The Soviet Colossus

Author : Michael Kort
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0765603977

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The Soviet Colossus by Michael Kort Pdf

The most readable history of twentieth century Russia, from tsarist times to the present -- now completely revised and updated to integrate new revelations and ongoing debates about the nature of the Soviet regime, and including coverage of the first decade of post-Soviet Russia.

Author : Michael G. Kort
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780765628459

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The Soviet Colossus by Michael G. Kort Pdf

The twentieth century was not kind to Russia. Despite its great potential and remarkable achievements, the country also bore the weight of two world wars, a revolution and civil war, totalitarian tyranny, famine and ecological destruction, economic ruin, and imperial decline. Will Russia ever be prosperous, peaceful, and free? Seeking clues in the past, Michael Kort revisits earlier turning points in Russia's history--from the fall of the old regime to the establishment of the Bolshevik dictatorship and Stalinist totalitarianism; from the reforms and counter-reforms of Khrushchev and Brezhnev to the tumultuous years of change under Gorbachev and Yeltsin. Which strands of Russia's past is their successor, Vladimir Putin, weaving into the fabric of the present, and which are being allowed to fade, for better or worse? This new edition of The Soviet Colossus brings the story up through the first decade of the twenty-first century. Distinctively readable, judicious, and focused on critical events and questions, it integrates new revelations about the Soviet past and ongoing debates about the Soviet regime as well as its successor. It is the ideal text for as one semester history course or background for a political science course.

Author : Michael Kort
Publisher : Allen & Unwin Australia
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015019633364

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The Soviet Colossus by Michael Kort Pdf

Author : Michael Kort
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Russia
ISBN : 0765603977

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The Soviet Colossus by Michael Kort Pdf

Author : David M. Glantz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015047075729

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Stumbling Colossus by David M. Glantz Pdf

Drawing on evidence never before seen in the West, including combat records of early engagements, David Glantz claims that in 1941 the Red Army was poorly trained, inadequately equipped, ineptly organized, and consequently incapable of engaging in large-scale military campaigns - and both Hitler and Stalin knew it. He provides a complete and convincing study of why the Soviets almost lost the war that summer, dispelling many of the myths about the Red Army that have persisted since the war and soundly refuting Viktor Suvorov's controversial thesis that Stalin was planning a preemptive strike against Germany.

Author : Michael Kort
Publisher : Brief History
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0816071136

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A Brief History of Russia by Michael Kort Pdf

This book covers the history of Russia, the world's largest nation -- from its early beginnings in the ninth century when Rurik, a Varangian king, established the first Russian state near Kiev, to the current presidency of Vladimir Putin. Detailing the social, economic, and political changes and crises that the people of Russia have had to endure, A Brief History of Russia provides a comprehensive and accessible account of this vast country's history. A chronology, bibliography, suggested reading, and other helpful features enrich this invaluable book. Coverage includes: The conquest and rule of Russia by the Mongol Golden Horde; The reign of terror by Ivan the Terrible; The start of modernization under Peter the Great; The rise to the center of European power under Catherine the Great; The Russian Revolution and the emergence of the superpower Soviet Union; The disintegration of the Soviet Union; Vladimir Putin's terms as president and his plans for the country's future. - Publisher.

Author : Michael Kort
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0531110400

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The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union by Michael Kort Pdf

A history of the Soviet Union which begins with the conditions leading up to the revolution of 1917 and concludes with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Author : Robert Strayer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781315503967

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Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse?: Understanding Historical Change by Robert Strayer Pdf

Taking the Soviet collapse - the most cataclysmic event of the recent past - as a case study, this text engages students in the exercise of historical analysis, interpretation and explanation. In exploring the question posed by the title, the author introduces and applies such organizing concepts as great power conflict, imperial decline, revolution, ethnic conflict, colonialism, economic development, totalitarian ideology, and transition to democracy in a most accessible way. Questions and controversies, and extracts from documentary and literary sources, anchor the text at key points. This book is intended for use in history and political science courses on the Soviet Union or more generally on the 20th century.

Author : David M. Glantz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015060590026

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Colossus Reborn by David M. Glantz Pdf

"Beyond the battles themselves, Glantz also presents an in-depth portrait of the Red Army as an evolving military institution. Assessing more clearly than ever before the army's size, strength, and force structure, he provides keen insights into its doctrine, strategy, tactics, weaponry, training, officer corps, and political leadership. In the process, be puts a human face on the Red Army's commanders and soldiers, including women and those who served in units - security (NKVD), engineer, railroad, auto-transport, construction, and penal forces - that have till now remained poorly understood."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Michael Jakobson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813161389

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Origins Of The Gulag by Michael Jakobson Pdf

