A Show Trial Under Lenin

Author : M. Jansen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789400976061

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A Show Trial Under Lenin by M. Jansen Pdf

Soviet Russia will conquer all the millions of problems that stand in its way, on one condition: as long as the cause of the political education of the broad masses of the people continually advances. We have nothing to be afraid of, if our people fully learns to distinguish who are its friends and who are its enemies. The trial of the Socialist Revolutionaries must and shall be a great step forward in the cause of the political instruction of the very broadest masses in town and country. (Grigorii Zinov'ev, Pravda and Krasnaia gazeta, 20 June 1922) For my part, I considered this trial to be unnecessary: the Socialist Revolu tionaries had been beaten and represented no visible danger at all. (Charles Rappoport, Ma vie, Paris 1926-1927, Vol. 2, p. 80) The Bolsheviks seized power in Russia in October 1917 by staging a coup d'etat, and then established a dictatorship. The new rulers sup pressed all armed resistance in a bloody civil war, after which they made every effort to uproot and exterminate even peaceful political opposition of all kinds. Even now it is impossible in the Soviet Union to subject these developments to critical historical study. The political opponents of the Soviet regime of the time are still regarded by official Soviet his toriography as counter-revolutionaries and the measures taken against them are seen as completely justified.

Author : Marc Jansen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Terrorism
ISBN : 9024723477

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A Show Trial Under Lenin by Marc Jansen Pdf

Author : Bengt Jangfeldt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226056975

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Mayakovsky by Bengt Jangfeldt Pdf

A Life at Stake is the first serious biography of the legendary Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. Physically imposing, crude, a sexual adventurer and ex-convict, Mayakovsky rose to fame between 1912 and 1917 as a Futurist agitator and the author of radical poems and plays. He embraced the Russian Revolution and became one of its most passionate propagandists, then at the age of thirty-six took his own life, disappointed in the course of Soviet society and ravaged by private conflicts. Mayakovsky s poems are as exhilarating today as when he declaimed them for friends in smoky flats in Moscow, Berlin, Paris, and New York. In Bengt Jangfeldt s propulsive biography, Mayakovsky s life, too, is compelling: a story of constant, passionate upheaval against the background of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, Stalin s terror, and cycles of anti-Semitism. Mayakovsky emerges from this biography a highly vulnerable figure, more a dreamer than a revolutionary, more a political romantic than a hardened Communist."

Author : Hellmut Andics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015001681959

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Rule of Terror by Hellmut Andics Pdf

Author : Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin,Leon Trotsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036246721

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Lenin's Fight Against Stalinism by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin,Leon Trotsky Pdf

Author : Joel Carmichael
Publisher : London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036490576

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Stalin's Masterpiece by Joel Carmichael Pdf

Author : Stuart Finkel
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300145076

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On the Ideological Front by Stuart Finkel Pdf

'On the Ideological Front' centres on the 1922-23 expulsion from Soviet Russia of some 100 prominent intellectuals. Finkel's account is a scholarly examination of this which sets it in the context of Bolshevik curbs, prohibitions, and punishment of intellectuals who resisted ideological conformity.

Author : James Ryan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780415673969

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Lenin's Terror by James Ryan Pdf

This text explores the development of Lenin's thinking on violence, tracing the evolution of his thinking from the late 19th century, showing the impact of the First World War, and examining the Bolshevik seizure of power.

