Stalin, Paperback

European Dictatorships 1918–1945 surveys the extraordinary circumstances leading to, and arising from, the transformation of over half of Europe’s ...

The Greek Civil War (1946-1949) was one of the few instances in the post-World War II era of a clear-cut and permanent victory by right-wing govern...

Russia and Central Asia provides an overview of the relationship between two dynamic regions, highlighting the ways in which Russia and Central Asi...

The consequences are traced through the Stalin Revolution, the Great Terror, the Second World War, the Cold War, the Khrushchev and Brezhnev years ...

Models of Nature studies the early and turbulent years of the Soviet conservation movement from the October Revolution to the mid-1930s--Lenin's ru...

Reducere. DescriptionMussolini was one of the tyrant-killers of the Axis powers who scarred Europe during World War II, but we can't properly understand him ...

Reducere. Arthur Goodzeit Award For seven weeks in 1929, the Republic of China and the Soviet Union battled in Manchuria over control of the Chinese Eastern ...

Reducere. The devastation of the Second World War is coming to an end. As victory for the Grand Alliance draws close, the leaders of Great Britain, the Sovie...

Reducere. 'Iron Lazar' is the first English-language biography of Lazar Kaganovich, one of Stalinist Russia's leading deputies. With its focus on the politic...

DescriptionAfter the death of Joseph Stalin, Soviet-era Russia experienced a flourishing artistic movement due to relaxed censorship and new econom...

Reducere. Choice Outstanding Academic Title In her third and final volume on Virginia Woolf's diaries, Barbara Lounsberry reveals new insights about the cour...

Reducere. For this authoritative post-cold-war biography of Shostakovich's illustrious but turbulent career under Soviet rule, Laurel E. Fay has gone back to...

International Communism and the Spanish Civil War provides an intimate picture of international communism in the Stalin era. Exploring the transnat...

Reducere. Among the least-chronicled aspects of post-World War II European intellectual and cultural history is the story of the Russian intelligentsia after...

Winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. J. M. Coetzee presents a coherent, unorthodox analysis of censorship from the perspective of one who ...

Originally published in 1937, C. L. R. James's World Revolution is a pioneering Marxist analysis of the revolutionary history in the interwar perio...

DescriptionHow did a regime that promised utopian-style freedom end up delivering terror and tyranny? For some, the Bolsheviks were totalitarian an...

Reducere. The Russian word that is most frequently spoken throughout the world isn't Lenin, gulag or perestroika, it's 'Kalashnikov'. The reason for this is ...

Reducere. Why did the twentieth century witness unprecedented organized genocide? Can we learn why genocide is perpetrated by comparing different cases of ge...

In Act of Creation, Stephen C. Schlesinger tells a pivotal and little-known story of how Secretary of State Edward Stettinius and the new American ...

Reducere. This two-volume reader is intended to accompany undergraduate courses in the history of Russian cinema and Russian culture through film. Each volum...

Reducere. DescriptionMoscow, 1937: the soviet metropolis at the zenith of Stalin's dictatorship. A society utterly wrecked by a hurricane of violence. In thi...

DescriptionThe aesthetics of a non-Soviet form of socialism, drafted by four Yugoslav artists in the 1950s.As the cold war gained momentum in Europ...

Reducere. The first comprehensive history of the UK government overseas intelligence service, MI6, by an acknowledged expert and author of the highly acclaim...

Reducere. Robert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Le...

Reducere. Virtually the entire Soviet effort on the Eastern Front of World War II bears the stamp of Georgy Zhukov, chief of staff of the Red Army and deputy...

DescriptionIn the aftermath of the Winter War, Finland found itself drawing ever closer to Nazi Germany and eventually took part in Operation Barba...

In the late 1920s, Stalin was determined to turn Russia into a "Soviet Paradise." For thousands of Russian Mennonites that meant exorbitant taxes, ...

Reducere. At the stirring center of the story lie the resourcefulness and resolve of the Finnish people, who against all military odds--in want of ammunition...

Reducere. Did you hear? Charles Darwin has invited Siddhartha Gautama to hike the Appalachian Trail through the Great Smoky Mountains. What stories will they...

Reducere. Including contributions by W. H. Auden - Elizabeth Bishop - John Cheever - Janet Flanner - John Hersey - Langston Hughes - Shirley Jackson - A. J. ...

Reducere. To the amazement of the public, pundits, and even the policymakers themselves, the ideological and political conflict that had endangered the world...

Reducere. DescriptionThis Wolf Messing memoir by Tatiana Lungin presents a revealing portrait of one of the greatest psychic performers of the 20th century. ...

Reducere. ANIMAL FARM: The novel was chosen by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present. Although, it almost rem...

Reducere. If there is a fundamental truth of geopolitics, it is this: whoever controls the core of Europe controls the entire continent, and whoever controls...

Reducere. While Europe as a whole remains a first world economic power despite Brexit, it has been unable to build a truly democratic and efficient state or ...

