Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts

Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts
Title Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts PDF eBook
Author United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher
Pages 252
Release 1962
Genre World politics
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The Strategy and Tactics of World Communism

The Strategy and Tactics of World Communism
Title The Strategy and Tactics of World Communism PDF eBook
Author United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher
Pages 456
Release 1948
Genre Communism
ISBN

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Stormy Applause

Stormy Applause
Title Stormy Applause PDF eBook
Author Rostislav Dubinskiĭ
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 1992
Genre Violinists
ISBN 9781555531195

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Michael Beschloss on the Cold War

Michael Beschloss on the Cold War
Title Michael Beschloss on the Cold War PDF eBook
Author Michael Beschloss
Publisher Open Road Media
Pages 1133
Release 2018-11-06
Genre History
ISBN 150405668X

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Riveting accounts of the Cold War power struggles from the New York Times–bestselling author and “nation’s leading presidential historian” (Newsweek). The Crisis Years: A national bestseller on the complex relationship between President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, this “definitive” history covers the tumultuous period from 1960 through 1963 when the Berlin Wall was built, and the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the United States and Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war (David Remnick, The New Yorker). “Impressively researched and engrossingly narrated.” —Los Angeles Times Mayday: On May Day 1960, Soviet forces downed a CIA U-2 spy plane flown by Francis Gary Powers, two weeks before a crucial summit. This forced President Dwight Eisenhower to decide whether to admit to Nikita Khrushchev—and the world—that he had secretly ordered the flight. Drawing on previously unavailable CIA documents, diaries, and letters, as well as the recollections of Eisenhower’s aides, Beschloss reveals the full high-stakes drama. “One of the best stories yet written about just how those grand men of diplomacy and intrigue conducted our business.” —Time At the Highest Levels: Cowritten with Strobe Talbott, At the Highest Levels exposes the complex negotiations between President George Bush and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev. In December 1989, the Berlin Wall had fallen, millions across the Eastern Bloc were enjoying new freedoms, and the USSR was crumbling. But a peaceful end to the Cold War was far from assured, requiring an unlikely partnership, as the leaders of rival superpowers had to look beyond the animosities of the past and embrace an uncertain future. “Intimate and utterly absorbing.” —The New York Times

Stalin

Stalin
Title Stalin PDF eBook
Author Stephen Kotkin
Publisher Penguin
Pages 978
Release 2014-11-06
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0698170105

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A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world It has the quality of myth: a poor cobbler’s son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russian empire, reinvents himself as a top leader in a band of revolutionary zealots. When the band seizes control of the country in the aftermath of total world war, the former seminarian ruthlessly dominates the new regime until he stands as absolute ruler of a vast and terrible state apparatus, with dominion over Eurasia. While still building his power base within the Bolshevik dictatorship, he embarks upon the greatest gamble of his political life and the largest program of social reengineering ever attempted: the collectivization of all agriculture and industry across one sixth of the earth. Millions will die, and many more millions will suffer, but the man will push through to the end against all resistance and doubts. Where did such power come from? In Stalin, Stephen Kotkin offers a biography that, at long last, is equal to this shrewd, sociopathic, charismatic dictator in all his dimensions. The character of Stalin emerges as both astute and blinkered, cynical and true believing, people oriented and vicious, canny enough to see through people but prone to nonsensical beliefs. We see a man inclined to despotism who could be utterly charming, a pragmatic ideologue, a leader who obsessed over slights yet was a precocious geostrategic thinker—unique among Bolsheviks—and yet who made egregious strategic blunders. Through it all, we see Stalin’s unflinching persistence, his sheer force of will—perhaps the ultimate key to understanding his indelible mark on history. Stalin gives an intimate view of the Bolshevik regime’s inner geography of power, bringing to the fore fresh materials from Soviet military intelligence and the secret police. Kotkin rejects the inherited wisdom about Stalin’s psychological makeup, showing us instead how Stalin’s near paranoia was fundamentally political, and closely tracks the Bolshevik revolution’s structural paranoia, the predicament of a Communist regime in an overwhelmingly capitalist world, surrounded and penetrated by enemies. At the same time, Kotkin demonstrates the impossibility of understanding Stalin’s momentous decisions outside of the context of the tragic history of imperial Russia. The product of a decade of intrepid research, Stalin is a landmark achievement, a work that recasts the way we think about the Soviet Union, revolution, dictatorship, the twentieth century, and indeed the art of history itself. Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 will be published by Penguin Press in October 2017

Report of the Serbian Press-bureau in Geneva

Report of the Serbian Press-bureau in Geneva
Title Report of the Serbian Press-bureau in Geneva PDF eBook
Author Bureau de presse serbe, Geneva
Publisher
Pages 258
Release 1918
Genre
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Nuclear Strategy, Arms Control, And The Future

Nuclear Strategy, Arms Control, And The Future
Title Nuclear Strategy, Arms Control, And The Future PDF eBook
Author P. Edward Haley
Publisher Routledge
Pages 352
Release 2019-03-05
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0429717903

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Balanced and comprehensive in approach, this text assembles classic statements on nuclear strategy and arms control made by Soviet and U.S. policymakers, military thinkers, and opinion leaders during the last forty years. Major Soviet statements, rarely appearing in translation, reflect the disagreement over whether "victory" or "parity" is the goa