McLean, VA: Pergamon Press, 1985. — 216 p. — ISBN10: 0080315720; ISBN13: 978-0080315720. In practicing what it calls disinformation, the Soviet union has for years sponsored grand deceptions calculated to mislead, confound, or inflame foreign opinion. Some of these subterfuges have had a considerable impact on world affairs. Some also have had unforeseeable consequences...
Washington D.C.: Pergamon-Brassey’s International Defense Publishers, 1985. — 239 p. — ISBN: 0-08-031572-0 In recent years the West has learned a great deal about the Soviet bloc’s use of what they now call “active measures”. As part of their political and military strategy, Moscow and its allies use a variety of overt and covert means to influence Western perceptions and to...
Praha: Melantrich, 1950. — 250 s. Translation into Czech from Hungarian based on the book: Boldizsár Iván. Fortokska. Így el Moszkva. - Budapest, 1948. Fortočka je malé okénko, kterého užívá ruský sedlák v zimě, když zabední velké okno - a takovým malým okénkem je právě deník maďar. státního tajemníka I.B. o návštěvě Sovět. svazu r. 1947. Knížka byla ovšem tehdy určena...
Washington, D.C.: The national council for Soviet and East European research, 1990. — 64 p. Contractor: Stanford University. Council contract number: 804-09. The work leading to this report was supported by funds provided by the National Council for Soviet and East European Research. The analysis and interpretations contained in the report are those of the author. In essence,...
Washington, D.C.: The national council for Soviet and East European research, 1990. — 64 p. Contractor: Stanford University. Council contract number: 804-09. The work leading to this report was supported by funds provided by the National Council for Soviet and East European Research. The analysis and interpretations contained in the report are those of the author. In essence,...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 1349050245; ISBN13: 978-1349050246 To realise the huge increases in production called for by the first Soviet Five-Year Plan from 1927-8 onwards, an organisational structure had to be set up to mobilise men and machines and to concentrate human and material resources on major projects. The core of this structure was the...
Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corporation, 1982. — 155 p. — ISBN: 0-8330-0461-1 — (Rand Reports. R-2869) Between 1978 and 1981, The Rand Corporation conducted a comparative study of the role of the media in intra-elite communication in Communist countries. Western analysts of the political process in "closed” Communist systems necessarily rely heavily on the published and broadcast...
Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corporation, 1982. — 155 p. — ISBN: 0-8330-0461-1 — (Rand Reports. R-2869) Between 1978 and 1981, The Rand Corporation conducted a comparative study of the role of the media in intra-elite communication in Communist countries. Western analysts of the political process in "closed” Communist systems necessarily rely heavily on the published and broadcast...
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. — 360 p. — (Eurasia Past and Present). — ISBN10: 0300208480; ISBN13: 978-0300208481 In the first full-length study of Soviet Central Television to draw extensively on archival sources, interviews, and television recordings, Evans challenges the idea that Soviet mass culture in the Brezhnev era was dull and formulaic. Tracing the emergence...
Yale University Press, 2007. — 304 p. Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez’s groundbreaking history of the Six-Day War in 1967 radically changes our understanding of that conflict, casting it as a crucial arena of Cold War intrigue that has shaped the Middle East to this day. The authors, award-winning Israeli journalists and historians, have investigated newly available documents...
New York: Dodd Mead, 1984. — 402 p. — ISBN10: 0396081940; ISBN13: 978-0396081944 Anatoliy Golitsyn is a controversial figure when it comes to analysing international relations and political events. The ex-KGB officer defected to the USA in 1961, but became either loved or loathed in the intelligence community for what many saw as his “conspiracy theories.” This book appears to...
Routledge, 2014. — 292 p. Why did the Soviet economic system fall apart? Did the economy simply overreach itself through military spending? Was it the centrally-planned character of Soviet socialism that was at fault? Or did a potentially viable mechanism come apart in Gorbachev's clumsy hands? Does its failure mean that true socialism is never economically viable? The economic...