Author : David M. Crowe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350083363

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Stalin's Soviet Justice by David M. Crowe Pdf

From the 'show' trials of the 1920s and 1930s to the London Conference, this book examines the Soviet role in the Nuremberg IMT trial through the prism of the ideas and practices of earlier Soviet legal history, detailing the evolution of Stalin's ideas about the trail of Nazi war criminals. Stalin believed that an international trial for Nazi war criminals was the best way to show the world the sacrifices his country had made to defeat Hitler, and he, together with his legal mouthpiece Andrei Vyshinsky, maintained tight control over Soviet representatives during talks leading up to the creation of the Nuremberg IMT trial in 1945, and the trial itself. But Soviet prosecutors at Nuremberg were unable to deal comfortably with the complexities of an open, western-style legal proceeding, which undercut their effectiveness throughout the trial. However, they were able to present a significant body of evidence that underscored the brutal nature of Hitler's racial war in Russia from 1941-45, a theme which became central to Stalin's efforts to redefine international criminal law after the war. Stalin's Soviet Justice provides a nuanced analysis of the Soviet justice system at a crucial turning point in European history and it will be vital reading for scholars and advanced students of the legal history of the Soviet Union, the history of war crimes and the aftermath of the Second World War.

Author : Katy Turton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230393080

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Family Networks and the Russian Revolutionary Movement, 1870–1940 by Katy Turton Pdf

This book explores the role played by families in the Russian revolutionary movement and the first decades of the Soviet regime. While revolutionaries were expected to sever all family ties or at the very least put political concerns before personal ones, in practice this was rarely achieved. In the underground, revolutionaries of all stripes, from populists to social-democrats, relied on siblings, spouses, children and parents to help them conduct party tasks, with the appearance of domesticity regularly thwarting police interference. Family networks were also vital when the worst happened and revolutionaries were imprisoned or exiled. After the revolution, these family networks continued to function in the building of the new Soviet regime and amongst the socialist opponents who tried to resist the Bolsheviks. As the Party persecuted its socialist enemies and eventually turned on threats perceived within its ranks, it deliberately included the spouses and relatives of its opponents in an attempt to destroy family networks for good.

Author : Willard Sunderland
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801471063

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The Baron's Cloak by Willard Sunderland Pdf

Baron Roman Fedorovich von Ungern-Sternberg (1885–1921) was a Baltic German aristocrat and tsarist military officer who fought against the Bolsheviks in Eastern Siberia during the Russian Civil War. From there he established himself as the de facto warlord of Outer Mongolia, the base for a fantastical plan to restore the Russian and Chinese empires, which then ended with his capture and execution by the Red Army as the war drew to a close. In The Baron’s Cloak, Willard Sunderland tells the epic story of the Russian Empire’s final decades through the arc of the Baron’s life, which spanned the vast reaches of Eurasia. Tracking Ungern’s movements, he transits through the Empire’s multinational borderlands, where the country bumped up against three other doomed empires, the Habsburg, Ottoman, and Qing, and where the violence unleashed by war, revolution, and imperial collapse was particularly vicious. In compulsively readable prose that draws on wide-ranging research in multiple languages, Sunderland re-creates Ungern’s far-flung life and uses it to tell a compelling and original tale of imperial success and failure in a momentous time. Sunderland visited the many sites that shaped Ungern’s experience, from Austria and Estonia to Mongolia and China, and these travels help give the book its arresting geographical feel. In the early chapters, where direct evidence of Ungern’s activities is sparse, he evokes peoples and places as Ungern would have experienced them, carefully tracing the accumulation of influences that ultimately came together to propel the better documented, more notorious phase of his career. Recurring throughout Sunderland’s magisterial account is a specific artifact: the Baron’s cloak, an essential part of the cross-cultural uniform Ungern chose for himself by the time of his Mongolian campaign: an orangey-gold Mongolian kaftan embroidered in the Khalkha fashion yet outfitted with tsarist-style epaulettes on the shoulders. Like his cloak, Ungern was an imperial product. He lived across the Russian Empire, combined its contrasting cultures, fought its wars, and was molded by its greatest institutions and most volatile frontiers. By the time of his trial and execution mere months before the decree that created the USSR, he had become a profoundly contradictory figure, reflecting both the empire’s potential as a multinational society and its ultimately irresolvable limitations.

