia within the post-Cold battle world. 

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Download Stalinism and Nazism: History and Memory Compared by Henry Rousso, Peter Rogers, Richard J. Golsan, Lucy Golsan, PDF

By Henry Rousso, Peter Rogers, Richard J. Golsan, Lucy Golsan, Thomas Christian Hilde

ISBN-10: 0803239459

ISBN-13: 9780803239456

In this quantity Europe’s prime glossy historians supply new insights into totalitarian regimes of the 20th century that experience profoundly affected international history—Nazi Germany and the Stalinist Soviet Union. earlier historians have paid extra attention to the similarities among those regimes than to their modifications. Stalinism and Nazism explores the tough dating among the heritage and reminiscence of the traumas inflicted via Nazi and Soviet profession in different jap ecu international locations within the 20th century.
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The first a part of the amount explores the origins, nature, and association of Hitler’s and Stalin’s dictatorial energy, the manipulation of violence via the kingdom structures, and the comparative energy of the dictator’s own will and the surrounding totalitarian approach. the second one half examines the legacies of the Nazi and Stalinist regimes in japanese eu international locations that skilled either. Stalinism and Nazism beneficial properties the newest serious views on of the main influential and lethal political regimes in glossy history.

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By Barbara Alpern Engel, Janet Martin

ISBN-10: 0199947872

ISBN-13: 9780199947874

This quantity bargains a full of life advent to Russia's dramatic background and the notable alterations that signify its tale. distinct authors Barbara Alpern Engel and Janet Martin express how Russia's peoples met the consistent demanding situations posed through geography, weather, availability of average assets, and devastating international invasions, and rose to turn into the world's moment greatest land empire. The e-book describes the conditions that ended in the world's first communist society in 1917, and strains the worldwide effects of Russia's lengthy war of words with the us, which happened nearly all over the place and for many years supplied a version for societies looking improvement self reliant of capitalism. This publication additionally brings the tale of Russia's hard and expensive climb to nice energy to a private point in the course of the tales of person girls and men-leading figures who performed pivotal roles in addition to much less famous contributors from a number social backgrounds whose voices light up the human effects of sweeping old switch. As used to be and is correct of Russia itself, this tale contains a large choice of ethnicities, peoples who grew to become a part of the Russian empire and suffered or benefited from its leaders' efforts to meld a multiethnic polity right into a coherent political entity. The ebook examines how Russia served as a conduit for individuals, rules, and commodities flowing among east and west, north and south, and absorbed and tailored affects from either Europe and Asia and the way it got here to play an more and more vital function on a nearby and, eventually, international scale.

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Download Tolstoy: A Russian Life by Rosamund Bartlett PDF

By Rosamund Bartlett

ISBN-10: 0151014388

ISBN-13: 9780151014385

In November 1910, count number Lev Tolstoy died at a distant Russian railway station. on the time of his dying, he was once the main recognized guy in Russia, with a turning out to be overseas following, and extra respected than the tsar. Born into an aristocratic family members, Tolstoy had spent his existence rebelling opposed to not just traditional principles approximately literature and paintings but additionally conventional schooling, kin existence, prepared faith, and the state.

In this, the 1st biography of Tolstoy in additional than two decades, Rosamund Bartlett attracts generally on key Russian resources, together with a lot interesting fabric made to be had because the cave in of the Soviet Union. She sheds gentle on Tolstoy’s impressive trip from callow adolescence to author to prophet; discusses his stricken courting along with his spouse, Sonya; and vividly inspires the Russian landscapes Tolstoy so enjoyed and the turbulent instances during which he lived. chiefly, Bartett supplies us an eloquent portrait of the bright, maddening, and opposite guy who has once more been chanced on through a brand new iteration of readers.

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By Ilya Vinkovetsky

ISBN-10: 0195391284

ISBN-13: 9780195391282

From 1741 till Alaska used to be offered to the U.S. in 1867, the Russian empire claimed territory and peoples in North the US. during this ebook, Ilya Vinkovetsky examines how Russia ruled its in basic terms in a foreign country colony, illustrating how the colony healthy into and diverged from the constructions built within the differently contiguous Russian empire. Russian the US was once successfully reworked from a distant extension of Russia's Siberian frontier penetrated almost always by way of Siberianized Russians into an ostensibly glossy out of the country colony operated via Europeanized Russians. lower than the rule of thumb of the Russian-American corporation, the colony used to be ruled on assorted phrases than the remainder of the empire, a hybrid of components carried over from Siberia and imported from rival colonial platforms. Its financial, hard work, and social association mirrored Russian hopes for Alaska, in addition to the various boundaries, similar to its great territory and pressures from its multiethnic citizens, it imposed. This strategy was once relatively obtrusive in Russian techniques to transform the indigenous peoples of Russian the US into unswerving matters of the Russian Empire. Vinkovetsky appears heavily at Russian efforts to acculturate the local peoples, together with makes an attempt to predispose them to be extra open to the Russian political and cultural effect via alternate and Russian Orthodox Christianity. Bringing jointly the background of Russia, the background of colonialism, and the heritage of touch among local peoples and Europeans at the American frontier, this paintings highlights how the abroad colony printed the Russian Empire's adaptability to types of colonialism.

