Soviet Tragedy

Soviet Tragedy
Title Soviet Tragedy PDF eBook
Author Martin Malia
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Total Pages 408
Release 2008-06-30
Genre History
ISBN 143911854X

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"The Soviet Tragedy is an essential coda to the literature of Soviet studies...Insofar as [he] returns the power of ideology to its central place in Soviet history, Malia has made an enormous contribution. He has written the history of a utopian illusion and the tragic consequences it had for the people of the Soviet Union and the world." -- David Remnick, The New York Review of Books "In Martin Malia, the Soviet Union had one of its most acute observers. With this book, it may well have found the cornerstone of its history." -- Francois Furet, author of Interpreting the French Revolution "The Soviet Tragedy offers the most thorough scholarly analysis of the Communist phenomenon that we are likely to get for a long while to come...Malia states that his narrative is intended 'to substantiate the basic argument,' and this is certainly an argumentative book, which drives its thesis home with hammer blows. On this breathtaking journey, Malia is a witty and often brilliantly penetrating guide. He has much wisdom to impart." -- The Times Literary Supplement "This is history at the high level, well deployed factually, but particularly worthwhile in the philosophical and political context -- at once a view and an overview." -- The Washington Post

The Tragedy of Russia's Reforms

The Tragedy of Russia's Reforms
Title The Tragedy of Russia's Reforms PDF eBook
Author Peter Reddaway
Publisher US Institute of Peace Press
Total Pages 772
Release 2001
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9781929223060

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Examines the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the birth of the Russian state, focusing on Yeltsin's disastrous policies, which brought on an economic collapse almost twice as severe as America's Great Depression.

A People's Tragedy

A People's Tragedy
Title A People's Tragedy PDF eBook
Author Orlando Figes
Publisher Bodley Head Childrens
Total Pages 0
Release 2014
Genre Russia
ISBN 9781847922915

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Vast in scope, based on exhaustive original research, and written with passion, narrative skill and human sympathy, this book offers an account of the Russian Revolution for a new generation.

Fire at Sea

Fire at Sea
Title Fire at Sea PDF eBook
Author Dmitriĭ Andreevich Romanov
Publisher Potomac Books, Inc.
Total Pages 478
Release 2006-03-31
Genre History
ISBN 1612342159

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The divisive incident that anticipated the Kursk disaster in August 2000

The Forsaken

The Forsaken
Title The Forsaken PDF eBook
Author Tim Tzouliadis
Publisher Penguin
Total Pages 456
Release 2008-07-17
Genre History
ISBN 1440637032

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“Gripping and important . . . an extremely impressive book.” —Noel Malcolm, Telegraph (London) A remarkable piece of forgotten history- the never-before-told story of Americans lured to Soviet Russia by the promise of jobs and better lives, only to meet tragic ends In 1934, a photograph was taken of a baseball team. These two rows of young men look like any group of American ballplayers, except perhaps for the Russian lettering on their jerseys. The players have left their homeland and the Great Depression in search of a better life in Stalinist Russia, but instead they will meet tragic and, until now, forgotten fates. Within four years, most of them will be arrested alongside untold numbers of other Americans. Some will be executed. Others will be sent to "corrective labor" camps where they will be worked to death. This book is the story of lives-the forsaken who died and those who survived. Based on groundbreaking research, The Forsaken is the story of Americans whose dreams were shattered and lives lost in Stalinist Russia.

The Russians Are Coming, Again

The Russians Are Coming, Again
Title The Russians Are Coming, Again PDF eBook
Author Jeremy Kuzmarov
Publisher NYU Press
Total Pages 256
Release 2018-05-22
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1583676961

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Karl Marx famously wrote in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon that history repeats itself, “first as tragedy, then as farce.” The Cold War waged between the United States and Soviet Union from 1945 until the latter's dissolution in 1991 was a great tragedy, resulting in millions of civilian deaths in proxy wars, and a destructive arms race that diverted money from social spending and nearly led to nuclear annihilation. The New Cold War between the United States and Russia is playing out as farce – a dangerous one at that. The Russians Are Coming, Again is a red flag to restore our historical consciousness about U.S.-Russian relations, and how denying this consciousness is leading to a repetition of past follies. Kuzmarov and Marciano's book is timely and trenchant. The authors argue that the Democrats’ strategy, backed by the corporate media, of demonizing Russia and Putin in order to challenge Trump is not only dangerous, but also, based on the evidence so far, unjustified, misguided, and a major distraction. Grounding their argument in all-but-forgotten U.S.-Russian history, such as the 1918-20 Allied invasion of Soviet Russia, the book delivers a panoramic narrative of the First Cold War, showing it as an all-too-avoidable catastrophe run by the imperatives of class rule and political witch-hunts. The distortion of public memory surrounding the First Cold War has set the groundwork for the New Cold War, which the book explains is a key feature, skewing the nation’s politics yet again. This is an important, necessary book, one that, by including accounts of the wisdom and courage of the First Cold War's victims and dissidents, will inspire a fresh generation of radicals in today's new, dangerously farcical times.

Failed Crusade

Failed Crusade
Title Failed Crusade PDF eBook
Author Stephen F. Cohen
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages 370
Release 2001
Genre History
ISBN 9780393322262

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In the 1990s, as Russia under Yeltsin began the transition to a market economy, most American Russia-watchers saw an optimistic future ahead. In the early twenty-first century, so-called reform economic policies have left some 70 percent of Russians living near the poverty line -- many embittered, deprived of life savings, welfare subsidies, health care, and job security. What has happened in Russia since the dissolution of the Soviet Union? What led U.S. experts and the media to so seriously misjudge the situation?