Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Conspirator Conspirator Helen Rappaport The father of Communist Russia, Vladimir Ilych Lenin now seems to have emerged fully formed in the turbulent wake of World War I and the Russian Revolution. But Lenin's character was in fact forged m… OL14956138W
The Eitingons The Eitingons Mary-Kay Wilmers "Leonid Eitingon was a KGB assassin who dedicated his life to the Soviet regime. He was in China in the early 1920s, in Turkey in the late 1920s, in Spain during the Civil War and, crucially, in Mexi… OL15569564W
Soviet women on the frontline in the Second World War Soviet women on the frontline in the Second World War Roger D. Markwick "More than 800,000 Soviet women fought against Hitler's onslaught during the 'Great Patriotic War,' 1941-45. Female participation in military conflict on such a scale is historically unique. This is … OL16681703W
Stalin Stalin Stephen Kotkin "A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world. It has the quality of myth: a poor cobbler's son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russ… OL19990022W
The dilemmas of Lenin The dilemmas of Lenin Tariq Ali "Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the October 1917 uprising, is one of the most misunderstood leaders of the twentieth century. In his own time, there were many, even among his enemies, who acknowled… OL20052054W
My life in Stalinist Russia My life in Stalinist Russia Mary M. Leder "In January 1931, Mary M. Leder, an American teenager, was attending high school in Santa Monica California. By year's end, she was living in a Moscow commune and working in a factory, thousands of m… OL222202W
Game Plan Game Plan Zbigniew K. Brzezinski,Samuel P. Huntington Comparative analysis of Soviet and American institutions, sponsored jointly by the Russian Institute and The Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University. OL2657632W
Retreat from the Finland Station Retreat from the Finland Station Kenneth Murphy In 1940, when Marxism seemed at its apex as a moral and political force, Edmund Wilson published To the Finland Station, his landmark work on the growth of the socialist idea from Vico and Michelet t… OL4276985W
Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler Robert Gellately A bold new accounting of the great social and political upheavals that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945--from the Russian Revolution through the Second World War.In Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, a… OL4790513W
Leninism Leninism Alfred G. Meyer Written by a former Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University, 'Leninism' attempts a definitive and dispassionate study of Lenin's teachings and their influence in the formation of … OL5256068W
Stalin Stalin Simon Sebag-Montefiore The fascination with evil; that is how I describe reading this book. Because the main character - Josyp Stalin - fascinated like a snake. His evil is unwavering; from the early 1920's until his dea… OL6032311W