Author: James P. TuckerPublisher:
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Category : Europe, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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The Crimes of Yalta--and Its Innocent Victims
Author: James P. TuckerPublisher:
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Category : Europe, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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The Cumulative Book Index
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 3246
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1410
Book Description
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
The East German Leadership and the Division of Germany
Author: Dirk SpilkerPublisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0199284121
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Would it have been possible to build a unified and democratic Germany half a century before the fall of the Berlin Wall? This book reassesses this question by exploring Germany's division after the Second World War from the point of view of the SED, the communist-led and Soviet-sponsored ruling party of East Germany.Drawing on unpublished documents from the SED archives, Dr Spilker rejects claims that the East German comrades and their Soviet masters had abandoned their struggle for socialism and were willing to accept a democratic Germany in exchange for a pledge to neutrality. He argues that the communists' sudden switch to a multi-party approach at the end of the war was a tactical move inspired not by a desire for compromise but by the mistaken belief that they could win political hegemony - and thechance to introduce socialism throughout Germany - through the ballot box.Communist optimism, as this book shows, rested on specific assumptions about the situation after the war, all of which revolved around the prospect of political instability and social unrest in West Germany. The comrades in East Berlin did not just say that their regime would ultimately prevail, they genuinely believed it. Nor should their hopes be dismissed as a mere fantasy. In the aftermath of the war, the economic gap between the two Germanies was still relatively narrow and West Germany'sfuture success as a magnet for the people in East Germany was by no means guaranteed.
British Policy Towards the Soviet Union during the Second World War
Author: Martin KitchenPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349082643
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
The Road to Yalta: Soviet Foreign Relations, 1941-1945
Author: Louis FischerPublisher: New York : Harper & Row
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Stalin's War
Author: Sean McMeekinPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 1541672771
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
A prize-winning historian reveals how Stalin—not Hitler—was the animating force of World War II in this major new history. World War II endures in the popular imagination as a heroic struggle between good and evil, with villainous Hitler driving its events. But Hitler was not in power when the conflict erupted in Asia—and he was certainly dead before it ended. His armies did not fight in multiple theaters, his empire did not span the Eurasian continent, and he did not inherit any of the spoils of war. That central role belonged to Joseph Stalin. The Second World War was not Hitler’s war; it was Stalin’s war. Drawing on ambitious new research in Soviet, European, and US archives, Stalin’s War revolutionizes our understanding of this global conflict by moving its epicenter to the east. Hitler’s genocidal ambition may have helped unleash Armageddon, but as McMeekin shows, the war which emerged in Europe in September 1939 was the one Stalin wanted, not Hitler. So, too, did the Pacific war of 1941–1945 fulfill Stalin’s goal of unleashing a devastating war of attrition between Japan and the “Anglo-Saxon” capitalist powers he viewed as his ultimate adversary. McMeekin also reveals the extent to which Soviet Communism was rescued by the US and Britain’s self-defeating strategic moves, beginning with Lend-Lease aid, as American and British supply boards agreed almost blindly to every Soviet demand. Stalin’s war machine, McMeekin shows, was substantially reliant on American materiél from warplanes, tanks, trucks, jeeps, motorcycles, fuel, ammunition, and explosives, to industrial inputs and technology transfer, to the foodstuffs which fed the Red Army. This unreciprocated American generosity gave Stalin’s armies the mobile striking power to conquer most of Eurasia, from Berlin to Beijing, for Communism. A groundbreaking reassessment of the Second World War, Stalin’s War is essential reading for anyone looking to understand the current world order.
Pawns of Yalta
Author: Mark R. ElliottPublisher: Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252008979
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The Collaborator
Author: Ian KharitonovPublisher: Ian Kharitonov
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Terrorists strike in the heart of Moscow, leaving search-and-rescue commander Eugene Sokolov shell-shocked. Soon, his brother Constantine traces the attack to a family secret that will change history. Chaos reigns. The Kremlin teeters on the brink of downfall. From the seedy alleys of Paris to the Russian wilderness, Eugene and Constantine embark on a deadly mission to expose the criminal plot. But a shadowy oligarch will stop at nothing to kill them and protect the ultimate conspiracy of World War II.
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