Reducere. Named a Must-Read Book by New York Magazine, Travel+Leisure, Flavorwire, and BustleLong-listed for the 2016 Best Translated Book Award in FictionWi...

This "comprehensive, judicious, and finely detailed" (Roderick MacFarquhar, The New York Review of Books) biography of Mao Zedong traces how he cre...

Reducere. DescriptionIn April 1943, German authorities claimed that they had found the bodies of more than 4, 000 Polish prisoners of war buried near Katyn, ...

Reducere. Humankind. At the same time, it's best friend and its worst enemy. We're capable of the Declaration of Human Rights and Genocide, sending a man to ...

Drawing on his own experience, rich archival material, and a keen sense of history and politics, Mikhail Gorbachev speaks his mind on a range of su...

Reducere. A lost classic by beloved novelist Joseph Heywood that helped put the writer on the map, THE BERKUT begins at dusk as SS Colonel Gunter Brumm parac...

Reducere. Communism was one of the most powerful political and intellectual movements the world has ever seen. At the height of their influence, Communists c...

DescriptionCinema is quite simply a unique book from one of the most influential film-makers in the history of cinema. Here, Jean-Luc Godard looks ...

Reducere. Description"THE GREEN-EYED LAMA" IS THE BEST NOVEL EVER WRITTEN ABOUT MONGOLIA" (JACK WEATHERFORD)THE FIRST MONGOLIAN NOVEL EVER PUBLISHED IN THE W...

Sergei Eisenstein was born in Riga in 1898. His father was a Jew of German origin who had converted to Russian Orthodoxy and who passed himself off...

Reducere. Description"A mesmerizing study of books by despots great and small, from the familiar to the largely unknown."--The Washington PostA darkly humoro...

Reducere. Sixty years after North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel into South Korea, the Korean War has not yet ended. Sheila Miyoshi Jager presents t...

Reducere. The First Toast is to Peace: Travels in the South Caucasus brings alive a captivating part of the globe that the English-speaking world has been sl...

The Russian formalists emerged from the Russian Revolution with ideas about the independence of literature. They enjoyed that independence until St...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the early hours of June 26, 1948, phones began ringing across America, waking up the airmen of World War II--pilots, navigators, and ...

Reducere. First published in 1997, Glenn Meade's first internationally bestselling thriller is back and better than ever, as it takes you on a riveting ride ...

Reducere. After the success of her New York Times-bestselling childhood memoir Twenty Letters to a Friend, Josef Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva--subje...

Reducere. Red Sniper is the story of a rescue mission for American POWs held captive by the Russians at the end of World War II.For these American POWs, the ...

Reducere. 1940: Hitler's aerial assault on England reaches a crescendo on Battle of Britain Day when, against all odds, the Luftwaffe is turned back by the o...

Reducere. Considered by some to be the greatest general of World War II, General Georgi Zhukov served as the Chief of Staff of the Soviet High Command, leadi...

Reducere. When the British journalist Rachel Polonsky moves to Moscow, she discovers an apartment on Romanov Street that was once home to the Soviet elite. O...

The brilliant untold story of three daughters of diplomacy: Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, glamorous, fascinating young wo...

Reducere. DescriptionDeeply Listening Body is a compilation of movement practices, improvisations, exercises and a detailed introduction to the beginning mov...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jaak JurisonShortly after the Soviet Army occupied Estonia in 1940, a boy's beloved father is arrested and sent to prison i...

Reducere. Anna Akhmatova lived through pre-revolution Russia, Bolshevism, and Stalinism. Throughout it all, she maintained an elegant, muscular style that co...

A few months after Stalingrad, the armies of Hitler and Stalin fought one of the largest armored battles in history at Kursk. This illustrated book...

Reducere. Running from her father's brutal legacy, Joseph Stalin's daughter defects to the United States during the turbulence of the 1960s. For fans of We W...

Reducere. During the Stalin years Russia had four great poets to voice the feelings of her oppressed people: Pasternak, Akhmatova, Mandelstam and Marina Tsve...

Reducere. Budapest, 1952. When Katalin and her father, M rton, are woken by the ringing of the doorbell in the dead of night, it can mean only one thing. The...

Reducere. My Dearest Dido - The Holodomor Story is a haunting account of the innocent victims of Stalin's vicious regime. In the name of communism, Stalin an...

Reducere. DescriptionInara Verzemnieks was raised by her Latvian grandparents in Washington State, among expatriates who scattered smuggled Latvian sand over...

Reducere. DescriptionPedro Almodovar's films--such as Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Tie Me Up Tie Me Down , All About My Mother, and Talk to Her...

DescriptionThe fate of the free world hung in the balance. Stalin's Soviet Union sought to drive the Western democracies from Germany to continue t...

Reducere. Bestselling historian Andrew Nagorski "brings keen psychological insights into the world leaders involved" (Booklist) during 1941, the critical yea...