Pittsburgh: The Center for Russian and East European Studies, 2001. — 69 p. — ISSN: 0889-275X The transition of U.S. policy in the 1940s from “containment” of Soviet aggression to “liberationism”—rolling back and destabilizing Soviet power from within by actively supporting nationalist, anti-Soviet rebel groups operating on Soviet territory — had a profound effect on the early...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010 — 406 p. — ISBN10: 0199575061; ISBN13: 978-0199575060 "Stalin's last generation" was the last generation to come of age under Stalin, yet it was also the first generation to be socialized in the post-war period. Its young members grew up in a world that still carried many of the hallmarks of the Soviet Union's revolutionary period, yet...
Gorlizki Y., Khlevniuk O. Cold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet Ruling Circle, 1945-1953. N. Y.: Oxford University Press, 2004. 272 p. Following his country's victory over Nazi Germany, Joseph Stalin was widely hailed as a great wartime leader and international statesman. Unchallenged on the domestic front, he headed one of the most powerful nations in the world. Yet, in the period...
Watford: British-Soviet Society, 1947. — 40 p. Walter "Wal" Hannington (1896–1966) was a founding member of the Communist Party of Great Britain and National Organiser of the National Unemployed Workers' Movement, from its formation in 1921 to its end in 1939, when he became National Organiser of the Amalgamated Engineering Union. This book is a reworked version of Hannington's...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 0195126599; ISBN13: 978-0195126594 In this long-awaited sequel to his acclaimed Russia's Road to the Cold War (1979), Vojtech Mastny offers a thorough history of the early years of the Cold War, drawing upon his extensive research in newly opened Soviet archives. Just as the earlier volume offered the definitive portrait...
Toronto; New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. — 248 p. — ISBN: 0-19-540654-0 On a summer night in 1950, Suzanne Rosenberg was arrested in her Moscow apartment on false charges of treason and sentenced to five years' imprisonment in Stalin's strict-regime labour camps. That experience is the central episode of her memoir, A Soviet Odyssey. Born in Warsaw in 1915, she spent...
2 ed. — Pisa: Giardini, 1955. — 333 p. : ill. Un taccuino del viaggio nell’ottobre e novembre 1951 in U.R.S.S. traccia un ritratto positivo della società sovietica ma senza trionfalismi, soffermandosi innanzitutto su luoghi e aspetti della vita quotidiana. In viaggio per l'Unione Sovietica Al di là della "Cortina di Ferro" L' arrivo dei delegati nella capitale del socialismo La...
A thesis presented to the Faculty of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Military Art and Science General Studies. — Fort Leavenworth: U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 2012. — 93 p. This thesis aims to analyze the insurgency in Ukraine, organized shortly before WWII and led by the...
Washington D.C.: Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1981. — 46 p. The data in this report reflects Soviet print media emphasis and propaganda trends for over two years -- July 1979 to October 1981. During this period, more than 30,000 feature stories and news items were analyzed. The main purpose of this paper is to provide the reader with an overview of Soviet rhetoric and propaganda...
Washington D.C.: Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1981. — 46 p. The data in this report reflects Soviet print media emphasis and propaganda trends for over two years -- July 1979 to October 1981. During this period, more than 30,000 feature stories and news items were analyzed. The main purpose of this paper is to provide the reader with an overview of Soviet rhetoric and propaganda...
Yale University Press 2001. — 588 p. — (Annals of Communism). In the spring and summer of 1952, fifteen Soviet Jews, including five prominent Yiddish writers and poets, were secretly tried and convicted; multiple executions soon followed in the basement of Moscow's Lubyanka prison. The defendants were falsely charged with treason and espionage because of their involvement in...
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