Khrushchev's Cold Summer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Khrushchev's Cold Summer write by Miriam Dobson. This book was released on 2011-10-15. Khrushchev's Cold Summer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Between Stalin's death in 1953 and 1960, the government of the Soviet Union released hundreds of thousands of prisoners from the Gulag as part of a wide-ranging effort to reverse the worst excesses and abuses of the previous two decades and revive the spirit of the revolution. This exodus included not only victims of past purges but also those sentenced for criminal offenses. In Khrushchev's Cold Summer Miriam Dobson explores the impact of these returnees on communities and, more broadly, Soviet attempts to come to terms with the traumatic legacies of Stalin's terror. Confusion and disorientation undermined the regime's efforts at recovery. In the wake of Stalin's death, ordinary citizens and political leaders alike struggled to make sense of the country's recent bloody past and to cope with the complex social dynamics caused by attempts to reintegrate the large influx of returning prisoners, a number of whom were hardened criminals alienated and embittered by their experiences within the brutal camp system. Drawing on private letters as well as official reports on the party and popular mood, Dobson probes social attitudes toward the changes occurring in the first post-Stalin decade. Throughout, she features personal stories as articulated in the words of ordinary citizens, prisoners, and former prisoners. At the same time, she explores Soviet society's contradictory responses to the returnees and shows that for many the immediate post-Stalin years were anything but a breath of spring air after the long Stalinist winter.
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Khrushchev: The Man and His Era write by William Taubman. This book was released on 2004-03-30. Khrushchev: The Man and His Era available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tells the life story of twentieth-century Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, featuring information from previously inaccessible Russian and Ukrainian archives.
Kim Il Sung in the Khrushchev Era
Kim Il Sung in the Khrushchev Era - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kim Il Sung in the Khrushchev Era write by Balázs Szalontai. This book was released on 2005. Kim Il Sung in the Khrushchev Era available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Concentrating on the years 1953-64, this history describes how North Korea became more despotic even as other Communist countries underwent de-Stalinization. The authors principal new source is the Hungarian diplomatic archives, which contain extensive reporting on Kim Il Sung and North Korea, thoroughly informed by research on the period in the Soviet and Eastern European archives and by recently published scholarship. Much of the story surrounds Kim Il Sung: his Korean nationalism and eagerness for Korean autarky; his efforts to balance the need for foreign aid and his hope for an independent foreign policy; and what seems to be his good sense of timing in doing in internal rivals without attracting Soviet retaliation. Through a series of comparisons not only with the USSR but also with Albania, Romania, Yugoslavia, China, and Vietnam, the author highlights unique features of North Korean communism during the period. Szalontai covers ongoing effects of Japanese colonization, the experiences of diverse Korean factions during World War II, and the weakness of the Communist Party in South Korea.
Berlin 1961
Berlin 1961 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Berlin 1961 write by Frederick Kempe. This book was released on 2011-05-10. Berlin 1961 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In June 1961, Nikita Khrushchev called Berlin "the most dangerous place on earth." He knew what he was talking about. Much has been written about the Cuban Missile Crisis a year later, but the Berlin Crisis of 1961 was more decisive in shaping the Cold War-and more perilous. It was in that hot summer that the Berlin Wall was constructed, which would divide the world for another twenty-eight years. Then two months later, and for the first time in history, American and Soviet fighting men and tanks stood arrayed against each other, only yards apart. One mistake, one nervous soldier, one overzealous commander-and the tripwire would be sprung for a war that could go nuclear in a heartbeat. On one side was a young, untested U.S. president still reeling from the Bay of Pigs disaster and a humiliating summit meeting that left him grasping for ways to respond. It would add up to be one of the worst first-year foreign policy performances of any modern president. On the other side, a Soviet premier hemmed in by the Chinese, East Germans, and hardliners in his own government. With an all-important Party Congress approaching, he knew Berlin meant the difference not only for the Kremlin's hold on its empire-but for his own hold on the Kremlin. Neither man really understood the other, both tried cynically to manipulate events. And so, week by week, they crept closer to the brink. Based on a wealth of new documents and interviews, filled with fresh-sometimes startling-insights, written with immediacy and drama, Berlin 1961 is an extraordinary look at key events of the twentieth century, with powerful applications to these early years of the twenty-first. Includes photographs
The Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis
The Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis write by Sergo Anastasovich Mikoi︠a︡n. This book was released on 2012. The Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 300 pages of documents include: telegrams, memoranda of conversations, instructions to diplomats, etc.
