Witness to history
Author : Charles E. Bohlen
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Page : 178 pages
File Size : 39,48 MB
Release : 1979*
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Author : Charles E. Bohlen
Publisher :
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 39,48 MB
Release : 1979*
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Author : Charles Eustis Bohlen
Publisher :
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 47,15 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Russia
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Author : Outlet
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Page : pages
File Size : 29,1 MB
Release : 1980-12-01
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ISBN : 9780517328491
Author : John V. Fleming
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 37,7 MB
Release : 2010-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0393074765
The books altered the course of history; the lives behind them have the dark fascination of fiction. The subject of The Anti-Communist Manifestos is four influential books that informed the great political struggle known as the Cold War: Darkness at Noon (1940), by Arthur Koestler, a Hungarian journalist and polymath intellectual; Out of the Night (1941), by Jan Valtin, a German sailor and labor agitator; I Chose Freedom (1946), by Victor Kravchenko, a Soviet engineer; and Witness (1952), by Whittaker Chambers, an American journalist. The authors were ex–Communist Party members whose bitter disillusionment led them to turn on their former allegiance in literary fury. Koestler was a rapist, Valtin a thug. Kravchenko, though not a spy, was forced to live like one in America. Chambers was a prophet without honor in his own land. Three of the four had been underground espionage agents of the Comintern. All contemplated suicide, and two of them achieved it. John V. Fleming’s humane and ironic narrative of these grim lives reveals that words were the true driving force behind the Cold War.
Author : Charles E. Bohlen
Publisher :
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 35,62 MB
Release : 1983
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Publisher : Na-H
Page : pages
File Size : 33,2 MB
Release : 2003-11-01
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ISBN : 9781403453181
Author : Hiroshi Kimura
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 22,35 MB
Release : 2008-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0804786828
This book provides an answer to the mystery of why no peace treaty has yet been signed between Japan and Russia after more than sixty years since the end of World War Two. The author, a leading authority on Japanese-Russian diplomatic history, was trained at the Russian Institute of Columbia University. This volume contributes to our understanding of not only the intricacies of bilateral relations between Moscow and Tokyo, but, more generally, of Russia's and Japan's modes of foreign policy formation. The author also discusses the U.S. factor, which helped make Russia and Japan distant neighbors, and the threat from China, which might help these countries come closer in the near future. It would be hardly possible to discuss the future prospects of Northeast Asia without having first read this book.
Author : Kelly J. Evans
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 36,5 MB
Release : 2023-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1350338206
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.
Author : Jonathan Haslam
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 17,25 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300168535
Whereas the Western perspective on the Cold War has been well documented by journalists and historians, the Soviet side has remained for the most part shrouded in secrecy--until now. Drawing on a vast range of recently released archives in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, and Eastern Europe, Russia's Cold War offers a thorough and fascinating analysis of East-West relations from 1917 to 1989.
Author : Avi Shlaim
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 16,73 MB
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0520337344
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1983.