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The October Revolution in prospect and retrospect interventions in Russian and Soviet history / by Marot, John Eric, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…The peasant-question and the origins of Stalinism: rethinking the destruction of the October Revolution -- Trotsky, the left opposition and the rise of Stalinism: theory and practice -- Class-confict, political competition and social transformation: critical perspectives on the social history of the Russian revolution -- Political leadership and working-class agency in the Russian revolution: reply to William G. …”
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The October Revolution in prospect and retrospect interventions in Russian and Soviet history / by Marot, John Eric, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…The peasant-question and the origins of Stalinism: rethinking the destruction of the October Revolution -- Trotsky, the left opposition and the rise of Stalinism: theory and practice -- Class-confict, political competition and social transformation: critical perspectives on the social history of the Russian revolution -- Political leadership and working-class agency in the Russian revolution: reply to William G. …”
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A century of state murder? death and policy in twentieth-century Russia / by Haynes, Michael, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…-- The revolt against class society 1890-1928 -- Death and the Stalin era 1929-1953 -- Death from Khrushchev to Gorbachev 1953-1985 -- The end of Perestroika and the transition crisis of the 1990s -- 'Normal' deaths during the first decade of transition -- Yeltsin, Putin and 'abnormal' deaths 1992-2002 -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Basic data on the prison camp system under Stalin.…”
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A century of state murder? death and policy in twentieth-century Russia / by Haynes, Michael, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…-- The revolt against class society 1890-1928 -- Death and the Stalin era 1929-1953 -- Death from Khrushchev to Gorbachev 1953-1985 -- The end of Perestroika and the transition crisis of the 1990s -- 'Normal' deaths during the first decade of transition -- Yeltsin, Putin and 'abnormal' deaths 1992-2002 -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Basic data on the prison camp system under Stalin.…”
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The Socialist Republic of Rumania by Fischer-Galați, Stephen

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Rumania in the pre-entry period -- The entry of Rumania into the communist party state system -- intensive socialist development of Rumania : Stalinism -- The thaw -- The present stage.…”
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The Socialist Republic of Rumania by Fischer-Galați, Stephen

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Rumania in the pre-entry period -- The entry of Rumania into the communist party state system -- intensive socialist development of Rumania : Stalinism -- The thaw -- The present stage.…”
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The drama of Russian political history system against individuality / by Obolonskiĭ, A. V. (Aleksandr Valentinovich)

Table of Contents: “…On methodology and general concepts -- The time of troubles: 1606 1612, and the rest of the seventeenth century -- The devastating course of Peter's "modernization": the eighteenth century age of lost opportunities -- Romantic Decembrists and pessimistic philosophers: the dualism of the first generation Russian intelligentsia -- A decisive junction: the epoch of Alexander II -- After the catastrophe: the penultimate Romanov reign -- The evening glow -- The inverted pyramid -- Stalinism: high noon of system-centeredness -- After Stalin: the system yields to fatigue -- At the new crossroads.…”
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The drama of Russian political history system against individuality / by Obolonskiĭ, A. V. (Aleksandr Valentinovich)

Table of Contents: “…On methodology and general concepts -- The time of troubles: 1606 1612, and the rest of the seventeenth century -- The devastating course of Peter's "modernization": the eighteenth century age of lost opportunities -- Romantic Decembrists and pessimistic philosophers: the dualism of the first generation Russian intelligentsia -- A decisive junction: the epoch of Alexander II -- After the catastrophe: the penultimate Romanov reign -- The evening glow -- The inverted pyramid -- Stalinism: high noon of system-centeredness -- After Stalin: the system yields to fatigue -- At the new crossroads.…”
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The unknown Eastern Front the Wehrmacht and Hitler's foreign soldiers / by Müller, Rolf-Dieter, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…The eastern European nations in the struggle against Stalinism.…”
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The unknown Eastern Front the Wehrmacht and Hitler's foreign soldiers / by Müller, Rolf-Dieter, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…The eastern European nations in the struggle against Stalinism.…”
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"Iron Lazar" a political biography of Lazar Kaganovich / by Rees, E. A.

Table of Contents: “…The making of a Bolshevik, 1893-1917 -- Red terror and Civil War, 1918-1921 -- Building the monolithic party, 1922-1927 -- Ukrainian party boss, 1925-1928 -- The triumph of the Stalin fraction, 1928-1929 -- Revolution from above, 1928-1935 -- Stalin's deputy, 1930-1935 -- Moscow party boss, 1930-1935 -- Boss of rail transport, 1935-1937 -- Political and social revolution through terror, 1936-1938 -- The man -- The despot's creature, 1939-1953 -- Destalinization and nemesis, 1953-1991.…”
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"Iron Lazar" a political biography of Lazar Kaganovich / by Rees, E. A.

