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by Leon Trotsky
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Literature and Revolution, written by the founder and commander of the Red Army, Leon Trotsky, in 1924 and first published in 1925, represents a compilation of essays that Trotsky drafted during the summers of 1922 and 1923.
This book is a classic work of literary criticism from the Marxist...
The Dead Hand
The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
The first full account of how the Cold War arms race finally came to a close, this riveting narrative history sheds new light on the people who struggled to end this era of massive overkill, and examines the legacy of the nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons...
Absolute War
Soviet Russia in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
In Absolute War, acclaimed historian and journalist Chris Bellamy crafts the first full account since the fall of the Soviet Union of World War II's battle on the Eastern Front, one of the deadliest conflicts in history.
The conflict on the Eastern Front, fought between the Soviet Union and...
October
The Story of the Russian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Award-winning author China Miéville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside down
On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, China Miéville tells the extraordinary story of this pivotal moment in history.
In February of 1917 Russia was a backwards, autocratic monarchy,...
Chasing the Sea
Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In 1996, Tom Bissell went to Uzbekistan as a na•ve Peace Corps volunteer. Though he lasted only a few months before illness and personal crisis forced him home, Bissell found himself entranced by this remote land. Five years later he returned to explore the shrinking Aral Sea, destroyed by Soviet...
by Maria Hurst
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Helsinki, Finland. Founded in 1550, Helsinki the "Daughter of the Baltic" has been the Finnish capital since 1812, when it was rebuilt by the tsars of Russia along the lines of a miniature St. Petersburg, a role it has played in many a Cold...
by Sjeng Scheijen
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Featuring an eight-page gallery of full-color illustrations, here is a major new biography of Serge Diaghilev, founder and impresario of the Ballets Russes, who revolutionized ballet by bringing together composers such as Stravinsky and Prokofiev, dancers and choreographers such as Nijinsky and Karsavina,...
by Daniel Ford
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
The first atrocity of the Second World War
In September 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded and occupied Poland, dividing the country between them. Some two hundred thousand Polish soldiers became prisoners in Russian camps, often converted monasteries. In March 1940, Joseph Stalin approved...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2012
*Includes pictures of Khrushchev and important people, places, and events in his life. *Includes a Table of ContentsWe will bury you. Nikita KhrushchevA lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of historys most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River...
1917
Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
**This is the story of two men, and the two decisions, that transformed world history in a single tumultuous year, 1917: Wilson’s entry into World War One and Lenin’s Bolshevik Revolution. **
In April 1917 Woodrow Wilson, champion of American democracy but also segregation; advocate for...
The Plot to Hack America
How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
“The Plot to Hack America reads like a spy thriller, but it’s all too real.” –US Daily Review
Over 600 Amazon *FIVE STAR* Reviews!
“Nance states that, by their choices, actions, and statements, ‘Trump and Pence chose Russia’s values over America’s.’” –Michael Lipkin,...
by S.J. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 1990
Short, unattractive, hobbling about Stalin's Moscow on a wooden leg, Walter Duranty was an unlikely candidate for the world's most famous foreign correspondent. Yet for almost twenty years his articles filled the front page of The New York Times with gripping coverage of the aftermath of the Russian...
Vladimir Lenin
The Russian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life of Vladimir Lenin in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of Vladimir Lenin. Having seen his brother executed for a political conspiracy and expelled from university under similar suspicions,...
Alienation and the Soviet Economy
The Collapse of the Socialist Era
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
The first edition of this seminal book in 1971 pointed out the fatal defects of Marxist theory that would lead to the collapse of the Soviet economy. In this revised edition, Paul Craig Roberts examines how reality triumphed over Marxist theory and the implications for the future of Russia and eastern...