Author: American Committee for the Defense of Leon TrotskyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Moscow Trials, Moscow, Russia, 1936-1937
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
World Voices on the Moscow Trials
Author: American Committee for the Defense of Leon TrotskyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Moscow Trials, Moscow, Russia, 1936-1937
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
World Voices on the Moscow Trials
Author: American Committee for the Defense of Leon TrotskyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Moscow Trials, Moscow, Russia, 1936-1937
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
World Voices on the Moscow Trials. A Compilation from the Labor and Liberal Press of the World. Publ. for the American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky
Author: Die soziale revolution
Author: Witnessing Stalins Justice
Author: Kelly J. EvansPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350338206
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Witnessing Stalin's Justice brings together contemporary American reactions to the Moscow show trials and analyses them to understand their impact on US-Soviet relations. Held between 1936 and 1938, the show trials made false charges such as espionage, sabotage and counter-revolutionary plotting at the behest of the exiled Leon Trotsky to condemn the veteran Party leaders who had founded the Communist Party and led the Russian Revolution. Using eyewitness accounts by American diplomats and foreign correspondents for the American press as well as official US government sources, this book highlights the wildly different reactions seen from liberals, radicals, intellectuals and mainstream media. Evans and Welch show how fractures of opinion ran through every level of US society and divided political groups, especially between the American Communist party and other left-wing organisations. Covering the closed trials of the Soviet military, the Soviet anti-foreigner campaign and the Dewey Commission as well as the show trials themselves, Witnessing Stalin's Justice uncovers and brings together American reactions to the Soviet Union's Great Purge.
The Venona Secrets
Author: Herbert RomersteinPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1596987324
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
The Venona Secretspresents one of the last great, untold stories of World War II and the Cold War. In 1995, secret Soviet cable traffic from the 1940s that the United States intercepted and eventually decrypted finally became available to American historians. Now, after spending more than five years researching all the available evidence, espionage experts Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel reveal the full, shocking story of the days when Soviet spies ran their fingers through America's atomic-age secrets. Included in The Venona Secrets are the details of the spying activities that reached from Harry Hopkins in Franklin Roosevelt s White House to Alger Hiss in the State Department to Harry Dexter White in the Treasury. More than that, The Venona Secrets exposes: • Information that links Albert Einstein to Soviet intelligence and conclusive evidence showing that J. Robert Oppenheimer gave Moscow our atomic secrets. • How Soviet espionage reached its height when the United States and the Soviet Union were supposedly allies in World War II. • The previously unsuspected vast network of Soviet spies in America. • How the Venona documents confirm the controversial revelations made in the 1940s by former Soviet agents Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley. • The role of the American Communist Party in supporting and directing Soviet agents. • How Stalin s paranoia had him target Jews (code-named Rats ) and Trotskyites even after Trotsky’s death. • How the Soviets penetrated America’s own intelligence services. The Venona Secrets is a masterful compendium of spy versus spy that puts the Venona transcripts in context with secret FBI reports, congressional investigations, and documents recently uncovered in the former Soviet archives. Romerstein and Breindel cast a spotlight on one of the most shadowy episodes in recent American history - a past when by our very own government officials, whether wittingly or unwittingly, shielded treason infected Washington and Soviet agents.
The Moscow Trial
Author: Nikolaĭ Petrovīch Vītvīt͡skīĭPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric power-plants
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
An account of the state trial in Moscow of the British and Russian employees of the British firm, Metropolitan-Vickers, on a charge of Sabotage of electrical machinery. The firm was under contract with the U.S.S.R. to provide technical aid to the power-plants of the U.S.S.R.
Stalin's Frame-up System and the Moscow Trials
Author: Leon TrotskyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Moscow Trials, Moscow, Russia, 1936-1937
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Testimony before the Commission of Inquiry into the Charges Made against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials, Coyoacán, Mexico, 1937.
Voice of the Silenced Peoples in the Global Cold War
Author: Anna MazurkiewiczPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110661004
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
According to its members, exiled political leaders from nine east European countries, the ACEN was an umbrella organization—a quasi-East European parliament in exile—composed of formerly prominent statesmen who strove to maintain the case of liberation of Eastern Europe from the Soviet yoke on the agenda of international relations. Founded by the Free Europe Committee, from 1954 to 1971 the ACEN tried to lobby for Eastern European interests on the U.S. political scene, in the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Furthermore, its activities can be traced to Latin America, Asia and the Middle East. However, since it was founded and sponsored by the Free Europe Committee (most commonly recognized as the sponsor of the Radio Free Europe), the ACEN operations were obviously influenced and monitored by the Americans (CIA, Department of State). This book argues that despite the émigré leadership's self-restraint in expressing criticism of the U.S. foreign policy, the ACEN was vulnerable to, and eventually fell victim of, the changes in the American Cold War policies. Notwithstanding the termination of Free Europe’s support, ACEN members reconstituted their operations in 1972 and continued their actions until 1989. Based on a through archival research (twenty different archives in the U.S. and Europe, interviews, published documents, memoirs, press) this book is a first complete story of an organization that is quite often mentioned in publications related to the operations of the Free Europe Committee but hardly ever thoroughly studied.
The Dissenting Voice
Author: Martin S. StabbPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292785755
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Political, social, and aesthetic change marked Latin American society in the years between 1960 and 1985. In this book, Martin Stabb explores how these changes made their way into the essayistic writings of twenty-six Spanish American intellectuals. Stabb posits that dissent—against ideology, against simplistic notions of technological progress, against urban values, and even against the direct linear expository style of the essay itself—characterizes the work of these contemporary essayists. He draws his examples from major canonical figures, including Paz, Vargas Llosa, Fuentes, and Cortázar, and from lesser-known writers who merit a wider readership, such as Monterroso, Zaid, Edwards, and Ibargüengoitia. This exploration overturns many conventional assumptions about Latin American intellectuals and also highlights some of the other achievements of authors famous primarily for novels or short stories.