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Men of Barbarossa: Commanders of the German Invasion of Russia, 1941 by Samuel W. Mitcham Jr
mobi |eng | 2009-11-27 | Author:Samuel W. Mitcham Jr. [Mitcham Jr., Samuel W.]

Baron Theodor von Wrede was born in Wandsbeck, a suburb of Hamburg, on November 3, 1888. He entered the army as a Fahnenjunker in the 5th Ulan Regiment on March ...
( Category: Military April 9,2018 )
Kronstadt by Ida Mett
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ida Mett [Mett, Ida]

Threats, Bribes and Skirmishes Threats and Bribes On 5th. March, the Petrograd Defence Committee issued a call to the rebels. ‘You are being told fairy tales when they tell you ...
( Category: Russia April 9,2018 )
Eyewitnesses to the Russian Revolution by Todd Chretien
epub |eng | 2017-09-14 | Author:Todd Chretien

24. The Soviets Take Power John Reed was one of the best-known radical journalists in the United States prior to World War I. He supported the Industrial Workers of the ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 8,2018 )
Special Forces Berlin by James Stejskal
epub |eng | 2017-04-08 | Author:James Stejskal

The Ground Force Prepares Until General Vaught stood in front of the assembled JTF in an Egyptian aircraft hangar on April 23, 1980 and announced that President Carter had given ...
( Category: Military April 8,2018 )
Communist Daze by Vladimir A. Tsesis
epub |eng | 2017-04-08 | Author:Vladimir A. Tsesis

A listener asks Armenian Radio, “What is the easiest way to explain the meaning of the word ‘Communism’?” Armenian Radio replies, “With your fists.” Windmills Two weeks after the bonfire, ...
( Category: Historical April 8,2018 )
The Cold War 1949–2016 by Martin McCauley
epub |eng | | Author:Martin McCauley

( Category: Russia April 8,2018 )
Red Famine by Anne Applebaum
epub |eng | 2017-10-10 | Author:Anne Applebaum

The situation would be stabilized somewhat after Nikita Khrushchev became the first party secretary in Ukraine in 1939. But by then the experts were imprisoned or dead; neither their books ...
( Category: Russia April 8,2018 )
I Chose Freedom by Kravchenko Victor;
epub |eng | 2016-07-19 | Author:Kravchenko, Victor;

CHAPTER XVII—TORTURE AFTER MIDNIGHT MY HEART sank within me when I recognized Gershgorn’s voice on the telephone. “Well, well, so the little bird’s returned from its long journey....I hope you ...
( Category: Historical April 8,2018 )
Russia by Abraham Ascher
epub |eng | 2017-08-08 | Author:Abraham Ascher

8 THE SOVIET UNION UNDER LENIN AND STALIN Rarely in the history of any country has one man cast so long a shadow as V. I. Lenin has over Russia. ...
( Category: Russia April 8,2018 )
The Price of Victory by Lev Lopukhovsky & Boris Kavalerchik
epub |eng | 2017-04-08 | Author:Lev Lopukhovsky & Boris Kavalerchik

* Sources: Russia and the USSR in Wars of the 20th Century, 2001, p. 237, Table 120; Frolov, Soviet-Finnish Captivity, pp. 132, 307; Streit, They Are Not Our Comrades, pp. ...
( Category: Military April 8,2018 )
No Less Than Mystic by John Medhurst
epub |eng | 2017-05-17 | Author:John Medhurst

CHAPTER ELEVEN Surveillance State On 7th December, 1917, six weeks after the Bolshevik insurrection, Sovnarcom created the All–Russian Extraordinary Commission for the Struggle Against Counter–Revolution and Sabotage, popularly known by ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 7,2018 )
Revolution! by Pete Ayrton
epub |eng | | Author:Pete Ayrton

Bertrand Russell Like H. G. Wells, the British philosopher and pacifist Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) went to Russia in 1920. He went as a supporter of Communism as a system he ...
( Category: World April 7,2018 )
What You Did Not Tell by Mark Mazower
epub |eng | 2017-10-17 | Author:Mark Mazower

CHAPTER THIRTEEN Highgate A strong Russian connection has attached itself to Highgate over the years. Guryev, a phosphates magnate, is reportedly the current owner of the mansion that stands at ...
( Category: World April 7,2018 )
Red Star Against The Swastika: The Story of a Soviet Pilot over the Eastern Front by Vasily Emelianenko
mobi |eng | 2005-12-01 | Author:Vasily Emelianenko [Emelianenko, Vasily]

* * * * Tabachok is a diminutive form of tabak – tobacco. * ‘Humpback’ was a nickname for the Shturmovik Il-2 at the Russian front. 12 THE CAUCASUS We ...
( Category: Military April 7,2018 )
Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945 by Overy Richard
epub, mobi |eng | 1998-08-01 | Author:Overy, Richard [Overy, Richard]

( Category: Military April 7,2018 )

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