Princeton University Press, 2009. — 319 p. — (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World). — ISBN: 0-691-00696-2. To say that history's greatest economic experiment — Soviet communism — was also its greatest economic failure is to say what many consider obvious. Here, in a startling reinterpretation, Robert Allen argues that the USSR was one of the most successful...
Princeton University Press, 2009. — 319 p. — ISBN: 0-691-00696-2 — (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World). To say that history's greatest economic experiment — Soviet communism — was also its greatest economic failure is to say what many consider obvious. Here, in a startling reinterpretation, Robert Allen argues that the USSR was one of the most successful...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999. — 221 p. — ISBN10: 031222544X; ISBN13: 978-0312225445 — (Studies in Russian & Eastern European History) The "new soviet person" the Bolsheviks were committed to creating was to be a creature willing and eager to subordinate his or her own interests to those of society. Both men and women would play a full role in the construction of...
Chicago: Workers Press, 1977. — 188 p. — ISBN: 0-917348-14-1 Philosophy The Marxist View of Development Political Economy (I) Definitions The Development of the Soviet Economy The Reforms of the Khrushchov-Brezhnev Period The Productivity Problem Political Economy (II) Is Labor Power a Commodity? Is There Unemployment in the Soviet Union? Does the Soviet Union Export Finance...
Chicago: Workers Press, 1977. — 188 p. — ISBN: 0-917348-14-1 Philosophy The Marxist View of Development Political Economy (I) Definitions The Development of the Soviet Economy The Reforms of the Khrushchov-Brezhnev Period The Productivity Problem Political Economy (II) Is Labor Power a Commodity? Is There Unemployment in the Soviet Union? Does the Soviet Union Export Finance...
Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2013. — 279 p. Frontmatter The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System and Its Data A Brief Review of the Formal Characteristics of the System Creating and Maintaining Myths Planning and Controlling Problem Solving the Overcommitment of Resources and Storming Refusal to Allow Independent Concentrations of Power Terror and Forced Labor...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1979. — 267 p. — ISBN10: 1349044113; ISBN13: 978-1349044115 The Theoretical Foundations The Dictatorship ofthe Proletariat and the Transition to Socialism The Commune and After The Economy in the Transition Period Russia and the Proletarian Revolution Lenin and the Bolshevik Experience The Soviet Phenomenon A Workers' State with Bureaucratic...
New York: Basic Books, 2001. — 512 p. — ISBN10: 0813339073; ISBN13: 978-0813339078 During the Soviet years, Russian science was touted as one of the greatest successes of the regime. Russian science was considered to be equal, if not superior, to that of the wealthy western nations. The Perversion of Knowledge , a history of Soviet science that focuses on its control by the KGB...
New York: Basic Books, 2001. — 512 p. — ISBN10: 0813339073; ISBN13: 978-0813339078 During the Soviet years, Russian science was touted as one of the greatest successes of the regime. Russian science was considered to be equal, if not superior, to that of the wealthy western nations. The Perversion of Knowledge , a history of Soviet science that focuses on its control by the KGB...
Singapore: Springer, 2017. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 9811063664; ISBN13: 978-9811063664. Boer's book, far from both "veneration" and "demonization" of Stalin, throws new light on the classic themes of Marxism and the Communist Movement: language, nation, state, and the stages of constructing post-capitalist society. It is an original book that also pays great attention to the People's...
Singapore: Springer, 2017. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 9811063664; ISBN13: 978-9811063664. Boer's book, far from both "veneration" and "demonization" of Stalin, throws new light on the classic themes of Marxism and the Communist Movement: language, nation, state, and the stages of constructing post-capitalist society. It is an original book that also pays great attention to the People's...
Berkeley: University of California Press. 1999. 385 p.ISBN10: 0520221532; ISBN13: 978-0520221536. In this first sociological study of Soviet political posters, Victoria Bonnell analyzes the shifts that took place in the images, messages, styles, and functions of political art from 1917 to 1953. Everyone who lived in Russia after the October revolution had some familiarity with...
London, New York: Routledge, 2000. - 273 p. In English The book provides a wide-ranging history of Stalin’s dictatorship in the Soviet Union. Drawing upon a great range of primary sources, this book is an account of Stalinist thought and policy, and their effects. It also puts the Stalin regime into the context both of Lenin’s period of rule and of the longer-term continuities...
Translated by C. L. R. James. — New York: Alliance Book Corporation; Longmans, Green & Co., 1939. — 702 p. Sosso The Years of Apprenticeship Prologue to Revolution A Professional Revolutionary The Revolution The Civil war The Soviet Republic The Heritage The Inheritor Stalin Postscript
Translated by C. L. R. James. — New York: Alliance Book Corporation; Longmans, Green & Co., 1939. — 702 p. Sosso The Years of Apprenticeship Prologue to Revolution A Professional Revolutionary The Revolution The Civil war The Soviet Republic The Heritage The Inheritor Stalin Postscript
Armonk, New York and London: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1988. — 167 p. — ISBN: 0-87332-420-X. Translated by Michel Vale. From Genesis to Reform In Search of a Structure Congenital disarticulation: syncretism Antimonies General configuration Unstable ownership Contested ownership The internal decomposition of ownership Negative Assessment A Structure Emerges Generalized expropriation...
Montreal&Kingston, London, Buffalo: McGill-Queen's University Press. 1998. — 205 p. — ISBN: 0773517170, 9780773517172. Chandler provides a comprehensive examination of border controls from the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 to the collapse of the U.S.S.R. in 1991 and shows the continued importance of border controls for the newly independent Soviet successor states. She reveals...
New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. — 328 p. — ISBN10: 0231148968; ISBN13: 978-0231148962. In this wide-ranging and acclaimed book, Stephen F. Cohen challenges conventional wisdom about the course of Soviet and post-Soviet history. Reexamining leaders from Nikolai Bukharin, Stalin's preeminent opponent, and Nikita Khrushchev to Mikhail Gorbachev and his rival Yegor...
