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Bibliography Of Stalinism And The Soviet Union
This is a select bibliography of post World War II English language books (including translations) and journal articles about Stalinism and the Stalinist era of Soviet history. Book entries have references to journal reviews about them when helpful and available. Additional bibliographies can be found in many of the book-length works listed below. Stephen Kotkin's biography of Stalin has an extensive bibliography; ''Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928'' contains a 52-page bibliography and ''Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941'' contains a 50-page bibliography covering both the life of Stalin and Stalinism in the Soviet Union. See Further Reading for several additional book and chapter length bibliographies. ;Inclusion criteria The period covered is 1924–1953, beginning approximately with the death of Lenin and ending approximately with the death of Stalin. This bibliography does not include the de-Stalinisation period. Topics include the post-Lenin period of Stalin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Kotkin
Stephen Mark Kotkin (born February 17, 1959) is an American historian, academic, and author. He is currently the John P. Birkelund '52 Professor in History and International Affairs at Princeton University, where he is also co-director of the program in history and the practice of diplomacy and the director of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. He is also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He has won a number of awards and fellowships, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. Kotkin's most prominent book project is his three-volume biography of Joseph Stalin, of which the first two volumes have been published as '' Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928'' (2014) and '' Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941'' (2017), while the third volume remains to be published. Academic career Kotkin graduated from the University of Roch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Kort
Michael Kort (born 1944) is an American historian, academic, and author who studies and has written extensively about the history of the Soviet Union. He teaches at Boston University. Biography Michael Kort was born in 1944. He received a B.A. in history from Johns Hopkins University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Russian history from New York University. He lives in Massachusetts Massachusetts (Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut Massachusett_writing_systems.html" ;"title="nowiki/> məhswatʃəwiːsət.html" ;"title="Massachusett writing systems">məhswatʃəwiːsət">Massachusett writing systems">məhswatʃəwiːsət'' En .... Bibliography Biographies *''Mikhail Gorbachev'' *''Nikita Khrushchev'' Textbooks *''The Soviet Union: History, Culture, Geography'' *''The Soviet Colossus: A History of the U.S.S.R.'', 1985 *''Modernization and Revolution in China'' (co‑author with June Grasso and Jay Corrin), 1991 *''The Columbia Guide to the Cold War'', 1998 *''The Columbia Guide to Hiros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko
Anton Vladimirovich Antonov-Ovseenko (russian: Анто́н Влади́мирович Анто́нов-Овсе́енко; 23 February 1920, Moscow, RSFSR – 9 July 2013, Moscow, Russia) was a Russian historian and writer. (Antonov-Ovseyenko’s biography on the website of the Sakharov Center) Born on 23 February 1920, he was the son of the Bolshevik military leader Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko who commanded the assault on the Winter Palace. In 1935, he joined the historical faculty of the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. In 1938, he was expelled from Komsomol and the institute wherein, however, he was reinstated in the same year. He was arrested in 1940 and spent 13 years in labor camps. Antonov-Ovseenko is best known for his biography of Lavrentiy Beria and he also wrote several books. Antonov-Ovseenko operated a state museum on the Gulag, for which the Moscow administration provided a building in August 2001. When he died in 2013, he was still working two full days a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cambridge History Of Russia
''The Cambridge History of Russia'' is a multi-volume survey of Russian history published by Cambridge University Press (CUP). The volumes are: * Vol. 1. ''From Early Rus' to 1689'' edited by Maureen Perrie, covering Russian history before Peter the Great * Vol. 2. ''Imperial Russia, 1689–1917'' edited by Dominic Lieven, covering the Russian Empire * Vol. 3. ''The Twentieth Century'' edited by Ronald Grigor Suny, covering Russian history after the October Revolution, including the Soviet Union See also *'' The Cambridge History of Russian Literature'' *''The Cambridge History of Inner Asia'', which includes many chapters on nomadic and forest people in present-day Russia References External links * Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Russia __NOTOC__ {{DEFAULTSORT:Cambridge History of Russia, The 2006 non-fiction books Cambridge University Press books History books about Russia Cambridge Cambridge ( ) is a university city and the county town ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Grigor Suny
Ronald Grigor Suny (born September 25, 1940) is an American historian and political scientist. Suny is the William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Michigan and served as director of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, 2009 to 2012 and was the Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Social and Political History at the University of Michigan from 2005 to 2015, and is Emeritus Professor of political science and history at the University of Chicago. Suny was the first holder of the Alex Manoogian Chair in Modern Armenian History at the University of Michigan, after beginning his career as an assistant professor at Oberlin College. He served as chairman of the Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) in 1981 and 1984. He was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) in 2005 and given the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Distinguished Contributio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkana Publishing
