London: Routledge, 2017. — 494 p. — ISBN10: 1138224693 ISBN13: 978-1138224698 — (Routledge Library Editions: The Russian Revolution. Book 1). This history, originally published in 1962, by the then lone remaining figure in the leadership of the Russian Social Democratic Party, is an important contribution to the understanding of the Soviet October Revolution of 1917. It covers...
Texas A&M University Press, 2003. — 234 p. After the Bolshevik Revolution, Russia’s new leaders recognized the tantamount importance of teaching science to the masses in order to spread enlightenment and to reinforce the basic tenets of Marxism. However, it was not until the first Five Year Plan and the cultural revolution of 1928-1932 that a radical break from Russia’s tsarist...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. — 479 p. — ISBN: 9780691605753; ISBN: 9780691634685. From the Soviet technical intelligentsia emerged more than three quarters of recent Politburo members, including Brezhnev, Kosygin, and Podgorny. The largest single group of dissenters, including Grigorenko, Sakharov, and Solzhenitsyn, have also been members. The early years to...
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2018. — 136 p. — ISBN10: 1611178606; ISBN13: 978-1611178609 In 1931 sixteen poor, white girls--all teenaged inmates at Samarcand Manor, officially named the State Home and Industrial School for Girls, in Samarcand, North Carolina--were accused of burning down two campus buildings in protest against living conditions. Barbara Bennett...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. — 203 p. — ISBN10: 1850650128; ISBN13: 978-1850650126 This is probably the only English language Cold War era study of Soviet Sufism. Rather than taking a merely spiritual or anthropological look at Soviet Sufis, it tries to gauge their political/social/nationalistic potential, referencing the important role that Sufism played in...
Anonimous (Collective). Reprinted From The Round Table. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1919. A Quarterly Review of the Politics of the British Commonwealth. " The Round Table " is a co-operative enterprise conducted by people who dwell in all parts of the British Commonwealth, and whose aim is to publish once a quarter a comprehensive review of Imperial politics, entirely...
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. — 418 p. — ISBN10: 0300121210; ISBN13: 978-0300121216 The Soviet-Polish peace treaty of 1921, also known as the "Riga peace," ended the war of 1919–1920 and may be considered the most important Eastern European treaty of the interwar period. This deeply researched book offers the first post-Soviet account of how Bolshevik Russia and...
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. — 544 p. — (Jewish Culture and Contexts) — ISBN10: 0812243641; ISBN13: 978-0812243642. Translarted from Russian by Timothy J. Portice. In the years following the Russian Revolution, a bitter civil war was waged between the Bolsheviks, with their Red Army of Workers and Peasants on the one side, and the various groups that...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1998. — 220 p. — ISBN10: 1349265314; ISBN13: 978-1349265312 — (Series: Studies in Russia and East Europe) Over the past two decades in the West there has been a substantial re-appraisal of the Stalinist period. Social historians, in particular, have focused their attention on the social dynamics of Stalinism. This collection of essays is based on a...
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. — 432 p.— ISBN10: 0674057872; ISBN13: 978-0674057876. In the early sixteenth century, the monk Filofei proclaimed Moscow the "Third Rome." By the 1930s, intellectuals and artists all over the world thought of Moscow as a mecca of secular enlightenment. In Moscow, the Fourth Rome, Katerina Clark shows how Soviet officials and...
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. — 432 p.— ISBN10: 0674057872; ISBN13: 978-0674057876. In the early sixteenth century, the monk Filofei proclaimed Moscow the "Third Rome." By the 1930s, intellectuals and artists all over the world thought of Moscow as a mecca of secular enlightenment. In Moscow, the Fourth Rome, Katerina Clark shows how Soviet officials and...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2015. — 848 p. — ISBN10: 9004217258; ISBN13: 978-9004217256. In Trotsky’s Challenge: The ‘Literary Discussion’ of 1924 and the Fight for the Bolshevik Revolution, Frederick C. Corney examines the political polemic surrounding the publication of Trotsky’s The Lessons of October. Trotsky’s analysis ran counter to the efforts of Bolshevik leaders to fashion...
Boulder; London: Westview Press, 1988. — 524 p. — ISBN: 0-8133-7577-0. Until Stalin changed it into his own image, the communist movement was not simple, homogeneous and monolithic, but complex dissentious, and changeable. This important work from the Russian Research Center of Harvard University is a history and study of the difference within the communist movement in Russia...
