The Decline And Fall Of The Soviet Empire
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The Decline And Fall Of The Soviet Empire
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Author : Fred Coleman
language : en
Publisher: St Martins Press
Release Date : 1996
The Decline And Fall Of The Soviet Empire written by Fred Coleman and has been published by St Martins Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
Traces the decline and collapse of the Soviet Union, drawing on once secret Soviet archives and interviews with key figures to provide a definitive account of forty years of Russian history
The Decline And Fall Of The Soviet Empire
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Author : Bernard M. Gwertzman
language : en
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Release Date : 1992
The Decline And Fall Of The Soviet Empire written by Bernard M. Gwertzman and has been published by Three Rivers Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
Consists of articles which were originally published in the New York Times.
The Rise And Fall Of The Soviet Empire
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Author : Dmitriĭ Antonovich Volkogonov
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
The Rise And Fall Of The Soviet Empire written by Dmitriĭ Antonovich Volkogonov and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Following his great trilogy of biographies of the giants who dominated the history of the Soviet Union - Stalin (1991), Lenin (1994) and Trotsky (1996) - Dmitri Volkogonov delves deeper into the Soviet archives to produce new character evaluations and political assessments of the seven leaders who ruled the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1991. A former general in the Soviet Army's propaganda department, Director of the Institute for Military History, and Defence Adviser to President Yeltsin from 1991 to his death from cancer in December 1995, Dmitri Volkogonov had unrivalled access to Soviet military archives, Communist Party documents and secret presidential files. Basing his new book on these inside sources, he has continued his pioneering work of revealing the truth behind the activities of the world's most secretive political leaders. He throws new light on: Lenin's paranoia about foreigners in Russia; his creation of a privileged system for top Party members; Stalin's repression of the nationalities and his singular conduct of foreign policy; the origins and conduct of the Korean War; Khrushchev's relationship with the odious secret service chief Beria; Brezhnev's vanity and stupidity; the Afghan War; Poland and Solidarity; Soviet bureaucracy; Gorbachev's Leninism and role in history.
A Normal Totalitarian Society
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Author : Vladimir Shlapentokh
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
A Normal Totalitarian Society written by Vladimir Shlapentokh and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Political Science categories.
Shlapentokh undertakes a dispassionate analysis of the ordinary functioning of the Soviet system from Stalin's death through the Soviet collapse and Russia's first post-communist decade. Without overlooking its repressive character, he treats the USSR as a "normal" system that employed both socialist and nationalist ideologies for the purposes of technological and military modernization, preservation of empire, and expansion of its geopolitical power. Foregoing the projection of Western norms and assumptions, he seeks to achieve a clearer understanding of a civilization that has perplexed its critics and its champions alike.
The Rise And Fall Of The Soviet Empire
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Author : Brian Crozier
language : en
Publisher: Prima Lifestyles
Release Date : 1999
The Rise And Fall Of The Soviet Empire written by Brian Crozier and has been published by Prima Lifestyles this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Soviet Union categories.
For more than 80 years, the Soviet Empire cast an ever-lengthening shadow across the face of the world. Lenin's ruthless legacy consumed Eastern Europe and toppled governments on virtually every continent. Yet at the moment when the Empire appeared to have reached its zenith, it collapsed like a house of cards. "Brian Crozier's definitive history of the Soviet Empire is a chilling account of an ideology that haunted our century." -- Henry Kissinger In this seminal work, the eminent British writer and historian Brian Crozier tells the brutal history of the Soviet Empire--its birth, life, and sudden death. The book begins at the beginning, in 1917, when the oversized dreams of Lenin and the happenstance of events conspired to change the course of history. In meticulous detail, Crozier follows the Soviet conquests across Europe and into Asia, Africa, and the Western Hemisphere. He uses recently declassified information from Soviet archives to add texture and depth to familiar parts of the story--the betrayal at Yalta, the terror of Stalin, the tragedy of Hungary, the split with China, the false hope of Prague Spring, the rise of Castro, the invasion of Afghanistan, and the crumbling of the Berlin Wall. Revealed along the way is the dark underside of a regime whose march toward supremacy resulted in the loss of tens of millions of lives. The book concludes with reflections on the extraordinary disintegration of Lenin's utopia and the seemingly endless chaos left in its wake. Provocative, comprehensive, and majestic in scope, "The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire is the definitive account of history's most turbulent days.
The Rise And Fall Of The Soviet Empire
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Author : Stephen Dalziel
language : en
Publisher: Smithmark Publishers
Release Date : 1993
The Rise And Fall Of The Soviet Empire written by Stephen Dalziel and has been published by Smithmark Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with History categories.
An examination of the history of the Soviet Union from 1917 through the early 1990's.
Age Of Delirium
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Author : David Satter
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2008-10-01
Age Of Delirium written by David Satter and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-01 with History categories.
The first state in history to be based explicitly on atheism, the Soviet Union endowed itself with the attributes of God. In this book, David Satter shows through individual stories what it meant to construct an entire state on the basis of a false idea, how people were forced to act out this fictitious reality, and the tragic human cost of the Soviet attempt to remake reality by force. “I had almost given up hope that any American could depict the true face of Russia and Soviet rule. In David Satter’s Age of Delirium, the world has received a chronicle of the calvary of the Russian people under communism that will last for generations.†?—Vladimir Voinovich, author of The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin “Spellbinding. . . . Gives one a visceral feel for what it was like to be trapped by the communist system.†?—Jack Matlock, Washington Post “Satter deserves our gratitude. . . . He is an astute observer of people, with an eye for essential detail and for human behavior in a universe wholly different from his own experience in America.†?—Walter Laqueur, Wall Street Journal “Every page of this splendid and eloquent and impassioned book reflects an extraordinarily acute understanding of the Soviet system.†?—Jacob Heilbrunn, Washington Times
The Fall Of The Soviet Empire
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Author : Anne de Tinguy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
The Fall Of The Soviet Empire written by Anne de Tinguy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
Was the Soviet system's failure inevitable from its inception? These essays consider the role of ideology, the failure of the economic system, and the failure of a messianic ambition.
The Rise And Fall Of The Soviet Empire
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Author : Raymond Pearson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998-01
The Rise And Fall Of The Soviet Empire written by Raymond Pearson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01 with Europe, Eastern categories.
Symbolised by the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the collapse of the Soviet Bloc astounded the western world. The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire describes and explains the creation, maintenance and eventual demise of the Soviet regime across post-1945 Eastern Europe. Balancing 'internal' factors such as resilient indigenous nationalism against 'external' factors such as America's acceleration of the arms race, Raymond Pearson sets the so-called 'Soviet Empire' within the broader context of global imperialism and decolonisation.
The Rise Of Russia And The Fall Of The Soviet Empire
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Author : John B. Dunlop
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1995-04-03
The Rise Of Russia And The Fall Of The Soviet Empire written by John B. Dunlop and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-04-03 with History categories.
This is the first work to set one of the great bloodless revolutions of the twentieth century in its proper historical context. John Dunlop pays particular attention to Yeltsin's role in opposing the covert resurgence of Communist interests in post-coup Russia, and faces the possibility that new institutions may not survive long enough to sink roots in a traditionally undemocratic culture.