The Ghost Of Stalin

Author : Martin Cruz Smith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1075315148

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˜Theœ Ghost of Stalin by Jean-Paul Sartre Pdf

Author : Bertram David Wolfe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033839700

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Khrushchev and Stalin's Ghost by Bertram David Wolfe Pdf

Author : Martin Cruz Smith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451655537

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Martin Cruz Smith Ebook Boxed Set by Martin Cruz Smith Pdf

Stalin's Ghost Investigator Arkady Renko, the pariah of the Moscow prosecutor's office, has been assigned the thankless job of investigating a new phenomenon: late-night subway riders report seeing the ghost of Joseph Stalin. The illusion seems part political hocus-pocus and also part wishful thinking, for among many Russians Stalin is again popular; the bloody dictator can boast a two-to-one approval rating. Decidedly better than that of Renko, whose lover, Eva, has left him for Detective Nikolai Isakov, a charismatic veteran of the civil war in Chechnya, a hero of the far right and, Renko suspects, a killer for hire. The cases entwine, and Renko's quests become a personal inquiry fueled by jealousy. Wolves Eat Dogs The death of one of Russia's new billionaires leads Arkady Renko to Chernobyl and the Zone of Exclusion—closed to the world since 1986's nuclear disaster. It is still aglow with radioactivity, now inhabited only by the militia, shady scavengers, a few reckless scientists, and some elderly peasants who refuse to relocate. Renko's journey to this ghostly netherworld, the crimes he uncovers there, and the secrets they reveal about the New Russia make for an unforgettable adventure. Three Stations In Three Stations, Renko’s skills are put to their most severe test. Though he has been technically suspended from the prosecutor’s office for once again turning up unpleasant truths, he strives to solve a last case: the death of an elegant young woman whose body is found in a construction trailer on the perimeter of Moscow’s main rail hub. It looks like a simple drug overdose to everyone—except to Renko, whose examination of the crime scene turns up some inexplicable clues, most notably an invitation to Russia’s premier charity ball. Thus a sordid death becomes interwoven with the lifestyles of Moscow’s rich and famous, many of whom are clinging to their cash in the face of Putin’s crackdown on the very oligarchs who placed him in power.

Author : Adam Hochschild
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Mervyn Rice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Czechoslovakia
ISBN : OCLC:1436084589

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The Ghost of Stalin Walks by Mervyn Rice Pdf

Author : Anatole Shub
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 54,7 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.

Author : Bertram David Wolfe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:502944191

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Khrushchev and Stalin's Ghost by Bertram David Wolfe Pdf

Author : Mervyn Rice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Czechoslovakia
ISBN : OCLC:1436380406

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Prague by Mervyn Rice Pdf

Author : Bertram D Wolfe
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : Bruce Colin Daniels
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Humanities
ISBN : UIUC:30112097130063

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Living with Stalin's Ghost by Bruce Colin Daniels Pdf

Author : Marvin Kalb
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,5 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 : Marc Sercomb
Publisher : Blue Dog Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578742705

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Living in Cleveland with the Ghost of Joseph Stalin by Marc Sercomb Pdf

It's the summer of 1953. Calvin Jefferson Coolidge is thirteen years old when the ghost of Joseph Stalin appears to him in his Aunt Evelyn's cluttered Cleveland attic and wants to dictate his memoirs to him. "I want to tell my side of the story," Uncle Joe tells him. "They're giving me one year to set the record straight, so we need to get started right away." Calvin's life is falling apart at the seams. He's a misfit and loner whose only friends are famous dead people. He loves polka music and Westerns and sometimes wonders what it would be like to kiss a girl. His con man father is in Florida looking for his bipolar runaway mother. His cousin Buck is abducted and experimented on by aliens. The lady next door wants to coach him in the ways of love. His pastor thinks he's headed straight for Hell. His English teacher thinks he's a savant. The school psychologist wants to have him committed. His shrink thinks he's just plain nuts. Sometimes, Calvin believes it too. Everybody's trying to figure out what makes Calvin tick in this quirky, fast-paced metaphysical romp through the heart and soul of 1950's America.

Author : Lois Young-Tulin
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,7 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 : Loren Graham
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996-02-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780674254176

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The Ghost of the Executed Engineer by Loren Graham Pdf

Stalin ordered his execution, but here Peter Palchinsky has the last word. As if rising from an uneasy grave, Palchinsky’s ghost leads us through the miasma of Soviet technology and industry, pointing out the mistakes he condemned in his time, the corruption and collapse he predicted, the ultimate price paid for silencing those who were not afraid to speak out. The story of this visionary engineer’s life and work, as Loren Graham relates it, is also the story of the Soviet Union’s industrial promise and failure. We meet Palchinsky in pre-Revolutionary Russia, immersed in protests against the miserable lot of laborers in the tsarist state, protests destined to echo ironically during the Soviet worker’s paradise. Exiled from the country, pardoned and welcomed back at the outbreak of World War I, the engineer joined the ranks of the Revolutionary government, only to find it no more open to criticism than the previous regime. His turbulent career offers us a window on debates over industrialization. Graham highlights the harsh irrationalities built into the Soviet system—the world’s most inefficient steel mill in Magnitogorsk, the gigantic and ill-conceived hydroelectric plant on the Dnieper River, the infamously cruel and mislocated construction of the White Sea Canal. Time and again, we see the effects of policies that ignore not only the workers’ and consumers’ needs but also sound management and engineering precepts. And we see Palchinsky’s criticism and advice, persistently given, consistently ignored, continue to haunt the Soviet Union right up to its dissolution in 1991. The story of a man whose gifts and character set him in the path of history, The Ghost of the Executed Engineer is also a cautionary tale about the fate of an engineering that disregards social and human issues.