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Vladimir Burtsev and the Struggle for a Free Russia

Author : Robert Henderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472578902
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Vladimir Burtsev and the Struggle for a Free Russia written by Robert Henderson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vladimir Burtsev and the Struggle for a Free Russia examines the life of the journalist, historian and revolutionary, Vladimir Burtsev. The book analyses his struggle to help liberate the Russian people from tsarist oppression in the latter half of the 19th century before going on to discuss his opposition to Bolshevism following the Russian Revolution of 1917. Robert Henderson traces Burtsev's political development during this time and explores his movements in Paris and London at different stages in an absorbing account of an extraordinary life. At all times Vladimir Burtsev and the Struggle for Free Russia sets Burtsev's life in the wider context of Russian and European history of the period. It uses Burtsev as a means to discuss topics such as European police collaboration, European prison systems, international diplomatic relations of the time and Russia's relationship with Europe specifically. Extensive original archival research and previously untranslated Russian source material is also incorporated throughout the text. This is an important study for all historians of modern Russia and the Russian Revolution.

Immigration and Exile Foreign-Language Press in the UK and in the US

Author : Stéphanie Prévost
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350107050
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Immigration and Exile Foreign-Language Press in the UK and in the US written by Stéphanie Prévost and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both Britain and the United States have had a long history of harbouring foreign political exiles, who often set up periodicals which significantly contributed to community-building and political debates. However, this varied and complex journalism has received little attention to date, particularly regarding the languages in which it was produced. This wide-ranging edited volume brings together for the first time interdisciplinary case studies of the exile foreign-language press (in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Flemish, Polish, among other languages) across Britain and the US, establishing a useful comparative framework to explore how periodicals tackled key political, linguistic and literary issues from the 19th century to the present day. Building on the existing literature on the exile foreign-language press in the United States and developing the study of this phenomenon in the British context, Immigration and Exile Foreign-Language Press in the UK and in the US offers fresh perspectives into how these marginalised periodicals influenced the political, economic and social contexts that brought them into existence. This is a major contribution to the burgeoning field of transnational periodicals and will be of interest to anyone studying the history of the Anglo-American press, the history of immigration and cultural history.

Siberian Exile and the Invention of Revolutionary Russia, 1825–1917

Author : Ben Phillips
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000516156
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Siberian Exile and the Invention of Revolutionary Russia, 1825–1917 written by Ben Phillips and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of the nineteenth century Siberia developed a fearsome reputation as a place of exile, often imagined as a vast penal colony and seen as a symbol of the iniquities of autocratic and totalitarian Tsarist rule. This book examines how Siberia’s reputation came about and discusses the effects of this reputation in turning opinion, especially in Western countries, against the Tsarist regime and in giving rise to considerable sympathy for Russian radicals and revolutionaries. It considers the writings and propaganda of a large number of different émigré groups, explores American and British journalists’ investigations and exposé press articles and charts the rise of the idea of Russian political prisoners as revolutionary and reformist heroes. Overall, the book demonstrates how important representations of Siberian exile were in shaping Western responses to the Russian Revolution.

Russomania

Author : Rebecca Beasley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192522485
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Russomania written by Rebecca Beasley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russomania: Russian Culture and the Creation of British Modernism provides a new account of modernist literature's emergence in Britain. British writers played a central role in the dissemination of Russian literature and culture during the early twentieth century, and their writing was transformed by the encounter. This study restores the thick history of that moment, by analyzing networks of dissemination and reception to recover the role of neglected as well as canonical figures, and institutions as well as individuals. The dominant account of British modernism privileges a Francophile genealogy, but the turn-of-the century debate about the future of British writing was a triangular debate, a debate not only between French and English models, but between French, English, and Russian models. Francophile modernists associated Russian literature, especially the Tolstoyan novel, with an uncritical immersion in 'life' at the expense of a mastery of style, and while individual works might be admired, Russian literature as a whole was represented as a dangerous model for British writing. This supposed danger was closely bound up with the politics of the period, and this book investigates how Russian culture was deployed in the close relationships between writers, editors, and politicians who made up the early twentieth-century intellectual class--the British intelligentsia. Russomania argues that the most significant impact of Russian culture is not to be found in stylistic borrowings between canonical authors, but in the shaping of the major intellectual questions of the period: the relation between language and action, writer and audience, and the work of art and lived experience. The resulting account brings an occluded genealogy of early modernism to the fore, with a different arrangement of protagonists, different critical values, and stronger lines of connection to the realist experiments of the Victorian past, and the anti-formalism and revived romanticism of the 1930s and 1940s future.

