Soviet Union

Soviet Union
Author: Raymond E. Zickel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1182
Release: 1991
Genre: Russia
ISBN:

The Diplomats, 1939–1979

The Diplomats, 1939–1979
Author: Gordon A. Craig
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 779
Release: 2019-01-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691604479

This volume offers a unique perspective on a turbulent and dangerous age by focusing on the activities and accomplishments of its diplomats. Its twenty-three interconnected essays discuss the politics of ambassadors, foreign ministers, and heads of state from Acheson and Adenauer to Sadat and Gromyko, as well as the special problems of the professionals in the foreign offices and the role of the media in modern diplomacy. Among its contributors are such distinguished international scholars as Akira Iriye, Michael Brecher, Stanley Hoffmann, W. W. Rostow, and Norman Stone. Expanding the field of inquiry covered by its acclaimed predecessor, The Diplomats, 1919–1939, which concentrated on Europe and the coming of the Second World War, these essays showcase the major diplomatic practitioners of the period against the broader background of the problems and crises that confronted them—among others, the Polish question at the end of World War II, the onset of the Cold War, the defeat of EDC in 1954, the Suez crisis, Kruschchev's Berlin note in 1958, the Middle East War of 1967 and the oil shock of 1973, the Iranian revolution, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. This account of the pendular swing from crisis and detente and back again is given a global perspective by careful treatment of the diplomacy of new nations like India, Communist China, and Israel, and the transformation of the Middle East and Japan. Among the new perspectives offered here are Geoffrey Warner's critical view of Ernest Bevin's attitude toward the United States, John Lewis Gaddis's judgment of Henry Kissinger's detente policy, W. W. Rostow's analysis of the diplomatic method of Paul Monnnet, Rena Fonseca's assessment of Nehru's policy of nonalignment, Shu Guang Zhang's fresh look at the relationship between Zhou Enlai and Mao, and Paul Gordon Lauren's critique of U.N. crisis management from Trygve Lie to Perez de Cuellar. Highly original also are Steven Miner's portrait of Molotov, Michael Brecher's pioneering study of the diplomacy of Abba Eben, and James McAdams's analysis of German Ostpolitik. Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Development Century

The Development Century
Author: Stephen J. Macekura
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2018-09-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1316515885

Offers cutting-edge perspectives on how international development has shaped the global history of the modern world.

Mao

Mao
Author: Alexander V. Pantsov
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 784
Release: 2013-10-29
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1451654480

"Originally published in a different version in 2007 in Russian by Molodaia Gvardiia as Mao Tzedun"--Title page verso.

Moscow 1956

Moscow 1956
Author: Kathleen E. Smith
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2017-04-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0674972007

January: after the ice -- February: a sudden thaw -- March: a flood of questions -- April: early spring -- May: fresh air -- June: first flush of youth -- July: intellectual heat -- August: by the sweat of their brows -- September: ocean breezes -- October: storm clouds -- November: winds from the east -- December: the big chill

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.

Bolshevik Women

Bolshevik Women
Author: Barbara Evans Clements
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1997-08-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521599207

Bolshevik Women is a history of the women who joined the Soviet Communist Party before 1921. The book examines the reasons these women became revolutionaries, the work they did in the underground before 1917, their participation in the revolution and civil war, and their service in the building of the USSR. Drawing on a database of more than five hundred individuals as well as on intensive research into the lives of the most prominent female Bolsheviks, the study argues that women were important members of the Communist Party at its lower levels during its formative years. They were lieutenants, printing leaflets, speaking to crowds, and running party operations in the cities. They also created one of the most remarkable efforts to emancipate women from traditional society of the twentieth century. This book traces their fascinating lives from the earliest years of the revolutionary movement through to their old age in the time of Khrushchev and Brezhnev.