Arkana Publishing (or Penguin Arkana or just Arkana) is a publishing imprint of Penguin Group of mainly esoteric literature. Authors * Carlos Castaneda * Alfred Douglas * Michael Baigent * Karlfried Graf Dürckheim * P. D. Ouspensky * Robin Skelton * Robert John Stewart * Richard Wilhelm * Joseph Campbell * G.I. Gurdjieff * Arthur Koestler Arthur Koestler, (, ; ; hu, Kösztler Artúr; 5 September 1905 – 1 March 1983) was a Hungarian-born author and journalist. Koestler was born in Budapest and, apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria. In 1931, Koestler join ... * Idries Shah * Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Books References {{reflist Book publishing companies of the United Kingdom Esotericism Occult books Penguin Books ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Nove
Alexander Nove, FRSE, FBA (born Aleksandr Yakovlevich Novakovsky; russian: Алекса́ндр Я́ковлевич Новако́вский; also published under Alec Nove; 24 November 1915 – 15 May 1994) was a Professor of Economics at the University of Glasgow and a noted authority on Russian and Soviet economic history. According to Ian D. Thatcher, " e consensus is that he was one of the most significant scholars of 'Soviet' studies in its widest sense and beyond." Biography Alexander Nove was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia the son of Jacob Novakovsky. He was educated at King Alfred School in London and received a BSc in economics from the London School of Economics in 1936. The school later made him an Honorary Fellow in 1982. He served in the Royal Signal Corps from 1939 but was transferred to Military Intelligence until 1946, reaching the rank of Major. From 1947 to 1958, he worked in Civil Service, mainly the Board of Trade. He was a Reader in Russian Social ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin McCauley (historian)
Martin McCauley (born 18 October 1934) is an Irish historian and former senior lecturer at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, at University College London. He is a member of the Limehouse Group of Analysts and a regular commentator in the media on Russian affairs. Early life Martin McCauley was born on 18 October 1934 in Omagh, Northern Ireland. He studied at the University of Westminster (1953-6); University of London (1962-8); University of Paris (Sorbonne) (1961); University of Perugia (Italy) (summer 1962, 63); Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, Moscow, Russia (1969); Teachers' University, Beijing, China (1988). His academic qualifications include a Diploma in Surveying (Westminster); BA, PhD (London), Diplôme d’études de civilisation française (Sorbonne). He is also a chartered surveyor and a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS). Career McCauley trained as a surveyor. He is also a former senior lecturer at the School of Sl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free Press (publisher)
Free Press was an American independent book publisher that later became an imprint of Simon & Schuster. It was one of the best-known publishers specializing in serious nonfiction, including path-breaking sociology books of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. After a period under new ownership in the 1980s of publishing neoconservative books, it was purchased by Simon & Schuster in 1994. By 2012, the imprint ceased to exist as a distinct entity; however, some books were still being published using the Free Press imprint. History Free Press was founded by Jeremiah Kaplan (1926–1993) and Charles Liebman in 1947 and concentrated on religion and social science. They chose the name Free Press because they wanted to print books devoted to civil liberties. It was launched with three classic titles: ''Division of Labor'' by Emile Durkheim, ''The Theory of Economic and Social Organization'' by Max Weber and ''The Scientific Outlook'' by Bertrand Russell. It was headquartered in Glencoe, Il ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Malia
Martin Edward Malia (March 14, 1924, Springfield, MassachusettsNovember 19, 2004, Oakland, California) was an American historian specializing in Russian history. He taught at the University of California at Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of Californi ... from 1958 to 1991. Malia's best known work is his history of Russian communism, ''The Soviet Tragedy'' (1994). In it he challenges the traditional Leftist interpretation of communism as a fundamentally sound project, that admittedly went wrong during Stalin's regime, but in later years succeeded in creating a credible alternative to capitalism. Malia posits that the integral socialism proclaimed by Lenin, then soft-pedaled under NEP, resumed by Stalin and pursued by all his successors until Gorbachev, was basically flaw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verso Books
Verso Books (formerly New Left Books) is a left-wing publishing house based in London and New York City, founded in 1970 by the staff of '' New Left Review''. Renaming, new brand and logo Verso Books was originally known as New Left Books. The name "Verso" refers to the technical term for the left-hand page in a book (see recto and verso), and is a play on words regarding its political outlook and also reminds of the vice versa - "the other way around". History and details In 1970, Verso Books began as a paperbook imprint. It established itself as a publisher of nonfiction works on international politics, focusing on authors such as Tariq Ali. However, Verso Books has also published some fiction over the years as well. The publisher gained early recognition for translations of books by European thinkers, especially those from the Frankfurt School. Verso Books' best-selling title is the autobiography of Rigoberta Menchú, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992.Verso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moshe Lewin
Moshe "Misha" Lewin ( ; 7 November 1921 – 14 August 2010) was a scholar of Russian and Soviet history. He was a major figure in the school of Soviet studies which emerged in the 1960s. Biography Moshe Lewin was born in 1921 in Wilno, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania), the son of ethnic Jewish parents who were later murdered in the Holocaust. Lewin lived in Poland for the first 20 years of his life, fleeing to the Soviet Union in June 1941 just ahead of the invading Nazi army.Nick Lampert, "Preface" to Nick Lampert and Gábor Rittersporn, ''Stalinism: Its Nature and Aftermath: Essays in Honour of Moshe Lewin.'' Basingstoke, England: Macmillan, 1992, p. x. For the next two years, Lewin worked as a collective farm worker and as a blast furnace operator in a metallurgical factory. In summer 1943, he enlisted in the Soviet army and was sent to officers' training school. He was promoted on the last day of the war. In 1946, Lewin returned to Poland before emigrating to France. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