Roseville: Prima Publishing; Forum, 2000. - XVIII, 830 p. - ISBN: 0-7615-2057-0 Part 1 - pp. 1-401. In this seminal work, the eminent British writer and historian Brian Crozier tells the brutal history of the Soviet Empire — its birth, life, and sudden death. The book begins at the beginning, in 1917, when the oversized dreams of Lenin and the happenstance of events conspired...
Roseville: Prima Publishing; Forum, 2000. - XVIII, 830 p. - ISBN: 0-7615-2057-0 Part 2 - pp. 402-830. In this seminal work, the eminent British writer and historian Brian Crozier tells the brutal history of the Soviet Empire — its birth, life, and sudden death. The book begins at the beginning, in 1917, when the oversized dreams of Lenin and the happenstance of events conspired...
Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2010. — 171 p. — ISBN10: 0313386226; ISBN13: 978-0313386220. For students and scholars of the Russian Revolution, there are pivotal questions that merit careful, comprehensive consideration: why did the Tsarist regime unravel in revolution? Why did the Bolsheviks come to power rather than some other party? How did Stalin — rather than a more popular...
London: Hollis & Carter, 1948. — 346 p. List of Maps and Documents In our time The Corrective Labor Camps Eye-Witnesses Report on Forced Labor Milder Forms of Forced Labor How Many Camps and Prisoners? The Essence of Forced Labor The Land of White Death The origin and growth of forced labor in Russia The First Decade "The Northern Camps of Special Designation" The Great...
London: Hollis & Carter, 1948. — 346 p. List of Maps and Documents In our time The Corrective Labor Camps Eye-Witnesses Report on Forced Labor Milder Forms of Forced Labor How Many Camps and Prisoners? The Essence of Forced Labor The Land of White Death The origin and growth of forced labor in Russia The First Decade "The Northern Camps of Special Designation" The Great...
New York: Socialist Voice Publishing Co., 1990. — 382 p. — ISBN: 0-9625966-0-4. This book uses the tools of Marxism to analyze the Stalinist system: the social and economic structure that arose out of the degeneration and defeat of the revolutionary Soviet workers' state. It demonstrates that Stalinist society is fundamentally capitalist, an integral but subordinate part of...
New York, "Cambridge University Press", 2005, -311 p. The figure of Joseph Stalin has always provoked heated and often polarised debate. The recent declassification of a substantial portion of Stalin’s archive has made possible this fundamental new assessment of the Soviet leader. In this groundbreaking study, leading international experts challege many assumptions about Stalin...
Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 2004. — 342 p. — ISBN10: 0313316287; ISBN13: 978-0313316289 Details what ordinary life was like during the extraordinary years of the reign of Soviet Union. Thirty-six illustrations, thematic chapters, a glossary, timeline, annotated multimedia bibliography, and detailed index make it a sound starting point for looking at this powerful nation's...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. — 310 p. — (Oxford Histories). — ISBN10: 0199236410; ISBN13: 978-0199236411. Stalinist Society offers a fresh analytical overview of the complex social formation ruled over by Stalin and his henchmen from the late 1920s to the early 1950s. Drawing on declassified archival materials, interviews with former Soviet citizens, old and new...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 310 p. — (Oxford Histories). — ISBN10: 0199236410. — ISBN13: 978-0199236411. Stalinist Society offers a fresh analytical overview of the complex social formation ruled over by Stalin and his henchmen from the late 1920s to the early 1950s. Drawing on declassified archival materials, interviews with former Soviet citizens, old and new memoirs,...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2018. — 256 p. — ISBN: 1119131162, 9781119131168 In ten concise and compelling chapters, The Soviet Union covers the entire Soviet Union experience from the years 1904 to 1991 by putting the focus on three major themes: warfare, welfare, and empire. Throughout the book, Mark Edele — a noted expert on the topic — clearly demonstrates that the Soviet Union was...
London: Praeger, 1993. — 248 p. — ISBN10: 0275947637; ISBN13: 978-0275947637 This study examines the development of Marxist-Leninist ideology in the U.S.S.R. from its origins to the collapse of the Soviet regime. Alfred Evans argues that Soviet Marxism-Leninism was subject to significant adaptation under various leaders, contrary to the widespread impression that official...
Penquin Books, 2007. — 1435 p. Maps Family trees Children of 1917 (1917-1928) The Graet Break (1928-1932) The Pursuit of Happyness (1932-1936) The Great Fear (1936-1938) Remnants of Terror (1938-1941) Wait of me (1941-1945) Ordinary Stalinists (1945-1953) Return (1953-1956) Memory (1956-2006) Afterword and acknowledgements Permissiones Sources
London: Allen Lane, 2007. Quality: originally electronic The book explores private accounts of the ordinary, everyday life in the Soviet Union under Stalin.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1948. — 714 p. Through her long involvement in the German Communist party, Ruth Fischer amassed valuable material on its changing fortunes, the transformation of the Bolshevik party into a totalitarian dictatorship, and the degeneration of the Comintern. Drawing on this material and on her own vivid recollections, Fischer reconstructs...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015 — 384 p. — ISBN10: 0691145334; ISBN13: 978-0691145334. Stalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing. On Stalin's Team overturns this view, revealing that behind Stalin was a group of loyal men who...
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015 — 288 p. — ISBN10: 0300179456; ISBN13: 978-0300179453. Roughly ten million children were victims of political repression in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist era. As the sons and daughters of Soviet citizens considered by the regime to be dangerous to the political order, these children lost parents, siblings, homes, educational and...
