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Stalin'S Master Narrative - A Critical Edition Of The History Of The Communist Party Of The Soviet Union (Bolsheviks), Short Course

59,63€ + 10% CARD

 A critical edition of the text that defined communist party ideology in Stalin's Soviet Union
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Voice Of The People - Letters From The Soviet Village, 1918-1932

59,63€ + 10% CARD

 Presents a comprehensive collection in English of peasant writings during the early years of the Bolshevik regime. Drawn entirely from Russian archival sources, this book presents more than 150 letters addressed to newspapers, government officials, and Communist Party leaders.
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Silence Was Salvation - Child Survivors Of Stalin''S Terror And World War Ii In The Soviet Union

by Frierson Cathy A. Frierson

22,51€ + 10% CARD

 Roughly ten million children were victims of political repression in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist Era. In this title, ten grown victims who, as children, suffered banishment, starvation, disease, anti-Semitism, and trauma resulting from their parents' condemnation and arrest, now freely share their stories.
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Stalin And The Lubianka - A Documentary History Of The Political Police And Security Organs In The Soviet Union, 1922–1953

by Khaustov Vladimir Khaustov e Shearer David R. Shearer

66,25€ + 10% CARD
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Secret Cables Of The Comintern, 1933-1943

by Firsov Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov, Haynes John Earl Haynes e Klehr Harvey Klehr

33,13€ + 10% CARD

 Drawing on secret and therefore candid coded telegraphs exchanged between Communist Party leaders around the world and their overseers at the Communist International headquarters in Moscow, this book uncovers key aspects of the history of the Comintern and its significant role in the Stalinist ruling system during the years 1933 to 1943.
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Leningrad Blockade, 1941-1944 - A New Documentary History From The Soviet Archives

by Bidlack Richard Bidlack e Lomagin Nikita Lomagin

53,00€ + 10% CARD

 Based largely on formerly top-secret Soviet archival documents (including 66 reproduced documents and 70 illustrations), this book portrays the inner workings of the communist party and secret police during Germany's horrific 1941-44 siege of Leningrad, during which close to one million citizens perished.
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Sedition - Everyday Resistance In The Soviet Union Under Khrushchev And Brezhnev

59,63€ + 10% CARD

 Explores Soviet prosecution records to tell the hidden story of ordinary citizens who were arrested for expressing discontent during the Khrushchev and Brezhnev years.
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Gulag Voices - An Anthology

17,21€ + 10% CARD

 A collection of the writings of survivors of the Gulag, the Soviet concentration camps. It includes the personal stories of figures such as renowned literary scholar Dmitri Likhachev; Anatoly Marchenko, the son of illiterate labourers; and, American citizen Alexander Dolgun.
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Stalin'S Secret Pogrom - The Postwar Inquisition Of The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee

41,34€ + 10% CARD

 In the spring and summer of 1952, fifteen Soviet Jews, including five prominent Yiddish writers and poets, were secretly tried and convicted; multiple executions soon followed in the basement of Moscows Lubyanka prison. The defendants were falsely charged with treason and espionage because of their involvement in the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, and because of their heartfelt response as Jews to Nazi atrocities on occupied Soviet territory. Stalin had created the committee to rally support for the Soviet Union during World War II, but he then disbanded it after the war as his paranoia mounted about Soviet Jews.For many years, a host of myths surrounded the case against the committee. Now this book, which presents an abridged version of the long-suppressed transcript of the trial, reveals the Kremlins machinery of destruction. Joshua Rubenstein provides annotations about the players and events surrounding the case. In a long introduction, drawing on newly released documents in Moscow archives and on interviews with relatives of the defendants in Israel, Russia, and the United States, Rubenstein also sets the trial in historical and political context and offers a vivid account of Stalins anti-Semitic campaign.
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Kgb File Of Andrei Sakharov

46,38€ + 10% CARD

 Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989), a brilliant physicist and the principal designer of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, later became a human rights activist and—as a result—a source of profound irritation to the Kremlin. This book publishes for the first time ever KGB files on Sakharov that became available during Boris Yeltsin’s presidency. The documents reveal the untold story of KGB surveillance of Sakharov from 1968 until his death in 1989 and of the regime’s efforts to intimidate and silence him. The disturbing archival materials show the KGB to have had a profound lack of understanding of the spiritual and moral nature of the human rights movement and of Sakharov’s role as one of its leading figures.
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Stalinism As A Way Of Life - A Narrative In Documents

