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by Golfo Alexopoulos
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
A new and chilling study of lethal human exploitation in the Soviet forced labor camps, one of the pillars of Stalinist terror In a shocking new study of life and death in Stalin’s Gulag, historian Golfo Alexopoulos suggests that Soviet forced labor camps were driven by brutal exploitation and often...
A World Apart
Imprisonment in a Soviet Labor Camp During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1996
In 1940, Gustav Herling was arrested after he joined an underground Polish army that fell into Russian hands. He was sent to a northern Russian labour camp, where he spent the two most horrible years of his life. In this book, he tells of the people he was imprisoned with, the hardships they endured,...
by Karl Marx
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Shortly before he was assassinated in 1940, Leon Trotsky — one of Marx's most devoted converts and a key figure in the Russian Revolution — made this selection from Capital, to which he appended his own lengthy and insightful introduction. Compact and fascinating, this invaluable work not only...
The Battle of Stalingrad
The First Defeat of the German Wehrmacht
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of the Battle of Stalingrad in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Battle of Stalingrad. In August 1942, three years after the start of the Second World War, Nazi Germany and...
Comradely Greetings
The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
”We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search ... Two years of prison for Pussy Riot is our tribute to a destiny that gave us sharp ears, allowing us to sound the note A when everyone else is used to hearing G flat.”
In an extraordinary...
Cultivating the Masses
Modern State Practices and Soviet Socialism, 1914–1939
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Under Stalin's leadership, the Soviet government carried out a massive number of deportations, incarcerations, and executions. Paradoxically, at the very moment that Soviet authorities were killing thousands of individuals, they were also engaged in an enormous pronatalist campaign to boost the population....
by Jan Brokken
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 23, 2015
In De Kozakkentuin beschrijft Jan Brokken de bijzondere vriendschap tussen Alexander von Wrangel en Fjodor Michaïlovitsj Dostojevski. De levensgeschiedenis van de familie Von Wrangel werd door Brokken eerder beschreven in zijn magistrale Baltische zielen. De nazaten van de familie attendeerden Brokken...
by Rupert Colley
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. The Siege of Leningrad was one of the longest sieges in history and it inflicted some of the worst civilian casualties of World War Two. When Hitler declared his intention to obliterate the key city of Leningrad on 22 September 1941, he could...
by Rupert Colley
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. In 1917 the world changed forever. One of the most influential and contentious events in recent history, the Russian Revolution unleashed the greatest political experiment ever conducted, one which continues to influence both Eastern and Western...
Victims of Yalta
The Secret Betrayal of the Allies, 1944–1947
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
A “harrowing” true story of World War II—the forced repatriation of two million Russian POWs to certain doom (The Times, London).
At the end of the Second World War, a secret Moscow agreement that was confirmed at the 1945 Yalta Conference ordered the forcible repatriation of millions...
by Galy Yenikeyev
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2012
This small, but capacious book is a short brief of a real History of Tatars. It based on my previous historical works on the History of Tatars, my native nation. So I would like to inform you about my researching work on the very little known History of Tatars.
When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain
History's Unknown Chapters
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Obscure and addictive true tales from history told by one of our most entertaining historians, Giles Milton
The first installment in Giles Milton's outrageously entertaining series, History's Unknown Chapters: colorful and accessible, intelligent and illuminating, Milton shows his customary...
The Last Days of the Romanovs
Tragedy at Ekaterinburg
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
Rappaport, an expert in the field of Russian history, brings you the riveting day-by-day account of the last fourteen days of the Russian Imperial family, in this first of two books about the Romanovs. Her second book The Romanov Sisters, offering a never-before-seen glimpse at the lives of the Tsar's...
In Search of the Free Individual
The History of the Russian-Soviet Soul
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
"I love life in its living form, life that’s found on the street, in human conversations, shouts, and moans." So begins this speech delivered in Russian at Cornell University by Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. In poetic language, Alexievich traces the origins of...