Erythros Press and Media, 2011. — 423 p. In his "Secret Speech" of February 1956 Nikita Khrushchev accused Joseph Stalin of immense crimes. Khrushchev's speech was a body blow from which the worldwide communist movement never recovered. It changed the course of history. Grover Furr has spent a decade studying the flood of documents from formerly secret Soviet archives published...
London: Vintage, 2013 — 512 p. — ISBN10: 0307389456; ISBN13: 978-0307389459. At the Big Three conferences of World War II, Joseph Stalin persuasively played the role of a great world leader, whose primary concerns lay in international strategy and power politics, and not communist ideology. Now, using recently uncovered documents, Robert Gellately conclusively shows that, in...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. — 629 p. At the Big Three conferences of World War II, Stalin persuasively played the role of a great world leader. Even astute observers like George F. Kennan concluded that the United States and Great Britain should view Stalin as a modern-day tsarist-like figure whose primary concerns lay in international strategy and power politics, not in...
Yale University Press, 2014. — 325 p. — ISBN10: 0300169299. — ISBN13: 978-0300169294. In old Russia, patron/client relations, "clan" politics, and a variety of other informal practices spanned the centuries. Government was understood to be patrimonial and personal rather than legal, and office holding was far less important than proximity to patrons. Working from heretofore...
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. — 325 p. — ISBN10: 0300169299; ISBN13: 978-0300169294 In old Russia, patron/client relations, "clan" politics, and a variety of other informal practices spanned the centuries. Government was understood to be patrimonial and personal rather than legal, and office holding was far less important than proximity to patrons. Working from...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 364 p. — ISBN10: 1107004543; ISBN13: 978-1107004542 Symbols and Legitimacy in Soviet Politics analyses the way in which Soviet symbolism and ritual changed from the regime's birth in 1917 to its fall in 1991. Graeme Gill focuses on the symbolism in party policy and leaders' speeches, artwork and political posters, urban...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 351 p. — ISBN10: 3319769618; ISBN13: 978-3319769615 — (Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership) This book studies the way in which the top leadership in the Soviet Union changed over time from 1917 until the collapse of the country in 1991. Its principal focus is the tension between individual leadership and collective rule, and it charts...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 472 p. — ISBN10: 0521529360; ISBN13: 9780521529365. The Origins of the Stalinist Political System offers new and challenging perspectives on Soviet political development from October 1917 until the outbreak of war in June 1941. Explanations of the emergence of a Stalinist political system have hitherto concentrated upon either impersonal...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 472 p. — ISBN10: 0521529360; ISBN13: 9780521529365. The Origins of the Stalinist Political System offers new and challenging perspectives on Soviet political development from October 1917 until the outbreak of war in June 1941. Explanations of the emergence of a Stalinist political system have hitherto concentrated upon either...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 0521866146; ISBN13: 978-0521866149. Terror and Democracy in Stalin's Russia is the first book devoted exclusively to popular participation in the “Great Terror,” a period in which millions of people were arrested, interrogated, shot, and sent to labor camps. In the unions and the factories, repression was...
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. — 360 p. — ISBN10: 0300134258; ISBN13: 978-0300134254. This original analysis of the workings of Soviet state security organs under Lenin and Stalin addresses a series of questions that have long resisted satisfactory answers. Why did political repression affect so many people, most of them ordinary citizens? Why did repression come in...
Paul R. Gregory. The Political Economy of Stalinism: Evidence from the Soviet Secret Archives. Cambridge, 2004. This book uses the formerly secret Soviet State and Communist Party archives to describe the creation and operations of the Soviet administrative-command system. It concludes that the system failed not because of the jockey (i.e., Stalin and later leaders) but because...
Washington D.C.: United States Government printing office, 1946. — 152 p. A documented study and analysis of communism in operation in the Soviet Union prepared at the instance and under the direction of Representative Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois by the legislative reference service of the Library of Congress under the direction of Ernest S. Griffith. In the fall of 1946 I...
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999. — 488 p. — ISBN10: 0822957043; ISBN13: 978-0822957041. In this interdisciplinary and controversial work, Igal Halfin takes an original and provocative stance on Marxist theory, and attempts to break down the divisions between history, philosophy, and literary theory. Introduction: Marxism and Russia Marxism as Eschatology The...
London: Routledge, 1935. — 409 p. The role of young women in prewar Soviet Russia was new and different than that before when their mothers and grandmothers were growing up. This book is a great description of that change, it covers just about every aspect of a young Soviet woman’s life. From work to education to their role in politics via the Komsomols or young communist party...
2nd Edition, Fully Revised And Updated. — Routledge, 2019. — 260 p. In this text, Dr. Hammer presents an analytical model of the Soviet political system and its process of political decisionmaking, based on the theory of "bureaucratic pluralism". He interprets the Soviet regime as a product of three different influences: the Tsarist tradition of nondemocratic rule, the...
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997. — 280 p. — ISBN10: 0807846155; ISBN13: 978-0807846155 Stephen Hanson traces the influence of the Marxist conception of time in Soviet politics from Lenin to Gorbachev. He argues that the history of Marxism and Leninism reveals an unsuccessful revolutionary effort to reorder the human relationship with time and that this...
New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1946. — 220 p. In the conditions of the general collapse to which three years of participation in the World War brought it, the former Russian Empire with its Tsarism saw the rise of Bolshevism. Bolshevism became the Russian experience of social revolution, deriving its name from one of the Russian socialist parties which had been...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 332 p. — ISBN-10: 0521529379; ISBN-13: 978-0521529372 — (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, No. 45) This book is about the impact of war on the Soviet system of economic planning and management between 1938 and 1945. What was the dynamic of change in the prewar Soviet economic system? How well was the Soviet...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 332 p. — ISBN-10: 0521529379; ISBN-13: 978-0521529372 — (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, No. 45) This book is about the impact of war on the Soviet system of economic planning and management between 1938 and 1945. What was the dynamic of change in the prewar Soviet economic system? How well was the Soviet...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 276 p. After almost four centuries of expansion the Russian Empire at the beginning of the 20th century covered vast territories on the Eurasian continent and included an immensely diverse population. How was the new Russian regime to deal with the complexity of its population? This book examines the role of nation and nationality in the Soviet Union...
