Stalins Outcasts

Download Stalins Outcasts full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Stalins Outcasts ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Stalin's Outcasts

Author : Golfo Alexopoulos
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501720503
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Stalin's Outcasts by : Golfo Alexopoulos

Download or read book Stalin's Outcasts written by Golfo Alexopoulos and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I served not in defense of the bourgeois order, but only for a crumb of bread since I was burdened with five small children.""From 1923 to 1925 I worked as a musician but later my earnings weren't steady and I quickly stopped. Without an income to live on, I was drawn to the nonlaboring path.""As a man almost completely illiterate and therefore not prepared for any kind of work, I was forced to return to my craft as a barber.""I am as ignorant as a pipe."Golfo Alexopoulos focuses on the lishentsy ("outcasts") of the interwar USSR to reveal the defining features of alien and citizen identities under Stalin's rule. Although portrayed as "bourgeois elements," lishentsy actually included a wide variety of people, including prostitutes, gamblers, tax evaders, embezzlers, and ethnic minorities, in particular, Jews. The poor, the weak, and the elderly were frequent targets of disenfranchisement, singled out by officials looking to conserve scarce resources or satisfy their superiors with long lists of discovered enemies.Alexopoulos draws heavily on an untapped resource: an archive in western Siberia that contains over 100,000 individual petitions for reinstatement. Her analysis of these and many other documents concerning "class aliens" shows how Bolshevik leaders defined the body politic and how individuals experienced the Soviet state. Personal narratives with which individuals successfully appealed to officials for reinstatement allow an unusual view into the lives of "outcasts." From Kremlin leaders to marked aliens, many participated in identifying insiders and outsiders and challenging the terms of membership in Stalin's new society.

Stalin’s Terror

Author : B. McLoughlin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230523935
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Stalin’s Terror by : B. McLoughlin

Download or read book Stalin’s Terror written by B. McLoughlin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-12-11 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British, Irish, Russian, American, German and Austrian contributors examine the intricate nature of the mass repression unleashed by the Stalinist leader of the USSR during 1937-38. The first part of the collection deals with annihilation policies against the Soviet elite and the Communist International. The second section of the volume looks at mass operations of the secret police (NKVD) against social outcasts, Poles and other 'hostile' ethnic groups. The final section comprises micro-studies about targeted victim groups among the general population.

The Forsaken

Author : Tim Tzouliadis
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781594201684
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Forsaken by : Tim Tzouliadis

Download or read book The Forsaken written by Tim Tzouliadis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tzouliadis presents this remarkable piece of forgotten history--the story of how thousands of Americans were lured to Soviet Russia by the promise of jobs and better lives only to meet a tragic and, until now, forgotten end.

Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin's Gulag

Author : Golfo Alexopoulos
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300227531
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin's Gulag by : Golfo Alexopoulos

Download or read book Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin's Gulag written by Golfo Alexopoulos and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new and chilling study of lethal human exploitation in the Soviet forced labor camps, one of the pillars of Stalinist terror In a shocking new study of life and death in Stalin’s Gulag, historian Golfo Alexopoulos suggests that Soviet forced labor camps were driven by brutal exploitation and often administered as death camps. The first study to examine the Gulag penal system through the lens of health, medicine, and human exploitation, this extraordinary work draws from previously inaccessible archives to offer a chilling new view of one of the pillars of Stalinist terror.

Stalin

Author : Adam B. Ulam
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807070055
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Stalin by : Adam B. Ulam

Download or read book Stalin written by Adam B. Ulam and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perestroika and glasnost have unleashed unprecedented criticism of Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union, and the terrible legacy of his regime has been acknowledged by Mikhail Gorbachev.

Stalin

Author : Stephen Kotkin
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 0143127861
Total Pages : 975 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Stalin by : Stephen Kotkin

Download or read book Stalin written by Stephen Kotkin and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 975 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his biography of Stalin, Kotkin rejects the inherited wisdom about Stalin's psychological makeup, showing us instead how Stalin's near paranoia was fundamentally political and closely tracks the Bolshevik revolution's structural paranoia, the predicament of a Communist regime in an overwhelmingly capitalist world, surrounded and penetrated by enemies. At the same time, Kotkin posits the impossibility of understanding Stalin's momentous decisions outside of the context of the history of imperial Russia.

Life and Terror in Stalin's Russia, 1934-1941

Author : Robert W. Thurston
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300074420
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (744 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Life and Terror in Stalin's Russia, 1934-1941 by : Robert W. Thurston

Download or read book Life and Terror in Stalin's Russia, 1934-1941 written by Robert W. Thurston and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-10 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining Stalin's reign of terror, this text argues that the Soviet people were not simply victims but also actors in the violence, criticisms and local decisions of the 1930s. It suggests that more believed in Stalin's quest to eliminate internal enemies than were frightened by it.