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Download Gulag Voices: An Anthology by Anne Applebaum, Jane Ann Miller PDF

By Anne Applebaum, Jane Ann Miller

ISBN-10: 0300177836

ISBN-13: 9780300177831

Anne Applebaum wields her massive wisdom of this darkish bankruptcy in heritage and provides a suite of the writings of survivors of the Gulag, the Soviet focus camps. even supposing the outlet of the Soviet records to students has made it attainable to write down the historical past of this infamous focus camp process, files inform just one part of the tale. "Gulag: An Anthology" now fills within the different part. The backgrounds of the writers mirror the intense variety of the Gulag itself. listed here are the non-public tales of figures corresponding to popular literary student Dmitri Likhachev; Anatoly Marchenko, the son of illiterate labourers; and, American citizen Alexander Dolgun. those remembrances - lots of them showing in English for the 1st time, each one selected for either literary and historic price - jointly highlight the unusual ethical universe of the camps, in addition to the relationships that prisoners had with each other, with their guards, and with specialist criminals who lived beside them. a necessary addition to the literature of this period, annotated for a iteration that now not recalls the Soviet Union, "Gulag: An Anthology" will tell, curiosity, and encourage, supplying a resource for mirrored image on human nature itself.

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Download Readings in Russian Civilization: Volume 3, Soviet Russia, by Thomas Riha PDF

By Thomas Riha

ISBN-10: 0226718573

ISBN-13: 9780226718576

"This new and enlarged model of Readings in Russian Civilization is the results of particularly huge revisions. There at the moment are seventy two rather than sixty four goods; 20 of the choices are new. the 1st quantity has passed through the least swap with three new goods, of which 2 seem in English for the 1st time. within the moment quantity there are 6 new goods; them all seem in English for the 1st time. The 3rd quantity has passed through the best revision, with eleven new goods, of which 6 are newly translated from the Russian. it's the editor's wish that goods disregarded within the new version are not sorely neglected, and that the hot decisions will come in handy and illuminating. the purpose, all through, has been to hide parts of data and classes which were overlooked within the first version, and to incorporate themes that are vital within the examine of the Russian previous and current. "The bibliographical headnotes were enlarged, with the outcome that there at the moment are nearly two times as many entries as within the previous version. New citations comprise not just works that have seemed considering the fact that 1963, but in addition older books and articles that have come to the editor's attention."—From the Editor's Preface ". . . a really apt mix of seminal works and more moderen commentaries that achieves the editor's function of stimulating interest and constructing some extent of view."—C. Bickford O'Brien, The Russian assessment "These 3 volumes hide relatively good the most sessions of Russian civilization. the alternative of the articles and different fabric is made via a reliable and independent scholar."—Ivan A. Lopatin, Professor of Asian and Slavic reviews, college of Southern California

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By Simon Sebag Montefiore

ISBN-10: 0062291904

ISBN-13: 9780062291905

Encouraged by way of a real tale, prize-winning historian and acclaimed novelist Simon Sebag Montefiore explores the results of forbidden love during this heartbreaking epic of marriage, formative years, threat, and betrayal that unfolds in Stalin's Moscow through the bleak days after global battle II.

As Moscow celebrates the motherland's excellent victory over the Nazis, photographs ring out at the crowded streets. On a close-by bridge, a teenage boy and girl—dressed in conventional nineteenth-century costumes—lie lifeless. yet this is often no traditional tragedy, simply because those are not any traditional childrens. because the son and daughter of high-ranking Soviet officers, they attend the main elite university in Moscow. used to be it an twist of fate, or homicide? Is it a conspiracy opposed to Stalin, or one in all his personal terrifying intrigues?

On Stalin's directions, a ruthless research starts off into what turns into often called the Children's Case. adolescence around the urban are arrested and compelled to testify opposed to their pals and their mom and dad. As households are ripped aside, every kind of secrets and techniques come spilling out. Trapped on the middle of this witch-hunt are pairs of illicit fans, who examine that concerns of the guts detailed a poor rate. by means of turns a darkly refined political mystery, a wealthy old saga, and a deeply human love tale, Montefiore's masterful novel powerfully portrays the fear and drama of Stalin's Russia.

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By Robert Van Voren

ISBN-10: 9042030461

ISBN-13: 9789042030466

ISBN-10: 904203047X

ISBN-13: 9789042030473

For two decades Soviet psychiatric abuse ruled the time table of the area Psychiatric organization. It ended simply after the Soviet international Ministry intervened. Cold warfare in Psychiatry tells the complete tale for the 1st time and from inside of, between others on foundation of in depth studies by way of Stasi and KGB - who have been the key actors, what have been the hidden elements? in response to a wealth of latest facts and documentation in addition to interviews with some of the major actors, together with prime Western psychiatrists, Soviet dissidents and Soviet and East German key figures, the ebook describes the problem in all its complexity and places it in a broader context. within the booklet contrary facets locate universal flooring and a standard figuring out of what really occurred

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