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Total Pages : 436 pages
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Download or read book Warsaw Pact, the Question of Cohesion: Poland, German Democratic Republic, and Romania written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 386 pages
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Download or read book Warsaw Pact, the Question of Cohesion: The greater Socialist army, integration and reliability written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew A. Michta
Publisher : Hoover Press
ISBN 13 : 9780817988630
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (886 download)
Download or read book Red Eagle: The Army in Polish Politics, 1944 - 1988 written by Andrew A. Michta and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of the Polish army elite had a profound effect on the Communist Party. Many current changes stem from the tougher attitudes the Polish military under Jarulzelski took toward Solidarity. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Roman Laba
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400861551
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Roots of Solidarity written by Roman Laba and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July 1980, two weeks before the Gdansk shipyard strikes, Roman Laba arrived in Poland as an American graduate student. He stayed there for almost two and a half years before he was arrested and expelled from the country for "activities noxious to the interests of the Polish state." Laba had set himself the ambitious task of documenting the history of Poland's free trade union. Martial law was in force for the last year of his stay, but even during that time he continued his rescue of the unique historical materials that contribute so much to Roots of Solidarity. The book uses this hard-earned information to challenge the commonly accepted view of the Polish intelligentsia as the driving force behind Solidarity and to demonstrate that the roots of the movement go back a decade earlier than the 1980 strikes. Laba presents compelling evidence that Solidarity emerged directly from the activities of workers in the 1970s along the Baltic coast. It was not the intellectual elite but these workers, independent of and unknown to the rest of Poland, who created three crucial strategies for struggle against oppression: the sit-down strike, the interfactory strike committee, and the demand for free trade unions independent of the party state. This concise and provocative work is divided into two parts. The first is a narrative of the creation of Solidarity. The second shows how workers' resistance to the Leninist state gradually generated new forms of democratic organizations and politics. Laba criticizes elitist ways of understanding social movements and also presents an unusual analysis of Solidarity's ritual symbolism. In addition, new evidence transforms our understanding of the role of the police and the army in a one-party state. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Total Pages : 564 pages
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Download or read book Warsaw Pact, the Question of Cohesion: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary ; Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Siani-Davies
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801473890
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book The Romanian Revolution of December 1989 written by Peter Siani-Davies and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Romanian Revolution of 1989 was the most spectacularly violent and remains today the most controversial of all the East European upheavals of that year. Despite (or perhaps because of) the media attention the revolution received, it remains shrouded in mystery. How did the seemingly impregnable Ceausescu regime come to be toppled so swiftly and how did Ion Iliescu and the National Salvation Front come to power? Was it by coup d'état? Who were the mysterious "terrorists" who wreaked such havoc on the streets of Bucharest and the other major cities of Romania? Were they members of the notorious securitate? What was the role of the Soviet Union?Blending narrative with analysis, Peter Siani-Davies seeks to answer these and other questions while placing the events and their immediate aftermath within a wider context. Based on fieldwork conducted in Romania and drawing heavily on Romanian sources, including television and radio transcripts, official documents, newspaper reports, and interviews, this book is the most thorough study of the Romanian Revolution that has appeared in English or any other major European language.Recognizing that a definitive history of these events may be impossible, Siani-Davies focuses on the ways in which participants interpreted the events according to particular scripts and myths of revolution rooted in the Romanian historical experience. In the process the author sheds light on the ways in which history and the conflicting retellings of the 1989 events are put to political use in the transitional societies of Eastern Europe.