London: Pluto Press, 1979. — 146 p. — ISBN: 086104-072-4 One of the arguments that apologists for Soviet behaviour make is that in an imperfect world there are ‘tradeoffs’ between procedural and substantive rights. The US tradition emphasizes rights of speech, assembly, petition, and due process but does not guarantee the economic rights that Franklin Roosevelt talked about...
Berlin: Dietz, 2003. — 104 s. — (Manuskripte / Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung ; 43). — ISBN10: 3320029401; ISBN13: 9783320029401 Michael Brie. Der Tod des Diktators. Zum 50. Todestag von J. Stalin. Wladislaw Hedeler. Der Tod des Diktators. Karl-Heinz Gräfe. Stalins Tod und der Neue Kurs in Osteuropa. Siegfried Prokop. Intellektuelle im Jahr 1953. Reaktionen auf Stalins Tod. Jörg...
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013 — 376 p. — ISBN10: 030018512X; ISBN13: 978-0300185126. Drawing on newly available materials from the Soviet archives, Polly Jones offers an innovative, comprehensive account of de-Stalinization in the Soviet Union during the Khrushchev and early Brezhnev eras. Jones traces the authorities’ initiation and management of the de-Stalinization...
Funded by the foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” 2012. — 66 p. Rostov- on - Don General outline Remembrance of War in the City’s Post- War Era Reconstruction Projects Managing the Past in City Municipal Practices: Regulation of Burials, Monumental Commemoration and Toponimy Memory of War As an Object of ‘Ideological Work’ Kharkiv General Outline Postwar...
Södertörn University, 2017. — 292 p. National Operations of the NKVD. A General Approach The Great Terror. New Dimensions of Research Ethnification of Stalinism? Ethnic Cleansings and the NKVD Order № 00447 in a Comparative Perspective ‘He who Is not with Us Is against Us.’ Elimination of the ‘Fifth Column’ in the Soviet Union, 1937–1938 Ethnic Minorities in the Great Terror....
Éditions complexe, 2012. — 321 p. La Guerre froide a été un conflit majeur du XXe siècle, mais qui demeure encore mal connu dès lors que l'on s'éloigne des grands tournants de l'histoire diplomatique et pies crises Est-Ouest qui ont fait les gros titres de l'actualité. Ce livre neuf et original étudie l'impact de cette confrontation sur une Superpuissance souvent délaissée par...
University of North Carolina, Department of History, Chapel Hill, 2006. The Sources of the American Counter-Myth Historiography and Themes Soviet Consciousness and Soviet Sources STALIN’S SCRIPT FOR ANTI-AMERICANISM: PATRIOTISM AND PROPAGANDA, 1945-51 After the War: Soviet Reality and the Anticosmopolitan Campaign The Two Americas: Anti-Americanism in the Theaters Favorite...
New York: Hill and Wang, 1967. — 258 p. — ISBN: 0-8090-8341-8; 0-8090-1323-1. The Land, Its Population, Essentials of the System Population: Only Half Russian Soviet Socialism (“Communism”): How It Works History Building a New Social System Nationalities and Republics of the U.S.S.R. Russia The Ukraine Moldavia Bclorussia (White Russia) The Non-Slavic Republics The Caucasus The...
Directorate of' Intelligence, December 1983. — 20 p. This memorandum was prepared in the Office of Soviet Analysis. Corps Structure Ti new independent army corms have four or five subordinate tank and mechanized brigades. -The brigades each consist of at least two and probably four battalions. (Figures 1 and 2 show our assessment of the likely structure and major items of...
Routledge, 2005. — 224 p. Based on personal experience of life in the Soviet Union Nove explains the phenomenon of Stalinism and its aftermath. In highly readable style, Professor Nove traces the origins of Stalinism, analyzes its nature and achievements, examines the process of destalinization which followed Stalin's death, and explores the evolution of the Soviet system under...
