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Book Synopsis Russia Under the Hammer and Sickle by : William H. Danforth
Download or read book Russia Under the Hammer and Sickle written by William H. Danforth and published by . This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, William H. Danforth was President of the Ralston-Purina Company. He recorded these impressions of Russia following a month long tour of that country 1927. From the Foreword: "The following letters were not written in Russia because outgoing mail from that country is opened and censored. I did not have the time to write letters that would run the risk of being destroyed, so I took random notes and carried a multitude of impressions in the back of my head until I was out of Russia. Many people are interested in Russia, and because of my extraordinary privilege of observation I believe it is my duty to pass on my experiences to our Purina Family and my interested friends." The author continues: "I know we were given privileges not allowed the ordinary traveler. We talked to the leaders from Stalin and Tchitcherin down! We interviewed church officials, educators, lawyers, managers of institutions and workers. We went through factories, hospitals, schools, merchandising establishments, museums and government offices." Sections include: First Impressions of Russia; Russia's Challenging Experiment; Can Russia Do Without God?; Bolshevism in Business; Birth, Marriage, Divorce, Death; The Last of the Romanoffs; A Close-Up of Some of the Communist Leaders and much more.Illustrated by photographs taken by the author.
Book Synopsis Russia Under the Hammer and Sickle by : William Henry Danforth
Download or read book Russia Under the Hammer and Sickle written by William Henry Danforth and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hammer, Sickle, and Soil by : Jonathan Daly
Download or read book Hammer, Sickle, and Soil written by Jonathan Daly and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hammer, Sickle, and Soil, Jonathan Daly tells the harrowing story of Stalin's transformation of millions of family farms throughout the USSR into 250,000 collective farms during the period from 1929 to 1933. History's biggest experiment in social engineering at the time and the first example of the complete conquest of the bulk of a population by its rulers, the policy was above all intended to bring to Russia Marx's promised bright future of socialism. In the process, however, it caused widespread peasant unrest, massive relocations, and ultimately led to millions dying in the famine of 1932–33. Drawing on scholarly studies and primary-source collections published since the opening of the Soviet archives three decades ago, now, for the first time, this volume offers an accessible and accurate narrative for the general reader. The book is illustrated with propaganda posters from the period that graphically portray the drama and trauma of the revolution in Soviet agriculture under Stalin. In chilling detail the author describes how the havoc and destruction wrought in the countryside sowed the seeds of destruction of the entire Soviet experiment.
Book Synopsis The Sickle Under the Hammer by : Oliver Henry Radkey
Download or read book The Sickle Under the Hammer written by Oliver Henry Radkey and published by New York, Columbia U. P. This book was released on 1963 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Sickle Under the Hammer by : Oliver Henry Radkey
Download or read book The Sickle Under the Hammer written by Oliver Henry Radkey and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies the Socialist Revolutionary movement after 1917 when it had disintegrated into three warring factions - right, center, and left. Looks at their role in the revolution as well as their essential character.
Book Synopsis Christians Under the Hammer and Sickle by : Paul Voronaeff
Download or read book Christians Under the Hammer and Sickle written by Paul Voronaeff and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hammer and Sickle written by Andy Warhol and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These drawings were produced between 1976 and 1977, during the Cold War, when the hammer and sickle was the best known symbol for the enemy, the USSR. By using this symbol of communism as an object for sale in a capitalist economy, the drawings were seenas an ironic commentary on the war.
Book Synopsis Soviet Strategic Bombers by : Jason Nicholas Moore
Download or read book Soviet Strategic Bombers written by Jason Nicholas Moore and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2018-06-30 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Soviet strategic bombers after the Second World War is a fascinating one: from the reverse-engineering of interned American Boeing B-29 bombers into the first Soviet strategic bomber, the Tu-4; to the huge jet and turbo-prop powered aircraft of today's Russian Air Force. This comprehensive history of these aircraft will deal not just with the development of aircraft that entered service, but of experimental aircraft as well, and projects that were never even built will also be explored. The service life of these bombers will be covered, including both active and retired aircraft, and their use outside of the Soviet Union, in places such as the Middle East and Afghanistan, will be described in detail. The Soviet Union built some of the first jet-powered strategic bombers, and the Tu-95 Bear, the only swept-winged turbo-prop bomber to ever enter service, remains in service to this day. Less successful aircraft, like the graceful but problem-plagued supersonic Tu-22 Blinder, and the Mach 3 Sukhoi T-4 will also be examined.
Book Synopsis The Hammer and the Scythe by : Anne O'Hare McCormick
Download or read book The Hammer and the Scythe written by Anne O'Hare McCormick and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London edition (Williams and Norgate ltd.) has title: Communist Russia: the hammer and the scythe.
Book Synopsis The Piratization of Russia by : Marshall I. Goldman
Download or read book The Piratization of Russia written by Marshall I. Goldman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-04-10 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1991, a small group of Russians emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union and enjoyed one of the greatest transfers of wealth ever seen, claiming ownership of some of the most valuable petroleum, natural gas and metal deposits in the world. By 1997, five of those individuals were on Forbes Magazine's list of the world's richest billionaires.
Download or read book Gulag written by Anne Applebaum and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • This magisterial and acclaimed history offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost. “A tragic testimony to how evil ideologically inspired dictatorships can be.” –The New York Times The Gulag—a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners—was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. Applebaum intimately re-creates what life was like in the camps and links them to the larger history of the Soviet Union. Immediately recognized as a landmark and long-overdue work of scholarship, Gulag is an essential book for anyone who wishes to understand the history of the twentieth century.