Author : James M Garrett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000306232
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Tenuous Balance written by James M Garrett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instigation for this book was the author’s doubt that the political and military confrontation in Central Europe would remain stable in a serious crisis. Uncertainty of success may deter Soviet risk-taking forty-nine years out of fifty but not in that fiftieth year if Soviet leaders should face an apparent threat to their continued hegemony in
Author : Janos Radvanyi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313368562
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Psychological Operations and Political Warfare in Long-term Strategic Planning written by Janos Radvanyi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1990-07-26 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a group of distinguished security experts, these eight previously unpublished papers focus on the hostile actions of the Soviet Union against the West in the form of psychological operations, power politics, and blackmail. Addressing military professionals, strategists, and international security specialists, the contributors examine the most effective measures the United States and its allies can take to counteract such measures. This is particularly important in the Gorbachev era, when Western security is perhaps more than ever dependent upon knowledge of Soviet psychological operations and political warfare. The book also explores the background of East European resistance to Soviet dominance and the subsequent Soviet countermeasures. Wide-ranging in coverage, the papers explore psychological operation in the United States, Poland, West Germany, France, and Latin America. Following the editor's introduction to psychological operations, the contributors address such topics as the history and future of U.S. military psychological operations, new thinking and influence activities in the Gorbachev era, terrorism as a political strategy, and contemporary insurgent political and psychological warfare. A case study of the Polish experience illustrates communist regimes' psychological warfare against their own societies. The remaining papers discuss psychological operations and political warfare in long-term U.S. strategic planning, the French experience with Soviet hostile actions, and the argument that psychological warfare is no longer necessary in the age of perestroika and glasnost. The contributors are united in their belief that psychological operations and political warfare will not be eliminated by the sweeping changes affecting the Soviet Union and that the Western democracies are by their very nature particularly vulnerable to such operations. However, given the changing nature of external threats to the West, the contributors call for a reevaluation of strategy in the area of psychological operations, political warfare, and low intensity conflict.
Author : Matthew J. Ouimet
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807854112
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (541 download)
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Brezhnev Doctrine in Soviet Foreign Policy written by Matthew J. Ouimet and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ouimet argues that the now-famous reforms of Soviet bloc policy of the mid-1980s were not the instigation, but rather the climax of a fundamental transformation in Soviet policy toward Eastern Europe that had its origins in the Brezhnev era.
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Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Problems of Communism written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffrey Simon
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Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book NATO-Warsaw Pact Force Mobilization written by Jeffrey Simon and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ray Taras
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Political Science Research on the USSR and Eastern Europe written by Ray Taras and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1992-10-23 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical history of, and guide to, Soviet studies aims to take stock of the achievements and shortcomings in Western research on the region's politics and to serve as a "who's who" of Western Sovietologists, identifying many prominent political scientists from the former Communist states.
Author : Andrew Michta
Publisher : Praeger
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Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book East Central Europe After the Warsaw Pact written by Andrew Michta and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1992-03-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew A. Michta examines the security of Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary in the aftermath of the 1989 collapse of communism and the Soviet empire in Eastern Europe. He reviews the old geopolitical dilemmas in the region as well as the new conditions in Europe as it approaches the remainder of the decade, and offers a country-by-country discussion of security policies and military reforms underway in the region. The analysis is set against a background discussion of the region's history as well as a review of the key events leading to the disintegration of the Warsaw Treaty Organization, including the reformulation of Soviet security policy in the late 1980s. Michta concludes with an assessment of security challenges facing the Triangle states of Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary as they work to join Western Europe by the end of the decade. He argues that the Triangle will remain in a gray security zone in Europe for the foreseeable future, with an implicit security commitment from NATO, but without explicit formal security guarantees.
Author : Roman Andrew Laba
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Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)
Download or read book The Roots of Solidarity written by Roman Andrew Laba and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 400 pages
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Download or read book Soviet Armed Forces Review Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James M. Garrett
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Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Central Europe's Fragile Deterrent Structure written by James M. Garrett and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vojtech Mastny
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 6155053693
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (55 download)
Download or read book A Cardboard Castle? written by Vojtech Mastny and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-10 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to document, analyze, and interpret the history of the Warsaw Pact based on the archives of the alliance itself. As suggested by the title, the Soviet bloc military machine that held the West in awe for most of the Cold War does not appear from the inside as formidable as outsiders often believed, nor were its strengths and weaknesses the same at different times in its surprisingly long history, extending for almost half a century. The introductory study by Mastny assesses the controversial origins of the "superfluous" alliance, its subsequent search for a purpose, its crisis and consolidation despite congenital weaknesses, as well as its unexpected demise. Most of the 193 documents included in the book were top secret and have only recently been obtained from Eastern European archives by the PHP project. The majority of the documents were translated specifically for this volume and have never appeared in English before. The introductory remarks to individual documents by co-editor Byrne explain the particular significance of each item. A chronology of the main events in the history of the Warsaw Pact, a list of its leading officials, a selective multilingual bibliography, and an analytical index add to the importance of a publication that sets the new standard as a reference work on the subject and facilitate its use by both students and general readers.