Boulder; London: Westview Press, 1988. — 524 p. — ISBN: 0-8133-7577-0. Until Stalin changed it into his own image, the communist movement was not simple, homogeneous and monolithic, but complex dissentious, and changeable. This important work from the Russian Research Center of Harvard University is a history and study of the difference within the communist movement in Russia...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1980. — 216 p. — ISBN10: 0333261720; ISBN13: 978-0333261729 During the events described in The Socialist Offensive the collective farms achieved a commanding position in the Soviet countryside. They were planned as giant, fully socialist enterprises, modelled on the state-owned factories, and employing wage labour. By the summer of 1930 the...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 555 p. — ISBN10: 0333311078; ISBN13: 978-0333311073 This book examines the Soviet agricultural crisis of 1931-1933 which culminated in the major famine of 1933. It is the first volume in English to make extensive use of Russian and Ukrainian central and local archives to assess the extent and causes of the famine. It reaches new conclusions...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 439 p. — ISBN10: 1137362375; ISBN13: 978-1137362377 This book concludes The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, an authoritative account of the Soviet Union’s industrial transformation between 1929 and 1939. The volume before this one covered the ‘good years’ (in economic terms) of 1934 to 1936. The present volume has a darker tone:...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 — 496 p. — ISBN10: 0333586859; ISBN13: 978-0333586853. This volume, based on extensive research in formerly secret archives, examines the progress of Soviet industrialisation against the background of the rising threat of aggression from Germany, Japan and Italy, and the consolidation of Stalin's power. The iron and steel industry expanded...
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. — 478 p. — (Annals of Communism Series). — ISBN10: 0300093675; ISBN13: 978-0300093674. From 1931 to 1936, Stalin vacationed at his Black Sea residence for two to three months each year. While away from Moscow, he relied on correspondence with his subordinates to receive information, watch over the work of the Politburo and the government,...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 232 p. — ISBN10: 0521524369; ISBN13: 978-0521524360. A highly original and controversial examination of events in Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1927 in which Professor Day challenges both the standard Trotskyite and Stalinist interpretations of the period. At the same time he rejects the traditional emphasis on Trotsky's concept...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973. — 231 p. A highly original and controversial examination of events in Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1927 in which Professor Day challenges both the standard Trotskyite and Stalinist interpretations of the period. At the same time he rejects the traditional emphasis on Trotsky's concept of Permanent Revolution and argues that a Marxist...
Transl. by Nancy Festinger. — New York: Holmes & Meier Pub, 1991. — 262 p. — ISBN10: 0841912858; ISBN13: 978-0841912854 In this enlightening and provocative book, a distinguished writer on international affairs traces the failure of Soviet nationalities policy to the formative years of the Bolshevik regime when that policy was formulated and implemented. The author explores the...
Paris: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015. — 466 p. By the early twentieth century, a genuine renaissance of religious thought and a desire for ecclesial reform were emerging in the Russian Orthodox Church. With the end of tsarist rule and widespread dissatisfaction with government control of all aspects of church life, conditions were ripe for the Moscow Council of 1917-1918...
New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 1474286704; ISBN13: 978-1474286701. Lara Cook examines the practical functioning and internal political culture of the early Soviet government cabinet, the Council of Peoples Commissars (Sovnarkom), under Lenin. This study elucidates the process by which Sovnarkoms governmental decision-making authority was transferred to...
Fort Leavenworth: US Army Command and General Staff College, 1981. — 114 p. "A Strange War," observed a 20 July 1939 New York Times editorial about the fighting between the Soviet Red Army and the Imperial Japanese Army on the Mongolian steppes. The Times derided both combatants' claims as exaggerated but inadvertently touched on the distinctive feature of the fighting when it...
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1933. — 172 p. This book is based upon a very brief Durant's visit to Russia in the summer of 1932. From the Preface: The views expressed in this book will be unavoidably unpopular with most critics, whose natural liberalism and sympathetic interest in new experiments will be offended by this apparent betrayal of the liberal cause. I can only ask them to...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. — 856 p. — ISBN10: 0199794219; ISBN13: 978-0199794218 October 1917, heralded as the culmination of the Russian Revolution, remains a defining moment in world history. Even a hundred years after the events that led to the emergence of the world's first self-proclaimed socialist state, debate continues over whether, as historian E. H. Carr...
Penguin Books, 1998. — 923 p. Illustrations Notes on Dates Maps Russia under old regime The crisis of authority Russian in revolution The Civil War and the making of Soviet system
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 408 p. — (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies. Book 2). — ISBN10: 0521524385; ISBN13: 978-0521524384. A study in the formation and development of a Soviet government institution after the Revolution of October 1917. The commissariat - which was responsible both for education and the arts - was the main channel of...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 408 p. — (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies. Book 2). — ISBN10: 0521524385; ISBN13: 978-0521524384. A study in the formation and development of a Soviet government institution after the Revolution of October 1917. The commissariat - which was responsible both for education and the arts - was the main channel of...
