Author: Ted Gottfried
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 9780761325598
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Discusses the Soviet Union's involvement in World War II, from their non-aggression pact with Germany to their subsequent invasion and eventual defeat, highlighting the hardships endured by the Soviet people during the war years.
The Great Fatherland War
Author: Ted Gottfried
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 9780761325598
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Discusses the Soviet Union's involvement in World War II, from their non-aggression pact with Germany to their subsequent invasion and eventual defeat, highlighting the hardships endured by the Soviet people during the war years.
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 9780761325598
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Discusses the Soviet Union's involvement in World War II, from their non-aggression pact with Germany to their subsequent invasion and eventual defeat, highlighting the hardships endured by the Soviet people during the war years.
The Great Patriotic War
Author: Vasily Chuikov
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780785509622
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780785509622
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
The Oxford handbook of modern Russian history
Author: Simon M. Dixon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780199236701
Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780199236701
Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Myths and Legends of the Eastern Front
Author: Boris Sokolov
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526742276
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 565
Book Description
“This English translation of the original Russian work is thought provoking, challenging the ‘official’ version of what happened” during World War II (Firetrench). The memory of the Second World War on the Eastern Front—still referred to in modern Russia as the Great Patriotic War—is an essential element of Russian identity and history, as alive today as it was in Stalin’s time. It is represented as a defining episode, a positive historical myth that sustains the Russian national idea and unites the majority of Russian citizens. As a result, as Boris Sokolov shows in this powerful and thought-provoking study, the heroic and tragic side of the war is highlighted while the dark side—the incompetent, negligent and even criminal way the war was run—is overlooked. Although almost eighty years have passed since the defeat of Nazi Germany, he demonstrates that many of the fabrications put forward during the war and immediately afterwards persist into the present day. In a sequence of incisive chapters he uncovers the truth about famous wartime episodes that have been consistently misrepresented. His bold reinterpretation should go some way towards dispelling the enduring myths about the Great Patriotic War. It is necessary reading for anyone who is keen to understand how it continues to be distorted in Russia today.
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526742276
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 565
Book Description
“This English translation of the original Russian work is thought provoking, challenging the ‘official’ version of what happened” during World War II (Firetrench). The memory of the Second World War on the Eastern Front—still referred to in modern Russia as the Great Patriotic War—is an essential element of Russian identity and history, as alive today as it was in Stalin’s time. It is represented as a defining episode, a positive historical myth that sustains the Russian national idea and unites the majority of Russian citizens. As a result, as Boris Sokolov shows in this powerful and thought-provoking study, the heroic and tragic side of the war is highlighted while the dark side—the incompetent, negligent and even criminal way the war was run—is overlooked. Although almost eighty years have passed since the defeat of Nazi Germany, he demonstrates that many of the fabrications put forward during the war and immediately afterwards persist into the present day. In a sequence of incisive chapters he uncovers the truth about famous wartime episodes that have been consistently misrepresented. His bold reinterpretation should go some way towards dispelling the enduring myths about the Great Patriotic War. It is necessary reading for anyone who is keen to understand how it continues to be distorted in Russia today.
The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union
Author: Joseph Stalin
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
"The most important speeches and orders of the day of Marshal Stalin from ... June 22, 1941 until victory over Nazi Germany."--Editor's note.
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
"The most important speeches and orders of the day of Marshal Stalin from ... June 22, 1941 until victory over Nazi Germany."--Editor's note.
Fatherland
Author: Robert Harris
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061006629
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
What would have happened if Hitler had won World War II?
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061006629
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
What would have happened if Hitler had won World War II?
My Country
Author: graf Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet People and Our Time
Patriotic War
Heroes and Villains
Author: David R. Marples
Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 9789637326981
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Certain to engender debate in the media, especially in Ukraine itself, as well as the academic community. Using a wide selection of newspapers, journals, monographs, and school textbooks from different regions of the country, the book examines the sensitive issue of the changing perspectives ? often shifting 180 degrees ? on several events discussed in the new narratives of the Stalin years published in the Ukraine since the late Gorbachev period until 2005. These events were pivotal to Ukrainian history in the 20th century, including the Famine of 1932?33 and Ukrainian insurgency during the war years. This latter period is particularly disputed, and analyzed with regard to the roles of the OUN (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists) and the UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army) during and after the war. Were these organizations "freedom fighters" or "collaborators"? To what extent are they the architects of the modern independent state? "This excellent book fills a longstanding void in literature on the politics of memory in Eastern Europe. Professor Marples has produced an innovative and courageous study of how postcommunist Ukraine is rewriting its Stalinist and wartime past by gradually but inconsistently substituting Soviet models with nationalist interpretations. Grounded in an attentive reading of Ukrainian scholarship and journalism from the last two decades, this book offers a balanced take on such sensitive issues as the Great Famine of 1932-33 and the role of the Ukrainian nationalist insurgents during World War II. Instead of taking sides in the passionate debates on these subjects, Marples analyzes the debates themselves as discursive sites where a new national history is being forged. Clearly written and well argued, this study will make a major impact both within and beyond academia." - Serhy Yekelchyk, University of Victoria
Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 9789637326981
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Certain to engender debate in the media, especially in Ukraine itself, as well as the academic community. Using a wide selection of newspapers, journals, monographs, and school textbooks from different regions of the country, the book examines the sensitive issue of the changing perspectives ? often shifting 180 degrees ? on several events discussed in the new narratives of the Stalin years published in the Ukraine since the late Gorbachev period until 2005. These events were pivotal to Ukrainian history in the 20th century, including the Famine of 1932?33 and Ukrainian insurgency during the war years. This latter period is particularly disputed, and analyzed with regard to the roles of the OUN (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists) and the UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army) during and after the war. Were these organizations "freedom fighters" or "collaborators"? To what extent are they the architects of the modern independent state? "This excellent book fills a longstanding void in literature on the politics of memory in Eastern Europe. Professor Marples has produced an innovative and courageous study of how postcommunist Ukraine is rewriting its Stalinist and wartime past by gradually but inconsistently substituting Soviet models with nationalist interpretations. Grounded in an attentive reading of Ukrainian scholarship and journalism from the last two decades, this book offers a balanced take on such sensitive issues as the Great Famine of 1932-33 and the role of the Ukrainian nationalist insurgents during World War II. Instead of taking sides in the passionate debates on these subjects, Marples analyzes the debates themselves as discursive sites where a new national history is being forged. Clearly written and well argued, this study will make a major impact both within and beyond academia." - Serhy Yekelchyk, University of Victoria