Commissar

Author : Andy Hoare
Publisher : Black Library
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Imaginary wars and battles
ISBN : 1849706093

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Commissar by Andy Hoare Pdf

Deployed to the prison planet of Furia Penitens to quell a violent uprising, the 77th Vostroyan Firstborn regiment of the Imperial Guard find themselves in a precarious position. The rebels are in a fortified prison-hive, all but impenetrable. A disgrace suffered by their forebears haunts them. And they hate their new commissar. Can Commissar Flint bring them to victory and restore their reputation, or with the 77th fail again?

Author : Martyn Burke
Publisher : Martyn Burke
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0395354900

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The Commissar's Report by Martyn Burke Pdf

Author : Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev,Serge_ Khrushchev
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0271023325

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Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Commissar, 1918-1945 by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev,Serge_ Khrushchev Pdf

Nikita Khrushchev&’s proclamation from the floor of the United Nations that &"we will bury you&" is one of the most chilling and memorable moments in the history of the Cold War, but from the Cuban Missile Crisis to his criticism of the Soviet ruling structure late in his career the motivation for Khrushchev&’s actions wasn&’t always clear. Many Americans regarded him as a monster, while in the USSR he was viewed at various times as either hero or traitor. But what was he really like, and what did he really think? Readers of Khrushchev&’s memoirs will now be able to answer these questions for themselves (and will discover that what Khrushchev really said at the UN was &"we will bury colonialism&"). This is the first volume of three in the only complete and fully reliable version of the memoirs available in English. In this volume, Khrushchev recounts how he became politically active as a young worker in Ukraine, how he climbed the ladder of power under Stalin to occupy leading positions in Ukraine and then Moscow, and how as a military commissar he experienced the war against the Nazi invaders. He vividly portrays life in Stalin's inner circle and among the generals who commanded the Soviet armies. Khrushchev&’s sincere reflections upon his own thoughts and feelings add to the value of this unique personal and historical document. Included among the Appendixes is Sergei Khrushchev&’s account of how the memoirs were created and smuggled abroad during his father&’s retirement.

Author : Dale Roy Herspring
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0742511065

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Soldiers, Commissars, and Chaplains by Dale Roy Herspring Pdf

This innovative study offers the first-ever comparison of the military roles played by commissars, political officers, and chaplains in military settings ranging from the armies of Cromwell, the Jacobins, the Nazis, the Soviets, and the United States. Despite the stark differences in the political systems of the countries of these disparate armed forces, Dale R. Herspring argues that there are certain critical functions that must be fulfilled in every military, regardless of its ideological orientation. Most vital are motivation, morale boosting, and political socialization. In addition, Herspring's comparative historical analysis decisively demonstrates that the roles of commissars, political officers, and chaplains alike have evolved in ways that are crucial yet rarely understood either by policymakers or scholars.

Author : Timothy J. Colton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : 0674145356

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Commissars, Commanders, and Civilian Authority by Timothy J. Colton Pdf

For six decade the Soviet system has been immune to military rebellion and takeover, which often characterizes modernizing countries. How can we explain the stability of Soviet military politics, asks Timothy Colton in his compelling interpretation of civil-military relations in the Soviet Union. Hitherto most western scholars have posited a basic dichotomy of interests between the Soviet army and the Communist party. They view the two institutions as conflictprone, with civilian supremacy depending primarily upon the party's control of officers through its organs within the military establishment. Colton challenges this thesis and argues that the military party organs have come to possess few of the attributes of an effective controlling device, and that the commissars and their heirs have operated as allies rather than adversaries of the military commanders. In explaining the extraordinary stability in army-party relations in terms of overlapping interests rather than controlling mechanisms, Colton offers a major case study and a new model to students of comparative military politics.

Author : Marat Grinberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Film adaptations
ISBN : 1783207078

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The Commissar by Marat Grinberg Pdf

Author : David King
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 080505295X

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The Commissar Vanishes by David King Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book, 1997 The lavishly illustrated and often darkly hilarious retelling of Soviet history through the doctored photographs under Stalin. The Commissar Vanishes has been hailed as a brilliant, indispensable record of an era. The Commissar Vanishes offers a unique and chilling look at how one man--Joseph Stalin--manipulated the science of photography to advance his own political career and erase the memory of his victims. Over the past thirty years David King has assembled the world's largest archive of doctored Soviet photographs, the best of which appear here, in a book Tatyana Tolstaya, in The New York Review of Books, called "an extraordinary, incomparable volume."

