Cowards. Or, Blood Is Thicker than Water.
166円 Some people do sensational acts to attract mass, or world attention to themselves. Why some cowards even defected to their country’s enemy? This story is described and examined this kind of people, 2 defectors from the Soviet Union who defected to the United States. These defectors lived privileg...
What Was World War II? Who Won World War ...
166円 Adolf Hitler’s raise to power in Germany in 1930s was a threat to the 20th century civilization. In 1930s, to pull Germany from a deep depression and mass unemployment, Hitler started drumming up his doctrine. That the Germans are an exceptional Arian nation and are in problems all because of Jew...
The Great 20th-Century Event that Changed...
166円 The greatest event of the 20th century was the Russian revolution of November 6-7, 1917. The architect of the Russian Revolution was Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, he changed the world into 2 systems: capitalism and socialism. Lenin’s socialism and the Russian Revolution’s many decrees reverberated acros...
The Greatest Catastrophe of the 20th Cent...
166円 The Soviet Union disintegration in 1991 was a curse and not a blessing for the USA and the Western Europe. Their economies eventually spiraled down due to rampant laws of a fee market economy, categorized by "expansion in all directions without any restrictions." The USA is sinking from $20 trill...
A History of the Soviet Union from the Be...
5,970円 This concise yet comprehensive textbook examines political, social, and cultural developments in the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet period. It begins by identifying the social tensions and political inconsistencies that spurred radical change in Russia's government, from the turn of the century...
The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sports Bure...
5,657円 Using previously inaccessible archival documents, this study provides a longitudinal investigation of the middle levels of Soviet bureaucracy responsible for overseeing Olympic Sport during the Cold War. Spanning the period from the USSR’s Olympic debut in 1952 through the 1980 Games held in Mosc...
Stalin
9,616円 This new biography of Stalin offers an accessible and up-to-date representation of one of the twentieth-century’s defining figures, as well as new insights, analysis and illumination to deepen our understanding of his actions, intentions and the nature of the power that he wielded. Christopher Re...
Socialist Internationalism in the Cold War
17,016円 This volume examines how numerous international transfers, circulations, and exchanges shaped the world of socialism during the Cold War. Over the course of half a century, the Soviets shaped politics, values and material culture throughout the vast space of Eurasia, and foreign forces in turn of...
Chukchee Mythology
164円 Chukchee Mythology by Waldemar Bogoras The Chukchi occupy the extreme north-eastern tip of Asia, adjacent to the Arctic Ocean and the Behring Strait. They are Eskimos of Western Chukotka inhabiting the Chukchi Peninsula and the shores of the Chukchi Sea and the Bering Sea region of the Arctic Oce...
Dropping out of Socialism
6,018円 The essays in this collection make up the first study of “dropping out” of late state socialism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. From Leningrad intellectuals and Berlin squatters to Bosnian Muslim madrassa students and Romanian yogis, groups and individuals across the Eastern Bloc rejected...
Russia and Its Northeast Asian Neighbors
5,657円 As a result of the Aigun (1858) and Beijing Treaties (1860) Russia had become a participant in international relations of Northeast Asia, but historiography has underestimated the presence of Russia and the USSR in this region. This collection elucidates how Russia's expansion affected early Meij...
Popular Music in Eastern Europe
15,800円 This book explores popular music in Eastern Europe during the period of state socialism, in countries such as Poland, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Czechoslovakia, the GDR, Estonia and Albania. It discusses the policy concerning music, the greatest Eastern European stars, such as Karel Gott, Czes...
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