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Let History Judge
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Author : Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 1989
Let History Judge written by Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The most comprehensive and revealing investigation of Stalinism and political developments in the Soviet Union from 1922-1953, this edition is an extensively revised and expanded version of a classic work. The internationally known historian Roy Medvedev has included more than one-hundred new interviews, unpublished memoirs, and archives from survivors of Stalin's death camps. This updated version of a classic work was written during a time of great change in the Soviet Union. With the advent of perestroika and glasnost, more progressive leadership has sought to demolish the Stalinist system which had finally crippled the Soviet Union and incited public discontent. Let History Judge contains new material on purges in 1929-1931 and terror against the peasantry; the Kirov assasination and show trials; the "great terror" from 1936-1938, which caused irreparable damage to the Soviet Union and left it vulnerable for Hilter's attack in 1941; the trial of Bukharin; Trotsky's revolutionary activity and Stalin's involvement with his murder in Mexico; Stalin's miscalculations and errors during the war, which cost the Soviet Union nearly 25 million in casualties; new purges from 1946-1953; and the actual vote of the Seventeenth Congress, which decided Stalin's candidacy. Since the first edition was finished by the author in 1969 and published in 1971, dozens of new informants have come forward to give their evidence to Roy Medvedev. Distinguished Soviet literary, cultural, and political figures like the late Alexander Twardovsky, Ilja Ehrenburg, Konstantin Simonov, Yuri Trifono, Mikhail Romm and many others have accumulated documentary records of Stalinism in anticipation of an expanded version.
Let History Judge
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Author : Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Let History Judge written by Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Soviet Union categories.
Let History Judge
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Author : Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Let History Judge written by Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with History categories.
A translation of the Soviet scholar's definitive study of Stalin and his era
Let History Judge
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Author : Roj Aleksandrovič Medvedev
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Let History Judge written by Roj Aleksandrovič Medvedev and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Soviet Union categories.
Let History Judge
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Author : Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Let History Judge written by Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Post Soviet Russia
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Author : Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2000
Post Soviet Russia written by Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Capitalism categories.
From the drastic liberalization of prices and "shock therapy" to the privatization of state owned property and Yeltsin's resignation and replacement by Vladimir Putin, this is a saga of good intentions, philosophical warfare, and catastrophic miscalculations."--BOOK JACKET.
Let History Judge
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Author : Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Let History Judge written by Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Soviet Union categories.
A Soviet scholar's monumental study of the Stalinist system.
On Socialist Democracy
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Author : Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
On Socialist Democracy written by Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Communist state categories.
How It All Began
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Author : Nikolai Bukharin
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 1998-06-05
How It All Began written by Nikolai Bukharin and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-06-05 with History categories.
Here at last in English is Nikolai Bukharin's autobiographical novel and final work. Many dissident texts of the Stalin era were saved by chance, by bravery, or by cunning; others were systematically destroyed. Bukharin's work, however, was simultaneously preserved and suppressed within Stalin's personal archives. At once novel, memoir, political apology, and historical document, How It All Began, known in Russia as "the prison novel," adds deeply to our understanding of this vital intellectual and maligned historical figure. The panoramic story, composed under the worst of circumstances, traces the transformation of a sensitive young man into a fiery agitator, and presents a revealing new perspective on the background and causes of the revolution that transformed the face of the twentieth century. Among the millions of victims of the reign of terror in the Soviet Union of the 1930's, Bukharin stands out as a special case. Not yet 30 when the Bolsheviks took power, he was one of the youngest, most popular, and most intellectual members of the Communist Party. In the 1920's and 30's, he defended Lenin's liberal New Economic Policy, claiming that Stalin's policies of forced industrialization constituted a "military-feudal exploitation" of the masses. He also warned of the approaching tide of European fascism and its threat to the new Bolshevik revolution. For his opposition, Bukharin paid with his freedom and his life. He was arrested and spent a year in prison. In what was one of the most infamous "show trials" of the time, Bukharin confessed to being a "counterrevolutionary" while denying any particular crime and was executed in his prison cell on March 15, 1938. While in prison, Bukharin wrote four books, of which this unfinished novel was the last. It traces the development of Nikolai "Kolya" Petrov (closely modeled on Nikolai "Kolya" Bukharin) from his early childhood though to age fifteen. In lyrical and poetic terms it paints a picture of Nikolai's growing political consciousness and ends with his activism on the eve of the failed 1905 revolution. The novel is presented here along with the only surviving letter from Bukharin to his wife during his time in prison, an epistle filled with fear, longing, and hope for his family and his nation. The introduction by Stephen F. Cohen articulates Bukharin's significance in Soviet history and reveals the troubled journey of this novel from Stalin's archives into the light of day.
The Whisperers
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Author : Orlando Figes
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2008-09-04
The Whisperers written by Orlando Figes and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-04 with History categories.
Drawing on a huge range of sources - letters, memoirs, conversations - Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin. Those who shaped the political system became, very frequently, its victims. Those who were its victims were frequently quite blameless. The Whisperers recreates the sort of maze in which Russians found themselves, where an unwitting wrong turn could either destroy a family or, perversely, later save it: a society in which everyone spoke in whispers - whether to protect themselves, their families, neighbours or friends - or to inform on them.