19,81€ + 10% CARD

 "Maybe some people are shy about writing, but I will write the real truth. . . . Is it really possible that people at the newspaper haven’t heard this. . . that we don’t want to be on the kolkhoz [collective farm], we work and work, and there’s nothing to eat. Really, how can we live?"—a farmer’s letter, 1936, from Stalinism as a Way of Life What was life like for ordinary Russian citizens in the 1930s? How did they feel about socialism and the acts committed in its name? This unique book provides English-speaking readers with the responses of those who experienced firsthand the events of the middle-Stalinist period. The book contains 157 documents—mostly letters to authorities from Soviet citizens, but also reports compiled by the secret police and Communist Party functionaries, internal government and party memoranda, and correspondence among party officials. Selected from recently opened Soviet archives, these previously unknown documents illuminate in new ways both the complex social roots of Stalinism and the texture of daily life during a highly traumatic decade of Soviet history. Accompanied by introductory and linking commentary, the documents are organized around such themes as the impact of terror on the citizenry, the childhood experience, the countryside after collectivization, and the role of cadres that were directed to "decide everything." In their own words, peasants and workers, intellectuals and the uneducated, adults and children, men and women, Russians and people from other national groups tell their stories. Their writings reveal how individual lives influenced—and were affected by—the larger events of Soviet history.
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Unknown Lenin

33,13€ + 10% CARD

 Was Lenin a visionary whose ideals were subverted by his followers? Or was he a cynical misanthrope, even crueler than Stalin? This book, which contains newly released documents from the Lenin archive in Russia, lays bare Lenin the man and the politician, leaving little doubt that he was a ruthless and manipulative leader who used terror, subversion, and persecution to achieve his goals.Edited and introduced by the eminent scholar Richard Pipes in collaboration with Y.A. Buranov of the Russian Center for the Preservation and Study of Documents of Recent History in Moscow, the documents date from 1886 through the end of Lenin's life. They reveal, among other things, that:• Lenin's purpose in invading Poland in 1920 was not merely to sovietize that country but to use it as a springboard for the invasion of Germany and England;• Lenin took money from the Germans (here we have the first incontrovertible evidence for this);• in 1919 Lenin issued instructions to the Communist authorities in the Ukraine not to accept Jews in the Soviet government of that republic;• as late as 1922 Lenin believed in the imminence of social revolution in the West, and he planned subversion in Finland, Turkey, Lithuania, and other countries;• Lenin had little regard for Trotsky's judgment on important matters and relied heavily on Stalin;• Lenin assiduously tracked dissident intellectuals and urged repressive action or deportation;• Lenin launched a political offensive against the Orthodox Church, ordering that priests who resisted seizure of church property be shot--"the more the better."
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Road To Terror - Stalin And The Self-Destruction Of The Bolsheviks, 1932-1939

by Getty J. Arch Getty e Naumov Oleg V. Naumov

19,81€ + 10% CARD

 The vast and complex tragedy of Stalin's purges, culminating in the Great Terror, made victims of millions of Russians between 1932 and 1939. This gripping book assembles and translates into English for the first time an astonishing array of formerly top secret Soviet documents from that period. Exposing to daylight the hidden inner workings of the Communist Party and the dark inhumanity of the purge process, these documents immeasurably deepen our understanding of an agonizing episode of Soviet history.From dossiers on the liquidated Soviet elite to police reports of peasant unrest to private letters from victims and purgers to secret transcripts of Central Committee meetings, the nearly two hundred documents presented here confirm Stalin's role as executor of the terror. Yet the top party elite, or nomenklatura, were also key to the unfolding of a terror that proceeded with fits and starts, moves and countermoves, and steps toward and away from the abyss. From 1932 to early 1937 Stalin and the nomenklatura agreed on the need to destroy all dissidents, to stage show trials, to carry out mass arrests, purges, and shootings, and to prevent any resistance to these "cleansings." Eventually deep insecurities that magnified any opposition and iron discipline within the party led the nomenklatura to support Stalin in purging their own colleagues, and in 1937 and 1938 they serially voted one another into prison.
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Katyn - A Crime Without Punishment

by Materski Wojciech Materski

33,13€ + 10% CARD

 Shows the background and mechanics of the Soviet mass executions in spring 1940 of 14,500 Polish prisoners of war - army officers, police, gendarmes, and civilians - taken by the Red Army when it invaded eastern Poland in September 1939. This work presents 122 documents, with introductions and endnotes.
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Road To Terror - Stalin And The Self-Destruction Of The Bolsheviks, 1932-1939

by Getty J. Arch Getty e Naumov Oleg V. Naumov

21,19€ + 10% CARD

 Assembles some of the top secret Soviet documents, from the era of Stalin's purges. This title includes the dossiers, police reports, private letters, secret transcripts, and other documents that expose the hidden inner workings of the Communist Party and the dark inhumanity of the purge process.
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Soviet World Of American Communism

by Anderson Kyrill M. Anderson, Haynes John Earl Haynes e Klehr Harvey Klehr

37,76€ + 10% CARD

 Based on documents recently made available from Russian archives, this book demonstrates the continuous and intimate ties between the Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA) and Moscow, showing that Moscow maintained extensive control of the CPUSA, even of the American rank and file.
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Kirov Murder And Soviet History

by Lenoe Matthew E. Lenoe

53,00€ + 10% CARD

 Drawing on many KGB and party Central Committee documents, this title reexamines the 1934 assassination of Leningrad party chief Sergei Kirov. This book includes translations of 125 documents from the various investigations of the Kirov murder, allowing readers to reach their own conclusions about Stalin's involvement in the assassination.
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Secret World Of American Communism

by Firsov Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov, Haynes John Earl Haynes e Klehr Harvey Klehr