Boston: Harvard University Press, 2009. — 448 p. — ISBN10: 0674032314; ISBN13: 978-0674032316. Revolution on My Mind is a stunning revelation of the inner world of Stalin's Russia. We see into the minds and hearts of Soviet citizens who recorded their lives during an extraordinary period of revolutionary fervor and state terror. Writing a diary, like other creative expression,...
Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 1985. — 260 p. — ISBN: 0-931477-06-9; ISBN: 0-931477-07-7 — (Marxist Regimes Series) The significance of the coming of the communists to power in the Russian Empire in October 1917 can be measured on several scales. In the first place, it represented the radical transformation of one of the most reactionary regimes and...
Cornell University Press, 2005. — 388 p. Note on Transliteration and Dates xv Tenns and Abbreviations Empire, Nation, and the Scientific State Toward a Revolutionary Alliance The National Idea versus Econonlic Expediency Cultural Technologies of Rule and the Nature of Soviet Power The 1926 Census and the Conceptual Conquest of Lands and Peoples Border-Making and the Forlnation...
Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002. — 332 p. — ISBN10: 0631228918; ISBN13: 978-0631228912. This book comprises 11 essays on Stalinism by both eminent historians and younger scholars who have conducted research in the newly opened Russian archives. They discuss both the origins and consequences of Stalinism, and illustrate recent scholarly trends in the field of Soviet history. A...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 1349418250; ISBN13: 978-1349418251 — (Studies in Russian and East European History and Society). This book brings together for the first time a collection of essays by western scholars about women in the Stalin era (1928-53). It explores both the realities of women's lived experience in the 1930s and 1940s, and the various...
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017. — 528 p. Scientists throughout history, from Galileo to today’s experts on climate change, have often had to contend with politics in their pursuit of knowledge. But in the Soviet Union, where the ruling elites embraced, patronized, and even fetishized science like never before, scientists lived their lives on a knife edge. The Soviet Union had the...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 293 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs). Being Soviet adopts a refreshing and innovative approach to the crucial years between 1939 and 1953 in the USSR. It addresses two of the key recent debates concerning Stalinism: 'what was the logic and language of Soviet power?' and 'how did ordinary citizens relate to Soviet power?' In relation to the...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 2 edition. — 356 p. An examination of political, social and cultural developments in the Soviet Union. The book identifies the social tensions and political inconsistencies that spurred radical change in the government of Russia, from the turn of the century to the revolution of 1917. Kenez envisions that revolution as a crisis of authority...
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. — 344 p. — (Yale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes). — ISBN-10 0300110669; ISBN-13 978-0300110661. Based on meticulous research in previously unavailable documents in the Soviet archives, this compelling book illuminates the secret inner mechanisms of power in the Soviet Union during the years when Stalin established his notorious...
Segunda edición, redactada. - M.: Progress, 1977. - 348 p. History of the USSR. Part 2. Translation into Spanish. La segunda parte de la Historia de la URSS se dedica a los acontecimientos más importantes de la vida de los pueblos de la Unión Sovietica desde la victoria de la Gran Revolución Socialista de Octubre hasta el comienzo de la Gran Guerra Patria. Los autores hacen un...
New York: Monthly Review Press, 2015. — 564 p. — ISBN10: 1583674497; ISBN13: 978-1583674499. Translated by Balint Bethlenfalvy with MARIO Fenyo. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is among the most enigmatic and influential figures of the twentieth century. While his life and work are crucial to any understanding of modern history and the socialist movement, generations of writers on the...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1992. — 291 p. — ISBN10: 0333548248; ISBN13: 978-0333548240. This is a collection of essays (with contributors from Britain, Continental Europe and the USA) dealing with the character and aftermath of Stalinism in the USSR. The focus is on the interwar years and on the methodological problems of studying this period, but the volume highlights also...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — 319 p. — ISBN10: 1349282529; ISBN13: 978-1349282524. Bringing together leading authorities and cutting edge scholars, this collection re-examines the defining concepts of Stalinism and the Stalinization model. The aim of the book is to explore how the common imperatives of a centralized movement were experienced across national boundaries....
New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. — 248 p. — ISBN10: 0195089782; ISBN13: 978-0195089783. Walter Laqueur as been hailed as "one of our most distinguished scholars of modern European history" in the New York Times Book Review. Robert Byrnes, writing in the Journal of Modern History, called him "one of the most remarkable men in the Western world working in the...
London: Routledge, 1999 — 144 p. — ISBN10: 0415185734; ISBN13: 978-0415185738. Stalin and the Soviet Union offers new interpretations of recently uncovered archives examining the Soviet leader's domestic and foreign policy. It covers core topics such as Stalin's rise to power; the economy; society; culture; the Cold War; the Second World War; terror. For all students of Russia,...
London: Verso, 2005. — 426 p. — ISBN: 1-84467-016-3 The USSR may no longer exist, but its history remains highly relevant — perhaps today more so than ever. Yet it is a history which for a long time proved impossible to write, not simply due to the lack of accessible documentation, but also because it lay at the heart of an ideological confrontation which obscured the reality...
New Haven, London: Yale University Press. 2000. 480 p. ISBN10: 0300084803; ISBN13: 978-0300084801. What was life like for ordinary Russian citizens in the 1930s? How did they feel about socialism and the acts committed in its name? This unique book provides English-speaking readers with the responses of those who experienced firsthand the events of the middle-Stalinist period....