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978. — 318 p. — ISBN: 0-253-31591-3. "Cultural revolution" is a term most familiar from the upheaval in China in the 196os. But, whether or not the Chinese Communists were aware of it, their cultural revolution had a precedent in Soviet history. During the First Five-Year Plan, and particularly in the years 1928-31, the old Russian...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002 — 368 p. — ISBN10: 0521894239; ISBN13: 978-0521894234. This is a history of Soviet education policy 1921-34 that places special emphasis upon the theme of social mobility through education. One of the hitherto untold stories of Soviet history is the making of the 'Brezhnev generation', a cohort of young workers and Communists sent to...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002 — 368 p. — ISBN10: 0521894239; ISBN13: 978-0521894234. This is a history of Soviet education policy 1921-34 that places special emphasis upon the theme of social mobility through education. One of the hitherto untold stories of Soviet history is the making of the 'Brezhnev generation', a cohort of young workers and Communists sent to...
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. — 296 p. — ISBN10: 0801495164; ISBN13: 978-0801495168. When Lenin asked, "Who will beat whom?" (Kto kogo?), he had no plan to wage revolutionary class war in culture. Many young Communists thought differently, however. Seeking in the name of the proletariat to wrest "cultural hegemony" from the intelligentsia, they turned culture into a...
Oxford University Press, 1999. — 274 p. From the archives of the website The Master and Margarita Sheila Fitzpatrick is an Australian-American historian. She is Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney with her primary speciality being the history of modern Russia. Her recent work has focused on Soviet social and cultural history in the Stalin period, particularly...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984. — 181 p. This book is concerned with the Russian Revolution in its widest sense-not only with the events of 19176 and what preceded them, but with the nature of the social transformation brought about by the Bolsheviks after they took power. Professor Fitzpatrick's analysis extends through the period of the Civil War and the New Economic...
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999 — 666 p. — ISBN10: 0300077726; ISBN13: 978-0300077728. A collection of formerly top-secret Soviet documents from Stalin's great purges of 1932 to 1939. Exposing to daylight the hidden inner workings of the Communist Party and the dark inhumanity of the purge process, it seeks to deepen our understanding of Soviet history. Notes on...
Yale: Yale University Press, 2008. The Road to Terror is first and foremost a reference book. It contains 199 documents, taken from the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (RGASPI) in Moscow and translated with astonishing sensitivity by Benjamin Sher . J. Arch Getty provides an eloquent commentary, it places the documents in context without taking away from...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 312 p. — ISBN10: 0521894425; ISBN13: 978-0521894425 — (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies. Book 37) This is the first major study of revolutionary Kronstadt to span the period from February 1917 to the uprising of March 1921. It focuses attention on Kronstadt's forgotten golden age, between March 1917 and July...
Chicago: Northern Illinois University Press, 2017. — 246 p. — ISBN10: 087580781X; ISBN13: 978-0875807812 The Eurasianist movement was launched in the 1920s by a group of young Russian emigres who had recently emerged from years of fighting and destruction. Drawing on the cultural fermentation of Russian modernism in the arts and literature, as well as in politics and...
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. — 274 p. The decision to record my experiences, observations, and reactions during my stay in Russia I had made long before I thought of leaving that country. In fact, that was my main reason for departing from that tragically heroic land. The strongest of us are loath to give up a longcherished dream. I had come to Russia...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1993. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 0521458161; ISBN13: 978-0521458160 — (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies. Book 90) When the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917, they believed that under socialism the family would "wither-away." They envisioned a society in which communal dining halls, daycare centers, and public laundries would...
Paperback: 408 p. Publisher: Princeton University Press; Expanded edition with a New preface by the author edition (May 12, 2002). Language: English. Jan Gross describes the terrors of the Soviet occupation of the lands that made up eastern Poland between the two world wars: the Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia. His lucid analysis of the revolution that came to Poland...
Bakharat: Serbiaan, 2010. — 194 p. — ISBN: 81-87492-28-7. Translated from the original Russian by Pranab Ghosh and Susmita Bhattacharya The full text of the Ryutin Platform was for the first time serialised in Izvestiya TsK KPSS under the authority of the Central Committee of the CPSU in the erstwhile Soviet Union in 1990. Although the document was believed to have been...
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007. — 424 p. — ISBN: 0822973170, 9780822973171. Intimate Enemies is a brilliant study of the transformation of Bolshevik Party ideology, language, and power relations during the crucial period leading up to Stalin's seizure of power. Combining extensive research in recently opened Soviet archives with an insightful rereading of...
