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The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine
by Robert Conquest  Publisher Comments The Harvest of Sorrow is the first full history of one of the most horrendous human and social tragedies of our century. As Robert Conquest shows in heart-rending detail, Stalin's plan to collectivize Soviet agriculture amounted to an unparalleled...
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Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters Under Lenin
by Victoria E Bonnell Publisher Comments The first sociological study of Soviet political posters from 1917-1953....
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Dances in Deep Shadows: The Clandestine War in Russia, 1917-1920
by Michael Occleshaw Publisher Comments In 1917, the world was turned upside down by a popular uprising and then a Bolshevik coup d'itat in Russia. Suddenly, the socialist revolution that many had hoped for and had expected was underway, Capitalism was morally and materially exhausted by war...
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Thank You, Comrade Stalin! : Soviet Public Culture From Revolution To Cold War (00 Edition)
by Jeffrey Brooks Publisher Comments Thank you, our Stalin, for a happy childhood." "Thank you, dear Marshal [Stalin], for our freedom, for our children's happiness, for life." Between the Russian Revolution and the Cold War, Soviet public culture was so dominated by the power of the state...
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The Best Sons of the Fatherland: Workers in the Vanguard of Soviet Collectivization
by Lynne Viola Publisher Comments 'In this ground-breaking study Lynne Viola--the first Western scholar to gain access to the Soviet state archives on collectivization--brilliantly examines a lost chapter in the history of the Stalin revolution. Looking in detail at the backgrounds...
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Insurance in the Soviet Union.
by Paul P. Rogers Publisher Comments Although much has been written about the economy of the Soviet Union, little attention has been given to its insurance system. Providing a unique introduction to the topic, Insurance in the Soviet Union examines whether socialist ideology changes the...
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Twentieth Century Russia 8TH Edition
by Donald W Treadgold Publisher Comments This classic work stands as the fullest, most comprehensive text available on twentieth-century Russian history. Donald Treadgold traces the wrenching transformations of Russian society in the opening decades of this century, marking the emergence of...
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The KGB File of Andrei Sakharov (Annals of Communism)
by Joshua Rubenstein Publisher Comments Andrei Sakharov (1921- 1989), a brilliant physicist and the principal designer of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, later became a human rights activist and-- as a result-- a source of profound irritation to the Kremlin. This book publishes for the first time...
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Piggy Foxy and the Sword of Revolution: Bolshevik Self-Portraits (Annals of Communism)
by Alexander Vatlin Publisher Comments What did the rulers of the Soviet Union truly think about each other? This book opens a window onto the soul of Bolshevism--revealing what no other set of materials has ever offered--allowing readers access to the powerful men who, despite living in a...
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The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World
by Christopher Andrew Publisher Comments In 1992 the British Secret Intelligence Service exfiltrated from Russia a defector whose presence in the West remained a secret until the publication of The Sword and the Shield in 1999. That man was Vasili Mitrokhin, the KGB's most senior archivist...
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Soviet-British Relations since the 1970s
by Alex Pravda Publisher Comments This volume brings together empirical and analytical studies of the nature and evolution of Soviet-British relations....
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Stalinism as a Way of Life: A Narrative in Documents (Annals of Communism)
by Lewis H Siegelbaum Publisher Comments The lifestyles of ordinary Russians living under Stalinism in the 1930s are related through this unique collection of 157 documents from recently opened Soviet archives. Comprised mostly of letters to authorities from Soviet citizens, these documents...
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A Failed Empire Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev the Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev
by Vladislav Zubok Publisher Comments Western interpretations of the Cold War--both realist and neoconservative--have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin's pragmatism or its aggressiveness, argues Vladislav Zubok. Explaining the interests, aspirations, illusions, fears, and...
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Split Signals: Television and Politics in the Soviet Union
by Ellen Mickiewicz Publisher Comments Television has changed drastically in the Soviet Union over the last three decades. In 1960, only five percent of the population had access to TV, but now the viewing population has reached near total saturation. Today's main source of information in the...
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Science in Russia and the Soviet Union (Cambridge History of Science)
by Loren R Graham Publisher Comments Although by the 1980s the Soviet scientific establishment became the largest in the world, little is known about it in the West. Loren Graham presents the first concise, modern history of science in Russia, the Soviet Union, and the commonwealth of...
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Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag (Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity)
by Nicolas Werth Publisher Comments "Werth has as solid a command of the Soviet-era archival documentation as anyone. But while he lays out a synthetic, institutional panorama of a segment of Soviet bureaucracy, he can write at the same time a story full of suspense, in a crisp and lucid...
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The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan
by Amin Saikal Publisher Comments Nearly ten years of bloodshed and political turmoil have followed the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. Soviet occupation not only proved a major trauma for the people of Afghanistan; invasion ended at a stroke the growth in superpower detente that...
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Glas New Russian Writing #32: The Diary of a Soviet Schoolgirl: 1932-1937
by Joanne Turnbull Publisher Comments Recently unearthed in the archives of the NKVD, Nina Lugovskaya's diary provides a rare window into the daily routines of an educated Moscow family during the 1930s. Nina's diary begins in 1932, after her father's return from three years exile in Siberia....
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Soviet Foreign Policy in Transition (Icse)
by Roger E Kanet Publisher Comments The world has recently witnessed remarkable changes in Soviet foreign policy. Eastern Europe has sprung free of the country that held it in its grip for over forty years. The Soviet leadership has accepted the reunification of Germany and supported the...
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Fear No Evil: The Classic Memoir of One Man's Triumph Over a Police State
by Anatoly Shcharansky Publisher Comments Temperamentally and intellectually, Natan Sharanskey is a man very much like many of us -- which makes this account of his arrest on political grounds, his trial, and ten years' imprisonment in the Orwellian universe of the Soviet gulag particularly...
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