Geneva: Graduate Institute Publications, 2016. — (eLivres de l’Institut6) — EAN (Print version) 9782940503957; EAN (electronic) 9782940503971. Moving is generally an occasion to rediscover chapters of our personal history and that of our family. Rediscovering letters, photographs, press clippings and official documents of our ancestors and of our youth often gives us a new...
Geneva: Graduate Institute Publications, 2016. — (eLivres de l’Institut6) — EAN (Print version) 9782940503957; EAN (electronic) 9782940503971. Moving is generally an occasion to rediscover chapters of our personal history and that of our family. Rediscovering letters, photographs, press clippings and official documents of our ancestors and of our youth often gives us a new...
Geneva: Graduate Institute Publications, 2016. — (eLivres de l’Institut6) — EAN (Print version) 9782940503957; EAN (electronic) 9782940503971. Moving is generally an occasion to rediscover chapters of our personal history and that of our family. Rediscovering letters, photographs, press clippings and official documents of our ancestors and of our youth often gives us a new...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 198 p. — ISBN10: 1352000199; ISBN13: 978-1352000191. Translated by Humphrey Tonkin. This book examines the rise of the international language Esperanto, launched in 1887 as a proposed a solution to national conflicts and a path to a more tolerant world. The chapters in this volume examine the position of Esperanto in Eastern Europe during...
Routledge, 2005. — 264 p. — ISBN10: 041535109X; ISBN13: 978-0415351096. Stalinism surveys the efforts made in recent years by professional historians, in Russia and the West, to better understand what really went on in the USSR between 1929 and 1953, when the country's affairs were shrouded in secrecy. The opening of the Soviet archives in 1991 has led to a profusion of...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. — 390 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4051-6958-5. Taking the achievements, ambiguities, and legacies of World War II as a point of departure, The Shadow of War: The Soviet Union and Russia, 1941 to the Present offers a fresh new approach to modern Soviet and Russian history. Presents one of the only histories of the Soviet Union and Russia that begins with World War II...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 169 p. — (Very Short Introductions). Introduction: questions and approaches Future and past Coercion and participation Poverty and wealth Elite and masses Patriotism and multinationalism West and East Further reading
4 edition. — Hodder Education, 2008. — 152 p. — (Access to History). The Access to History series is the most popular and trusted series for AS- and A-level history students. The new editions combine all the strengths of this well-loved series with a new design and features that allow all students access to the content and study skills needed to achieve exam success. This is a...
New York: Anchor books, 1975. — 380 p. — ISBN: 0-385-03255-2 Queens, Princesses, Serfs, and Revolutionaries Women in the Revolution Consciousness-Raising and a New Reality Cosmonaut and Milkmaid 78 The Woman Worker 100 Engineers, Lawyers, Executives, Doctors, Teachers Arts and Sports Down on the Farm Blacks, Browns, Orientals, and Jews Women Speak Out The Layer-Cake Family The...
Routledge, 2010. — 400 p. — (Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe, 12). The Caucasus is a strategically and economically important region in contemporary global affairs. Western interest in the Caucasus has grown rapidly since 1991, fuelled by the admixture of oil politics, great power rivalry, ethnic separatism and terrorism that characterizes the...
New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1920. — 276 p. Oa the five weeks I spent in Soviet Russia ten days were spent in Moscow and eight in Petrograd. The remainder of the time I traveled along the Western Front, from the Esthonian border to Moghilev, with leisurely stops at Pskov, Vitebsk, Polotzk, Smolensk, and numerous small towns. I tried to see as much as possible of this vast and...
Eastbourne: Sussex Academic Press, 2016. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 1845198263; ISBN13: 978-1845198268. It is commonplace wisdom that from the authoritarian roots of the Bolshevik revolution in 1917 grew the gulags and the police state of the Stalinist epoch. The Dictator, the Revolution, the Machine overturns that perspective by showing how the October Revolution was inspired by a...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. — 255 p. — ISBN10: 1403939039; ISBN13: 978-1403939036. The British, Irish, Russian, American, German and Austrian contributors examine the intricate nature of the mass repression unleashed by the Stalinist leader of the USSR during 1937-38. The first part of the collection deals with annihilation policies against the Soviet elite and the...
University of Chicago Press, 2017. — 432 p. If you were an independent, adventurous, liberated American woman in the 1920s or 1930s where might you have sought escape from the constraints and compromises of bourgeois living? Paris and the Left Bank quickly come to mind. But would you have ever thought of Russia and the wilds of Siberia? This choice was not as unusual as it...
Princeton University Press, 2010. — 176 p. — (Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity). Between the early 1930s and his death in 1953, Joseph Stalin had more than a million of his own citizens executed. Millions more fell victim to forced labor, deportation, famine, bloody massacres, and detention and interrogation by Stalin's henchmen. Stalin's Genocides is the chilling story...
Cornell University Press, 1992. — 360 p. R. Craig Nation provides the first post-Cold War history of the Soviets' seventy-five-year struggle to maintain an effective national security policy in a hostile world without altogether abandoning the commitment to their original internationalist ideals. This articulate synthesis shows how the Soviet Union has historically dealt with...
Berlin: Berolina, 2016. Aus dem Russischen von Barbara und Lothar Lehnhardt. Original title: End of career. The Russian original was published in 1991. Die sehr unterschiedlichen Erinnerungen, Aufsätze und Dokumente in diesem Buch vermitteln authentische Einblicke in das Leben und die Ära des Lawrenti Pawlowitsch Berija. Dieser Mann wurde von einem System absoluter Macht gegen...
Chicago: Liberator Press, 1975. — 202 p. This study first appeared as a series of articles in the New York weekly, and The Guardian, under the title, "Is the Soviet Union Capitalist?" The complete series is reproduced here without alteration apart from a more logical breakdown into chapters, as noted below. The study does not aim to answer every important question about the...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. — 273 p. — ISBN-10: 0333656849; ISBN-13: 978-0333656846 — (Studies in Russian and East European History and Society). Ivan IV, the 16th-century tsar notorious for his reign of terror, became an unlikely national hero in the Soviet Union during the 1940s. This book traces the development of Ivan's positive image, placing it in the context of...