A vast network of prison camps was an essential part of the Stalinist system. Conditions in the camps were brutal, life expectancy short. At their peak, they housed millions, and hardly an individual in the Soviet Union remained untouched by their tentacles. Michael Jakobson's is the first study to examine the most crucial period in the history of the camps: from the October Revolution of 1917, when the tsarist prison system was destroyed to October 1934, when all places of confinement were consolidated under one agency -- the infamous GULAG. The prison camps served the Soviet government in many ways: to isolate opponents and frighten the population into submission, to increase labor productivity through the arrest of "inefficient" workers, and to provide labor for factories, mines, lumbering, and construction projects. Jakobson focuses on the structure and interrelations of prison agencies, the Bolshevik views of crime and punishment and inmate reeducation, and prison self-sufficiency. He also describes how political conditions and competition among prison agencies contributed to an unprecedented expansion of the system. Finally, he disputes the official claim of 1931 that the system was profitable -- a claim long accepted by former inmates and Western researchers and used to explain the proliferation of the camps and their population. Did Marxism or the Bolshevik Revolution or Leninism inexorably lead to the GULAG system? Were its origins truly evil or merely banal? Jakobson's important book probes the official record to cast new light on a system that for a time supported but ultimately helped destroy the now fallen Soviet colossus.

Author : Michael Kort
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231528399

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The Columbia Guide to the Cold War by Michael Kort Pdf

The Cold War was the longest conflict in American history, and the defining event of the second half of the twentieth century. Since its recent and abrupt cessation, we have only begun to measure the effects of the Cold War on American, Soviet, post-Soviet, and international military strategy, economics, domestic policy, and popular culture. The Columbia Guide to the Cold War is the first in a series of guides to American history and culture that will offer a wealth of interpretive information in different formats to students, scholars, and general readers alike. This reference contains narrative essays on key events and issues, and also features an A-to-Z encyclopedia, a concise chronology, and an annotated resource section listing books, articles, films, novels, web sites, and CD-ROMs on Cold War themes.

Author : David Horowitz
Publisher : Hill & Wang
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015003962332

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The Free World Colossus by David Horowitz Pdf

Author : Roman Szporluk
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817995430

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Russia, Ukraine, and the Breakup of the Soviet Union by Roman Szporluk Pdf

This book chronicles the final two decades in the history of the Soviet Union and presents a story that is often lost in the standard interpretations of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR. Although there were numerous reasons for the collapse of communism, it did not happen—as it may have seemed to some—overnight. Indeed, says Roman Szporluk, the root causes go back even earlier than 1917. To understand why the USSR broke up the way it did, it is necessary to understand the relationship between the two most important nations of the USSR—Russia and Ukraine—during the Soviet period and before, as well as the parallel but interrelated processes of nation formation in both states. Szporluk details a number of often-overlooked factors leading to the USSR's fall: how the processes of Russian identity formation were not completed by the time of the communist takeover in 1917, the unification of Ukraine in 1939–1945, and the Soviet period failing to find a resolution of the question of Russian-Ukrainian relations. The present-day conflict in the Caucasus, he asserts, is a sign that the problems of Russian identity remain.

Author : Paul Gannon
Publisher : Atlantic Books
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781782394020

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Colossus by Paul Gannon Pdf

In 1940, almost a year after the outbreak of World War II, Allied radio operators at an interception station in South London began picking up messages in a strange new code. Using science, math, innovation, and improvisation, Bletchley Park code breakers worked furiously to invent a machine to decipher what turned out to be the secrets of Nazi high command. It was called Colossus. What these code breakers didn't realize was that they had fashioned the world's first true computer. When the war ended, this incredible invention was dismantled and hidden away for almost 50 years. Paul Gannon has pieced together the tremendous story of what is now recognized as the greatest secret of Bletchley Park.

Author : Robert Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015040156013

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A History of Twentieth-century Russia by Robert Service Pdf

Russia has had an extraordinary history in the twentieth century. As the first Communist society, the USSR was both an admired model and an object of fear and hatred to the rest of the world. How are we to make sense of this history? A History of Twentieth-Century Russia treats the years from 1917 to 1991 as a single period and analyzes the peculiar mixture of political, economic, and social ingredients that made up the Soviet formula. Under a succession of leaders from Lenin to Gorbachev, various methods were used to conserve and strengthen this compound. At times the emphasis was upon shaking up the ingredients, at others upon stabilization. All this occurred against a background of dictatorship, civil war, forcible industrialization, terror, world war, and the postwar arms race. Communist ideas and practices never fully pervaded the society of the USSR. Yet an impact was made and, as this book expertly documents, Russia since 1991 has encountered difficulties in completely eradicating the legacy of Communism. A History of Twentieth-Century Russia is the first work to use the mass of material that has become available in the documentary collections, memoirs, and archives over the past decade. It is an extraordinarily lucid, masterful account of the most complex and turbulent period in Russia's long history.