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Stalin's Nemesis

Bertrand Patenaude
Stalin s Nemesis Book PDF

Author : Bertrand Patenaude
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571258345

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Stalin's Nemesis by Bertrand Patenaude Pdf

Leon Trotsky was the charismatic intellectual of the Russian Revolution, an authoritarian organizer, who might have succeeded Lenin and become the ruler of the Soviet Union. But by the time the Second World War broke out he was in exile, living in Mexico in a villa borrowed from the great artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, guarded only by several naïve young American acolytes. The household was awash with emotional turmoil - tensions grew between Trotsky and Rivera, as questions arose over his relations with Frida Kahlo. His wife was restless and jealous.Outside of the villa, Mexican communists tried to storm the house, the Trotskys' sons were being persecuted and killed in Europe, and in Moscow, Stalin personally ordered his secret police to kill his fiercest left-wing critic - at any cost. By the summer of 1940, they had found a man who could penetrate the tight security around the house in far-away Mexico . . .Bertrand Patenaude's book reconstructs a famous state crime with chilling precision and a page-turning quality. It tells the amazing story of a deadly rivalry, revolutionary fanaticism and tragic violence and loss.

The History of the Galician Division of the Waffen SS

Michael James Melnyk
The History of the Galician Division of the Waffen SS Book PDF

Author : Michael James Melnyk
Publisher : Fonthill Media
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The History of the Galician Division of the Waffen SS by Michael James Melnyk Pdf

The second volume of the definitive history of the 14th Waffen-Grenadier Division der SS (Ukrainische Nr 1). The lavishly illustrated concluding volume of the division's history features chapters on its reformation, deployment against Communist-backed partisans in Slovakia, the forced march to Slovenia, anti-partisan action against Tito's partisans in Slovenia and its committal for the final time on the Eastern Front against the Red Army in Austria. It concludes with an investigation into the Division's escape from repatriation a subject which has long been the subject of contention amongst historians. This volume also deals with internment and ends with its unique post war fate including new information about the secret role of MI6 in training former members of the Division for secret espionage activities behind the Iron Curtain. Drawing on an unsurpassed collection of material accumulated over decades of research, the author offers unique photographic sections on all aspects of the Divisions history including uniform details together with much hitherto unseen material featuring recent document discoveries, new veteran testimonies and detailed information on every aspect of the Division.

The History of the Galician Division of the Waffen SS

Michael James Melnyk
The History of the Galician Division of the Waffen SS Book PDF

Author : Michael James Melnyk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 1781555389

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The History of the Galician Division of the Waffen SS by Michael James Melnyk Pdf

"The History of the Galician Division of the Waffen SS: Volume One: On the Eastern Front, April 1943 to July 1944 is the first volume of a two part set on the history of the Galician Division based on twenty-five years research by historian Michael James Melnyk. The author has sourced additional new and hitherto unseen original material on all aspects of the Divisions history from archives and private collections in Europe, Australia, North American and Canada. Complemented by individual accounts and contributions of many veterans, which add an engaging personal dimension, this definitive account is lavishly illustrated with many unique photos and crammed full of details, notes and references."--Publisher's description.

Hitler's Nemesis

Walter Scott Dunn
Hitler s Nemesis Book PDF

Author : Walter Scott Dunn
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1994-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780275948948

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Hitler's Nemesis by Walter Scott Dunn Pdf

This book traces the development of the Russian Army in reaction to the rise of Hitler. Caught by surprise in 1941, the Red Army had achieved superiority over the Germans by 1943, and had no real need for Western military assistance. The Russians, as this book establishes, won because they had better organization and equipment--i.e., a better and more effective army. By delaying the second front, the Allies gave Stalin the opportunity to enslave Eastern Europe.

Stalin's American Spy

Tony Sharp
Stalin s American Spy Book PDF

Author : Tony Sharp
Publisher : Hurst & Company Limited
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781849043441

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Stalin's American Spy by Tony Sharp Pdf

Stalin's American Spy tells the remarkable story of Noel Field, a Soviet agent in the US State Department in the mid-1930s. Lured to Prague in May 1949, he was kidnapped and handed over to the Hungarian secret police. Tortured by them and interrogated too by their Soviet superiors, Field's forced 'confessions' were manipulated by Stalin and his East European satraps to launch a devastating series of show-trials that led to the imprisonment and judicial murder of numerous Czechoslovak, German, Polish and Hungarian party members. Yet there were other events in his very strange career that could give rise to the suspicion that Field was an American spy who had infiltrated the Communist movement at the behest of Allen Dulles, the wartime OSS chief in Switzerland who later headed the CIA. Never tried, Field and his wife were imprisoned in Budapest until 1954, then granted political asylum in Hungary, where they lived out their sterile last years. This new biography takes a fresh look at Field's relationship with Dulles, and his role in the Alger Hiss affair. It sheds fresh light upon Soviet espionage in the United States and Field's relationship with Hede Massing, Ignace Reiss and Walter Krivitsky. It also reassesses how the increasingly anti-Semitic East European show-trials were staged and dissects the 'lessons which Stalin sought to convey through them.