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. — 372 p. — ISBN10: 0299215040; ISBN13: 978-0299215040. Focusing on a number of historical and literary personalities who were regarded with disdain in the aftermath of the 1917 revolution — figures such as Peter the Great, Ivan the Terrible, Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, and Mikhail Lermontov — Epic Revisionism tells the...
Westport: Greenwood Press, 1999. — XVII, 179 p. — (Contributions to the Study of World History, № 65). — ISBN: 0-313-30921-3. Between 1937 and 1949, Joseph Stalin deported more than two million people of 13 nationalities from their homelands to remote areas of the U.S.S.R. His regime perfected the crime of ethnic cleansing as an adjunct to its security policy during those...
Monograph. — Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. — 269 p. Between 1945 and 1953, while the Soviet Union confronted postwar reconstruction and Cold War crises, its unchallenged leader Joseph Stalin carved out time to study scientific disputes and dictate academic solutions. He spearheaded a discussion of "scientific" Marxist-Leninist philosophy, edited reports on...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 0691138257; ISBN13: 978-0691138251 Between 1945 and 1953, while the Soviet Union confronted postwar reconstruction and Cold War crises, its unchallenged leader Joseph Stalin carved out time to study scientific disputes and dictate academic solutions. He spearheaded a discussion of "scientific" Marxist-Leninist...
London: FF, 2010. Quality: Originally electronic. A lively story-reflection on the history of Russia from old times to the present. The author spent quite a lot of time in Russia and has a lot to talk about. When the British journalist Rachel Polonsky moves to Moscow, she discovers an apartment on Romanov Street that was once home to the Soviet elite. One of the most infamous...
London: FF, 2010 Quality: Originally electronic A lively story-reflection on the history of Russia from old times to the present. The author spent quite a lot of time in Russia and has a lot to talk about. When the British journalist Rachel Polonsky moves to Moscow, she discovers an apartment on Romanov Street that was once home to the Soviet elite. One of the most infamous...
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014. — 400 p. During the twentieth century, communism left its mark on the life, death, hopes, fears, dreams, nightmares, identity, and choices of a large part of humanity. It is not easy to find a single significant aspect of world history in the past century that was not in some way connected to it and did not come under its influence....
4th edition. — New York; Washington; London: Frederick A. Praeger Publishers, 1967. — xiii, 528 p. Where are the roots of Bolshevik Russia to be found? Is Russian Marxism a phenomenon that belongs to the great waves of Western influence or does it grow out of the Russian past? Was Stalin justified in ranking himself with Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great? Or was his a...
London: Routledge, 2002. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 0415933188; ISBN13: 978-0415933186. This text takes an ambitious look at the entire history of the Soviet Union and presents a different kind of analysis of the history of the USSR: examining its birth, evolution, and death in class terms. Utilizing the class analytics they have developed over the last three decades, Resnick and Wolff...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 432 p. This is a major new study of the successor states that emerged in the wake of the collapse of the great Russian, Habsburg, Iranian, Ottoman and Qing Empires and of the expansionist powers who renewed their struggle over the Eurasian borderlands through to the end of the Second World War. Surveying the great power rivalry between the...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 220 p. — ISBN10: 1107196361; ISBN13: 978-1107196360. Rogacheva sheds new light on the complex transition of Soviet society from Stalinism into the post-Stalin era. Using the case study of Chernogolovka, one of dozens of scientific towns built in the USSR under Khrushchev, she explains what motivated scientists to participate in the...
Cambidge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. — 326 p. — ISBN10: 0674019261; ISBN13: 978-0674019263. Challenging the claim that workers supported Stalin's revolution "from above" as well as the assumption that working-class opposition to a workers' state was impossible, Jeffrey Rossman shows how a crucial segment of the Soviet population opposed the authorities during the...
London: Frederick Muller Ltd., 1948. — 300 p. Tins book was written when the deeper truths about the Soviet Union, to which the eyes of many millions were opened for a short while during tlie war against Nazi Germany, were being temporarily obscured attain by the passion of controversy about the settlement of Europe after the war. Experience, throughout the thirty years'...
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1951. — 384 зю. The causes of the Russian revolution . Bread and Butter in Tsarist Russia. Popular Struggle Against Tyranny. How Russia was Governed. No Cromwells in Russia. Who Should Lead the People? Bolsheviks and Mensheviks. Three Revolutions, 1905-17. The breathing space . Brest-Litovsk. Crushing Armed Opposition and Saltotage. Building the...
New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1996. — 268 p. While there are estimates of the number of people killed by Soviet authorities during particular episodes or campaigns, until now, no one has tried to calculate the complete human toll of Soviet genocides and mass murders since the revolution of 1917. Here, R. J. Rummel lists and analyzes hundreds of published...
Madison, WS: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 0299234444; ISBN13: 978-0299234447 During Stalin’s lifetime the crimes of his regime were literally unspeakable. More than fifty years after his death, Russia is still coming to terms with Stalinism and the people’s own role in the abuses of the era. During the decades of official silence that preceded the...
Madison, WS: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 0299234444; ISBN13: 978-0299234447 During Stalin’s lifetime the crimes of his regime were literally unspeakable. More than fifty years after his death, Russia is still coming to terms with Stalinism and the people’s own role in the abuses of the era. During the decades of official silence that preceded the...
London and New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 1999. - 528 p. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including eye-witness accounts, official documents, and materials that have only recently come to light, The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union places the Soviet experience in historical and comparative context. It provides a comprehensive overview of the Soviet Union from...
