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pro vyhledávání: '"MEIJER, Jan M. (ed.)"'
Autor:
Hiroaki Kuromiya
Stalin was a master of deception, disinformation, and camouflage, by means of which he gained supremacy over China and defeated imperialism on Chinese soil. This book examines Stalin's covert operations in his hunt for supremacy.By the late 1920s Bri
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Theodore H. Friedgut
In 1870 the Welsh ironmaster John James Hughes left his successful career in England and settled in the barren and underpopulated Donbass region of the Ukrainian steppe to found the town of Iuzovka and build a large steel plant and coal mine. Theodor
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Stephanie J. Smith
Stephanie J. Smith brings Mexican politics and art together, chronicling the turbulent relations between radical artists and the postrevolutionary Mexican state. The revolution opened space for new political ideas, but by the late 1920s many governme
Autor:
Hiroaki Kuromiya, Georges Mamoulia
Even the best books on international history are ignorant of the secret war against the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union waged jointly by the Caucasian peoples and Japan in the first half of the twentieth century. This book explores and exposes pr
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Barbara Allen
In Alexander Shlyapnikov, 1885-1937: Life of an Old Bolshevik, Barbara Allen recounts the political formation and positions of Russian Communist and trade unionist, Alexander Shlyapnikov. As leader of the Workers'Opposition (1919–21), Shlyapnikov c
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Jonathan D. Smele
This book is a detailed reference of the twentieth century struggles that were waged across and beyond the decaying Russian Empire at the end of the First World War, as tsarism and democratic alternatives to it collapsed and the world's first Communi
Autor:
Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted
Rivers figure prominently in a nation's historical memory, and the Volga and Mississippi have special importance in Russian and American cultures. Beginning in the pre-modern world, both rivers served as critical trade routes connecting cultures in a
Autor:
Masha Kirasirova
In the first few years after the Russian Revolution, an ideological project coalesced to link the development of what Stalin demarcated as the internal'East'--primarily Central Asia and the Caucasus--with nation-building, the overthrow of colonialism
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Roger R. Reese
The Soviet Military Experience is the first general work to place the Soviet army into its true social, political and international contexts.It focuses on the Bolshevik Party's intention to create an army of a new type, whose aim was both to defend t