Table of Contents: “…The making of a Bolshevik, 1893-1917 -- Red terror and Civil War, 1918-1921 -- Building the monolithic party, 1922-1927 -- Ukrainian party boss, 1925-1928 -- The triumph of the Stalin fraction, 1928-1929 -- Revolution from above, 1928-1935 -- Stalin's deputy, 1930-1935 -- Moscow party boss, 1930-1935 -- Boss of rail transport, 1935-1937 -- Political and social revolution through terror, 1936-1938 -- The man -- The despot's creature, 1939-1953 -- Destalinization and nemesis, 1953-1991.…”
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The atomic bomb and the origins of the Cold War by Craig, Campbell, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Franklin Delano Roosevelt and atomic wartime diplomacy -- The great game -- Truman, the bomb, and the end of World War II -- Responding to Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- The Baruch Plan and the onset of American Cold War -- Stalin and the burial of international control.…”
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The atomic bomb and the origins of the Cold War by Craig, Campbell, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Franklin Delano Roosevelt and atomic wartime diplomacy -- The great game -- Truman, the bomb, and the end of World War II -- Responding to Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- The Baruch Plan and the onset of American Cold War -- Stalin and the burial of international control.…”
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Screening Auschwitz : Wanda Jakubowska's The Last Stage and the Politics of Commemoration / by Haltof, Marek

Table of Contents: “…The Auschwitz-Birkenau number 43513 -- "Stalin was moved to tears" : the script -- Return to Auschwitz : the making of the Holocaust classic -- The film and its reception -- Fighting Auschwitz : the heroic account of the camp -- Representation of the Holocaust in the last stage -- The legacy of Wanda Jakubowska.…”
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Screening Auschwitz : Wanda Jakubowska's The Last Stage and the Politics of Commemoration / by Haltof, Marek

Table of Contents: “…The Auschwitz-Birkenau number 43513 -- "Stalin was moved to tears" : the script -- Return to Auschwitz : the making of the Holocaust classic -- The film and its reception -- Fighting Auschwitz : the heroic account of the camp -- Representation of the Holocaust in the last stage -- The legacy of Wanda Jakubowska.…”
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The word that causes death's defeat poems of memory / by Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna, 1889-1966

Table of Contents: “…Youth and early fame, 1889-1916 -- Revolution and civil war, 1917-1922 -- Outcast in the new order, 1922-1935 -- Terror and the muse, 1936-1941 -- War and late Stalinism, 1941-1953 -- Late fame and final years, 1953-1966 -- Requiem -- The way of all the earth -- Poem without a hero -- Bearing the burden of witness : Requiem -- Forward into the past : The way of all the earth -- Rediscovering a lost generation : Poem without a hero -- Commentary on Poem without a hero.…”
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Youth and the state in Hungary capitalism, communism and class / by Kürti, László, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : theoretical perspectives -- Historical ethnography, ethnographic history : peasants into workers -- Development of Red Csepel : youth during monarchy and fascism -- Vanguard youth : from Stalinism to state socialism -- Existing state socialism : socialisation and youth -- The Communist Youth League : ideology, culture and allienation -- Youth against the state : friends, partners and family -- Hungary's Manhattan : "The Velvet Revolution" and the re-making of capitalist youth -- Epilogue : class, youth and the state.…”
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Youth and the state in Hungary capitalism, communism and class / by Kürti, László, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : theoretical perspectives -- Historical ethnography, ethnographic history : peasants into workers -- Development of Red Csepel : youth during monarchy and fascism -- Vanguard youth : from Stalinism to state socialism -- Existing state socialism : socialisation and youth -- The Communist Youth League : ideology, culture and allienation -- Youth against the state : friends, partners and family -- Hungary's Manhattan : "The Velvet Revolution" and the re-making of capitalist youth -- Epilogue : class, youth and the state.…”
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A history of Russia and its empire : from Mikhail Romanov to Vladimir Putin / by Boterbloem, Kees, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Phoenix -- The eighteenth century -- The height and decline of imperial Russia, 1789-1855 -- Domestic convulsions, 1855-1905 -- Fatal foreign entanglements and a failed revolution, 1877-1914 -- Forging Soviet civilization -- The inevitable triumph of Stalinism? -- The Great Patriotic War and the Cold War -- Embattled leader of the "second world", 1953-1982 -- The fall of the Soviet Union and beyond.…”
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