London: Routledge, 1998. — 360 p. — ISBN-10: 1857283554; ISBN-13: 978-1857283556. The genesis of Soviet socialism . The crucibles of Russian socialism. The emergence of a Soviet model: from the revolution to NEP . The revolutionary settlement: state capitalism, technocracy and the transition to socialism. War communism and Soviet socialism: a technocratic orthodoxy? NEP and...
Recenti documentazioni sulla lotta antireligiosa dopo la morte di Stalin. Roma: Centro di Studi Unione Sovietica, 1956, 99 p. Concetto Marchesi parlamentare comunista e docente di lettera-tura latina all'Università di Padova, ad un'inchiesta promossa dal « Calendario del Popolo » (marzo 1955) — Quali sono i nemici della cultura? — rispondeva sotto il titolo c La confusione...
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015 — 392 p. — ISBN10: 0300171897; ISBN13: 978-0300171891. This fascinating documentary history is the first English-language exploration of Joseph Stalin's relationship with, and manipulation of, the Soviet political police. The story follows the changing functions, organization, and fortunes of the political police and security organs from...
Sheila Fitzpatrick (ed.) Stalinism: New Directions. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. Stalinism is a provocative addition to the current debates related to the history of the Stalinist period of the Soviet Union. Sheila Fitzpatrick has collected together the newest and the most exciting work by young Russian, American and European scholars, as well as some of the seminal...
London: Routledge, 1996. — 296 p. — ISBN10: 041510470X; ISBN13: 978-0415104708. Since its creation immediately after the Russian revolution,the militia has had a broad range of social,political and economic functions necessary to direct and control a highly centralized socialist state.However,as the communst party lost its legitimacy the militia was increasingly thrust into the...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971. — 429 p. — ISBN: 0-691-05641-2 Interest Groups and Communist Politics: An Introduction. H. Gordon Skilling Groups in Soviet Politics: Some Hypotheses. H. Gordon Skilling The Party Apparatchiki. Jerry F. Hough The Security Police. Frederick C. Barghoom The Military. Roman Kolkowicz The Industrial Managers. John P. Hardt and Theodore...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971. — 429 p. — ISBN: 0-691-05641-2. Interest Groups and Communist Politics: An Introduction. H. Gordon Skilling . Groups in Soviet Politics: Some Hypotheses. H. Gordon Skilling . The Party Apparatchiki. Jerry F. Hough . The Security Police. Frederick C. Barghoom . The Military. Roman Kolkowicz . The Industrial Managers. John P. Hardt and...
Paris: Editions Pierre Belfond, 1976. — 509 p. — ISBN: 2-7144-1038-3 Translation into French based on the book: Smith Hedrick. The Russians. — New York, 1975. Part 1 - pp. 1-381. Le peuple La classe privilegie. Le consommateur. La corruption. La vie privée. Les femmes. Les enfants. La jeunesse. Le system La vie rurale. La vie industrielle. Les dirigeants et les diriges. Le...
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014 — 288 p. — ISBN10: 0300200692; ISBN13: 978-0300200690. This book is the first to investigate the gap between the plans and the reality of the Soviet Union’s mid-twentieth-century project to industrialize and modernize its agricultural system. Historians agree that the project failed badly: agriculture was inefficient, unpredictable, and...
Princeton University Press, 2018. — 352 p. When the Bolsheviks set out to build a new world in the wake of the Russian Revolution, they expected religion to die off. Soviet power used a variety of tools - from education to propaganda to terror - to turn its vision of a Communist world without religion into reality. Yet even with its monopoly on ideology and power, the Soviet...
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 0299229645; ISBN13: 978-0299229641. In 1918 the People's Commissariat of Public Health began a quest to protect the health of all Soviet citizens, but health became more than a political platform or a tactical decision. The Soviets defined and categorized the world by interpreting political orthodoxy and...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 386 p. — ISBN-10: 0521768330; ISBN-13: 978-0521768337. The Soviet Counterinsurgency in the Western Borderlands investigates the Soviet response to nationalist insurgencies that occurred between 1944 and 1953 in the regions the Soviet Union annexed after the Nazi-Soviet pact: Eastern Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. Based...
New York: Mainstream Publishers, 1957. — 130 p. Anna Louise Strong was a left-wing journalist who spent much of her life living in the Communist world reporting on conditions and events she found there. Clearly she was sympathetic to the Stalinist regimes in those countries and even after her 1949 arrest in Russia she continued to see the best in what the "socialist bloc"...
New York: Mainstream Publishers, 1957. — 130 p. Anna Louise Strong was a left-wing journalist who spent much of her life living in the Communist world reporting on conditions and events she found there. Clearly she was sympathetic to the Stalinist regimes in those countries and even after her 1949 arrest in Russia she continued to see the best in what the "socialist bloc"...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. — 592 p. — ISBN10: 0195137043; ISBN13: 978-0195137040 This unique collection of primary documents and important scholarly articles tells the fascinating and tragic story of Russia's twentieth century. Edited by Ronald Grigor Suny, an eminent historian and political scientist, The Structure of Soviet History illustrates both the...
Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. 2001. 320 p. ISBN10: 0195144236; ISBN13: 978-0195144239. "A State of Nations: Empire and Nation-Making in the age of Lenin and Stalin" is a compilation of scholarly articles from Russian professors, and edited by two distinguished Russian scholars Ronald Suny and Terry Martin who provide keen opening introductions. The work...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. — 560 p. — ISBN10: 0195081056; ISBN13: 978-0195081053. The West has always had a difficult time understanding the Soviet Union. For decades Americans have known a Soviet Union clouded by ideological passions and a dearth of information. Today, with the revelations under glasnost and the collapse of the Communist empire, Americans are now...
