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Defenders of the Motherland
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 94.99Defenders of the Motherland studies how the most powerful social groups in tsarist Russia reacted to the challenges posed by the Russian Revolutions of 1917. Arguing that elite groups-especially nobles, landowners, and officers-played an important role in these events, Matthew Rendle shows how the alienation of tsarist elites from the tsar during the... more...
Dancing Under the Red Star
The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group 2010; US$ 22.99The shocking and inspirational saga of Margaret Werner and her miraculous survival in the Siberian death camps of Stalinist Russia. Between 1930 and 1932, Henry Ford sent 450 of his Detroit employees plus their families to live in Gorky, Russia, to operate a new manufacturing facility. This is the true story of one of those families?Carl and Elisabeth... more...
Stalin
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 20.00From the author of The Last Tsar , the first full-scale life of Stalin to have what no previous biography has entirely gotten hold of: 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.... more...
Architect of Soviet Victory in World War II
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2010; US$ 49.95The Red Army's leading operational theorist in the 1930s, Georgii Samoilovich Isserson is perhaps best known as the mastermind behind the "deep operation," which became the cornerstone of Soviet offensive operations in World War II. Drawing from an in-depth analysis of Isserson's numerous published and unpublished works, his arrest... more...
Stalin's Genocides
Princeton University Press 2010; US$ 26.95Between 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... more...
Accounting for War
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 46.00A reconstruction and analysis of the Soviet economy's wartime statistical record. more...
Stalinist Terror
Cambridge University Press 1993; US$ 39.00This collection of essays contributes to the understanding of Stalinist terror in the 1930s. more...
Bloodlands
Random House Group Ltd 2011; US$ 14.67In the middle of Europe, in the middle of the twentieth century, the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in the bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow. In a twelve-year-period, in these killing fields - today's Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Western Russia and the eastern Baltic coast - an average of more than one million citizens were... more...
Stalin's Terror Revisited
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 105.00In this ground-breaking collection, a team of leading experts offer a detailed examination of under-researched aspects of Soviet political repression in the 1930s. Drawing on archival documents and materials that have received little attention in Western historiography, much of the information detailed here is in English for the first time. more...
Soviet Politics
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 59.95Soviet Politics in Perspective is a new edition of Richard Sakwas successful textbook Soviet Politics: an introduction. Thoroughly revised and updated it builds on the previous editions comprehensive and accessible exploration of the Soviet system, from its rise in 1919 to its collapse in 1991. The book is divided into five parts, which focus on... more...









