Soviet salvage


Pris: 519,-	Voronkov, Sergey Masterpieces and Dramas of the Soviet Championships In his three-volume treatise, leading Russian chess historian Sergey Voronkov vividly brings to life the long-forgotten history of the Soviet championships held in 1920-1953. Volume I covers the first 10 championships…	Pris: 645,-	Adler, Nanci D. Victims of Soviet Terror (0275945022) Memorial began as a group of dissidents who secretly met to exchange stories of Stalinist repression, make contacts, and collect whatever records they could obtain to establish historical truths about Soviet…
Pris: 254,-	Kotov, Arseniy Soviet Cities (1916218415) In recent years Russian cities have visibly changed. The architectural heritage of the Soviet period has not been fully acknowledged. As a result many unique modernist buildings have been destroyed or changed beyond…	Pris: 1 122,-	Noordenbos, Boris Post-Soviet Literature and the Search for a Russian Identity This book examines a wide range of contemporary Russian writers whose work, after the demise of Communism, became more authoritative in debates on Russia?s character, destiny, and place in the world. Unique in his…
Pris: 616,-	Stern, Ludmila Western Intellectuals and the Soviet Union, 1920-40 Despite the appalling record of the Soviet Union on human rights questions, many western intellectuals with otherwise impeccable liberal credentials were strong supporters the Soviet Union in the interwar period. This…	Pris: 573,-	Hill, Alexander The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, 1941-45 This book consists of extracts from key documents, along with commentary and further reading, on the ?Great Patriotic War? of the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany, 1941-45. Despite the historical…
Pris: 2 560,-	Ilic, Melanie The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century This handbook brings together recent and emerging research in the broad areas of women and gender studies focusing on pre-revolutionary Russia, the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet Russian Federation. For the Soviet…	Pris: 1 230,-	Bodin, Per-Arne The Post-Soviet Politics of Utopia (1788312287) More than 700 `utopian? novels are published in Russia every year. These utopias ? meaning here fantasy fiction, science fiction, space operas or alternative history ? do not set out merely to titillate; instead they…
Pris: 280,-	Kokoshin, Andrei A. Soviet Strategic Thought, 1917?91 (0262611384) During the Cold War, Westerners were obsessed with the military policies of the Soviet Union. Until the demise of the Soviet Union, however, few details of Moscow's thinking on military matters were available. In this…	Pris: 488,-	Kahn, Martin The Western Allies and Soviet Potential in World War II World War II was the largest and most devastating war in modern history with far-reaching consequences. The single most important campaign was the Soviet?German war, which consumed the lion share of Germany?s military…
Pris: 449,-	Hignett, Kelly Women's Experiences of Repression in the Soviet Union and Eastern Based on extensive original research, including studies of autobiographies and biographies, reminiscences and memoirs, archived oral history data and interviews conducted by the authors, this book provides a rich…	Pris: 270,-	Paperno, Irina Stories of the Soviet Experience (0801475902) Beginning with glasnost in the late 1980s and continuing into the present, scores of personal accounts of life under Soviet rule, written throughout its history, have been published in Russia, marking the end of an…
Pris: 444,-	Weiss-Wendt, Anton The Future of the Soviet Past (0253057590) In post-Soviet Russia, there is a persistent trend to repress, control, or even co-opt national history. By reshaping memory to suit a politically convenient narrative, Russia has fashioned a good future out of a…	Pris: 944,-	Soviet Salvage
Pris: 981,-	Pike, David The Politics of Culture in Soviet-Occupied Germany, 1945-1949 This book examines the political, ideological, and cultural policies pursued by the German Communist of Socialist Unity party, acting upon the instructions of Stalin and his military administration, in Soviet-occupied…	Pris: 343,-	Leitenberg, Michael Soviet Submarine Operations in Swedish Waters Milton Leitenberg has done us a great service. His balanced and comprehensive reconstruction of the history of Soviet submarine operations in Swedish waters will benefit all students of Soviet policy and practice in…
Pris: 1 122,-	Grant, Susan Russian and Soviet Health Care from an International Perspective This collection compares Russian and Soviet medical workers ? physicians, psychiatrists and nurses, and examines them within an international framework that challenges traditional Western conceptions of professionalism…	Pris: 318,-	Bennigsen, Alexandre A. Muslim National Communism in the Soviet Union In this study, Bennigsen and Wimbush trace the development of the doctrine of national communism in Central Asia and the Caucasus. At the heart of this doctrine?as elaborated by the Volga Tatar, Mir-Said Sultan…
Pris: 331,-	Smith, Graham Nation-building in the Post-Soviet Borderlands This book examines how national and ethnic identities are being reforged in the post-Soviet borderland states. The first chapter provides a conceptual and theoretical context for examining national identities, drawing…	Pris: 484,-	Ivanova, Galina Mikhailovna Labor Camp Socialism: The Gulag in the Soviet This is the first historical survey of the Gulag based on newly accessible archival sources as well as memoirs and other studies published since the beginning of glasnost. Over the course of several decades, the Soviet…
Pris: 252,-	Malia, Martin Soviet Tragedy (0684823136) 'The Soviet Tragedy is an essential coda to the literature of Soviet studies...Insofar as [he] returns the power of ideology to its central place in Soviet history, Malia has made an enormous contribution. He has…	Pris: 488,-	Beumers, Birgit Ruptures and Continuities in Soviet/Russian Cinema This book, based on extensive original research, examines how far the collapse of the Soviet Union represented a threshold that initiated change or whether there are continuities which gradually reshaped cinema in the…
