Автор: Frank Ellis Название: Barbarossa 1941: Reframing Hitler`s Invasion of Stalin`s Soviet Empire ISBN: 0700626646 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780700626649 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 35940.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's plan for invading the Soviet Union, has by now become a familiar tale of overreach, with the Germans blinded to their coming defeat by their initial victory, and the Soviet Union pushing back from the brink of destruction with courageous exploits both reckless and relentless. And while much of this version of the story is true, Frank Ellis tells us in Barbarossa 1941, it also obscures several important historical truths that alter our understanding of the campaign. In this new and intensive investigation of Operation Barbarossa, Ellis draws on a wealth of documents declassified over the past twenty years to challenge the conventional treatment of a critical chapter in the history of World War II.
Ellis's close reading of an exceptionally wide range of German and Russian sources leads to a reevaluation of Soviet intelligence assessments of Hitler's intentions; Stalin's complicity in his nation's slippage into existential slaughter; and the influence of the Stalinist regime's reputation for brutality-and a fear of Stalin's expansionist inclinations-on the launching and execution of Operation Barbarossa. Ellis revisits two major controversies relating to Barbarossa-the Soviet pre-emptive strike thesis put forward in Viktor Suvorov's book Icebreaker; and the view of the infamous Commissar Order, dictating the execution of a large group of Soviet POWs, as a unique piece of Nazi malevolence. Ellis also analyzes the treatment of Barbarossa in the work of three Soviet-Russian writers-Vasilii Grossman, Alexander Bek, and Konstantin Simonov-and in the first-ever translation of the diary kept by a German soldier in 20th Panzer Division, brings the campaign back to the daily realities of dangers and frustrations encountered by German troops.
Автор: Naimark Norman Название: Stalin`s Genocides ISBN: 0691152381 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691152387 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 23230.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: 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. This book tells the story of these crimes.
Автор: Whitewood Peter Название: The Red Army and the Great Terror: Stalin`s Purge of the Soviet Military ISBN: 0700621172 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780700621170 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 50150.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: On June 11, 1937, a closed military court ordered the execution of a group of the Soviet Union’s most talented and experienced army officers, including Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevskii; all were charged with participating in a Nazi plot to overthrow the regime of Joseph Stalin. There followed a massive military purge, from the officer corps through the rank-and-file, that many consider a major factor in the Red Army’s dismal performance in confronting the German invasion of June 1941. Why take such action on the eve of a major war? The most common theory has Stalin fabricating a “military conspiracy” to tighten his control over the Soviet state. In The Red Army and the Great Terror, Peter Whitewood advances an entirely new explanation for Stalin’s actions—an explanation with the potential to unlock the mysteries that still surround the Great Terror, the surge of political repression in the late 1930s in which over one million Soviet people were imprisoned in labor camps and over 750,000 executed.Framing his study within the context of Soviet civil-military relations dating back to the 1917 revolution, Whitewood shows that Stalin sanctioned this attack on the Red Army not from a position of confidence and strength, but from one of weakness and misperception. Here we see how Stalin’s views had been poisoned by the paranoid accusations of his secret police, who saw spies and supporters of the dead Tsar everywhere and who had long believed that the Red Army was vulnerable to infiltration by foreign intelligence agencies engaged in a conspiracy against the Soviet state. Recently opened Russian archives allow Whitewood to counter the accounts of Soviet defectors and conspiracy theories that have long underpinned conventional wisdom on the military purge. By broadening our view, The Red Army and the Great Terror demonstrates not only why Tukhachevskii and his associates were purged in 1937, but also why tens of thousands of other officers and soldiers were discharged and arrested at the same time. With its thorough reassessment of these events, the book sheds new light on the nature of power, state violence, and civil-military relations under the Stalinist regime.
Автор: Goldman Название: Inventing the Enemy ISBN: 0521191963 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521191968 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 82370.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Stalin`s terror shaped the lives and behaviour of people in every Soviet workplace, with Communist Party leaders strongly encouraging ordinary citizens and party members to `unmask the hidden enemy`. This book examines the terror in Moscow`s factories, revealing the terrible dilemmas people confronted in their struggles to survive.
Автор: Miner Название: Stalin`S Holy War ISBN: 1469614944 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469614946 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 49890.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Histories of the USSR during World War II generally portray the Kremlin`s restoration of the Russian Orthodox Church as an attempt by an ideologically bankrupt regime to appeal to Russian nationalism in order to counter the mortal threat of Nazism. Steven Merritt Miner argues that this version of events, while not wholly untrue, is incomplete.
Автор: Kindler Robert Название: Stalin`s Nomads ISBN: 0822965437 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822965435 Издательство: Turpin Рейтинг: Цена: 55440.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Provides 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 any dialogue or cultural assimilation. The results were catastrophic.
Автор: Beckett Название: Stalin`s British Victims ISBN: 1138947415 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138947412 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 34700.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: First published in 2004, this book tells the stories of four remarkable British women, whose lives were scorched by Stalin`s purges. One was shot as a spy; one nearly died as a slave labourer in Kazakhstan; and two saw their husbands taken away to the gulag and had to spirit their small children out of the country.
Автор: King David Название: Commissar Vanishes ISBN: 1849762511 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781849762519 Издательство: Tate Рейтинг: Цена: 21990.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Brand new edition of David King`s lauded visual history. A unique and brilliant study into the doctoring and propogandising of Soviet photographs by Stalin`s regime. From the creator of the award-winning Red Star Over Russia.
Автор: Evans, David Название: Understand Stalin`s Russia: Teach Yourself ISBN: 1444157566 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781444157567 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 15630.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: "The perfect way to get to grips with the great historical events." - The History Channel.
Автор: Alexander Gogun Название: Stalin`s Commandos: Ukrainian Partisan Forces on the Eastern Front ISBN: 1350241695 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350241695 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 30610.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: At the height of World War II, a large number of Soviet partisans fought on the Eastern Front against the Axis occupation. In this book, Alexander Gogun looks at the forces operating in Ukraine. The Nazi atrocities were often matched by partisan brutality. The author examines the indiscriminate use of scorched-earth tactics by the partisans, the destruction of their own villages, partisan-generated Nazi reprisals against civilians, and the daily incidents of robbery, drunkenness, rape and bloody internal conflicts that were reported to be widespread amongst the red partisans. Gogun also analyses allegations of the use of bacteriological weapons and even instances of cannibalism. He shows that all these practices were not a product of the culture of warfare nor a spontaneous 'people's response' to the unremitting brutality of Nazi rule but a specific feature of Stalin's total war strategy.
Автор: Kuromiya Название: Stalin`s Industrial Revolution ISBN: 0521387418 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521387415 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 53850.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This is the first political and social history in English of Stalin`s industrial revolution during the first Five-Year Plan, 1928-1932. Dr Kuromiya argues that Stalin and his advisers made industrialization politically possible by presenting it as a `class war`, mercilessly suppressing those suspected as `class enemies` and `wreckers` and seeking the support of industrial workers.
