Stalin S Ghosts

Author : Martin Cruz Smith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781471131158

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Stalin's Ghost by Martin Cruz Smith Pdf

* Don't miss the latest in the Arkady Renko series, THE SIBERIAN DILEMMA, by Martin Cruz Smith, a novelist 'that anyone who is serious about their craft views with respect bordering on awe' (Val McDermid) * 'Martin Cruz Smith makes tension rise through the page like a shark's fin’ Independent Once the Chief Investigator of the Moscow Militsiya, Arkady Renko is now a pariah of the Prosecutor's Office and has been reduced to investigating reports of late-night subway riders seeing the ghost of Joseph Stalin. Part political hocus-pocus, part wishful thinking - even the illusion of the bloody dictator has a higher approval rating than Renko. After being left by his lover for a more popular and successful detective, Renko's investigation becomes a jealousy-fuelled quest leading to the barren fields of Tver, where millions of soldiers fought, and lost their lives. Here, scavengers collect bones, weapons and paraphernalia off the remains of those slain, but there's more to be found than bullets and boots. Praise for Martin Cruz Smith: 'The story drips with atmosphere and authenticity – a literary triumph' David Young, bestselling author of Stasi Child ‘Smith not only constructs grittily realistic plots, he also has a gift for characterisation of which most thriller writers can only dream' Mail on Sunday 'Smith was among the first of a new generation of writers who made thrillers literary' Guardian 'Brilliantly worked, marvellously written . . . an imaginative triumph' Sunday Times 'A wonderful surprise of a novel’ William Ryan, author of The Constant Soldier

Author : Muireann Maguire
Publisher : Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1803742208

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Stalin's Ghosts by Muireann Maguire Pdf

Stalin's Ghosts examines the impact of the Gothic-fantastic on Russian literature in the period 1920-1940. It shows how early Soviet-era authors, from well-known names including Fedor Gladkov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Platonov and Evgenii Zamiatin, to niche figures such as Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskii and Aleksandr Beliaev, exploited traditional archetypes of this genre: the haunted castle, the deformed body, vampires, villains, madness and unnatural death. Complementing recent studies of Soviet culture by Eric Naiman and Lilya Kaganovsky, this book argues that Gothic-fantastic tropes functioned variously as a response to the traumas produced by revolution and civil war, as a vehicle for propaganda, and as a subtle mode of unwriting the cultural monolith of Socialist Realism.

Author : Bertram D Wolfe
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1341719995

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Khurushchev and Stalin S Ghost by Bertram D Wolfe Pdf

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Author : Adam Hochschild
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780547524979

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The Unquiet Ghost by Adam Hochschild Pdf

An in-depth exploration of the legacy of Joseph Stalin on the former Soviet Union, by the author of King Leopold’s Ghost. Although some twenty million people died during Stalin’s reign of terror, only with the advent of glasnost did Russians begin to confront their memories of that time. In 1991, Adam Hochschild spent nearly six months in Russia talking to gulag survivors, retired concentration camp guards, and countless others. The result is a riveting evocation of a country still haunted by the ghost of Stalin. A New York Times Notable Book “An important contribution to our awareness of the former Soviet Union’s harrowing past and unsettling present.” —Los Angeles Times “A perceptive, intelligent book demonstrating that the significance of the gulag transcends the confines of one country and one generation.” —The New York Times Book Review “This probing and sensitive book…casts striking new light upon the Russian past and present.” —The Washington Post Book World “The voices [Hochschild] has recorded, the relics he has seen, are haunting—and the raw material of a terrific book.” —David Remnick, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lenin’s Tomb “No other work has brought home the full horror of this monstrous dictator’s rule than this close-up account.” —Daniel Schorr, former senior news analyst, National Public Radio

Author : Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015042850316

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The Ghost of Stalin by Jean-Paul Sartre Pdf

Author : Allen Weinstein,Alexander Vassiliev
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780375755361

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The Haunted Wood by Allen Weinstein,Alexander Vassiliev Pdf

Drawing upon previously secret KGB records released exclusively to Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, The Haunted Wood reveals for the first time the riveting story of Soviet espionage's "golden age" in the United States, from the 1930s through the early cold war.

