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K Blows Top

A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist

by Peter Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009

Khrushchev's 1959 trip across America was one of the strangest exercises in international diplomacy ever conducted-“a surreal extravaganza,” as historian John Lewis Gaddis called it. Khrushchev told jokes, threw tantrums, sparked a riot in a San Francisco supermarket, wowed the coeds in a home...
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by Robert E. Stripling
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017

First published in 1949, this is an account of communist subversion in America as disclosed by investigations of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938-48, written by the Committee’s chief investigator, Robert E. Stripling.
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by J. Burds
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013

In November 1941, near the city of Rovno, Ukraine, German death squads murdered over 23,000 Jews in what has been described as "the second Babi Yar." This meticulous and methodologically innovative study reconstructs the events at Rovno, and in the process exemplifies efforts to form a genuinely transnational history of the Holocaust.
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The Last Empire

The Final Days of the Soviet Union

by Serhii Plokhy
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015

"A stirring account of an extraordinary moment." --Wall Street Journal On Christmas Day, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation to celebrate what he described as a historic American victory: Mikhail Gorbachev's resignation as Soviet prime minister and the subsequent...
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by Yuriy Rybin
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012

Following the destruction wrought on the Red Army Air Forces during the first days of Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, the Soviet Union found itself desperately short of fighter aircraft. Premier Josef Stalin duly appealed directly to Prime Minister Winston Churchill for replacement aircraft, and...
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by Gordon L. Rottman
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012

While much has been published on the armed forces of the USSR during the 1980s, surprisingly little is available on the forces supplied by the other member nations of the Warsaw Pact. Rivalling the size of the United States Army, the combined ground forces of the six non-Soviet Warsaw Pact countries...
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War over the Steppes

The air campaigns on the Eastern Front 1941–45

by Mr E. R. Hooton
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016

The air war over the Steppes was more than a brutal clash in which might alone triumphed. It was a conflict that saw tactical and technological innovation as the Soviet air force faced off against Herman Göring's Luftwaffe. As Germany and the Soviet Union battled for victory on the Eastern Front...
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Defending the Motherland

The Soviet Women Who Fought Hitler's Aces

by Lyuba Vinogradova
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015

Plucked from every background, and led by an N.K.V.D. Major, the new recruits who boarded a train in Moscow on 16th October 1941 to go to war had much in common with millions of others across the world. What made the 586th Fighter Regiment, the 587th Heavy-bomber Regiment and the 588th Regiment of...
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by Josef Tarnowski
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014

Walking with Shadows is a book of exile and of odyssey: the incredible and moving story of a young Polish freedom fighter, Joe Tarnowski, who survived the frozen hell of the war-time Soviet Gulag to travel half-way round the globe to join the Free Polish Forces in Scotland. A Paratrooper who...
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by Joshua Hammer
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011

Here's the tantalizing final chapter of one of historys most sensational murders: the discovery of the remains of the two missing children of Russias last czar, Nicholas II.
Cover of The Great 20th-Century Event that Changed the World:Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and the Russian Revolution of November 7-8, 1917.
by Alla P. Gakuba
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016

The greatest event of the 20th century was the Russian revolution of November 6-7, 1917. The architect of the Russian Revolution was Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, he changed the world into 2 systems: capitalism and socialism. Lenin’s socialism and the Russian Revolution’s many decrees...
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On Stalin's Team

The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics

by Sheila Fitzpatrick
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015

Stalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing. On Stalin's Team overturns this view, revealing that behind Stalin was a group of loyal men who formed a remarkably...
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by Hiroaki Kuromiya
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013

This profile looks at how Stalin, despite being regarded as intellectually inferior by his rivals, managed to rise to power and rule the largest country in the world, achievieving divine-like status as a dictator. Through recently uncovered research material and Stalin’s archives in Moscow,...
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Stalin's Secret Police

A history of the CHEKA, OGPU,NKVD, SMERSH & KGB: 19171991

by Rupert Butler
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015

The KGB of Cold War renown was the successor to a series of equally infamous and lethal state security agencies that date from the early days of the Russian Revolution: Cheka, OGPU, GUGB, NKVD, NKGB and MVD. Beginning with the Cheka, the organisation for combating counter-revolution and sabotage, Stalin’s...
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