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Stalin
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 32.00The figure of Joseph Stalin has always provoked heated and often polarized debate. In this groundbreaking study, leading international experts challenge many assumptions about Stalin from his early life in Georgia to the Cold War years, using recently declassified archive. more...
Red Arctic
Oxford University Press 1998; US$ 109.99A work of refreshing originality and vivid appeal, Red Arctic tells the story of Stalinist Russia's massive campaign to explore and develop its Northern territories during the 1930s. Author John McCannon recounts the dramatic stories of the polar expeditions--conducted by foot, ship, and plane--that were the pride of Stalinist Russia, in order to expose... more...
Alternative Paths
Oxford University Press 1993; US$ 144.99Between 1917 and 1920--from the Bolshevik Revolution to the definitive statement of American opposition to Bolshevik Russia--Soviets and Americans searched for ways to effect meaningful interactions between their two nations in the absence of formal diplomatic relations. During these years, wide-ranging discussions occurred on a variety of serious... more...
Stalin's Great Science
World Scientific Publishing Company 2004; US$ 75.40World-class science and technology developed in the Soviet Union during Stalin's dictatorial rule under conditions of political violence, lack of international contacts, and severe restrictions on the freedom of information. Stalin's Great Science: The Times and Adventures of Soviet Physicists is an invaluable book that investigates this paradoxical... more...
Russian/Soviet Military Psychiatry 1904-1945
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 44.95Psychiatry, like most professional fields in Russia, gained its legitimacy from its ability to serve the Tsar and later the Bolshevik party. The militarised nature of these governments meant that psychiatry would have to prove its worth to the military. This study will cover Russian/Soviet military psychiatry from its first practical experience during... more...
Britain, Soviet Russia and the Collapse of the Versailles Order, 1919-1939
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 35.00A major re-interpretation of international relations from Versailles to the outbreak of war in 1939. The book argues that the new world order created in 1919 provided inadequate means the League of Nations, arms control and public censure - to deal with the threats of Communism, Nazism, fascism and Japanese expansionism. more...
The Soviets, the Munich Crisis, and the Coming of World War II
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 29.00The Munich crisis is everywhere acknowledged as the prelude leading to World War II. The subject has been thoroughly studied in the British, French, and German documents. What has never been seriously studied in the Western literature is the spectrum of East European documentation, presented here for the first time. more...
Joseph Stalin
ABC-CLIO 2002; US$ 55.00This biographical companion covers Stalin's life and political career from 1879 to 1953; in particular it describes the more personal side of the man who orchestrated the Great Terror of the 1930s and constructed the Soviet monolith. more...
The Leader Cult In Communist Dictatorships
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 120.00The first book to analyze the distinct leader cults that flourished in the era of 'High Stalinism' as an integral part of the system of dictatorial rule in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Fifteen studies explore the way in which these cults were established, their function and operation, their dissemination and reception, the place of the cults... more...
The Soviet Mind
Brookings Institution Press 2004; US$ 20.95Berlin (former professor of social and political theory, Oxford U., UK), well known for his political philosophy and its distinction between positive and negative freedoms, was less recognized as a Russian-Jewish migr . This collection of 10 essays gathers his writings on the USSR and includes his reflections on the work of Boris Pasternak and Osip more...