Pris: 651,-	Brenner, Michael Jews and Muslims in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union Das zarische Russland und die Sowjetunion waren Vielvolkerreiche, in denen auch eine Vielzahl von Juden und Muslimen lebten. Welche Politik verfolgte der Staat gegenuber Juden und Muslimen? Wie versuchten Juden und…	Pris: 346,-	Bekesi Laszlo Stalin's War - Soviet Uniforms and Militaria 1941-45 This is the third volume by the acclaimed Hungarian collector-and-photographer team, identifying and explaining historic Soviet militaria from private collections. A wide range of uniforms, insignia, awards, weapons,…
Pris: 377,-	ART Kelly Catriona Soviet Art House (0197548377) Its unique ability to sway the masses has led many observers to consider cinema the artform with the greatest political force. The images it produces can bolster leaders or contribute to their undoing. Soviet filmmakers…	Pris: 580,-	Moore, Jason Nicholas Soviet Bombers of the Second World War Soviet bombers were a varied lot during the Second World War, ranging from single-engined biplanes such as the 1920's era Polikarpov U-2 to the excellent and modern twin-engined Tu-2 medium bomber. Although the use of…
Pris: 1 477,-	Westwood J. Soviet Railways to Russian Railways (0333674170) In the postsoviet decade Russian railways remained highly centralised, evaded the upheavals of mass privatisation, and remained the backbone of a demoralised economy. Preserving much of Soviet practice, the Railways…	Pris: 484,-	Sakwa, Richard The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union (0415122902) Through sources and documents, The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union by Richard Sakwa places the Soviet experience in historical and comparative context. The author introduces each source in this volume fully…
Pris: 355,-	Rosenthal Bernice Glatzer Nietzsche and Soviet Culture (0521148324) This pioneering 1994 study documents the extent and diversity of the impact of Nietzschean ideas on Soviet literature and culture. It shows how these ideas, unacknowledged and reworked, entered and shaped that culture…	Pris: 1 091,-	Mclaughlin, Stephen Russian and Soviet Battleships (1682477266) Russian and Soviet Battleships is the definitive English language overview of Russian and Soviet battleships, from the ironclad Petr Velikii of 1869 to Stalin's final projects. Meticulously researched, this…
Pris: 502,-	Mladenov, Alexander Soviet Cold War Fighters (178155496X) Beautifully illustrated with many rare and unpublished photographs, Soviet Cold War Fighters looks at the main development periods of Soviet fighter designs and covers all the important features and developments for each…	Pris: 869,-	Buckley Mary Post-Soviet Women (0521563208) This volume takes a systematic look at the position of women in the post-Soviet states of the former USSR. The first focuses on the economy, society and polity of the Russian Federation; the second gives specialists'…
Pris: 616,-	Glantz, David M. The Military Strategy of the Soviet Union (0714682004) Armed revolution and civil war gave birth to the Soviet Union, world War II propelled it to global pre-eminence, and the Cold War contributed to the Soviet Union's demise. Given Marxism-Leninism's idological…	Pris: 403,-	Crowe, David M. Stalin's Soviet Justice (1350196916) From the 'show' trials of the 1920s and 1930s to the London Conference, this book examines the Soviet role in the Nuremberg IMT trial through the prism of the ideas and practices of earlier Soviet legal history,…
Pris: 304,-	Carr, Edward Hallett German-Soviet Relations Between the Two World Wars	Pris: 616,-	Glantz, Colonel David M. Soviet Military Intelligence in War This text is the second of three volumes written by Colonel Glantz on the contribution of intelligence and deception operations to the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany. It examines the area where intelligence and…
Pris: 275,-	Bronovitskaya, Anna Moscow: A Guide to Soviet Modernist Architecture 1955-1991 Moscow: A Guide to Soviet Modernist Architecture 1955-1991 provides descriptions of almost 100 buildings from the most underrated period of Soviet architecture. This is the first guide to bring together the architecture…	Pris: 850,-	Lavery, Rena Masterpieces of Soviet Painting and Sculpture (1910787019) This will be the resource book for art historians, galleries, auctioneers and students of Soviet art history.
Pris: 592,-	Gordon, Yefim Tupolev Tu-4: The First Soviet Strategic Bomber After World War II, the Soviet Union and the USA, who had been allies in the war, started moving towards political and military confrontation. The Soviet Union urgently needed a strategic bomber capable of striking at…	Pris: 355,-	Bassin Mark Soviet and Post-Soviet Identities (1316631974) Since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, questions of identity have dominated the culture not only of Russia, but of all the countries of the former Soviet bloc. This timely collection examines the ways in which…
Pris: 314,-	Bolan, Paul Thieves in Law: Organized Crime in Post-Soviet Russia Organized crime in Russia began in the imperial period of the Tsars, but it was not until the Soviet era that vory v zakone ('thieves-in-law') emerged as leaders of prison groups in gulags, and their honor code became…	Pris: 518,-	Moore, Jason Nicholas Soviet Fighters of the Second World War The Soviet Air Force had just started to re-equip with modern fighters when the Germans opened Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. Hundreds of fighters were destroyed in the first few days, but many…
Pris: 373,-	Freedman, Lawrence U.s. Intelligence and the Soviet Strategic Threat The author examines in detail the organization of the U.S. intelligence community, its attempts to monitor and predict the development of Soviet forces from the early days of the cold war, and how these attempts affected…	Pris: 256,-	Hergé Tintin au pays des Soviets (2203136804)