Washington, D.C.: The Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1995. — 369 p. Blair A. Ruble . Judging the Past, Charting the Future: On Aquariums and Fish Soup. Daniel Orlovsky . Social Perspectives on Soviet History, the Demise of Communism, and the Ongoing . Transition. What Was Socialism, and Why Did It Fall? Katherine Verdery . Commentary: Not the Juice But the Juicer. Reginald E....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies. 1989. - 397 p. This is a comprehensive and topical history of the Jews in the Soviet Union and is based on firsthand documentary evidence and the application of a pioneering research method into the fate of national minorities. Within a four-part chronological framework, Professor Pinkus...
Basic Books, 2014. — 520 p. — ISBN: 0465056962, 9780465056965 On Christmas Day, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation to declare an American victory in the Cold War: earlier that day Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned as the first and last Soviet president. The enshrining of that narrative, one in which the end of the Cold War was linked to the disintegration of...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. — 436 p. — ISBN10: 0199311234; ISBN13: 978-0199311231 — (Oxford Oral History Series) Donald Raleigh's Soviet Baby Boomers traces the collapse of the Soviet Union and the transformation of Russia into a modern, highly literate, urban society through the fascinating life stories of the country's first post-World War II, Cold War generation....
Cornell University Press, 2019. — 288 p. Jeff Sahadeo reveals the complex and fascinating stories of migrant populations in Leningrad and Moscow. Voices from the Soviet Edge focuses on the hundreds of thousands of Uzbeks, Tajiks, Georgians, Azerbaijanis, and others who arrived toward the end of the Soviet era, seeking opportunity at the privileged heart of the USSR. Through the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. - 351 p. Cheliabinsk as Mirror of Russia’s 20th Century From the Civil War to the Five-year Plans Industrial City as Socialist Vision and Soviet Reality The Tractor Factory’s Civilian Production and Military Potential Stagnation and Streamlining in the Whirlwinds of Terror, 1936–39 Industrial Preparedness in Cheliabinsk 1939–1940 Production Conditions...
Durham: Duke University Press Books, 2016. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 0822361957; ISBN13: 978-0822361954 When the United States and the Soviet Union signed the first Strategic Arms Limitation Talks accords in 1972 it was generally seen as the point at which the USSR achieved parity with the United States. Less than twenty years later the Soviet Union had collapsed, confounding experts...
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...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014 — 310 p. — ISBN10: 1107031109; ISBN13: 978-1107031104. Making the Soviet Intelligentsia explores the formation of educated elites in Russian and Ukrainian universities during the early Cold War. In the postwar period, universities emerged as training grounds for the military-industrial complex, showcases of Soviet cultural and...
London: Soviet News, 1956. — 63 p. Soviet National Anthem Location of the U.S.S.R. Frontiers and Size Capital The Fifteen Republics, areas, populations, and capitals Arms and Flags of the U.S.S.R. Population In towns In trades By nationality Of main cities Organs of State Power (table) Social and State Structure Ministries Basic Rights and Duties The Communist Party Religious...
London: Soviet News, 1956. — 63 p. Soviet National Anthem Location of the U.S.S.R. Frontiers and Size Capital The Fifteen Republics, areas, populations, and capitals Arms and Flags of the U.S.S.R. Population In towns In trades By nationality Of main cities Organs of State Power (table) Social and State Structure Ministries Basic Rights and Duties The Communist Party Religious...
London: Old Street Publishing, 2013 — 254 p. — ISBN10: 1908699221; ISBN13: 978-1908699220. For forty years Ivan Petrov careered, stumbled, staggered and rampaged all over the vast Soviet empire. Homeless (an illegal condition in the communist utopia), in and out of prison camps, almost always drunk, and with a gift for hilariously sending up the tragic absurdities of Soviet...
University of North Carolina Press, 2009. — 467 p. In this widely praised book, Vladislav Zubok argues that Western interpretations of the Cold War have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin's pragmatism or its aggressiveness. Explaining the interests, aspirations, illusions, fears, and misperceptions of the Kremlin leaders and Soviet elites, Zubok offers a Soviet...
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