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 0300125240. For this book a distinguished team of economists and historians — R. W. Davies, Paul R. Gregory, Andrei Markevich, Mikhail Mukhin, Andrei Sokolov, and Mark Harrison — scoured formerly closed Soviet archives to discover how Stalin used rubles to make guns. Focusing on various aspects of the defense industry,...
Mexico: Ediciones Era, S. A., 1972. — 372 p. Indice Introducción Advertencia Los grandes protagonistas Nikolái Ivánovich Bujarin Lev Borísovich Kámenev Vladímir Ilich Lenin Iosif Stalin Yákov Mijáilovich Svérdlov Lev Davuídovich Trotsky Gregori Evséevich Zinóviev La pléyade de Octubre Los bolcheviques de antes de la guerra¡ Andréi Andréevich Andréiev Andréi Serguéievich Bubnov...
Foreword by John Macmurray. — London: Chapman and Hall Ltd., 1933. — 301 p. The theoretical aspect of Soviet activities is indeed of first-rate importance. It is not too much to say that it is quite impossible to understand the political, economic and social development of revolutionary Russia except by first understanding the philosophy which underlies it. Modem Russia is the...
Plymouth: Lexington Books, 2009. — 282 p. — ISBN10: 0739135910; ISBN13: 978-0739135914. Grand Theater examines bureaucracy not as a readily identifiable structure but rather as a process of day-to-day operation. Thus it is concerned with how agencies of both the communist party and the state apparatus not only implemented directives from above but also responded to perceived...
University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Zea Books, 2015. — 437 p. The stories of Russian educated women, peasants, prisoners, workers, wives, and mothers of the 1920s and 1930s show how work, marriage, family, religion, and even patriotism helped sustain them during harsh times. The Russian Revolution launched an economic and social upheaval that released peasant women from the...
Bombay: Chetana, 1949. — 132 p. Right wingers critical of Jawaharlal Nehru tend to blame his Soviet leanings and what they term ‘Nehruvian Socialism’ for the problems that India faced in the decades that followed independence. Although Nehru admired the USSR, he was anything but a proponent of blindly replicating Soviet systems in India, and his relationship with Moscow was not...
London: Routledge, 2013. — 450 p. — ISBN10: 0415850789; ISBN13: 978-0415850780 Originally published in 1961. Russian Marxist philosophy of science originated among men and women who gave their whole lives to rebellion against established authority. The original tension within Marxist philosophy between positivism and metaphysics was repressed but not resolved in this first...
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1919. — 221 p. The narrative of Mr. Keeling which appears in the following pages is bound to excite the interest of a large number of people ; it is the first hand evidence, direct and explicit, of a bond fide English workman who has lived and worked with Russian peasants and town factory employees for the last five years. In the ordinary way no...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. — 324 p. — ISBN10: 0521313988; ISBN13: 978-0521313988 In this comprehensive study of the early development of the Soviet propaganda system, Peter Kenez describes how the Bolshevik Party went about reaching the Russian people. Throughout this book, Kenez is more concerned with the experience of the Soviet people than with high-level...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. — 324 p. — ISBN10: 0521313988; ISBN13: 978-0521313988 In this comprehensive study of the early development of the Soviet propaganda system, Peter Kenez describes how the Bolshevik Party went about reaching the Russian people. Throughout this book, Kenez is more concerned with the experience of the Soviet people than with high-level...
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. — 328 p. Robert Kindler's seminal work is a comprehensive and unsettling account of the Soviet campaign to forcefully sedentarize and collectivize the Kazakh clans. Viewing the nomadic life as unproductive, and their lands unused and untilled, Stalin and his inner circle pursued a campaign of violence and subjugation, rather than attempting...
Berlin: Ernst Rowohlt, 1931. — 204 S. Translation into German based on the book: Knickerbocker H.R. The red trade menace. Progress of the Soviet five-year plan. - New York, Dodd, Mead and company, 1931. Der Sowjetkampf um Handelssuprematie. Die Ernährungsfrage. Amerikanische Ingenieure errichten eine «Musterstadt». Zwei Meilen lange Asbestgrube wird die doppelte Weltausbeute...
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1931. — 295 A Pulitzer-winning examination of the Soviet Union foreign trade monopoly in Europe's chief industrial cities and of the effects, chiefly, on America's export trade. Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker, born in Texas and the son of a pastor, was noted for reporting on inter-war German politics, as well as the Soviet Union and the Spanish...
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1931. — 295 p. A Pulitzer-winning examination of the Soviet Union foreign trade monopoly in Europe's chief industrial cities and of the effects, chiefly, on America's export trade. Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker, born in Texas and the son of a pastor, was noted for reporting on inter-war German politics, as well as the Soviet Union and the Spanish...
