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Author | : Peter Deriabin |
Publisher | : Potomac Books |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
In this new book, the first major post-Stalin defector exposes the crimes of Soviet leaders during the critical Cold War period from 1947 to 1954. Inside Stalin's Kremlin is the first comprehensive insider's account of the least-known phase of Soviet history.
Author | : Tim Tzouliadis |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2008-07-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1440637032 |
“Gripping and important . . . an extremely impressive book.” —Noel Malcolm, Telegraph (London) A remarkable piece of forgotten history- the never-before-told story of Americans lured to Soviet Russia by the promise of jobs and better lives, only to meet tragic ends In 1934, a photograph was taken of a baseball team. These two rows of young men look like any group of American ballplayers, except perhaps for the Russian lettering on their jerseys. The players have left their homeland and the Great Depression in search of a better life in Stalinist Russia, but instead they will meet tragic and, until now, forgotten fates. Within four years, most of them will be arrested alongside untold numbers of other Americans. Some will be executed. Others will be sent to "corrective labor" camps where they will be worked to death. This book is the story of lives-the forsaken who died and those who survived. Based on groundbreaking research, The Forsaken is the story of Americans whose dreams were shattered and lives lost in Stalinist Russia.
Author | : Peter Deriabin |
Publisher | : Potomac Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Communists |
ISBN | : 9781574882353 |
The only known member of the Kremlin Guards Directorate to escape the Soviet Union tells his story and exposes crimes of Cold War Soviet leaders.
Author | : Paul R. Gregory |
Publisher | : Hoover Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2013-09-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0817910360 |
Drawing from Hoover Institution archival documents, Paul Gregory sheds light on how the world's first socialist state went terribly wrong and why it was likely to veer off course through the tragic story of Stalin's most prominent victims: Pravda editor Nikolai Bukharin and his wife, Anna Larina.
Author | : Sergo Beria |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Academic |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
This book is a memoir of the daily life of two men from Georgia--Stalin and Beria--who sent millions to their graves.
Author | : Orlando Figes |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 1000 |
Release | : 2008-09-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 014180887X |
Drawing on a huge range of sources - letters, memoirs, conversations - Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin. Those who shaped the political system became, very frequently, its victims. Those who were its victims were frequently quite blameless. The Whisperers recreates the sort of maze in which Russians found themselves, where an unwitting wrong turn could either destroy a family or, perversely, later save it: a society in which everyone spoke in whispers - whether to protect themselves, their families, neighbours or friends - or to inform on them.
Author | : Vladislav Martinovich Zubok |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Cold War |
ISBN | : |
Using recently uncovered archival materials, personal interviews, and a broad familiarity with Russian history and culture, two young Russian historians have written a major interpretation of the Cold War as seen from the Soviet shore. Covering the volatile period from 1945 to 1962, Zubok and Pleshakov explore the personalities and motivations of the key people who directed Soviet political life and shaped Soviet foreign policy. They begin with the fearsome figure of Joseph Stalin, who was driven by the dual dream of a Communist revolution and a global empire. They reveal the scope and limits of Stalin's ambitions by taking us into the world of his closest subordinates, the ruthless and unimaginative foreign minister Molotov and the Party's chief propagandist, Zhdanov, a man brimming with hubris and missionary zeal. The authors expose the machinations of the much-feared secret police chief Beria and the party cadre manager Malenkov, who tried but failed to set Soviet policies on a different course after Stalin's death. Finally, they document the motives and actions of the self-made and self-confident Nikita Khrushchev, full of Russian pride and party dogma, who overturned many of Stalin's policies with bold strategizing on a global scale. The authors show how, despite such attempts to change Soviet diplomacy, Stalin's legacy continued to divide Germany and Europe, and led the Soviets to the split with Maoist China and to the Cuban missile crisis. Zubok and Pleshakov's groundbreaking work reveals how Soviet statesmen conceived and conducted their rivalry with the West within the context of their own domestic and global concerns and aspirations. The authors persuasively demonstrate thatthe Soviet leaders did not seek a conflict with the United States, yet failed to prevent it or bring it to conclusion. They also document why and how Kremlin policy-makers, cautious and scheming as they were, triggered the gravest crises of the Cold War in Korea, Berlin, and Cuba.
Author | : Gennady M. Andreev-Khomiakov |
Publisher | : Westview Press |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1998-08-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813323746 |
Focusing on life and work after the author's release in 1935 from a Soviet labor camp, his story is told chronologically, and begins with his difficulties finding a job in the Russian provinces. This memoir may be most valuable for what it reveals about Russian society and economy and the indomitable creativity with which ordinary people sustained both their lives.
Author | : Sergo Lavrentʹevich Berii͡a |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Academic |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Life inside Stalin's Kremlin through the eyes of Beria, Stalin's closest collaborator and some say murderer, as told by his son.
Author | : Robert W. Thurston |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 1998-11-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300074420 |
Examining Stalin's reign of terror, this text argues that the Soviet people were not simply victims but also actors in the violence, criticisms and local decisions of the 1930s. It suggests that more believed in Stalin's quest to eliminate internal enemies than were frightened by it.