Vladimir Burtsev and the Struggle for a Free Russia

Author : Robert Henderson (Honorary research associate)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781474205818
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Vladimir Burtsev and the Struggle for a Free Russia written by Robert Henderson (Honorary research associate) and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vladimir Burtsev and the Struggle for a Free Russia examines the life of the journalist, historian and revolutionary, Vladimir Burtsev. The book analyses his struggle to help liberate the Russian people from tsarist oppression in the latter half of the 19th century before going on to discuss his opposition to Bolshevism following the Russian Revolution of 1917. Robert Henderson traces Burtsev's political development during this time and explores his movements in Paris and London at different stages in an absorbing account of an extraordinary life. At all times Vladimir Burtsev and the Struggle for Free Russia sets Burtsev's life in the wider context of Russian and European history of the period. It uses Burtsev as a means to discuss topics such as European police collaboration, European prison systems, international diplomatic relations of the time and Russia's relationship with Europe specifically. Extensive original archival research and previously untranslated Russian source material is also incorporated throughout the text. This is an important study for all historians of modern Russia and the Russian Revolution.

The Birth of the Soviet Secret Police

Author : Boris Volodarsky
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1526792281
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The Birth of the Soviet Secret Police written by Boris Volodarsky and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is new in every aspect and not only because neither the official history nor an unofficial history of the KGB, and its many predecessors and successors, exists in any language. In this volume, the author deals with the origins of the KGB from the Tsarist Okhrana (the first Russians secret political police) to the OGPU, Joint State Political Directorate, one of the KGB predecessors between 1923 and 1934. Based on documents from the Russian archives, the author clearly demonstrates that the Cheka and GPU/OPGU were initially created to defend the revolution and not for espionage. The Okhrana operated in both the Russian Empire and abroad against the revolutionaries and most of its operations, presented in this book, are little known. The same is the case with regards to the period after the Cheka was established in December 1917 until ten years later when Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party and exiled, and Stalin rose to power. For the long period after the Revolution and up to the Second World War (and, indeed, beyond until the death of Stalin) the Chekaâs main weapon was terror to create a general climate of fear in a population. In the book, the work of the Cheka and its successors against the enemies of the revolution is paralleled with British and American operations against the Soviets inside and outside of Russia. For the first time the creation of the Communist International (Comintern) is shown as an alternative Soviet espionage organization for wide-scale foreign propaganda and subversion operations based on the new revelations from the Soviet archives Here, the early Soviet intelligence operations in several countries are presented and analyzed for the first time, as are raids on the Soviet missions abroad. The Bolshevik smuggling of the Russian imperial treasures is shown based on the latest available archival sources with misinterpretations and sometimes false interpretations in existing literature revised. After the Bolshevik revolution, Mansfield Smith-Cumming, the first chief of SIS, undertook to set up âan entirely new Secret Service organization in Russiaâ. During those first ten years, events would develop as a non-stop struggle between British intelligence, within Russia and abroad, and the Cheka, later GPU/OGPU. Before several show âspy trialsâ in 1927, British intelligence networks successfully operated in Russia later moving to the Baltic capitals, Finland and Sweden while young Soviet intelligence officers moved to London, Paris, Berlin and Constantinople. Many of those operations, from both sides, are presented in the book for the first time in this ground-breaking study of the dark world of the KGB

Thou Shalt Kill

Author : Anna Geifman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691025490
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book Thou Shalt Kill written by Anna Geifman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1995-12-31 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the explosion of terrorist activity that took place throughout the Russian Empire at the turn of the 20th century. Focusing on the years of the Russian Revolution, it analyzes the sudden escalation of political violence that occurred after two relatively tranquil decades.