Author : Bertram David Wolfe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033839700

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Khrushchev and Stalin's Ghost by Bertram David Wolfe Pdf

Author : Bertram David Wolfe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:502944191

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Khrushchev and Stalin's Ghost by Bertram David Wolfe Pdf

Author : Marvin Kalb
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780815731627

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The Year I Was Peter the Great by Marvin Kalb Pdf

" A chronicle of the year that changed Soviet Russia—and molded the future path of one of America's pre-eminent diplomatic correspondents 1956 was an extraordinary year in modern Russian history. It was called “the year of the thaw”—a time when Stalin’s dark legacy of dictatorship died in February only to be reborn later that December. This historic arc from rising hope to crushing despair opened with a speech by Nikita Khrushchev, then the unpredictable leader of the Soviet Union. He astounded everyone by denouncing the one figure who, up to that time, had been hailed as a “genius,” a wizard of communism—Josef Stalin himself. Now, suddenly, this once unassailable god was being portrayed as a “madman” whose idiosyncratic rule had seriously undermined communism and endangered the Soviet state. This amazing switch from hero to villain lifted a heavy overcoat of fear from the backs of ordinary Russians. It also quickly led to anti-communist uprisings in Eastern Europe, none more bloody and challenging than the one in Hungary, which Soviet troops crushed at year’s end. Marvin Kalb, then a young diplomatic attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, observed this tumultuous year that foretold the end of Soviet communism three decades later. Fluent in Russian, a doctoral candidate at Harvard, he went where few other foreigners would dare go, listening to Russian students secretly attack communism and threaten rebellion against the Soviet system, traveling from one end of a changing country to the other and, thanks to his diplomatic position, meeting and talking with Khrushchev, who playfully nicknamed him Peter the Great. In this, his fifteenth book, Kalb writes a fascinating eyewitness account of a superpower in upheaval and of a people yearning for an end to dictatorship. "

Author : C J Barker
Publisher : Book Guild Publishing
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781835740682

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Hungry Ghosts by C J Barker Pdf

The lives of Vic Woods and Ruth Wolfe, working-class teenagers from Liverpool and London, are profoundly disrupted by the arrival of World War II. Ruth’s journey leads her to aerial photographic interpretation, though her aspirations for advancement are denied, while Vic’s wartime experiences with bomber command haunt him long after the war is over. Their post-war marriage and tumultuous relationship with their son, James, make for a gripping narrative of trauma, conflict and, ultimately, love. Set against the backdrop of World War II and the social upheaval of the late 1960s, Hungry Ghosts transports readers into the drama of two pivotal eras in history, exploring the intergenerational impact of war, particularly on the intricate relationships between fathers and sons. Hungry Ghosts is not just a war story; it’s a timeless exploration of family bonds and the indelible scars left by war.

Author : Kathleen E. Smith
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501717956

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Remembering Stalin's Victims by Kathleen E. Smith Pdf

In Remembering Stalin's Victims, Kathleen E. Smith examines how government reformers' repudiation of Stalin's repressions both in the 1950s and in the 1980s created new political crises. Drawing on interviews, she tells the stories of citizens and officials in conflict over the past. She also addresses the underlying question of how societies emerging from rep1;essive regimes reconcile themselves to their memories. Soviet leaders twice attempted to liberalize communist rule and both times their initiatives hinged on criticism of Stalin. During the years of the Khrushchev "thaw" and again during Gorbachev's glasnost, anti-Stalinism proved a unique catalyst for democratic mobilization. Under Gorbachev, dissatisfaction with half truths about past atrocities united citizens from all walks of life in the Memorial Society, an independent mass movement that eventually challenged the very notion of reform communism. Smith investigates why citizens risked confrontation with the Communist Party in order to promote recognition of the victims of Stalinism and recompense for their survivors. Efforts to acknowledge the bitter legacy of totalitarian rule, while originally supporting a stable statesociety reform coalition, ultimately provoked "radical" demands for openness about the past, official accountability, and institutional guarantees of human rights, Smith explains. The battle over the Soviet past, she suggests, not only illuminates the dynamic between elite and mass political actors during liberalization, but also reveals the scars that totalitarian rule has left on Russian society and the long-term obstacles to reform it has created.

