Автор: Reynolds David, Pechatnov Vladimir Название: The Kremlin Letters: Stalin`s Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt ISBN: 0300247656 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780300247657 Издательство: Wiley yUP Рейтинг: Цена: 18690.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A penetrating account of the dynamics of World War II's Grand Alliance through the messages exchanged by the "Big Three" Stalin exchanged more than six hundred messages with Allied leaders Churchill and Roosevelt during the Second World War. In this riveting volume--the fruit of a unique British-Russian scholarly collaboration--the messages are published and also analyzed within their historical context. Ranging from intimate personal greetings to weighty salvos about diplomacy and strategy, this book offers fascinating new revelations of the political machinations and human stories behind the Allied triumvirate. Edited and narrated by two of the world's leading scholars on World War II diplomacy and based on a decade of research in British, American, and newly available Russian archives, this crucial addition to wartime scholarship illuminates an alliance that really worked while exposing its fractious limits and the issues and egos that set the stage for the Cold War that followed.
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: Alexopoulos Golfo Название: Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin`s Gulag: ISBN: 0300179413 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780300179415 Издательство: Wiley yUP Рейтинг: Цена: 58300.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A new and chilling study of lethal human exploitation in the Soviet forced labor camps, one of the pillars of Stalinist terror
Автор: Frolova-Walker Marina Название: Stalin`s Music Prize ISBN: 0300208847 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780300208849 Издательство: Wiley yUP Рейтинг: Цена: 35750.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Marina Frolova-Walker's fascinating history takes a new look at musical life in Stalin's Soviet Union. The author focuses on the musicians and composers who received Stalin Prizes, awarded annually to artists whose work was thought to represent the best in Soviet culture. This revealing study sheds new light on the Communist leader's personal tastes, the lives and careers of those honored, including multiple-recipients Prokofiev and Shostakovich, and the elusive artistic concept of "Socialist Realism," offering the most comprehensive examination to date of the relationship between music and the Soviet state from 1940 through 1954.
Автор: Bottoni, Stefano Название: Stalins legacy in romania the ISBN: 1498551211 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498551212 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 111870.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This study examines the creation and subsequent dismantling of the Hungarian Autonomous Region in the 1950s. The author analyzes the influence of Soviet aid and the ways in which the Romanian Communist Party dealt with the country`s various ethnic and national groups.
Автор: Sudjic, Deyan Название: Stalin`S Architect ISBN: 0262046865 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262046862 Издательство: MIT Press Рейтинг: Цена: 45090.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: The story of Boris Iofan--designer of the iconic but unbuilt Palace of the Soviets--whose buildings came to define the language of Soviet architecture. The story of Boris Iofan (1891-1976), state architect to Joseph Stalin, is a story about architecture, politics, and power, and in Stalin's Architect, Deyan Sudjic offers the first major account of Iofan's remarkable life and career. Iofan's buildings came to define the language of Soviet architecture; his most famous design was the iconic--but unbuilt--Palace of the Soviets, 1,400 feet high and topped with a figure of Lenin bigger than the Statue of Liberty. Iofan won a design competition for the Palace in 1933 (other competitors included Le Corbusier) and spent the next twenty years taking notes from Stalin on how to make it ever more grandiose. Sudjic describes how Iofan managed to survive Stalin's reign, dying in his bed at 84--unlike many other Stalin enablers. Sudjic chronicles the endless jockeying for position and compromises required to remain in Stalin's good graces. Iofan was prepared to build what the dictator demanded. Living in luxury in one of his own buildings--the House on the Embankment, a megastructure for Soviet elite--Iofan knew that the price of disobedience could range from losing one's apartment to losing one's life. Many archival images, including Iofan's non-Stalin work, accompany Sudjic's insightful text. Stalin's Architect offers a unique perspective on the politics of twentieth-century architecture and the history of the Soviet Union.
Soviet foreign policy in the Stalin era is commonly assumed to have been a direct product of either Marxist ideology or the leader's whims. Both assumptions, however, oversimplify the complex and subtle factors involved in its creation and implementation. Kyung-Deok Roh provides an alternative, more nuanced, explanation and demonstrates the key role played by Stalin's economic advisors.
The so-called 'Varga Institute', a 'think tank' led by Evgenii Varga, developed a unique scholarly discourse on the capitalist economy and international politics, based on an amalgam of Marxist economics and, notably, the work of American economist W. E. Mitchell. The institute's scholarship, which suggested the resilience, adaptability and stability of the capitalist economy, created the discursive space within which decisions were made, and influenced Stalin to move increasingly from aggressive strategies towards more cautious international policies. Roh's account, the first comprehensive study of this pivotal group, demonstrates the many complex ways that Soviet foreign policy was created and sheds new light onto the controversial relationship between Soviet academia and the party.
Based on extensive archival research into previously untouched material, Stalin's Economic Advisors is essential reading for all researchers seeking to add nuance to their conception of Stalinist foreign policy, economic thought and politics.
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: Jordan Pamela A. Название: Stalin`s Singing Spy ISBN: 1442247738 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442247734 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 60550.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Stalin`s Singing Spy follows the life of Nadezhda Plevitskaya, who achieved fame as one of Nicholas II`s favorite singers and infamy as one of Stalin`s agents. The first Western biography and the first to reconstruct her sensationalized trial for kidnapping a White Army general, this book provides a fascinating window into Soviet-era espionage.
Автор: Maisky Ivan Название: The Maisky Diaries: The Wartime Revelations of Stalin`s Ambassador in London ISBN: 0300221703 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780300221701 Издательство: Wiley yUP Рейтинг: Цена: 16490.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Highlights of the extraordinary wartime diaries of Ivan Maisky, Soviet ambassador to London The terror and purges of Stalin's Russia in the 1930s discouraged Soviet officials from leaving documentary records let alone keeping personal diaries. A remarkable exception is the unique diary assiduously kept by Ivan Maisky, the Soviet ambassador to London between 1932 and 1943. This selection from Maisky's diary, never before published in English, grippingly documents Britain's drift to war during the 1930s, appeasement in the Munich era, negotiations leading to the signature of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, Churchill's rise to power, the German invasion of Russia, and the intense debate over the opening of the second front. Maisky was distinguished by his great sociability and access to the key players in British public life. Among his range of regular contacts were politicians (including Churchill, Chamberlain, Eden, and Halifax), press barons (Beaverbrook), ambassadors (Joseph Kennedy), intellectuals (Keynes, Sidney and Beatrice Webb), writers (George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells), and indeed royalty. His diary further reveals the role personal rivalries within the Kremlin played in the formulation of Soviet policy at the time. Scrupulously edited and checked against a vast range of Russian and Western archival evidence, this extraordinary narrative diary offers a fascinating revision of the events surrounding the Second World 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 hidden in secret archives until the late 1990s. Never intended for publication or wide distribution, these records (known as stenograms in Russia) reveal the actual process of decision making at the highest levels of the Soviet communist party. The transcripts also provide new, first-hand records of the rise of Stalin's dictatorship.
The contributors to the volume explore the power struggles among the Politburo members, their methods of discourse and propaganda, and their economic policies. Taken as a whole, the essays shed light on early Soviet history and on the individuals who supported or opposed Stalin's consolidation of power.