To Break Russia's Chains

Author : Vladimir Alexandrov
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643137190
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book To Break Russia's Chains written by Vladimir Alexandrov and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant examination of the enigmatic Russian revolutionary about whom Winston Churchill said "few men tried more, gave more, dared more and suffered more for the Russian people," and who remains a legendary and controversial figure in his homeland today. Although now largely forgotten outside Russia, Boris Savinkov was famous, and notorious, both at home and abroad during his lifetime, which spans the end of the Russian Empire and the establishment of the Soviet Union. A complex and conflicted individual, he was a paradoxically moral revolutionary terrorist, a scandalous novelist, a friend of epoch-defining artists like Modigliani and Diego Rivera, a government minister, a tireless fighter against Lenin and the Bolsheviks, and an advisor to Churchill. At the end of his life, Savinkov conspired to be captured by the Soviet secret police, and as the country’s most prized political prisoner made headlines around the world when he claimed that he accepted the Bolshevik state. But as this book argues, this was Savinkov’s final play as a gambler and he had staked his life on a secret plan to strike one last blow against the tyrannical regime. Neither a "Red" nor a "White," Savinkov lived an epic life that challenges many popular myths about the Russian Revolution, which was arguably the most important catalyst of twentieth-century world history. All of Savinkov’s efforts were directed at transforming his homeland into a uniquely democratic, humane and enlightened state. There are aspects of his violent legacy that will, and should, remain frozen in the past as part of the historical record. But the support he received from many of his countrymen suggests that the paths Russia took during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries--the tyranny of communism, the authoritarianism of Putin’s regime--were not the only ones written in her historical destiny. Savinkov's goals remain a poignant reminder of how things in Russia could have been, and how, perhaps, they may still become someday. Written with novelistic verve and filled with the triumphs, disasters, dramatic twists and contradictions that defined Savinkov's life, this book shines a light on an extraordinary man who tried to change Russian and world history.

The Okhrana--the Russian Department of Police

Author : Edward Ellis Smith
Publisher : Stanford, Calif., Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Okhrana--the Russian Department of Police written by Edward Ellis Smith and published by Stanford, Calif., Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. This book was released on 1967 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Battle against Anarchist Terrorism

Author : Richard Bach Jensen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107656699
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book The Battle against Anarchist Terrorism written by Richard Bach Jensen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first global history of the secret diplomatic and police campaign that was waged against anarchist terrorism from 1878 to the 1920s. Anarchist terrorism was at that time the dominant form of terrorism and for many continued to be synonymous with terrorism as late as the 1930s. Ranging from Europe and the Americas to the Middle East and Asia, Richard Bach Jensen explores how anarchist terrorism emerged as a global phenomenon during the first great era of economic and social globalization at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries and reveals why some nations were so much more successful in combating this new threat than others. He shows how the challenge of dealing with this new form of terrorism led to the fundamental modernization of policing in many countries and also discusses its impact on criminology and international law.

Through the Russian Revolution

Author : Albert Rhys Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Through the Russian Revolution written by Albert Rhys Williams and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The World That Never Was

Author : Alex Butterworth
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307379035
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The World That Never Was written by Alex Butterworth and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling history of the rise of anarchism, told through the stories of a number of prominent revolutionaries and the agents of the secret police who pursued them. In the late nineteenth century, nations the world over were mired in economic recession and beset by social unrest, their leaders increasingly threatened by acts of terrorism and assassination from anarchist extremists. In this riveting history of that tumultuous period, Alex Butterworth follows the rise of these revolutionaries from the failed Paris Commune of 1871 to the 1905 Russian Revolution and beyond. Through the interwoven stories of several key anarchists and the secret police who tracked and manipulated them, Butterworth explores how the anarchists were led to increasingly desperate acts of terrorism and murder. Rich in anecdote and with a fascinating array of supporting characters, The World That Never Was is a masterly exploration of the strange twists and turns of history, taking readers on a journey that spans five continents, from the capitals of Europe to a South Pacific penal colony to the heartland of America. It tells the story of a generation that saw its utopian dreams crumble into dangerous desperation and offers a revelatory portrait of an era with uncanny echoes of our own.

