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Lenin's Legacy by Wesson Robert
epub |eng | 2017-03-13 | Author:Wesson, Robert

THE GREAT PURGES By 1934 the Soviet Union was emerging from its time of most traumatic economic and social change; Stalinism rose triumphant as a result of its victory over ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 14,2020 )
Klaus Fuchs: The Man Who Stole the Atom Bomb by Norman Moss
epub |eng | 2018-10-14 | Author:Norman Moss [Moss, Norman]

Chapter Five The trail of suspicion that led to Fuchs began at Fort Meade, Maryland, a sprawling army camp situated roughly midway between Baltimore and Washington that was then the ...
( Category: Russia March 14,2020 )
Have the Mountains Fallen? by Jeffrey Lilley
epub |eng | 2019-01-01 | Author:Jeffrey Lilley

( Category: Journalists March 13,2020 )
Putin's Russia by Stephen K. Wegren
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen K. Wegren

CONCLUSION During the 1990s, demographic issues were largely ignored by the Russian government, but in his 2006 state of the nation address, Putin identified the demographic decline as the country’s ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union March 13,2020 )
Magnetic Mountain by Kotkin Stephen;
epub |eng | 1995-04-19 | Author:Kotkin, Stephen; [Kotkin, Stephen;]

THE ENDURANCE OF PIETY Overall, the effects of the terror, as John Scott observed, were paradoxical. Industrial production declined dramatically, and literal chaos often ensued (in 1937, coke plant construction ...
( Category: Russia March 12,2020 )
Without the Banya We Would Perish by Ethan Pollock
epub |eng | 2019-03-11 | Author:Ethan Pollock

There was no predicament, however, when it came to extoling the benefits of the banya to the population. Propaganda posters clarified the degree to which state agencies saw banyas as ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources March 12,2020 )
The Crossing Place by Philip Marsden
epub |eng | 1993-03-10 | Author:Philip Marsden [Philip Marsden]

Tanya Markovska, who for a few days rented me a room in central Sofia, was a squat, kind old lady with ill-fitting teeth and a vermilion wig. She loved literature ...
( Category: Armenia March 11,2020 )
Young Heroes of the Soviet Union by Alex Halberstadt
epub |eng | 2020-03-09 | Author:Alex Halberstadt

They moved his remains to Dembovka, a newer Jewish cemetery in a forlorn section of Vilnius. The Gaon’s mausoleum stands there today. The slab over his tomb is littered with ...
( Category: Parenting Boys March 11,2020 )
The Old Believers in Imperial Russia by Peter T. De Simone;
epub |eng | | Author:Peter T. De Simone;

This petition clearly reveals both the frustration and urgency with which the Rogozhskoe Old Believers viewed the Great Reform's lack of concern for the Old Rite. While tsarist Russia underwent ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 10,2020 )
Vladimir Lenin: How to Become a Leader by Vladlen Loginov
epub |eng | | Author:Vladlen Loginov [Loginov, Vladlen]

The Birth of a Party Ulyanov detailed his further movements in a letter to Axelrod: “I was initially in Vilnius. I spoke with people there about the collection. The majority ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 10,2020 )
Stalin's World by Sarah Davies
epub |eng | | Author:Sarah Davies

Some of modern history's most extravagant leader cults flourished in the Soviet Union in the first half of the twentieth century. However, the existence of these cults was always the ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 9,2020 )
The Crimean Tatars by Brian Glyn Williams
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-03-08 | Author:Brian Glyn Williams

The Special Settlement Regime Establishing good relations with the indigenous Central Asian populations was not, however, the deportees’ only concern. Upon arrival in Central Asia, the Crimean Tatars, who were ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union March 9,2020 )
Collected Works, Volume 2 by V. I. Lenin
epub |eng | | Author:V. I. Lenin

VIII HOW IS THE OBSERVANCE OF THE NEW LAW GUARANTEED? How is the observance of laws guaranteed in general? Firstly, by supervision over the observance, and secondly, by punishment of ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 9,2020 )
The Code of Putinism by Taylor Brian D.;
epub |eng | 2018-03-07 | Author:Taylor, Brian D.;

The President and the Boss Constitutionally, the president of the Russian Federation “shall determine the guidelines of the internal and foreign policies of the State.” Just as in the United ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union March 8,2020 )
The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov by Peter Pringle
epub |eng | 2008-07-15 | Author:Peter Pringle

A former political commissar in the Red Army, Isaak Prezent had a sharp mind, a vicious tongue, and a deceivingly pleasant face. He was an extreme example of the power ...
( Category: Scientists March 7,2020 )

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