Stalin's Agent

Boris Volodarsky
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Author : Boris Volodarsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199656585

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Stalin's Agent by Boris Volodarsky Pdf

This is the history of an unprecedented deception operation - the biggest KGB deception of all time. It has never been told in full until now. There are almost certainly people who would like it never to be told. It is the story of General Alexander Orlov. Stalin's most loyal and trusted henchman during the Spanish Civil War, Orlov was also the Soviet handler controlling Kim Philby, the British spy, defector, and member of the notorious 'Cambridge Five'. Escaping Stalin's purges, Orlov fled to America in the late 1930s and lived underground. He only dared reveal his identity to the world after Stalin's death, in his 1953 best-seller The Secret History of Stalin's Crimes, after which he became perhaps the best known of all Soviet defectors, much written about, highly praised, and commemorated by the US Congress on his death in 1973. But there is a twist in the Orlov story beyond the dreams of even the most ingenious spy novelist: 'General Alexander Orlov' never actually existed. The man known as 'Orlov' was in fact born Leiba Feldbin. And while he was a loyal servant of Stalin and the controller of Philby, he was never a General in the KGB, never truly defected to the West after his 'flight' from the USSR, and remained a loyal Soviet agent until his death. The 'Orlov' story as it has been accepted until now was largely the invention of the KGB - and one perpetuated long after the end of the Cold War. In this meticulous new biography, Boris Volodarsky, himself a former Soviet intelligence officer, now tells the true story behind 'Orlov' for the first time. An intriguing tale of Russian espionage and deception, stretching from the time of Lenin to the Putin era, it is a story that many people in the world's intelligence agencies would almost definitely prefer you not to know about.

On Stalin's Team

Sheila Fitzpatrick
On Stalin s Team Book PDF

Author : Sheila Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691175775

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On Stalin's Team by Sheila Fitzpatrick Pdf

Explanatory Note -- Glossary -- The Team Emerges -- The Great Break -- In Power -- The Team on View -- The Great Purges -- Into War -- Postwar Hopes -- Aging Leader -- Without Stalin -- End of the Road -- Biographies

Stalin

Stephen Kotkin
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Author : Stephen Kotkin
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 975 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780143127864

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Stalin by Stephen Kotkin Pdf

In his biography of Stalin, Kotkin rejects the inherited wisdom about Stalin's psychological makeup, showing us instead how Stalin's near paranoia was fundamentally political and closely tracks the Bolshevik revolution's structural paranoia, the predicament of a Communist regime in an overwhelmingly capitalist world, surrounded and penetrated by enemies. At the same time, Kotkin posits the impossibility of understanding Stalin's momentous decisions outside of the context of the history of imperial Russia.

Stalin and War, 1918-1953

David R. Shearer
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Author : David R. Shearer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000955446

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Stalin and War, 1918-1953 by David R. Shearer Pdf

Stalin and War, 1918-1953 is the first book to examine the patterns of radicalized internal violence that characterized the Stalinist regime across the whole of the dictator’s rule, and it is one of the only works to connect patterns of internal violence to the dictator’s perceptions of war and foreign threat. Discussion focuses on the crisis years 1928-1932, 1936-1939, the Great Fatherland War, and the last war crisis period, 1947-1953. Violent repressions under Stalin were cyclical. They peaked and ebbed but, in each case, they were linked to Stalin’s expectation of war and invasion, to his perceived need for urgent internal mobilization, and to intense foreign policy activity. Stalin’s behavior in each of these perceived war crises followed a pattern established during the dictator's experience as a military commander in the Russian revolutionary wars, and especially during the Polish war in 1919 and 1920. Together, these chapters trace a consistent and interconnected logic of war and repression throughout Stalin’s political life. This book will be of interest to professional scholars of Soviet history, twentieth-century history, and World War II history, and it is approachable enough to be appreciated by general readers.

Stalin

Ronald Grigor Suny
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Author : Ronald Grigor Suny
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691202716

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Stalin by Ronald Grigor Suny Pdf

"This biography of the young Stalin is more than the story of how a revolutionary was made: it is the first serious investigation, using the full range of Russian and Georgian archives, to explain Stalin's evolution from a romantic and idealistic youth into a hardened political operative. Suny takes seriously the first half of Stalin's life: his intellectual development, his views on issue of nationalities and nationalism, and his role in the Social Democratic debates of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book narrates an almost tragic downfall; we see Stalin transform from a poor provincial seminarian, who wrote romantic nationalist poetry, into a fearsome and brutal ruler. Many biographers of Stalin turn to shallow psychological analysis in seeking to explain his embrace of revolution, focusing on the beatings he suffered at the hands of his father or his hero-worship of Lenins, or sensationalizing Stalin's involvement in violent activity. Suny seeks to show Stalin in the complex context of the oppressive tsarist police-state in which he lived and debates and party politics that animated the revolutionary circles in which he moved. Though working from fragmentary evidence from disparate sources, Suny is able to place Stalin in his intellectual and political context and reveal, not only a different analysis of the man's psychological and intellectual transformation, but a revisionist history of the revolutionary movements themselves before 1917"--

