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The View From Stalin S Head
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Author : Aaron Hamburger
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2004-03-09
The View From Stalin S Head written by Aaron Hamburger and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-09 with Fiction categories.
The ten stories in The View from Stalin’s Head unfold in the post–Cold War Prague of the 1990s—a magnet not only for artists and writers but also for American tourists and college grad deadbeats, a city with a glorious yet sometimes shameful history, its citizens both resentful of and nostalgic for their Communist past. Against this backdrop, Aaron Hamburger conjures an arresting array of characters: a self-appointed rabbi who runs a synagogue for non-Jews; an artist, once branded as a criminal by the Communist regime, who hires a teenage boy to boss him around; a fiery would-be socialist trying to rouse the oppressed masses while feeling the tug of her comfortable Stateside upbringing. European and American, Jewish and gentile, straight and gay, the people in these stories are forced to confront themselves when the ethnic, religious, political, and sexual labels they used to rely on prove surprisingly less stable than they’d imagined. As Christopher Isherwood did in his Berlin Stories, Aaron Hamburger offers a humane and subtly etched portrait of a time and place, of people wrestling with questions of love, faith, and identity. The View from Stalin’s Head is a remarkable debut, and the beginning of a remarkable career.
View From Stalin S Head
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Author : Aaron Hamburger
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Release Date : 2004-03-01
View From Stalin S Head written by Aaron Hamburger and has been published by Turtleback Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-01 with Fiction categories.
This debut collection features ten lucid, haunting, and darkly comic stories about Americans and Europeans in post-Cold War Prague.
Stalin S Library
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Author : Geoffrey Roberts
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2022-02-08
Stalin S Library written by Geoffrey Roberts 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 2022-02-08 with History categories.
A compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal library In this engaging life of the twentieth century’s most self-consciously learned dictator, Geoffrey Roberts explores the books Stalin read, how he read them, and what they taught him. Stalin firmly believed in the transformative potential of words and his voracious appetite for reading guided him throughout his years. A biography as well as an intellectual portrait, this book explores all aspects of Stalin’s tumultuous life and politics. Stalin, an avid reader from an early age, amassed a surprisingly diverse personal collection of thousands of books, many of which he marked and annotated revealing his intimate thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. Based on his wide-ranging research in Russian archives, Roberts tells the story of the creation, fragmentation, and resurrection of Stalin’s personal library. As a true believer in communist ideology, Stalin was a fanatical idealist who hated his enemies—the bourgeoisie, kulaks, capitalists, imperialists, reactionaries, counter-revolutionaries, traitors—but detested their ideas even more.
Stalin S Genocides
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Author : Norman M. Naimark
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2010-07-19
Stalin S Genocides written by Norman M. Naimark 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 2010-07-19 with History categories.
The chilling story of Stalin’s crimes against humanity Between the early 1930s and his death in 1953, Joseph Stalin had more than a million of his own citizens executed. Millions more fell victim to forced labor, deportation, famine, bloody massacres, and detention and interrogation by Stalin's henchmen. Stalin's Genocides is the chilling story of these crimes. The book puts forward the important argument that brutal mass killings under Stalin in the 1930s were indeed acts of genocide and that the Soviet dictator himself was behind them. Norman Naimark, one of our most respected authorities on the Soviet era, challenges the widely held notion that Stalin's crimes do not constitute genocide, which the United Nations defines as the premeditated killing of a group of people because of their race, religion, or inherent national qualities. In this gripping book, Naimark explains how Stalin became a pitiless mass killer. He looks at the most consequential and harrowing episodes of Stalin's systematic destruction of his own populace—the liquidation and repression of the so-called kulaks, the Ukrainian famine, the purge of nationalities, and the Great Terror—and examines them in light of other genocides in history. In addition, Naimark compares Stalin's crimes with those of the most notorious genocidal killer of them all, Adolf Hitler.
The Personality Cult Of Stalin In Soviet Posters 1929 1953
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Author : Anita Pisch
language : en
Publisher: ANU Press
Release Date : 2016-12-16
The Personality Cult Of Stalin In Soviet Posters 1929 1953 written by Anita Pisch and has been published by ANU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-16 with Design categories.
From 1929 until 1953, Iosif Stalin’s image became a central symbol in Soviet propaganda. Touched up images of an omniscient Stalin appeared everywhere: emblazoned across buildings and lining the streets; carried in parades and woven into carpets; and saturating the media of socialist realist painting, statuary, monumental architecture, friezes, banners, and posters. From the beginning of the Soviet regime, posters were seen as a vitally important medium for communicating with the population of the vast territories of the USSR. Stalin’s image became a symbol of Bolshevik values and the personification of a revolutionary new type of society. The persona created for Stalin in propaganda posters reflects how the state saw itself or, at the very least, how it wished to appear in the eyes of the people. The ‘Stalin’ who was celebrated in posters bore but scant resemblance to the man Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, whose humble origins, criminal past, penchant for violent solutions and unprepossessing appearance made him an unlikely recipient of uncritical charismatic adulation. The Bolsheviks needed a wise, nurturing and authoritative figure to embody their revolutionary vision and to legitimate their hold on power. This leader would come to embody the sacred and archetypal qualities of the wise Teacher, the Father of the nation, the great Warrior and military strategist, and the Saviour of first the Russian land, and then the whole world. This book is the first dedicated study on the marketing of Stalin in Soviet propaganda posters. Drawing on the archives of libraries and museums throughout Russia, hundreds of previously unpublished posters are examined, with more than 130 reproduced in full colour. The personality cult of Stalin in Soviet posters, 1929–1953 is a unique and valuable contribution to the discourse in Stalinist studies across a number of disciplines.