Author : M. Epstein
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1501 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230270718

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The Statesman's Year-Book by M. Epstein Pdf

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

Author : David Annandale
Publisher : Games Workshop
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1784961612

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The Last Wall by David Annandale Pdf

Despite the Imperium’s best attempts to forestall the ork plague that is wrecking havoc in human space, an ork attack moon now hangs over Terra. Despite the Imperium’s best attempts to forestall the ork plague that is wrecking havoc in human space, an ork attack moon now hangs over Terra. As its malevolent presence gazes down at the Imperial Palace, terrified citizens run riot in the streets. In a last-ditch attempt to destroy the attack moon, a proletarian crusade is launched. Thousands of ships large and small head to the moon carrying billions of citizens, all eager to take the fight to the enemy. It seems the attack has a chance of success as the invasion force lands safely, but the orks have yet to spring their trap...

Author : Sven Hassel
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780297864233

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The Commissar by Sven Hassel Pdf

A shocking insight into the brutalities faced by ordinary soldiers and the atrocities committed in the name of survival. Dispassionately we stared at the bloody scene. It had become an everyday sight. The 27th Penal Regiment care nothing for Hitler's war. They fight only to stay alive. But then they uncover the Soviet Army's biggest secret. A Russian commissar has hidden 30 million dollars of gold somewhere behind enemy lines. In a madcap scheme, Porta brokers a deal with the commissar: free passage for the Russians in return for a share of the gold. To find it, Sven and his comrades must be prepared to lie, steal and go behind the lines of the deadly Russian army...

Author : Muḥammad Ḥasanayn Haykal
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015002600248

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Sphinx and Commissar by Muḥammad Ḥasanayn Haykal Pdf

Forfatteren forklarer udviklingen af den sovjetrussiske dominans i Mellemøsten lige fra Ægyptens "tjekkiske våbenhandel" i 1955, som åbnede vejen for at Sovjet trådte i stedet for Storbritannien og USA som den toneangivende magt i området og til at russerne i 1972 beordredes til at forlade Ægypten.

Author : Cecil D. Eby
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271029108

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Comrades and Commissars by Cecil D. Eby Pdf

In the summer of 1936, Generalissimo Francisco Franco led a group of right-wing nationalists in a military attack on the Republican government of Spain&—the start of what would become the Spanish Civil War. Despite U.S. laws banning participation in foreign conflicts, American volunteers began pouring into Barcelona in January 1937. The most famous of these anti-Franco groups was the band of 2,800 American fighters who called themselves the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. In Comrades and Commissars, Cecil D. Eby pushes beyond the bias that has dominated study of the Lincoln Battalion and gets to the very heart of the American experience in Spain. Controversy has plagued the Lincoln Battalion from the very start. Were these men selfless defenders of liberty or un-American Communists? Eby has long been regarded as one of the few balanced interpreters of their history. His 1969 book, Between the Bullet and the Lie, won accolades for its rigorous and fair treatment of the Battalion. Comrades and Commissars builds upon that earlier study, incorporating a wealth of information collected over intervening decades. New oral histories, previously untranslated memoirs, and newly declassified official documents all lend even greater authority and perspective to Eby&’s account. Most significant is Eby&’s use of Lincoln Battalion archives sequestered in a Moscow storeroom for sixty years. These papers draw renewed focus on some of the most provocative questions surrounding the Battalion, including the extent to which Americans were persecuted&—and even executed&—by the brigade commissariat. The Americans who served in the Lincoln Battalion were neither mythic figures nor political abstractions. Poorly trained and equipped, they committed themselves to back-to-the-wall defense of the doomed Spanish Republic. In Comrades and Commissars, we at last have the authoritative account of their experiences.

Author : Marc Jansen,Nikita Vasilʹevich Petrov
Publisher : Hoover Institution Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,5 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 : Scotland. Privy Council
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Scotland
ISBN : UCAL:C2805894

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The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland by Scotland. Privy Council Pdf

Author : Scotland. Privy Council
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Scotland
ISBN : MSU:31293106399409

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1545-1569 by Scotland. Privy Council Pdf