37,76€ + 10% CARD

 For the first time, the hidden world of American communism can be examined with the help of documents from the recently opened archives of the former Soviet Union. By interweaving narrative and documents, the authors of this book present a convincing new picture of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), one of the most controversial organizations in American public life. Heated debates about whether the Communist Party harbored spies or engaged in espionage have surrounded the party from its inception. This authoritative book provides proof that the CPUSA was involved in various subversive activities. At the same time, it discloses fascinating details about the workings of the party and about the ordinary Americans and CPUSA leaders who participated in its clandestine activities.The documents presented range from letters by Americans wishing to do international covert work for the Soviet Union to top secret memos between the head of Soviet foreign intelligence, the Comintern, and the CPUSA. They confirm that--the Soviet Union heavily subsidized the CPUSA and that some prominent Americans laundered money for the Comintern;--the CPUSA maintained a covert espionage apparatus in the United States with direct ties to Soviet intelligence;--the testimony of former Communists concerning underground Communist activity in the United States can be substantiated;--American Communists working in government agencies stole documents and passed them to the CPUSA, which sent them on to Moscow;--the CPUSA played a role in atomic espionage;and much more.An engrossing narrative places the documents in their historical context and explains key figures, organizations, and events. Together the narrative and documents provide a revealing picture of American communism and convey the contradictory passions that drew so many Americans into the Communist movement and eventually tore that movement apart.
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Diary Of Georgi Dimitrov, 1933-1949

by Dimitrov Georgi Dimitrov

45,05€ + 10% CARD

 Georgi Dimitrov (1882-1949) was a high-ranking Bulgarian and Soviet official, one of the most prominent leaders of the international Communist movement and a trusted member of Stalin’s inner circle. Accused by the Nazis of setting the Reichstag fire in 1933, he successfully defended himself at the Leipzig Trial and thereby became an international symbol of resistance to Nazism. Stalin appointed him head of the Communist International (Comintern) in 1935, and he held this position until the Comintern’s dissolution in 1943. After the end of the Second World War, Dimitrov returned to Bulgaria and became its first Communist premier.During the years between 1933 and his death in 1949, Dimitrov kept a diary that described his tumultuous career and revealed much about the inner working of the international Communist organizations, the opinions and actions of the Soviet leadership, and the Soviet Union’s role in shaping the postwar Eastern Europe. This important document, edited and introduced by renowned historian Ivo Banac, is now available for the first time in English. It is an essential source for information about international Communism, Stalin and Soviet policy, and the origins of the Cold War.
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Stalin-Kaganovich Correspondence, 1931-36

46,38€ + 10% CARD

 From 1931 to 1936, Stalin vacationed at his Black Sea residence for two to three months each year, relying on his subordinates to send him information. This volume publishes translations of 180 letters and coded telegrams exchanged during this time between Stalin and his deputy, Lazar Kaganovich.
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War Against The Peasantry, 1927-1930 - The Tragedy Of The Soviet Countryside, Volume One

36,44€ + 10% CARD

 The collectivization of Soviet agriculture in the late 1920s and 1930s forever altered the countrys social and economic landscape. It became the first of a series of bloody landmarks that would come to define Stalinism. This revelatory book presentswith analysis and commentarythe most important primary Soviet documents dealing with the brutal economic and cultural subjugation of the Russian peasantry. Drawn from previously unavailable and in many cases unknown archives, these harrowing documents provide the first unimpeded view of the experience of the peasantry during the years 1927-1930.The book, the first of four in the series, covers the background of collectivization, its violent implementation, and the mass peasant revolt that ensued. For its insights into the horrific fate of the Russian peasantry and into Stalins dictatorship, The War Against the Peasantry takes its place an as unparalleled resource.
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Piggy Foxy And The Sword Of Revolution - Bolshevik Self-Portraits

33,13€ + 10% CARD
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Enemies Within The Gates? - The Comintern And The Stalinist Repression, 1934-1939

by William J. Chase

39,75€ + 10% CARD
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Italian Paintings From The Richard L. Feigen Collection

by John J. Marciari e Laurence Kanter

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 Presents some of the rare masterpieces by artists from Bernardo Daddi to Fra Angelico, Orazio Gentileschi's Danae, Annibale Carracci's Virgin and Child, and precious, small-scale coppers by major Mannerist and Baroque masters. This title catalogues more than fifty major works from the 14th to the 17th century.

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