London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd, 1931. — 302 p. Suffering from an economic crisis of unexampled intensity, the capitalist world today has turned its eyes upon the Soviet Union with more curiosity than ever before. What effect has the world depression had upon the Soviet Union and what effect has the Soviet Union had upon the world depression? Never in modem history has...
London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd, 1931. — 302 p. Suffering from an economic crisis of unexampled intensity, the capitalist world today has turned its eyes upon the Soviet Union with more curiosity than ever before. What effect has the world depression had upon the Soviet Union and what effect has the Soviet Union had upon the world depression? Never in modem history has...
New York: 1919. — 16 p. Whatever economic subject pertaining to Russia is dealt with, we of necessity — such are the present conditions — have to resort to a nundber of conjectural assumptions. In my report I shall consider Russia as a political unit in its former boundaries, excepting only Poland, the separation of which from Russia in the form of an independent state presents...
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991. — 244 p. — (Series in Russian and East European studies (Book 14) — ISBN10: 0822911612; ISBN13: 978-0822911616 An examination of the part played by the left Communists following the Russian revolution, the largest opposition to state socialism until the 1990s. The author feels that the leftist's vision offered no viable model...
New York: International Publishers, 1936. — 24 p. What is happening to religion in Soviet Russia? What proportion of the people still go to church there? How many of them actually are atheists? Is there religious persecution under the Communist regime? What has become of the minor faiths in Russia such as Judaism, Mohammedanism, and the various forms of Protestantism? How is...
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. — 326 p. — ISBN10: 0674013190; ISBN13: 978-0674013193. In this provocative book, Matthew Lenoe traces the origins of Stalinist mass culture to newspaper journalism in the late 1920s. In examining the transformation of Soviet newspapers during the New Economic Policy and the First Five Year Plan, Lenoe tells a dramatic story of...
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. — 170 p. The Great War has reached and passed its dramatic climax. But instead of the curtain being rung down on a world still vibrating from its titanic blows, we are spectators of a series of scenes which weary us with a sense of hopeless anti-climax, yet refuse to be dismissed from the stage. International politics present a series...
Reproduced from Russian Economic Bulletin № 9. — Paris: Russian commercial institute in Paris, 1933. — 18 p. The « Russian Economic Bulletin » has collected much information which shows indisputably that Soviet Russia is in the grip of a severe famine. This information is drawn from various sources: numerous letters received from Russians in the USSR; letters from foreigners...
Reproduced from Russian Economic Bulletin № 9. — Paris: Russian commercial institute in Paris, 1933. — 18 p. The « Russian Economic Bulletin » has collected much information which shows indisputably that Soviet Russia is in the grip of a severe famine. This information is drawn from various sources: numerous letters received from Russians in the USSR; letters from foreigners...
New York: Basic Books, 2014 — 432 p. — ISBN10: 0465030750; ISBN13: 978-0465030750. History remembers the Soviets and the Nazis as bitter enemies and ideological rivals, the two mammoth and opposing totalitarian regimes of World War II whose conflict would be the defining and deciding clash of the war. Yet for nearly a third of the conflict’s entire timespan, Hitler and Stalin...
Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1995. — 215 p. — ISBN10: 1554585589; ISBN13: 978-1554585588. In March 1933 the economic section of the Soviet secret police arrested six British engineers employed by the Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Company. The arrests provoked a confrontation that brought Anglo-Soviet relations to the brink of disaster and resurrected the...
University of Washington Press, 2003. — 344 p. This wide-ranging cultural history explores the expression of Bolshevik Party ideology through the lens of landscape, or, more broadly, space. Portrayed in visual images and words, the landscape played a vital role in expressing and promoting ideology in the former Soviet Union during the Stalin years, especially in the 1930s. At...
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 030013424X; ISBN13: 978-0300134247 — (The Yale-Hoover Series on Stalin, Stalinism, and the Cold War) In this groundbreaking book, prominent Western and Russian scholars examine the “lost” transcripts of the Soviet Politburo, a set of verbatim accounts of meetings that took place from the 1920s to 1938 but remained...
Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1968. — 270 p. The Russian Proletariat and World Revolution: Lenin's Views to 1914 Lenin's Assumption of International Proletarian Leadership The April Theses and the Three Crises The Seizure of Power Trotsky and Lenin Brest-Litovsk: The Opening Moves Brest-Litovsk: The End Game After Germany-the World! The Third International Violence When...
Warsaw: 2005. - 611 p. (Polish translation from English) Przedmowa Wojna domowa: pierwsze bitwy (1918) Wojna domowa: kulminacja (1919–1920) Czerwone imperium Komunizm na eksport Komunizm, faszyzm i narodowy socjalizm Kultura jako propaganda Walka z religią NEP: fałszywy termidor Kryzys nowego reżimu Uwagi o rewolucji rosyjskiej Słownik terminów rosyjskich Kalendarium Przypisy...