The Unquiet Ghost

Author : Adam Hochschild
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547524978
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Unquiet Ghost by : Adam Hochschild

Download or read book The Unquiet Ghost written by Adam Hochschild and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003-02-04 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth exploration of the legacy of Joseph Stalin on the former Soviet Union, by the author of King Leopold’s Ghost. Although some twenty million people died during Stalin’s reign of terror, only with the advent of glasnost did Russians begin to confront their memories of that time. In 1991, Adam Hochschild spent nearly six months in Russia talking to gulag survivors, retired concentration camp guards, and countless others. The result is a riveting evocation of a country still haunted by the ghost of Stalin. A New York Times Notable Book “An important contribution to our awareness of the former Soviet Union’s harrowing past and unsettling present.” —Los Angeles Times “A perceptive, intelligent book demonstrating that the significance of the gulag transcends the confines of one country and one generation.” —The New York Times Book Review “This probing and sensitive book…casts striking new light upon the Russian past and present.” —The Washington Post Book World “The voices [Hochschild] has recorded, the relics he has seen, are haunting—and the raw material of a terrific book.” —David Remnick, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lenin’s Tomb “No other work has brought home the full horror of this monstrous dictator’s rule than this close-up account.” —Daniel Schorr, former senior news analyst, National Public Radio

Man of Steel: Joseph Stalin

Author : Jules Archer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510707026
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Man of Steel: Joseph Stalin by : Jules Archer

Download or read book Man of Steel: Joseph Stalin written by Jules Archer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in life, Joseph Stalin became convinced of the inevitability of social revolution. And in it, he was determined to play a prominent role. He carefully masked his great personal ambition during his long climb to power and devoted all this energies to furthering the cause of Lenin and Bolshevism. Only after Lenin’s death, with the Bolshevik takeover of Russia accomplished, did Stalin’s comrades in leadership find themselves forced to bow to Stalin’s will—or be eliminated. His rise to power was bloody and ruthless, yet under his twenty-nine-year leadership, Russia became a mighty industrial nation. Illiteracy was banished, interest in the arts began to flourish, and Russia moved toward amazing scientific triumphs. Man of Steel is the story of Joseph Stalin, the man who rose to become absolute master of Soviet Russia and who cast his shadow over the entire globe.

Breaking Stalin's Nose

Author : Eugene Yelchin
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1429949953
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Breaking Stalin's Nose by : Eugene Yelchin

Download or read book Breaking Stalin's Nose written by Eugene Yelchin and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Newbery Honor Book. Sasha Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet Young Pioneers since the age of six: The Young Pioneer is devoted to Comrade Stalin, the Communist Party, and Communism. A Young Pioneer is a reliable comrade and always acts according to conscience. A Young Pioneer has a right to criticize shortcomings. But now that it is finally time to join the Young Pioneers, the day Sasha has awaited for so long, everything seems to go awry. He breaks a classmate's glasses with a snowball. He accidentally damages a bust of Stalin in the school hallway. And worst of all, his father, the best Communist he knows, was arrested just last night. This moving story of a ten-year-old boy's world shattering is masterful in its simplicity, powerful in its message, and heartbreaking in its plausibility. One of Horn Book's Best Fiction Books of 2011

The Whisperers

Author : Orlando Figes
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014180887X
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (418 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Whisperers by : Orlando Figes

Download or read book The Whisperers written by Orlando Figes and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a huge range of sources - letters, memoirs, conversations - Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin. Those who shaped the political system became, very frequently, its victims. Those who were its victims were frequently quite blameless. The Whisperers recreates the sort of maze in which Russians found themselves, where an unwitting wrong turn could either destroy a family or, perversely, later save it: a society in which everyone spoke in whispers - whether to protect themselves, their families, neighbours or friends - or to inform on them.

Stalin in October

Author : Robert M. Slusser
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421432307
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Stalin in October by : Robert M. Slusser

Download or read book Stalin in October written by Robert M. Slusser and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1987. In March 1917 young Joseph Stalin, already a high-ranking Bolshevik, returned from Siberian exile in search of greatness and power. But his activities during the months leading up to the October Revolution were full of blunders and misjudgments—failures that in later years Stalin obliterated from the historical record. Stalin in October reassembles the history of 1917 and explains why, on the eve of the revolutionaries' seizure of power, Stalin seemingly dropped out of the picture. "He would always be dogged," Slusser writes, "by a nagging sense of having somehow missed the revolution." The lingering shame was crucial to Stalin's development into a Soviet dictator.