The Inner Circle
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Author : Andreĭ Mikhalkov-Konchalovskiĭ
language : en
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Release Date : 1991-12
The Inner Circle written by Andreĭ Mikhalkov-Konchalovskiĭ and has been published by William Morrow Paperbacks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-12 with History categories.
The official movie tie-in to the Columbia Pictures film, The Inner circle; includes the story of Alexander Ganshin, Stalin's personal projectionist. Includes bibliographical references (p. 145) and index.
Conversations With Stalin
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Author : Milovan Djilas
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2014-01-02
Conversations With Stalin written by Milovan Djilas and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A mesmerising, chilling close-up portrayal of Stalin from Milovan Djilas, a Communist insider - with an introduction from Anne Applebaum, author of Gulag and Iron Curtain This extraordinarily vivid and unnerving book three meetings held with Stalin during and after the Second World War. Djilas brilliantly describes the dictator in his lair - cunning, cruel, enormously talented. Few books give as clear a sense of what made Stalin such a compelling figure and how he was able to hypnotise and terrify those around him. Djilas also describes the key members of Stalin's court: Beria, Malenkov, Zhukov, Molotov and Khruschchev. The result is a gripping account of the ruler at the height of his fame and power.
Stalin S School
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Author : Larry E. Holmes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999-01-01
Stalin S School written by Larry E. Holmes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with categories.
A different kind of history, "Stalin s Schoo"l brings a unique human dimension to the Soviet Union of the 1930s and a new understanding of Stalinism as a cultural and psychological phenomenon. From 1931 to 1937, School No. 25 was the most famous and most lavishly appointed school in the Soviet Union instructing the children of such prominent parents as Joseph Stalin, head of the Communist Party, Viacheslav Molotov, head of the Soviet State, and Paul Robeson, American actor and singer. Relying on published records, materials in eleven archives, accounts left by visiting foreigners including the prominent American educator George Counts and thirty six interviews with surviving pupils from the 1930s, Holmes brings the school to life. The school's administrators, teachers, pupils, friends, and foes become companions as well as objects of this study as we walk the schools halls, enter its classrooms, eavesdrop on feuding officials who debate its fate, and learn something of what the school and the period meant for its youth. Photographs of the school's teachers and students, and reproductions of the students' notebooks, drawings, and watercolors add personality to this compelling story. Holmes uses the experience of School No. 25 as a microcosm and mirror of Stalinism, illuminating the interplay of state and society in decision making, and providing an opportunity to examine Stalinism from ideological, cultural, and psychological perspectives. While placing the school's history in the context of the coercion, corruption and repression of the 1930s, Holmes challenges the prevailing view that state and public spectacle on the one hand, and society and private life, on the other, were contrasting entities. School No. 25 molded these elements into an organic whole. In the intimate setting of Stalin's School, the degree of acceptance of Stalinism transcends historians' customary reference to the fear or privilege a Soviet citizen experienced. In a mutually reinforcing way, forced compliance and voluntary choice moved individual teachers and pupils to accept a structured environment both at school and in society as the means to a powerful, prosperous, and just Soviet Union."
Stalin A New World Seen Through One Man
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Author : Henri Barbusse
language : en
Publisher: Speath Press
Release Date : 2013-02
Stalin A New World Seen Through One Man written by Henri Barbusse and has been published by Speath Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02 with History categories.
This early work by Henri Barbusse is on the social and political history of Russia. Barbusse was a French author and a member of the Communist Party. This particular work is on the life and times of the Russian leader Stalin.
Stalin And War 1918 1953
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Author : David R. Shearer
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-09-11
Stalin And War 1918 1953 written by David R. Shearer and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-11 with History categories.
Stalin and War, 1918-1953 is the first book to examine the patterns of radicalized internal violence that characterized the Stalinist regime across the whole of the dictator’s rule, and it is one of the only works to connect patterns of internal violence to the dictator’s perceptions of war and foreign threat. Discussion focuses on the crisis years 1928-1932, 1936-1939, the Great Fatherland War, and the last war crisis period, 1947-1953. Violent repressions under Stalin were cyclical. They peaked and ebbed but, in each case, they were linked to Stalin’s expectation of war and invasion, to his perceived need for urgent internal mobilization, and to intense foreign policy activity. Stalin’s behavior in each of these perceived war crises followed a pattern established during the dictator's experience as a military commander in the Russian revolutionary wars, and especially during the Polish war in 1919 and 1920. Together, these chapters trace a consistent and interconnected logic of war and repression throughout Stalin’s political life. This book will be of interest to professional scholars of Soviet history, twentieth-century history, and World War II history, and it is approachable enough to be appreciated by general readers.