Harvard University Press, 1997. — 390 p. Famous historian and specialist in communism talks about disintegration of Russian empire, Civil war, Soviet conquest of Ukraine,Belorussia and Caucasus republics and the creation of Soviet Union.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. — 500 p. — ISBN10: 0199245134; ISBN13: 978-0199245130. Stalin's Terror of 1937-8 is one of the most extraordinary events of the twentieth century. His seemingly irrational attack on the military, technical, and political élite on the eve of war, precisely the time when he needed them most, remains difficult to understand. Stalinism and the...
Indiana University Press, 2007. - 518 p. As the detail of familiar objects under a microscope recasts preexisting impressions, Rabinowitch's week-by-week and, in places, day-by-day reconstruction of Bolshevik politics from the first to the second October under Soviet rule gives altogether familiar events an unfamiliar and far deeper resonance. The Bolsheviks were divided even...
National Council for Soviet and East European Research, 1984. — 296 p. Events after they have occurred become the subjects of investigation. Historians want to know what caused Napoleon to lead the Grande Armée on its catastrophic march to Moscow . Defending their opinions they polemicize bitterly, suggest reasons, cite facts . Even if they, as is usually the case, do not find...
UCL Press, 2001. — 183 p. This highly readable and authoritative new study of the 1917 Revolution restores to center stage the experiences of the ordinary men and women of Russia's towns and villages. By examining the revolution in the light of these experiences rather than the activities of central parties and politicians, the book challenges many commonly held assumptions and...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1995. — 307 p. — ISBN10: 1349237655; ISBN13: 978-1349237654 — (Studies in Russian and East European History and Society). This work provides an in-depth case-study of decision-making in the Soviet Union in the Stalin era. It focuses on the development of rail transport policy, upon which the entire economy as well as the country's defence were so...
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1987. — 336 p. — ISBN 0-312-00767-1 List of Plates Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction: Aspects of State Control The Institutionalization of State Control (1919-22) Lenin’s Plan for the Reorganization of Rabkrin (1922-3) Rabkrin and the Organization of State Control (1923-30) Rabkrin and the ‘Scissors Crisis’ (1923-4) Rabkrin at the High...
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1987. — 336 p. — ISBN 0-312-00767-1 List of Plates Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction: Aspects of State Control The Institutionalization of State Control (1919-22) Lenin’s Plan for the Reorganization of Rabkrin (1922-3) Rabkrin and the Organization of State Control (1923-30) Rabkrin and the ‘Scissors Crisis’ (1923-4) Rabkrin at the High...
Leiden, Boston: Historical Materialism, Brill, 2016 — 1299 p. — ISBN: 978-90-04-28802-7; 978-90-04-28803-4. Translated by John Riddell. Debates at world Communism’s 1921 congress reveal Lenin’s International at a moment of crisis. A policy of confrontational initiatives by a resolute minority contends with the perspective of winning majority working-class support on the road to...
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 047206424X; ISBN13: 978-0472064243 — (Ann Arbor Paperbacks. Book 201) For all of its upheaval, revolution provides that rarest of opportunities: the possibility of creating;a new social and cultural architecture. Bolshevik Visions has been revised for its second printing and made into a two-part collection of...
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 047206424X; ISBN13: 978-0472064243 — (Ann Arbor Paperbacks. Book 201) For all of its upheaval, revolution provides that rarest of opportunities: the possibility of creating;a new social and cultural architecture. Bolshevik Visions has been revised for its second printing and made into a two-part collection of...
New York: Pluto Press, 1972. — 271 p. Translated by Ian H. Birchall, introduction by Tamara Deutscher. Introduction by Tamara Dcutscher. 1920 . Europe in 1920. The Journey to Moscow. May Day in Vienna. Masaryk's Czechoslovakia. Clara Zctkin. Shlyapnikov. Great demonstration at Berlin. From Stettin to Reval (Tallinn). Petrograd. Zinoviev. Moscow: at the Executive Committee of...
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1921. — 197 p. The Russian Revolution is one of the great heroic events of the world s history. It is natural to compare it to the French Revolution, but it is in fact something of even more importance. It does more to change daily life and the structure of society : it also does more to change men s beliefs. The difference is exemplified by...
Translated from French By Ralph Manheim. — New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1937. — 116 p. Victor Serge wrote "From Lenin to Stalin" in December 1936, several months after he had been deported from the Soviet Union, after having been internally exiled to Orenburg, for being a member of the Left Opposition, in other words a "Trotskyist." It traces the history of the Russian...
Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1996 — xlvi + 345 p. — ISBN: 0-391-03855-9. New edition prepared by Susan Weissman. Original translation from the French by Max Shachtman. Includes the essay, "Thirty Years After the Russian Revolution," translated by Michel Bolsey. This is one of the most important documentary accounts of the Stalinist system written by the...
Chicago: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972 — 447 p. — ISBN: 0 7139 0135 7. Translated by P. Sedgwick. "It is often said" wrote Victor Serge, "that the germ of all Stalinism was in Bolshevism at its beginning". Bolshevism also contained many other germs and this book, an eye-witness account, shows the many germs, the many new possibilities, that were present as a result of the...
Transl. from the French by Max Shachtman. — New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1937. — 312 p. This is one of the most important documentary accounts of the Stalinist system written by the revolutionary novelist and historian Victor Serge. This was his first major work, written just after his harrowing release and expulsion from the Stalinist gulag, where he spent three years as an...
Transl. from the French by Max Shachtman. — New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1937. — 312 p. This is one of the most important documentary accounts of the Stalinist system written by the revolutionary novelist and historian Victor Serge. This was his first major work, written just after his harrowing release and expulsion from the Stalinist gulag, where he spent three years as an...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999. — 183 p. — ISBN10: 0333669142; ISBN13: 978-0333669143. The collapse of the imperial regime excited Russian intellectuals of all political persuasions. Although eager to draw comparisons between pre-revolutionary Russia and revolutionary France, the political elite saw the outcome in their own country as vastly different to the events which...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1992. — 300 p. — ISBN10: 0521369878; ISBN13: 978-0521369879 — (Cambridge Russian Paperbacks. Book 8) This is the first book to analyze the relationship between the Soviet state and society from the October Revolution of 1917 to the revolution under Stalin of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Professor Lewis Siegelbaum explores the...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1992. — 300 p. — ISBN10: 0521369878; ISBN13: 978-0521369879 — (Cambridge Russian Paperbacks. Book 8) This is the first book to analyze the relationship between the Soviet state and society from the October Revolution of 1917 to the revolution under Stalin of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Professor Lewis Siegelbaum explores the...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. — 1128 p. — ISBN10: 0691176949; ISBN13: 978-0691176949 The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Grossman’s Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, Yuri Slezkine’s gripping narrative tells the true...
London: Victor Gollancz LTD, 1937. — 288 p. A very great deal is being said and written nowadays about democracy and dictatorship. We repeatedly hear it said that democracy must be defended; and as an example of the kind of dictatorship of which we must beware the Soviet Union is often quoted. And yet, at the same time as this Soviet Union is described as a dictatorship,...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2015. — 1317 p. — (Historical Dictionaries of War, Revolution, and Civil Unrest). — ISBN10: 1442252804. — ISBN13: 1442252806. This book is a detailed reference of the twentieth century struggles that were waged across and beyond the decaying Russian Empire at the end of the First World War, as tsarism and democratic alternatives to it collapsed...
Pan Macmillan, 2012. — 1087 p. Epic in scope, precise in detail, and heartbreaking in its human drama, Former People is the first book to recount the history of the aristocracy caught up in the maelstrom of the Bolshevik Revolution and the creation of Stalin's Russia. It is the story of how a centuries-old elite, famous for its glittering wealth, its service to the tsar and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1999. — 300 p. Preface and Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations, Russian Terms and Organisations Note on Transliteration Marxists, Bolsheviks and the National Question From Marx to Lenin The Bolsheviks before 1917 The Bolsheviks after 1917 The Case for National Autonomy - Causes and Processes The People's Commissariat of Nationality Affairs (Narkomnats)...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 180 p. — (Very Short Introductions). This Very Short Introduction provides an analytical narrative of the main events and developments in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1936. It examines the impact of the revolution on society as a whole - on different classes, ethnic groups, the army, men and women, youth. Its central concern is to understand...
New York; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1919. — 412 p. In the following pages I have tried to make a plain and easily understandable outline of the origin, history, and meaning of Bolshevism. I have attempted to provide the average American reader with a fair and reliable statement of the philosophy, program, and policies of the Russian Bolsheviki. In order to avoid...
Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1989.344 p. ISBN10: 0195055373; ISBN13: 978-0195055375. The revolutionary ideals of equality, communal living, proletarian morality, and technology worship, rooted in Russian utopianism, generated a range of social experiments which found expression, in the first decade of the Russian revolution, in festival, symbol, science fiction, city...
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1972. — xxviii, 412 p. — ISBN: 978-0-691-05193-2. The historiography of the Russian Revolution in Western countries, for all its peculiar advantages of objective distance from the events, has produced a distorted view of the vast canvas of 1917 — 1918 by its almost exclusive concentration on the central cities, Petrograd and...