Stalin

Author : Edvard Radzinsky
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385479549
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Stalin by : Edvard Radzinsky

Download or read book Stalin written by Edvard Radzinsky and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1997-08-18 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Last Tsar, the first full-scale life of Stalin to have what no previous biography has fully obtained: the facts. Granted privileged access to Russia's secret archives, Edvard Radzinsky paints a picture of the Soviet strongman as more calculating, ruthless, and blood-crazed than has ever been described or imagined. Stalin was a man for whom power was all, terror a useful weapon, and deceit a constant companion. As Radzinsky narrates the high drama of Stalin's epic quest for domination-first within the Communist Party, then over the Soviet Union and the world-he uncovers the startling truth about this most enigmatic of historical figures. Only now, in the post-Soviet era, can what was suppressed be told: Stalin's long-denied involvement with terrorism as a young revolutionary; the crucial importance of his misunderstood, behind-the-scenes role during the October Revolution; his often hostile relationship with Lenin; the details of his organization of terror, culminating in the infamous show trials of the 1930s; his secret dealings with Hitler, and how they backfired; and the horrifying plans he was making before his death to send the Soviet Union's Jews to concentration camps-tantamount to a potential second Holocaust. Radzinsky also takes an intimate look at Stalin's private life, marked by his turbulent relationship with his wife Nadezhda, and recreates the circumstances that led to her suicide. As he did in The Last Tsar, Radzinsky thrillingly brings the past to life. The Kremlin intrigues, the ceaseless round of double-dealing and back-stabbing, the private worlds of the Soviet Empire's ruling class-all become, in Radzinsky's hands, as gripping and powerful as the great Russian sagas. And the riddle of that most cold-blooded of leaders, a man for whom nothing was sacred in his pursuit of absolute might--and perhaps the greatest mass murderer in Western history--is solved.

Stalin's Terror of 1937-1938

Author : Vadim Zakharovich Rogovin
Publisher : Mehring Books
ISBN 13 : 1893638049
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (936 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Stalin's Terror of 1937-1938 by : Vadim Zakharovich Rogovin

Download or read book Stalin's Terror of 1937-1938 written by Vadim Zakharovich Rogovin and published by Mehring Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the bloodiest period of the Stalinist repression of political opposition in the Soviet Union, debunking the myth that the Great Purges were merely the product of Stalin's paranoia and had no overriding political logic. Through a meticulous examination of original sources, including archival documents only made available for research in the 1990s, Professor Vadim Rogovin argues that the ferocity of the mass repression was directly proportional to the intensity of resistance to Stalin within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), particularly the opposition inspired by and associated with the exiled Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky. Far from Trotsky being a politically isolated figure, as both Stalinist and anti-communist historians have claimed, there was substantial sympathy for his criticism of the Stalin regime in the ranks and even in the leadership of the CPSU, and support for his demands for inner-party democracy, greater social equality and an international orientation to the Bolshevik goal of world revolution. It was this political fact, as Rogovin demonstrates, that accounts for the purge reaching so deeply into the party apparatus, the military, the Komsomol youth movement, and the broader layers of the population. Rogovin bases his analysis on scrupulous research, quoting from newly translated or unpublished documents, including memoirs, meeting minutes, newspaper articles and trial transcripts. He documents the reaction of different social layers to the purges, including workers, peasants, non-party intellectuals and the CPSU rank-and-file. This book includes rarely published photographs of the prison camps, documenting the lives of those labeled by Stalin;enemies of the people. Chronologically, this volume takes up where its predecessor, 1937: Stalin's Year of Terror , left off, with the June 1937 plenum of the Central Committee that followed the purging of the Soviet military command and the execution of Marshal Tukhachevsky and other leading generals. It analyzes such critical events as the Bukharin-Rykov trial, last of the infamous show trials; the massacre of Trotskyists in the Vorkuta slave-labor camp; and the assassination by Stalinist agents of Leon Sedov, Trotsky's son, and other oppositionists outside the Soviet Union. It concludes with an examination of how the purges transformed the CPSU and Soviet society as a whole.

Stalin

Author : Marty Bloomberg
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 0809507013
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (95 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Stalin by : Marty Bloomberg

Download or read book Stalin written by Marty Bloomberg and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, annotated survey of English-language literature on Stalin.

The Secret File of Joseph Stalin

Author : Roman Brackman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135758409
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Secret File of Joseph Stalin by : Roman Brackman

Download or read book The Secret File of Joseph Stalin written by Roman Brackman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of Stalin's life begins with his early years, the family breakup caused by the suspicion that the boy was the result of an adulterous affair, the abuse by his father and the growth of the traumatized boy into criminal, spy, and finally one of the 20th century's political monsters.

Stalin

Author : Mikl¢s Kun
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789639241190
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (411 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Stalin by : Mikl¢s Kun

Download or read book Stalin written by Mikl¢s Kun and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exceptional volume of oral history contains exciting new information about Stalin's actual and political 'family', the political Mafia and the clans around him. The author has interviewed key politicians who survived the Stalin era. Kun's special expertise and his access to archival sources in Russia have resulted in a work revealing jealously guarded secrets. In addition to the interviews and hitherto unpublished correspondence between Stalin, Molotov, Voroshilov, Mikoyan, Zhdanov and others, the book also contains a fascinating selection from a private collection of photos of Stalin, his family members, and various political actors of the period.