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Book Synopsis In Lubianka's Shadow by : Leopold Braun
Download or read book In Lubianka's Shadow written by Leopold Braun and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Lubianka's Shadow chronicles the life of a Catholic priest, Father Léopold Braun, who was a pastor near the Lubianka political prison in the heart of Moscow, witnessed Stalin's purges and the Soviet government's campaign against organized religion
Book Synopsis The Shadow of War by : Stephen Lovell
Download or read book The Shadow of War written by Stephen Lovell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking the achievements, ambiguities, and legacies of World War II as a point of departure, The Shadow of War: The Soviet Union and Russia, 1941 to the Present offers a fresh new approach to modern Soviet and Russian history. Presents one of the only histories of the Soviet Union and Russia that begins with World War II and goes beyond the Soviet collapse through to the early twenty-first century Innovative thematic arrangement and approach allows for insights that are missed in chronological histories Draws on a wide range of sources and the very latest research on post-Soviet history, a rapidly developing field Supported by further reading, bibliography, maps and illustrations.
Book Synopsis Stalin and the Lubianka by : David R. Shearer
Download or read book Stalin and the Lubianka written by David R. Shearer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating documentary history is the first English-language exploration of Joseph Stalin's relationship with, and manipulation of, the Soviet political police. The story follows the changing functions, organization, and fortunes of the political police and security organs from the early 1920s until Stalin’s death in 1953, and it provides documented detail about how Stalin used these organs to achieve and maintain undisputed power. Although written as a narrative, it includes translations of more than 170 documents from Soviet archives.
Book Synopsis Shadow Lovers UK Edition by : Andrea Lynn
Download or read book Shadow Lovers UK Edition written by Andrea Lynn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearing 70, and in what would be the last decade of his life, H.G. Wells fell in love at least three times - once with the much younger Baroness Budberg, and soon thereafter with two well-born Americans, Constance Coolidge and Martha Gelhorn, 25 and 40 years his junior respectively. These would constitute what Wells himself described as his "last flounderings towards the wife idea", and demonstrate in many ways that Wells was driven less by his considerable intelligence than by his obsession to find his ideal lover - what he called his "lover-shadow". This study looks at this very personal side of H.G. Wells. The self-proclaimed Don Juan was said to have "radiated" energy: intellectual, emotional, physical and sexual. Drawing on papers made public by the Wells estate, the author documents Wells' relationship with each of these femme fatales and paints a vivid portrait of the early part of the 20th century in London, Paris and the US.
Book Synopsis The Gates of Hell by : Matthew Heise
Download or read book The Gates of Hell written by Matthew Heise and published by Lexham Press. This book was released on 2022-05-11 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gates of hell shall not prevail. Decimated by war, revolution, and famine, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Russia was in critical condition in 1921. In The Gates of Hell, Matthew Heise recounts the bravery and suffering of German--Russian Lutherans during the period between the two great world wars. These stories tell of ordinary Christians who remained faithful to death in the face of state persecution. Christians in Russia had dark days characterized by defeat, but God preserved his church. Against all human odds, the church would outlast the man--made sandcastles of communist utopianism. The Gates of Hell is a wonderful testimony to the enduring power of God's word, Christ's church, and the Spirit's faithfulness.
Book Synopsis Russia Under the Great Shadow by : Luigi Villari
Download or read book Russia Under the Great Shadow written by Luigi Villari and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis In the Shadow of Revolution by : Sheila Fitzpatrick
Download or read book In the Shadow of Revolution written by Sheila Fitzpatrick and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asked shortly after the revolution about how she viewed the new government, Tatiana Varsher replied, "With the wide-open eyes of a historian." Her countrywoman, Zinaida Zhemchuzhnaia, expressed a similar need to take note: "I want to write about the way those events were perceived and reflected in the humble and distant corner of Russia that was the Cossack town of Korenovskaia." What these women witnessed and experienced, and what they were moved to describe, is part of the extraordinary portrait of life in revolutionary Russia presented in this book. A collection of life stories of Russian women in the first half of the twentieth century, In the Shadow of Revolution brings together the testimony of Soviet citizens and émigrés, intellectuals of aristocratic birth and Soviet milkmaids, housewives and engineers, Bolshevik activists and dedicated opponents of the Soviet regime. In literary memoirs, oral interviews, personal dossiers, public speeches, and letters to the editor, these women document their diverse experience of the upheavals that reshaped Russia in the first half of this century. As is characteristic of twentieth-century Russian women's autobiographies, these life stories take their structure not so much from private events like childbirth or marriage as from great public events. Accordingly the collection is structured around the events these women see as touchstones: the Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War of 1918-20; the switch to the New Economic Policy in the 1920s and collectivization; and the Stalinist society of the 1930s, including the Great Terror. Edited by two preeminent historians of Russia and the Soviet Union, the volume includes introductions that investigate the social historical context of these women's lives as well as the structure of their autobiographical narratives.
Book Synopsis Your Golden Shadow by : William A. Miller
Download or read book Your Golden Shadow written by William A. Miller and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This companion to the author's breakthrough Make Friends with Your Shadow helps readers explore the positive aspects of the shadow self to unlock an exciting, creative way of living.