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. — Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1968. — 392 p An Empirical Examination of Foreign Concessions and Technological Transfers Caucasus Oil Fields-The Key to Economic Recovery Coal and Anthracite Mining Industries Early DetJelopment of the Soviet Metallurgical Industry Non-ferrous Metal Mining and Smelting; The Manganese...
Stanford University. — Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1971. — 423 p Tables Figures Introduction: Methodology and Sources Soviet Liquidation of the Foreign Concessions Technical Assistance to Irrigation Construction Technical Assistance to the Non-Ferrous Metals Industry Technical Assistance to the Iron and Steel Industry Technical Assistance to the Fuel Industries...
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. — Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1968. — 392 p An Empirical Examination of Foreign Concessions and Technological Transfers Caucasus Oil Fields-The Key to Economic Recovery Coal and Anthracite Mining Industries Early DetJelopment of the Soviet Metallurgical Industry Non-ferrous Metal Mining and Smelting; The Manganese...
Stanford University. — Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1971. — 423 p Tables Figures Introduction: Methodology and Sources Soviet Liquidation of the Foreign Concessions Technical Assistance to Irrigation Construction Technical Assistance to the Non-Ferrous Metals Industry Technical Assistance to the Iron and Steel Industry Technical Assistance to the Fuel Industries...
Stanford University. — Hoover Institution Press, 1973. — 501 p. Tables Figures The Transfer Mechanisms: 1945 to 1965 Lend Lease and the "Pipeline Agreement," 1941 to 1946 World War II Reparations for the Soviet Union Trade as a Transfer Mechanism Technical Assistance and Foreign Prototypes Financial Aspects of Technical Transfers Patterns of Indirect Technical Assistance to the...
London: Verso, 2017. — 384 p. — ISBN10: 1786631105; ISBN13: 978-1786631107. On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Tariq Ali paints an illuminating portrait of Lenin. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the October 1917 uprising, is one of the most misunderstood leaders of the twentieth century. In his own time, there were many, even among his enemies, who acknowledged the...
Yale University Press; New edition, 1998. — 320 p. Terror, in the sense of mass, unjust arrests, characterized the USSR during the late 1930s. But, argues Robert Thurston in this controversial book, Stalin did not intend to terrorize the country and did not need to rule by fear. Memoirs and interviews with Soviet people indicate that many more believed in Stalin's quest to...
New York: Pathfinder Press, 1973 — 126 p. — ISBN10: 0873483197; ISBN13: 978-0873483193. Participating in the revolutionary workers movement "with open eyes and an intense will--only this can give the highest moral satisfaction to a thinking being," Trotsky writes. He explains how morality is rooted in the interests of contending social classes. With a reply by the pragmatist...
New York: Nicholas Brown, 1920. — 296 p. In this book are collected stray writings based upon experiences of the author in Russia from April, 1918, to March, 1919. Experiences of a common American in very ordinary service with the Y. M. C. A. ; Russia, however, being what she was at that time, they were uncommon experiences. If no central thread appears at first in these...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 260 p. — ISBN10: 3319784420; ISBN13: 978-3319784427. This book is the first full-length study of the Soviet Constitution of 1936, exploring Soviet citizens’ views of constitutional democratic principles and their problematic relationship to the reality of Stalinism. Drawing on archival materials, the book offers an insight into the mass...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 260 p. — ISBN10: 3319784420; ISBN13: 978-3319784427 This book is the first full-length study of the Soviet Constitution of 1936, exploring Soviet citizens’ views of constitutional democratic principles and their problematic relationship to the reality of Stalinism. Drawing on archival materials, the book offers an insight into the mass...
University Press of Kansas, 2017. — 400 p. For seven weeks in 1929, the Republic of China and the Soviet Union battled in Manchuria over control of the Chinese Eastern Railroad. It was the largest military clash between China and a Western power ever fought on Chinese soil, involving more that a quarter million combatants. Michael M. Walker’s The 1929 Sino-Soviet War is the...
New York: Boni and Liveright Publishers, 1921. — 382 p. Illustrated with photographs and Russian posters in colors In 1917 the social and economic fabric of the land was shot to pieces. Ten million peasants dragged from their ploughs were dying in the trenches. Millions more were perishing of cold and hunger in the cities while the corrupt ministers intrigued with the Germans...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 0198725825; ISBN13: 978-0198725824. Living the Revolution offers insight into the world of the early Soviet activists. At the heart of this book are a cast of fiery-eyed, bed-headed youths determined to be the change they wanted to see in the world. First banding together in the wake of the October Revolution, seizing...
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