Khrushchev Lied

Khrushchev Lied
Author: Grover Furr
Publisher: Erythros Press & Media
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2011
Genre: Soviet Union
ISBN: 9780615441054

Khrushchev Lied: The Evidence That Every “Revelation” of Stalin’s (and Beria’s) “Crimes” in Nikita Khrushchev’s Infamous “Secret Speech” to the 20th Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on February 25, 1956, is Provably False / Grover C. Furr; translations by Grover C. Furr

Moscow, December 25, 1991

Moscow, December 25, 1991
Author: Conor O'Clery
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2011-08-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1610390121

The implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had different concepts for the future. Mikhail Gorbachev, a sophisticated and urbane reformer, sought to modernize and preserve the USSR; Boris Yeltsin, a coarse and a hard drinking "bulldozer," wished to destroy the union and create a capitalist Russia. The defeat of the August 1991 coup attempt, carried out by hardline communists, shook Gorbachev's authority and was a triumph for Yeltsin. But it took four months of intrigue and double-dealing before the Soviet Union collapsed and the day arrived when Yeltsin could hustle Gorbachev out of the Kremlin, and move in as ruler of Russia. Conor O'Clery has written a unique and truly suspenseful thriller of the day the Soviet Union died. The internal power plays, the shifting alliances, the betrayals, the mysterious three colonels carrying the briefcase with the nuclear codes, and the jockeying to exploit the future are worthy of John Le Carr' or Alan Furst. The Cold War's last act was a magnificent dark drama played out in the shadows of the Kremlin.

Documents and Resolutions

Documents and Resolutions
Author: Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soi︠u︡za. Sʺezd
Publisher:
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1981
Genre: Communism
ISBN:

Resolutions and Decisions of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Volume 4

Resolutions and Decisions of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Volume 4
Author: Grey Hodnett
Publisher:
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1974-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781487591724

"4.32 On the Report of the Central Committee" -- "4.33 Programme of the CPSU" -- "4.34 Rules of the CPSU" -- "4.35 On the Mausoleum of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" -- "1962" -- "4.36 On the Creation in City and Raion Party Committees of Non-Staff Party Commissions for the Preliminary Examination of Questions of Admission to the Party and the Personal Affairs of Communists" -- "Plenum of the Central Committee (March)" -- "4.37 The Present Stage of Communist Construction and the Party's Tasks with Respect to the Improvement of Agricultural Leadership" -- "4.38 Instruction on the Conduct of Elections of Leading Party Organs" -- "Plenum of the Central Committee (November)" -- "4.39 On the Development of the National Economy of the USSR and the Reorganization of Party Leadership of the Economy" -- "1963" -- "4.40 Regulation Establishing the Committee of Party-State Control of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the Council of Ministers of the USSR" -- "4.41 On Reorganizing the Work of the Higher Party Schools in Accordance with the Resolution of the November Plenum [4.39] of the Central Committee" -- "4.42 On the Implementation of the Decisions of the XXII Congress of the CPSU, and of the November Plenum of the Central Committee, with Respect to the Selection, Assignment, and Training of Leading Cadres in the Industrial Party Organization of Donets Oblast" -- "Plenum of the Central Committee (June)" -- "4.43 On the Current Tasks of Ideological Work of the Party" -- "1964" -- "Plenum of the Central Committee (October)" -- "4.44 Communiqué [On the retirement of Khrushchev]" -- "Appendix" -- "Index" -- "A" -- "B" -- "C" -- "D" -- "E" -- "F" -- "G" -- "H" -- "I" -- "J" -- "K" -- "L" -- "M" -- "N" -- "O" -- "P" -- "R" -- "S" -- "T" -- "U" -- "V" -- "W" -- "Y

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism
Author: S. A. Smith
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 834
Release: 2014-01-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0191667528

The impact of Communism on the twentieth century was massive, equal to that of the two world wars. Until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, historians knew relatively little about the secretive world of communist states and parties. Since then, the opening of state, party, and diplomatic archives of the former Eastern Bloc has released a flood of new documentation. The thirty-five essays in this Handbook, written by an international team of scholars, draw on this new material to offer a global history of communism in the twentieth century. In contrast to many histories that concentrate on the Soviet Union, The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism is genuinely global in its coverage, paying particular attention to the Chinese Revolution. It is 'global', too, in the sense that the essays seek to integrate history 'from above' and 'from below', to trace the complex mediations between state and society, and to explore the social and cultural as well as the political and economic realities that shaped the lives of citizens fated to live under communist rule. The essays reflect on the similarities and differences between communist states in order to situate them in their socio-political and cultural contexts and to capture their changing nature over time. Where appropriate, they also reflect on how the fortunes of international communism were shaped by the wider economic, political, and cultural forces of the capitalist world. The Handbook provides an informative introduction for those new to the field and a comprehensive overview of the current state of scholarship for those seeking to deepen their understanding.

Khrushchev: The Man and His Era

Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
Author: William Taubman
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 929
Release: 2004-03-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0393324842

Tells the life story of twentieth-century Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, featuring information from previously inaccessible Russian and Ukrainian archives.

The Victims Return

The Victims Return
Author: Stephen F. Cohen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2013-02-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0857730622

Stalin's reign of terror in the Soviet Union has been called 'the other Holocaust'. During the Stalin years, it is thought that more innocent men, women and children perished than in Hitler's destruction of the European Jews. Many millions died in Stalin's Gulag of torture prisons and forced-labour camps, yet others survived and were freed after his death in 1953. This book is the story of the survivors. Long kept secret by Soviet repression and censorship, it is now told by renowned author and historian Stephen F. Cohen, who came to know many former Gulag inmates during his frequent trips to Moscow over a period of thirty years. Based on first-hand interviews with the victims themselves and on newly available materials, Cohen provides a powerful narrative of the survivors' post-Gulag saga, from their liberation and return to Soviet society, to their long struggle to salvage what remained of their shattered lives and to obtain justice. Spanning more than fifty years, "The Victims Return" combines individual stories with the fierce political conflicts that raged, both in society and in the Kremlin, over the victims of the terror and the people who had victimized them. This compelling book will be essential reading for anyone interested in Russian history.

Russia, Ukraine, and the Breakup of the Soviet Union

Russia, Ukraine, and the Breakup of the Soviet Union
Author: Roman Szporluk
Publisher: Hoover Press
Total Pages: 579
Release: 2020-02-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 0817995439

This book chronicles the final two decades in the history of the Soviet Union and presents a story that is often lost in the standard interpretations of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR. Although there were numerous reasons for the collapse of communism, it did not happen—as it may have seemed to some—overnight. Indeed, says Roman Szporluk, the root causes go back even earlier than 1917. To understand why the USSR broke up the way it did, it is necessary to understand the relationship between the two most important nations of the USSR—Russia and Ukraine—during the Soviet period and before, as well as the parallel but interrelated processes of nation formation in both states. Szporluk details a number of often-overlooked factors leading to the USSR's fall: how the processes of Russian identity formation were not completed by the time of the communist takeover in 1917, the unification of Ukraine in 1939–1945, and the Soviet period failing to find a resolution of the question of Russian-Ukrainian relations. The present-day conflict in the Caucasus, he asserts, is a sign that the problems of Russian identity remain.