Stalin's War

Sean McMeekin
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Author : Sean McMeekin
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541672772

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Stalin's War by Sean McMeekin Pdf

A prize-winning historian reveals how Stalin—not Hitler—was the animating force of World War II in this major new history. World War II endures in the popular imagination as a heroic struggle between good and evil, with villainous Hitler driving its events. But Hitler was not in power when the conflict erupted in Asia—and he was certainly dead before it ended. His armies did not fight in multiple theaters, his empire did not span the Eurasian continent, and he did not inherit any of the spoils of war. That central role belonged to Joseph Stalin. The Second World War was not Hitler’s war; it was Stalin’s war. Drawing on ambitious new research in Soviet, European, and US archives, Stalin’s War revolutionizes our understanding of this global conflict by moving its epicenter to the east. Hitler’s genocidal ambition may have helped unleash Armageddon, but as McMeekin shows, the war which emerged in Europe in September 1939 was the one Stalin wanted, not Hitler. So, too, did the Pacific war of 1941–1945 fulfill Stalin’s goal of unleashing a devastating war of attrition between Japan and the “Anglo-Saxon” capitalist powers he viewed as his ultimate adversary. McMeekin also reveals the extent to which Soviet Communism was rescued by the US and Britain’s self-defeating strategic moves, beginning with Lend-Lease aid, as American and British supply boards agreed almost blindly to every Soviet demand. Stalin’s war machine, McMeekin shows, was substantially reliant on American materiél from warplanes, tanks, trucks, jeeps, motorcycles, fuel, ammunition, and explosives, to industrial inputs and technology transfer, to the foodstuffs which fed the Red Army. This unreciprocated American generosity gave Stalin’s armies the mobile striking power to conquer most of Eurasia, from Berlin to Beijing, for Communism. A groundbreaking reassessment of the Second World War, Stalin’s War is essential reading for anyone looking to understand the current world order.

Voices From Stalingrad

Jonathan Bastable
Voices From Stalingrad Book PDF

Author : Jonathan Bastable
Publisher : David & Charles
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106018853090

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Voices From Stalingrad by Jonathan Bastable Pdf

From the acclaimed author of "Voices from D-Day" comes a fascinating perspective on World War II's largest and most bitterly fought battle with never-before-published material from rare German and Russian KGB sources.

Gramsci and Trotsky in the Shadow of Stalinism

Emanuele Saccarelli
Gramsci and Trotsky in the Shadow of Stalinism Book PDF

Author : Emanuele Saccarelli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781135899806

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Gramsci and Trotsky in the Shadow of Stalinism by Emanuele Saccarelli Pdf

This book examines the legacy of Antonio Gramsci and Leon Trotsky in the shadow of Stalinism in order to reassess the very different and distorted academic reception of the two figures, as well as to contribute to the revitalization of Marxism for our time. While Gramsci and Trotsky lived and died in a similar fashion, as revolutionary Marxist leaders and theoreticians, their reception in academia could not be more different. Gramsci has become tremendously popular, becoming a central figure in many disciplines, while Trotsky remains largely ignored. Saccarelli argues that not only is Gramsci popular for the wrong reasons--being routinely distorted and depoliticized--even when rescued from his contemporary users, Gramsci remains inadequate. Conversely, the fact that Trotsky remains beyond the pale of "theory" is a terrible indictment of the current state of academic thinking.

Identity by Design

Georgia Butina Watson,Ian Bentley
Identity by Design Book PDF

Author : Georgia Butina Watson,Ian Bentley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780750647670

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Identity by Design by Georgia Butina Watson,Ian Bentley Pdf

Fascinating discussion on the nature of 'identity' in architecture and urban design.

Sons and Fathers

John Crosby
Sons and Fathers Book PDF

Author : John Crosby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781317975793

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Sons and Fathers by John Crosby Pdf

Father-son relationships can be notoriously difficult. Often fractious, sometimes hostile, and occasionally destructive, the issue of authority is negotiated by fathers and sons in a range of styles. In this fascinating new book, John Crosby describes the filial relationships of 20 historical figures to illustrate the different ways they related to their fathers, and what this can tell us about love, authority and the wider family context. Sons and Fathers is an approach to understanding this son-father conflict based on early life experience rather than upon psycho-historian or psycho-biographical material and theorizing. Each vignette is designed to be read as a biographical account, but is bookended by a section reflecting on how each man’s relationship to his father can be understood in the context of key developmental theories, in particular those of Eric Erikson and Murray Bowen’s family system theory. The book also includes an extended introduction to both theorists for those unfamiliar with their work, as well as a discussion of the role of corporal punishment as a method of disciplining children. From Michael Jackson to Bing Crosby, Joseph Stalin to John F Kennedy, this is a uniquely accessible but insightful book that will appeal to both general readers as well as students of Developmental Psychology across the lifespan, Family Studies, Marriage and Family therapy, and related subjects. It will also appeal to professionals working in the area, including social workers, counsellors and therapists.