Author : Loren Graham
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674969049

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Lysenko’s Ghost by Loren Graham Pdf

Lysenko became one of the most notorious figures in twentieth-century science after his genetic theories were discredited decades ago. Yet some scientists now claim that discoveries in epigenetics prove that he was right after all. Loren Graham reopens the case, to determine whether new developments in molecular biology validate Lysenko’s claims.

Author : Lois Young-Tulin
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781462077700

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The Ghost of Leon Trotsky by Lois Young-Tulin Pdf

Mexico, 1940. Leon Trotsky, a key charismatic figure in the 1917 Russian Revolution, lives in exile in Mexico after losing power to Josef Stalin in 1924. He resides in a comfortable, fortified villa in Coyoacán in relative peace-until an agent of Stalin assassinates him. Los Angeles, 1990. Fifty years later, Trotsky's memory remains alive for six Americans who lived with him at the time of his death. Now they've gathered together to mark the fiftieth anniversary of his assassination. Though they have aged and their bodies no longer have the energy they once possessed, they still passionately believe in Trotsky's cause. For former lovers Byron Lerner and Verna Swartz, the past collides with the present as long-dormant emotions erupt between them, leading them down a road of painful memories. And for the entire group, their brief reunion will uncover betrayal, lies, and secrets so devastating that their perception of history will forever be altered. Rich with historic detail, The Ghost of Leon Trotsky is a brilliant examination of how six people come to terms with their individual and collective pasts and presents.

Author : Simon Ings
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780802189868

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Stalin and the Scientists by Simon Ings Pdf

“One of the finest, most gripping surveys of the history of Russian science in the twentieth century.” —Douglas Smith, author of Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy Stalin and the Scientists tells the story of the many gifted scientists who worked in Russia from the years leading up to the revolution through the death of the “Great Scientist” himself, Joseph Stalin. It weaves together the stories of scientists, politicians, and ideologues into an intimate and sometimes horrifying portrait of a state determined to remake the world. They often wreaked great harm. Stalin was himself an amateur botanist, and by falling under the sway of dangerous charlatans like Trofim Lysenko (who denied the existence of genes), and by relying on antiquated ideas of biology, he not only destroyed the lives of hundreds of brilliant scientists, he caused the death of millions through famine. But from atomic physics to management theory, and from radiation biology to neuroscience and psychology, these Soviet experts also made breakthroughs that forever changed agriculture, education, and medicine. A masterful book that deepens our understanding of Russian history, Stalin and the Scientists is a great achievement of research and storytelling, and a gripping look at what happens when science falls prey to politics. Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction in 2016 A New York Times Book Review “Paperback Row” selection “Ings’s research is impressive and his exposition of the science is lucid . . . Filled with priceless nuggets and a cast of frauds, crackpots and tyrants, this is a lively and interesting book, and utterly relevant today.” —The New York Times Book Review “A must read for understanding how the ideas of scientific knowledge and technology were distorted and subverted for decades across the Soviet Union.” —The Washington Post

Author : Anatole Shub
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Europe, Eastern
ISBN : UCAL:B4447436

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An Empire Loses Hope by Anatole Shub Pdf

In October 1961, Khrushchev ordered the removal of Stalin's body from the Red Square Mausoleum and hopes for a new freedom, justice and independence were aroused throughout the Soviet Union and its satellite states. Seven years later, these hopes were crushed when the Soviet Army invaded Czechoslovakia. Anatole Shub, an eminent American journalist, discusses how and why this happened. He recounts at first hand such dramatic incidents as Khrushchev's courtship of Tito, the trial of the Bulgarian United Nations delegate as a C.I.A. agent; Chou En-lai's weird visit to Rumania; the confrontation between Brezhnev and Dubcek at a railway men's club in Cierna-nad-Tisou; and the trials of young Russian democrats who bravely demonstrated against the Red Army invasion of Czechoslovakia.Combining eyewitness observation with expert research, Mr. Shub explains why Khrushchev encouraged, and his successors persecuted, such writers as Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Voznesensky; why Rumanian Communists behave like Rumanians; why East Germany needs the wall; why Yugoslavia has gone its own way towards an open society while once-liberal Poland has been driven to harass Catholic bishops and Jewish intellectuals alike -- from the publisher.