Author : Ronald Grigor Suny,Terry Martin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195349351

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A State of Nations by Ronald Grigor Suny,Terry Martin Pdf

This collected volume, edited by Ron Suny and Terry Martin, shows how the Soviet state managed to create a multiethnic empire in its early years, from the end of the Russian Revolution to the end of World War II. Bringing together the newest research on a wide geographic range, from Russia to Central Asia, this volume is essential reading for students and scholars of Soviet history and politics.

Author : Tom Rockmore,Norman Levine
Publisher : Springer
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137516503

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The Palgrave Handbook of Leninist Political Philosophy by Tom Rockmore,Norman Levine Pdf

This intellectually discomfiting, disturbingly provocative, yet still thoroughly scholarly Handbook reproduces the intellectual ferment that accompanied the Russian Revolution including the wholly polarising effect at that time of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. The Palgrave Handbook of Leninist Political Philosophy does not settle for one safe interpretation of the thought of this world-historic figure but rather revels in a clash of viewpoints. Most interestingly it presents a contrast between the Western editors who emphasise pure democracy and Marxian humanism with many of the contributing scholars who take a more sanguine view of the Leninist political project. Perhaps reflecting the current Western political crisis, some of the volume’s other European and North American scholars more closely align with their colleagues from the Global South. Key Features: · Places particular emphasis on the key elements of Lenin’s thought – the dictatorship of the proletariat (which is trenchantly defended), the nature of the dialectic and the New Economic Policy · Additional comprehensive coverage includes the theory of the party, Bolshevism, imperialism, and the class struggle in the countryside · Examines the relation of Lenin’s thought to the ideas of his most influential contemporaries (including Luxemburg, Stalin and Trotsky) as well as the most eminent thinker to interpret Lenin since his death – György Lukács This Handbook is essential reading for scholars, researchers and advanced students in political philosophy, political theory, the history of political ideas, economics, international relations and world history. It is also ideal for the general reader who wishes to understand some of the most powerful ideas that have shaped the modern world and that may yet shake the world again.

Author : Marc Jansen,Nikita Vasilʹevich Petrov
Publisher : Hoover Institution Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817929022

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Stalin's Loyal Executioner by Marc Jansen,Nikita Vasilʹevich Petrov Pdf

Stalin's Loyal Executioner, drawn from still-classified Soviet archives, chronicles the meteoric and bloody career of Nikolai Ezhov, NKVD leader and security chief, revealing the tragic scope of communist terrorism under Joseph Stalin.

Author : Tovah Yedlin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781567509793

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Maxim Gorky by Tovah Yedlin Pdf

Maxim Gorky, born Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov in 1868 to the low stratum of Russian society, rose to prominence early in life as a writer and publicist. Gorky, who did not have a formal education, became famous in his country and abroad. Writing could not satisfy the rebellious Gorky who soon became involved in revolutionary movements. After a short period with the populist/narodnik movement, Gorky became disillusioned with the peasant class, and, instead, he chose the nascent class of workers as the vehicle for change. It is as if Gorky and capitalism arrived in Russia together. In his view the intelligentsia and the workers would bring about the change in the political, social, and cultural life of the country. Gorky came close to Lenin and the Bolsheviks, taking an active part in the Revolution of 1905 and going into an exile that lasted until 1913. Gorky, returning home on the eve of World War I and the following revolutions of February and October 1917, became involved in the momentous developments. He vehemently opposed Lenin's socialist revolution, maintaining that Russia was not ready for it. A second exile followed in 1921. After returning in 1928 to Stalin's Soviet Union, Gorky was made into an icon, with the eye of the inquisition watching over him. And here began what is often called The Tragedy of Maxim Gorky. He died in 1936, but the circumstances of his death as well as the question whither Gorky is still debated Based on hitherto unavailable primary sources, Yedlin has cut through the Gorky legend to show the real person, the Gorky of contradictions and oscillations. Fascinating reading for scholars and students of Russian history and literature as well as the general public.