Author: Burton Lee FrenchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soviets (Councils).
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Soviet Agriculture Today
Author: United States. Department of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Soviet Vs. American Government
Author: Burton Lee FrenchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soviets (Councils).
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Soviet Russia
Author: Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 1448
Book Description
Soviet Russia Today
Author: British Workers' Delegation to Soviet RussiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Soviet Russia Pictorial
Author: The Far Eastern Review
Author: Contemporary Issues in Soviet Foreign Policy
Author: Erik HoffmannPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351526170
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 865
Book Description
This survey of writings on the debates about and events relating to Soviet foreign policy concentrates on the Gorbachev period. Changes in Soviet theory and foreign policy decision making are covered in the first section. Twelve articles examine Gorbachevs policy towards a number of different geographic regions, and several more assess the permanence of Gorbachevs foreign policy changes.
United States-Soviet Relations: The future of United States-Soviet relations
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arms control
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg
Author: Francine HirschPublisher:
ISBN: 0199377936
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
The Nuremberg Trials (IMT), most notable for their aim to bring perpetrators of Nazi war crimes to justice in the wake of World War II, paved the way for global conversations about genocide, justice, and human rights that continue to this day. As Francine Hirsch reveals in this new history of the trials, a central part of the story has been ignored or forgotten: the critical role the Soviet Union played in making them happen in the first place. While there were practical reasons for this omission--until recently, critical Soviet documents about Nuremberg were buried in the former Soviet archives, and even Russian researchers had limited access--Hirsch shows that there were political reasons as well. The Soviet Union was regarded by its wartime Allies not just as a fellow victor but a rival, and it was not in the interests of the Western powers to highlight the Soviet contribution to postwar justice. Stalin's Show Trials of the 1930s had both provided a model for Nuremberg and made a mockery of it, undermining any pretense of fairness and justice. Further complicating matters was the fact that the Soviets had allied with the Nazis before being invaded by them. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939 hung over the courtroom, as did the fact that the everyone knew that the Soviet prosecution had presented the court with falsified evidence about the Katyn massacre of Polish officers, attempting to pin one of their own major war crimes on the Nazis. For lead American prosecutor Robert Jackson and his colleagues, focusing too much on the Soviet role in the trials threatened the overall credibility of the IMT and possibly even the collective memory of the war. Soviet Justice at Nuremberg illuminates the ironies of Stalin's henchmen presiding in moral judgment over the Nazis. In effect, the Nazis had learned mass-suppression and mass-murder techniques from the Soviets, their former allies, and now the latter were judging them for crimes they had themselves committed. Yet the Soviets had borne the brunt of the fighting--and the losses--in World War II, and this gave them undeniable authority. Moreover, Soviet jurists were the first to conceive of a legal framework for viewing war as a crime, and without that framework the IMT would have had no basis. In short, there would be no denying their place at the tribunal, nor their determination to make the most of it. Illuminating the shifting relationships between the four countries involved (the U.S., Great Britain, France, and the U.S.S.R.) Hirsch's book shows how each was not just facing off against the Nazi defendants, but against each other and offers a new history of Nuremberg.