Rulers and Victims - 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 Rulers and Victims write by Geoffrey Hosking. This book was released on 2006. Rulers and Victims available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many westerners used to call the Soviet Union "Russia." Russians too regarded it as their country, but that did not mean they were entirely happy with it. In the end, in fact, Russia actually destroyed the Soviet Union. How did this happen, and what kind of Russia emerged? In this illuminating book, Geoffrey Hosking explores what the Soviet experience meant for Russians. One of the keys lies in messianism--the idea rooted in Russian Orthodoxy that the Russians were a "chosen people." The communists reshaped this notion into messianic socialism, in which the Soviet order would lead the world in a new direction. Neither vision, however, fit the "community spirit" of the Russian people, and the resulting clash defined the Soviet world. Hosking analyzes how the Soviet state molded Russian identity, beginning with the impact of the Bolshevik Revolution and civil war. He discusses the severe dislocations resulting from collectivization and industrialization; the relationship between ethnic Russians and other Soviet peoples; the dramatic effects of World War II on ideas of homeland and patriotism; the separation of "Russian" and "Soviet" culture; leadership and the cult of personality; and the importance of technology in the Soviet world view. At the heart of this penetrating work is the fundamental question of what happens to a people who place their nationhood at the service of empire. There is no surer guide than Geoffrey Hosking to reveal the historical forces forging Russian identity in the post-communist world.
The Awakening of the Soviet Union
The Awakening of the Soviet Union - 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 Awakening of the Soviet Union write by Geoffrey A. Hosking. This book was released on 1991. The Awakening of the Soviet Union available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the world's preeminent scholars of the Soviet Union with many personal contacts there, Geoffrey Hosking provides a unique perspective on the rapid changes the country is experiencing. Other books have focused on the political changes taking place under Gorbachev; Hosking's lively analysis illuminates the social, cultural, and historical developments that have created the need-and openness-for sweeping political and economic change.
Russia and the Russians
Russia and the Russians - 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 Russia and the Russians write by Geoffrey A. Hosking. This book was released on 2001. Russia and the Russians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chronicles the history of the Russian Empire from the Mongol Invasion, through the Bolshevik Revolution, to the aftereffects of the Cold War.
The Black Book of Communism
The Black Book of Communism - 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 Black Book of Communism write by Stéphane Courtois. This book was released on 1999. The Black Book of Communism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the accomplishments of communism around the world. The book is the first attempt to catalogue and analyse the crimes of communism over 70 years.
It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway
It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway - 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 It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway write by David Satter. This book was released on 2011-12-13. It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A veteran writer on Russia and the Soviet Union explains why Russia refuses to draw from the lessons of its past and what this portends for the future Russia today is haunted by deeds that have not been examined and words that have been left unsaid. A serious attempt to understand the meaning of the Communist experience has not been undertaken, and millions of victims of Soviet Communism are all but forgotten. In this book David Satter, a former Moscow correspondent and longtime writer on Russia and the Soviet Union, presents a striking new interpretation of Russia's great historical tragedy, locating its source in Russia's failure fully to appreciate the value of the individual in comparison with the objectives of the state. Satter explores the moral and spiritual crisis of Russian society. He shows how it is possible for a government to deny the inherent value of its citizens and for the population to agree, and why so many Russians actually mourn the passing of the Soviet regime that denied them fundamental rights. Through a wide-ranging consideration of attitudes toward the living and the dead, the past and the present, the state and the individual, Satter arrives at a distinctive and important new way of understanding the Russian experience.