Book Synopsis In the Shadow of Russia by : Nicholas Halasz
Download or read book In the Shadow of Russia written by Nicholas Halasz and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Stalin and War, 1918-1953 by : David R. Shearer
Download or read book Stalin and War, 1918-1953 written by David R. Shearer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-11 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis In the Shadow of the Cheka by : John de Navarre Kennedy
Download or read book In the Shadow of the Cheka written by John de Navarre Kennedy and published by T. Nelson. This book was released on 1935 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Shadow of Stalingrad by : Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel
Download or read book The Shadow of Stalingrad written by Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis by : John T. McGreevy
Download or read book Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis written by John T. McGreevy and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magisterial history of the centuries-long conflict between “progress” and “tradition” in the world’s largest international institution. The story of Roman Catholicism has never followed a singular path. In no time period has this been more true than over the last two centuries. Beginning with the French Revolution, extending to the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, and concluding with present-day crises, John T. McGreevy chronicles the dramatic upheavals and internal divisions shaping the most multicultural, multilingual, and global institution in the world. Through powerful individual stories and sweeping birds-eye views, Catholicism provides a mesmerizing assessment of the Church’s complex role in modern history: both shaper and follower of the politics of nation states, both conservator of hierarchies and evangelizer of egalitarianism. McGreevy documents the hopes and ambitions of European missionaries building churches and schools in all corners of the world, African Catholics fighting for political (and religious) independence, Latin American Catholics attracted to a theology of liberation, and Polish and South Korean Catholics demanding democratic governments. He includes a vast cast of riveting characters, known and unknown, including the Mexican revolutionary Fr. Servando Teresa de Mier; Daniel O’Connell, hero of Irish emancipation; Sr. Josephine Bakhita, a formerly enslaved Sudanese nun; Chinese statesman Ma Xiaobang; French philosopher and reformer Jacques Maritain; German Jewish philosopher and convert, Edith Stein; John Paul II, Polish pope and opponent of communism; Gustavo Gutiérrez, Peruvian founder of liberation theology; and French American patron of modern art, Dominique de Menil. Throughout this essential volume, McGreevy details currents of reform within the Church as well as movements protective of traditional customs and beliefs. Conflicts with political leaders and a devotional revival in the nineteenth century, the experiences of decolonization after World War II and the Second Vatican Council in the twentieth century, and the trauma of clerical sexual abuse in the twenty-first all demonstrate how religion shapes our modern world. Finally, McGreevy addresses the challenges faced by Pope Francis as he struggles to unite the over one billion members of the world’s largest religious community.
Book Synopsis Advance to Barbarism by : F. J. P. Veale
Download or read book Advance to Barbarism written by F. J. P. Veale and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely regarded as his most important and influential work, Advance to Barbarism was first published in 1948 (under the pen name “A. Jurist.”), with a revised edition followed in 1953. It was issued in several languages, including Spanish and German. This eloquent work traces the evolution of warfare from primitive savagery to the rise of a “civilized” code of armed conflict that was first threatened in the US civil war, and again in the First World War, and was finally shattered during the Second World War. The ensuing “War Crimes Trials” at Nuremberg and Tokyo, and their more numerous and barbaric imitations in Communist-controlled Eastern Europe, Veale argues, established the perilous principle that “the most serious war crime is to be on the losing side.” Advance to Barbarism earned praise from some of the most astute thinkers of the age. “This is a relentlessly truth speaking book. The truths it speaks are bitter, but of paramount importance if civilization is to survive.”—Max Eastman “I have read the book with deep interest and enthusiasm. It is original in its approach to modern warfare, cogent and convincing... His indictment of modern warfare and post-war trials must stand.”—Norman Thomas “The best general work on the Nuremberg Trials. It not only reveals the illegality, fundamental immorality and hypocrisy of these trials, but also shows how they are bound to make any future world wars (or any important wars) far more brutal and destructive to life and property. A very readable and impressive volume and a major contributor to any rational peace movement.”—Harry Elmer Barnes
Book Synopsis The Bird that Swallowed Its Cage by : Walter Murch
Download or read book The Bird that Swallowed Its Cage written by Walter Murch and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Murch first came across Curzio Malaparte's writings in a chance encounter in a French book about cosmology, where one of Malaparte's stories was retold to illustrate a point about conditions shortly after the creation of the universe. Murch was so taken by the strange, utterly captivating imagery he went to find the book from which the story was taken. The book was Kaputt, Malaparte's autobiographical novel about the frontlines of World War II. Curzio Malaparte, an Italian born with a German heritage, was a journalist, dramatic, novelist and diplomat. When he wrote a book attacking totalitarianism and Hitler's reign, Mussolini, in no position to support such a body of work, stripped him of his National Fascist Party membership and sent him to internal exile on the island of Lipari. In 1941, he was sent to cover the Eastern Front as a correspondent for Corriere della Sera, the Milano daily newspaper. His dispatches from the next three years would be largely suppressed by the Italian government, but reverberated among readers as painfully real depictions of a landscape at war. The film editor, fluent in translating the written word over to the languages of sight and sound, began slowly translating Malaparte's writings from World War II. The density and intricacy of his stories compelled Murch to adapt many of them into prose or blank verse poems. The result is a book of surprising insight and strange beauty.
Book Synopsis Listener and BBC Television Review by :
Download or read book Listener and BBC Television Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1975-07 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Police Aesthetics by : Cristina Vatulescu
Download or read book Police Aesthetics written by Cristina Vatulescu and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The documents emerging from the secret police archives of the former Soviet bloc have caused scandal after scandal, compromising revered cultural figures and abruptly ending political careers. Police Aesthetics offers a revealing and responsible approach to such materials. Taking advantage of the partial opening of the secret police archives in Russia and Romania, Vatulescu focuses on their most infamous holdings—the personal files—as well as on movies the police sponsored, scripted, or authored. Through the archives, she gains new insights into the writing of literature and raises new questions about the ethics of reading. She shows how police files and films influenced literature and cinema, from autobiographies to novels, from high-culture classics to avant-garde experiments and popular blockbusters. In so doing, she opens a fresh chapter in the heated debate about the relationship between culture and politics in twentieth-century police states.