Chicago: RCP Pubications, 1983. — 86 p. — ISBN: 0-89851-067-8 The Question Is Joined — Full Text of New York City Debate, May 1983 Preface. C. Clark Kissinger The Red Flag Still Flies: Workers' Power in the USSR. Albert Szymanski Realities of Social-Imperialism Versus Dogmas of Cynical Realism: The Dynamics of the Soviet Capital Formation. Raymond Lotta Rebuttal. Albert...
London: Zed Press, 1979. — 240 p. — ISBN 0 905762 35 5; 0 905762 36 3 The Nature of the Soviet Union: A Crucial Question Assumptions and Motivations Underlying This Book Summary of This Book A Note on Sources What is a Socialist Society? Criteria for Categorizing Social Formations Capitalism Ownership, Control and Day-to-Day Operation Class and Social Class Ruling Classes and...
London: Zed Press, 1979. — 240 p. — ISBN 0 905762 35 5; 0 905762 36 3 The Nature of the Soviet Union: A Crucial Question Assumptions and Motivations Underlying This Book Summary of This Book A Note on Sources What is a Socialist Society? Criteria for Categorizing Social Formations Capitalism Ownership, Control and Day-to-Day Operation Class and Social Class Ruling Classes and...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1989. — 235 p. — ISBN10: 1349098221; ISBN13: 978-1349098224. This collection of essays focuses on topics pertaining to Soviet propaganda and policy making. Among the essays, there is a study of the view of international relations presented by Soviet TV news, a survey of development in comparative communist studies, and an analysis of recent...
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1946. — 470 p. The purpose of this book is to show the Communist Revolution in Russia and its aftermath in its correct historical perspective, and in this way to build a solid foundation for the discussion of Russo-American relations so important for the maintenance of peace. To achieve this purpose I have made a study of the main social...
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1946. — 470 p. The purpose of this book is to show the Communist Revolution in Russia and its aftermath in its correct historical perspective, and in this way to build a solid foundation for the discussion of Russo-American relations so important for the maintenance of peace. To achieve this purpose I have made a study of the main social...
New York: Oxford University Press, 1949. — 459 p. In a world of nation-states in which the Soviet Union, as one of the two super-powers, plays a dominant role, the nature of political power in the U.S.S.R. becomes a matter of universal import. This study attempts to survey the development of the theory and structure of government in the Soviet state over the three decades of...
New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1998. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0765804832; ISBN13: 978-0765804839. In the years since Stalin's death, his profound influence upon the historical development of Communism has remained elusive and in need of interpretation. Stalinism, as his system has become known, is a phenomenon which embraced all facets of political and social life. While...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2009. — 380 p. — ISBN10: 1931859698; ISBN13: 978-1931859691. Translated by Jurriaan Bendien. The ‘Russian Question’ was an absolutely central problem for Marxism in the twentieth century. Numerous attempts were made to understand the nature of Soviet society. The present book tries to portray the development of these theoretical contributions since 1917...
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2018. — 206 p. — ISBN10: 0299310841; ISBN13: 978-0299310844 During Stalin's Great Terror, more than a million Soviet citizens were arrested or killed for political crimes they did not commit. Who carried out these purges, and what motivated them? Alexander Vatlin opens up the world of the Soviet perpetrators using detailed evidence from...
Belfond, 1980. Je tiens tout d’abord à exprimer mes remerciements aux personnes et aux organismes qui m’ont aidé dans l’accomplissement de cet ouvrage et ont rendu possible sa parution. C’est avec une profonde gratitude que je pense à M. Gustav W. Heinemann, Président de la République Fédérale d’Allemagne, et à son épouse, Mme Hilda Heinemann ; à M. Walter Wodak, qui fut...
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1947. — 1068 p. English sociologist, economist, socialist, labour historian and social reformer, Beatrice Webb was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 1932. That year, she and her husband and co-autyhor Sidney, spent two months from 21 May to late July in the Soviet Union. Their views about the Soviet economic experiment are...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. — 432 p. — ISBN10: 0691095434; ISBN13: 978-0691095431. In Making Sense of War, Amir Weiner reconceptualizes the entire historical experience of the Soviet Union from a new perspective, that of World War II. Breaking with the conventional interpretation that views World War II as a post-revolutionary addendum, Weiner situates this...
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1937. — xiii, 554 p. "All books about the Soviet Union are colored by prejudices, predilections and bias of the author". So says Albert Rhys Williams, author of The Soviets , and proceeds to demonstrate that his own work is no exception to his generalization. But there are differences in the degree of coloring displayed by various observers of...
2015. Quality: originally electronic Mit der ersten sowjetischen Stalin-Biographie nach dem Tod des Diktators von Wolkogonow wurden die Quellen der jüngeren sowjetischen Geschichte endlich der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht. Zum ersten Mal war es einem Autor möglich, alle vorhandenen Zeugnisse über die Stalin-Zeit auszuwerten. Auf sie gestützt, gelang ihm ein atemberaubendes...
Atlantic Books, 2013 It is the world's longest railway line. But it is so much more than that, too. The Trans-Siberian stretches nearly 6,000 miles between Moscow and Vladivostok on the Pacific Coast and was the most ambitious railway project in the nineteenth century. A journey on the railway evokes a romantic roam through the Russian steppes, but also reminds travellers of...
London: Routledge, 2004. — 128 p. — ISBN10: 0415307325; ISBN13: 978-0415307321. The second edition of a best-selling pamphlet, Stalin and Stalinism has been fully updated to take in new debates and controversies which have emerged since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Considering the ways in which Stalin's legacy still affects attitudes in and towards post-Soviet Russia,...
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1968. — 194 p. — ISBN: 340 04385 7 Those who have discovered that life does not consist in having much, but in being the right thing — a child of God — have appeared most beautiful when they have been most despised. The story has repeated itself in every generation and it is repeating itself now in Soviet Russia. We present in this book some forty...
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