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The Dictator, the Revolution, the Machine by Tony McKenna
epub |eng | 2016-07-28 | Author:Tony McKenna

Conclusion I wrote this biography of Stalin – and this account of Stalinism – in the second half of 2015. For those on the left, 2015 was an interesting year, ...
( Category: Historical July 29,2018 )
Industrialisation in the Non-Western World by Kemp Tom
epub |eng | | Author:Kemp, Tom

THE NEW REGIME The initial tasks confronting the Chinese Communists on taking power were those of reconstruction and stabilization after years of war, civil war, economic dislocation and runaway inflation. ...
( Category: Industries July 29,2018 )
The Chef at War by Alexis Soyer
epub |eng | 2011-03-18 | Author:Alexis Soyer [Soyer, Alexis]

My Great Field Day My gallant master of the ceremonies, Colonel Seymour, had kindly taken the most important part of my duty off my hands, by inviting all the heads ...
( Category: Main Courses & Side Dishes July 28,2018 )
Lenin 2017: Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through by V. I. Lenin & Slavoj Zizek
epub |eng | 2017-09-18 | Author:V. I. Lenin & Slavoj Zizek [Lenin, V. I.]

Closing Speech on the Political Report of the Central Committee of the RCP(B), 28 March [Applause.] First of all I shall have to devote a little time to criticising the ...
( Category: Politics & Government July 27,2018 )
Stalin's Curse by Robert Gellately
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-04 | Author:Robert Gellately [Gellately, Robert]

CHAPTER 15 Communism in Yugoslavia, Albania, and Greece Far to the south and west of Moscow, indigenous Communist resistance movements struggled against the Nazi invaders. Yugoslavia and Albania did not ...
( Category: Politics & Government July 26,2018 )
Salyut - The First Space Station (Springer Praxis Books) by Grujica S. Ivanovich
epub |eng | 2014-06-22 | Author:Grujica S. Ivanovich [Ivanovich, Grujica S.]

Dobrovolskiy in Salyut's main working compartment. Most of the seventh day was devoted to biological experiments, both agricultural and genetic. The effect of weightlessness on plant growth was to be ...
( Category: Physics July 23,2018 )
At the Abyss by Thomas Reed
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Thomas Reed

TALKING TO SUBMARINES In 1960, America’s first ballistic-missile-firing submarine, the George Washington, put to sea. 39 By 1975 over half of our strategic nuclear warheads were aboard a fleet of ...
( Category: Military July 23,2018 )
Overcoming Speechlessness by Alice Walker
epub |eng | 2010-06-22 | Author:Alice Walker

14. ROLLING INTO GAZA Rolling into Gaza City I had a feeling of homecoming. There is a flavor to the ghetto. To the Bantustan. To the “rez.” To the “colored ...
( Category: Politics & Government July 19,2018 )
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman
epub, pdf |eng | 2004-04-16 | Author:William Taubman [Taubman, William]

THE WEATHER in Washington was hot; the sky above Andrews Air Force Base was cloudless. Flags of both countries fluttered in a slight breeze while the fifty-six-piece military band’s shiny ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People July 19,2018 )
Kursk: A Time To Die by Robert Moore
epub |eng | 2018-06-27 | Author:Robert Moore [Moore, Robert]

II: WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON Ministry of Defence, Moscow Admiral Popov was not the only one in the military hierarchy willing to make a bold move. Even inside the Defence Ministry, an ...
( Category: Military July 17,2018 )
Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State by Mark Lawrence Schrad
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2014-01-05 | Author:Mark Lawrence Schrad [Schrad, Mark Lawrence]

Ryzhkov does not understand the importance of the moment. Ryzhkov does not feel that this is a time of actions, not words. Ryzhkov is not aware that the moral atmosphere ...
( Category: Politics & Government July 17,2018 )
Naval Warfare by Jeremy Black
epub |eng | 2012-07-11 | Author:Jeremy Black

The Japanese Advance, 1941–42 Naval strength was crucial to the Japanese conquest of Southeast Asia, although it was the army which had the key experience, equipment, doctrine, and responsibility for ...
( Category: Military July 12,2018 )
One Hell of a Gamble by Aleksandr Fursenko
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-02-24 | Author:Aleksandr Fursenko

“We Don’t Need Cuba” Some more ominous news reached Khrushchev at the end of the month. The September crisis was turning up evidence of widespread dissatisfaction in the ranks of ...
( Category: Military July 9,2018 )
Resurrection by David Remnick
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:David Remnick [Remnick, David]

In the anxious period between Yeltsin’s triumph over the pitiful coup attempt in August 1991 and the collapse of the Soviet Union on Christmas night, interested parties—old apparatchiks, young entrepreneurs, ...
( Category: Europe July 9,2018 )
Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism by Samir Amin
epub |eng | 2016-07-01 | Author:Samir Amin [Amin, Samir]

LENIN, BUKHARIN, AND STALIN’S EQUIVOCATIONS are understandable, then, because they were faced with the challenges presented by the agrarian question and the aggressiveness of the Western powers. In theoretical terms, ...
( Category: Politics & Government July 8,2018 )

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