Stalin From the Caucasus to the Kremlin

 
Stalin From the Caucasus to the Kremlin
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2017 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 0415519497 | PDF | 2 MB
This new biography of Stalin offers an accessible and up-to-date representation of one of the most dominant and controversial figures of the modern European age, as well as fresh insight into his actions, intentions, and the nature of the power that he wielded.Christopher Read examines Stalin s contribution to and impact on Russian and world events in the first half of the twentieth century. The biography uses a wealth of primary sources, including the often neglected writings and speeches of Stalin himself and the newly available published and unpublished archive material, as well as recent secondary scholarship. In addition to a detailed narrative and analysis of Stalin s rule, chapters also cover his early years, his role in the revolution, his relationships with Lenin, Trotsky and others in the 1920s, and his rise to power. The book closes with an account of Stalin s afterlife and legacy, both in the immediate aftermath of his death and in the decades since.This concise account of Stalin s life is the perfect introduction for students of modern Russian history."


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The Kremlin's Chinese Advance Guard Chinese Students in Soviet Russia, 1917-1940

 
The Kremlin's Chinese Advance Guard Chinese Students in Soviet Russia, 1917-1940
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English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032380683 | 285 Pages | PDF (True) | 6 MB
This book is a comprehensive historical study of the Bolshevik system of ideological and political indoctrination of a substantial number of Chinese revolutionaries, who studied in Comintern international institutions in Soviet Russia from the October Revolution of 1917 to the Great Terror of the late 1930s.


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Khrushchev in the Kremlin Policy and Government in the Soviet Union, 1953-64

 
Khrushchev in the Kremlin Policy and Government in the Soviet Union, 1953-64
Khrushchev in the Kremlin: Policy and Government in the Soviet Union, 1953-64 (BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies) edited by Jeremy Smith, Melanie Ilič
English | January 18, 2011 | ISBN: 0415476488, 0415838169 | True EPUB | 272 pages | 0.8 MB
This book presents a new picture of the politics, economics and process of government in the Soviet Union under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev. Based in large part on original research in recently declassified archive collections, the book examines the full complexity of government, including formal and informal political relationships; economic reforms and nationality relations in the national republics of the USSR; the treatment of political dissent; economic progress through technological innovation; relations with the Eastern bloc; corruption and deceit in the economy; and the reform of the railways and construction sectors.


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