Let History Judge The Origins And Consequences Of Stalinism
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Author | : Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 932 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780231063517 |
The most comprehensive and revealing investigation of Stalinism and political developments in the Soviet Union from 1922-1953, this edition is an extensively revised and expanded version of a classic work. The internationally known historian Roy Medvedev has included more than one-hundred new interviews, unpublished memoirs, and archives from survivors of Stalin's death camps. This updated version of a classic work was written during a time of great change in the Soviet Union. With the advent of perestroika and glasnost, more progressive leadership has sought to demolish the Stalinist system which had finally crippled the Soviet Union and incited public discontent. Let History Judge contains new material on purges in 1929-1931 and terror against the peasantry; the Kirov assasination and show trials; the "great terror" from 1936-1938, which caused irreparable damage to the Soviet Union and left it vulnerable for Hilter's attack in 1941; the trial of Bukharin; Trotsky's revolutionary activity and Stalin's involvement with his murder in Mexico; Stalin's miscalculations and errors during the war, which cost the Soviet Union nearly 25 million in casualties; new purges from 1946-1953; and the actual vote of the Seventeenth Congress, which decided Stalin's candidacy. Since the first edition was finished by the author in 1969 and published in 1971, dozens of new informants have come forward to give their evidence to Roy Medvedev. Distinguished Soviet literary, cultural, and political figures like the late Alexander Twardovsky, Ilja Ehrenburg, Konstantin Simonov, Yuri Trifono, Mikhail Romm and many others have accumulated documentary records of Stalinism in anticipation of an expanded version.
Author | : Roj Aleksandrovič Medvedev |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Soviet Union |
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Author | : Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev |
Publisher | : New York : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 630 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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The most comprehensive investigation of Stalinism and political developments in the Soviet Union from 1922-1953, this is an extensively revised version of a classic. Medvedev has included more than one hundred new interviews, unpublished memoirs, and archives from survivors of Stalin's death camps -- with distinguished Soviet literary, cultural, and political figures including the late Alexander Twardovsky, Ilja Ehrenburg, Konstantin Simonov, Yuri Trifono, Mikhail Romm and many others.
Author | : Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Soviet Union |
ISBN | : 9780039444648 |
A Soviet scholar's monumental study of the Stalinist system.
Author | : Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 1972 |
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ISBN | : 9780333134092 |
Author | : Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Communist state |
ISBN | : 9780393008500 |
From within the Soviet Union, a critique of the Soviet political system by the celebrated dissident scholar.
Author | : Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780231106061 |
One of the world's best-known Russian scholars and a former consultant to both Gorbachev and Yeltsin analyzes the events that have transpired in the Russian federation since late August 1991, from the drastic liberalization of prices and "shock therapy" to the privatization of state owned property and Yeltsin's resignation and replacement by Vladimir Putin.
Author | : Roj Aleksandrovič Medvedev (Historiker, Politiker) |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1972 |
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Author | : Roy A. Medvedev |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 1976 |
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Author | : Stephen Kotkin |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 1249 |
Release | : 2017-10-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 073522448X |
“Monumental.” —The New York Times Book Review Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin has written the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror to the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history In 1929, Joseph Stalin, having already achieved dictatorial power over the vast Soviet Empire, formally ordered the systematic conversion of the world’s largest peasant economy into “socialist modernity,” otherwise known as collectivization, regardless of the cost. What it cost, and what Stalin ruthlessly enacted, transformed the country and its ruler in profound and enduring ways. Building and running a dictatorship, with life and death power over hundreds of millions, made Stalin into the uncanny figure he became. Stephen Kotkin’s Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941 is the story of how a political system forged an unparalleled personality and vice versa. The wholesale collectivization of some 120 million peasants necessitated levels of coercion that were extreme even for Russia, and the resulting mass starvation elicited criticism inside the party even from those Communists committed to the eradication of capitalism. But Stalin did not flinch. By 1934, when the Soviet Union had stabilized and socialism had been implanted in the countryside, praise for his stunning anti-capitalist success came from all quarters. Stalin, however, never forgave and never forgot, with shocking consequences as he strove to consolidate the state with a brand new elite of young strivers like himself. Stalin’s obsessions drove him to execute nearly a million people, including the military leadership, diplomatic and intelligence officials, and innumerable leading lights in culture. While Stalin revived a great power, building a formidable industrialized military, the Soviet Union was effectively alone and surrounded by perceived enemies. The quest for security would bring Soviet Communism to a shocking and improbable pact with Nazi Germany. But that bargain would not unfold as envisioned. The lives of Stalin and Hitler, and the fates of their respective dictatorships, drew ever closer to collision, as the world hung in the balance. Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941 is a history of the world during the build-up to its most fateful hour, from the vantage point of Stalin’s seat of power. It is a landmark achievement in the annals of historical scholarship, and in the art of biography.