Book Synopsis Stalin's Genocides by : Norman M. Naimark
Download or read book Stalin's Genocides written by Norman M. Naimark and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chilling story of Stalin’s crimes against humanity Between the early 1930s and his death in 1953, Joseph Stalin had more than a million of his own citizens executed. Millions more fell victim to forced labor, deportation, famine, bloody massacres, and detention and interrogation by Stalin's henchmen. Stalin's Genocides is the chilling story of these crimes. The book puts forward the important argument that brutal mass killings under Stalin in the 1930s were indeed acts of genocide and that the Soviet dictator himself was behind them. Norman Naimark, one of our most respected authorities on the Soviet era, challenges the widely held notion that Stalin's crimes do not constitute genocide, which the United Nations defines as the premeditated killing of a group of people because of their race, religion, or inherent national qualities. In this gripping book, Naimark explains how Stalin became a pitiless mass killer. He looks at the most consequential and harrowing episodes of Stalin's systematic destruction of his own populace—the liquidation and repression of the so-called kulaks, the Ukrainian famine, the purge of nationalities, and the Great Terror—and examines them in light of other genocides in history. In addition, Naimark compares Stalin's crimes with those of the most notorious genocidal killer of them all, Adolf Hitler.
Download or read book Collapse written by Vladislav M. Zubok and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to its demise “A deeply informed account of how the Soviet Union fell apart.”—Rodric Braithwaite, Financial Times “[A] masterly analysis.”—Joshua Rubenstein, Wall Street Journal In 1945 the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an army four million strong with five thousand nuclear-tipped missiles and was the second biggest producer of oil in the world. But soon afterward the union sank into an economic crisis and was torn apart by nationalist separatism. Its collapse was one of the seismic shifts of the twentieth century. Thirty years on, Vladislav Zubok offers a major reinterpretation of the final years of the USSR, refuting the notion that the breakup of the Soviet order was inevitable. Instead, Zubok reveals how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms, intended to modernize and democratize the Soviet Union, deprived the government of resources and empowered separatism. Collapse sheds new light on Russian democratic populism, the Baltic struggle for independence, the crisis of Soviet finances—and the fragility of authoritarian state power.
Author :Raphael Israeli Publisher :Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency ISBN 13 :1952269032 Total Pages :340 pages Book Rating :4.9/5 (522 download)
Download or read book Red Humor written by Raphael Israeli and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is important to remember the crucial era of modern history dominated by Soviet Russia and Red China, symbolized by Stalin and Mao, through Communist-style humor. The jokes were created mainly in the West, but also within the Communist system, which produced a rich sample of humor about political rule, music, oppression of the common man, and other realities of Communism. After tensions were thought dissipated between the superpowers, and capitalism was declared the winner, Communism was thought to have disappeared. But with the renewal of world difficulties, there is a need to reminisce on how Communism was conceived through Soviet jokes. Red Humor is divided into the Czarist period to Stalin’s era, supplemented by memorable one-liners that immortalize that seven-decade harsh era. The author wrote this joke collection “to collect those bits of humor before they are forgotten.” A Jew was dying in his bed during a bitterly cold and snowy night in Russia. He called his wife to his side and faintly murmured: - Sarah! The time has come! Call the Priest! - The Priest? Are you crazy Abraham? You mean Rabbi! - No, Sarah, I mean the Priest. I don’t want to disturb the Rabbi in such terrible weather as this.
Book Synopsis The Hammer, The Sickle and The Heart by : Chuck Rosenthal
Download or read book The Hammer, The Sickle and The Heart written by Chuck Rosenthal and published by Lettersat3ampress. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leon Trotsky and his wife Natalia Sedova have fled Joseph Stalin's reign of terror in 1930s Russia. As fugitives, they arrive in Mexico under the protection of the country's most famous artistic couple, Frieda Kahlo and Diego Rivera. As Trotsky barely escapes attempts on his life, he and Kahlo fall under the spell of a tempestuous infatuation. They commence their affair under the noses of their spouses. Intellectually astute but emotionally driven, all their lives spin beyond reason toward the inevitable assassination of Trotsky.
Book Synopsis Know Your Enemy by : David C. Engerman
Download or read book Know Your Enemy written by David C. Engerman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-20 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As World War II ended, few Americans in government or universities knew much about the Soviet Union. As David Engerman shows in this book, a network of scholars, soldiers, spies, and philanthropists created an enterprise known as Soviet Studies to fill in this dangerous gap in American knowledge. This group brought together some of the nation's best minds from the left, right, and center, colorful and controversial individuals ranging from George Kennan to Margaret Mead to Zbigniew Brzezinski, not to mention historians Sheila Fitzpatrick and Richard Pipes. Together they created the knowledge that helped fight the Cold War and define Cold War thought. Soviet Studies became a vibrant intellectual enterprise, studying not just the Soviet threat, but Soviet society and culture at a time when many said that these were contradictions in terms, as well as Russian history and literature. And this broad network, Engerman argues, forever changed the relationship between the government and academe, connecting the Pentagon with the ivory tower in ways that still matter today.
Download or read book The Swastika written by Malcolm Quinn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-26 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the enormous amount of material about Nazism, there has been no substantial work on its emblem, the swastika. This original contribution examines the popular appeal of the archaic image of the swastika: the tradition of the symbol.