Okhrana

Author : Ben B. Fischer
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780788183287
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Okhrana written by Ben B. Fischer and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1999-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the foreign operations of the Russian Imperial Police, commonly referred to as the Okhrana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Russia had driven many revolutionaries, terrorists, and nationalists out of Russia, but Russian emigrants in the West had broad opportunities to engage in anti-regime activities. Paris became the hub for Russian revolutionary groups operating in much of Europe. These essays portray not only the officials who ran the Okhrana's foreign bureau, but also the colorful agents, double agents, and agents provocateurs who worked for and against it -- sometimes simultaneously.

1914: the Coming of the First World War

Author : Walter Laqueur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book 1914: the Coming of the First World War written by Walter Laqueur and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bibliographical footnotes. The changing dimension of Europe, by C.A. Fisher.--The Copenhagen complex, by J. Steinberg.--The debate on German war aims, by W.J. Mommsen.--The outbreak of the First World War and German war aims, by I. Geiss.--Russian foreign policy, February-June, 1914, by I.V. Bestuzhev.--Italian-Austro-Hungarian negotiations, 1914-1915, by L. Valiani.--German world policy and the reshaping of the Dual Alliance, by A. Andrew.--Hungary and the crisis of July 1914, by N. Stone.--Rumania and the belligerents, 1914-1916, by G.E. Torrey.--Gerhard Ritter and the First World War, by K. Epstein.--The dismissal of Admiral Jellicoe, by S.W. Roskill.--Russia in 1914, by H. Rogger.--Russians in Germany, 1900-1914, by R.C. Williams.--Liman von Sanders and the German-Ottoman Alliance, by U. Trumpener.

The History of Terrorism

Author : Gérard Chaliand
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520292502
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The History of Terrorism written by Gérard Chaliand and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in English in 2007 under title: The history of terrorism: from antiquity to al Qaeda.

History of the Russian Revolution

Author : Leon Trotsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781608467952
Total Pages : 992 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book History of the Russian Revolution written by Leon Trotsky and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unparalleled account of one of the most pivotal and hotly debated events in world history.

Russian Jews Between the Reds and the Whites, 1917-1920

Author : Oleg Budnitskii
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812208145
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Russian Jews Between the Reds and the Whites, 1917-1920 written by Oleg Budnitskii and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years following the Russian Revolution, a bitter civil war was waged between the Bolsheviks, with their Red Army of Workers and Peasants on the one side, and the various groups that constituted the anti-Bolshevik movement on the other. The major anti-Bolshevik force was the White Army, whose leadership consisted of former officers of the Russian imperial army. In the received—and simplified—version of this history, those Jews who were drawn into the political and military conflict were overwhelmingly affiliated with the Reds, while from the start, the Whites orchestrated campaigns of anti-Jewish violence, leading to the deaths of thousands of Jews in pogroms in the Ukraine and elsewhere. In Russian Jews Between the Reds and the Whites, 1917-1920, Oleg Budnitskii provides the first comprehensive historical account of the role of Jews in the Russian Civil War. According to Budnitskii, Jews were both victims and executioners, and while they were among the founders of the Soviet state, they also played an important role in the establishment of the anti-Bolshevik factions. He offers a far more nuanced picture of the policies of the White leadership toward the Jews than has been previously available, exploring such issues as the role of prominent Jewish politicians in the establishment of the White movement of southern Russia, the "Jewish Question" in the White ideology and its international aspects, and the attempts of the Russian Orthodox Church and White diplomacy to forestall the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. The relationship between the Jews and the Reds was no less complicated. Nearly all of the Jewish political parties severely disapproved of the Bolshevik coup, and the Red Army was hardly without sin when it came to pogroms against the Jews. Budnitskii offers a fresh assessment of the part played by Jews in the establishment of the Soviet state, of the turn in the policies of Jewish socialist parties after the first wave of mass pogroms and their efforts to attract Jews to the Red Army, of Bolshevik policies concerning the Jewish population, and of how these stances changed radically over the course of the Civil War.