Soviet Leaders

Author : Thomas Streissguth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781881508021
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soviet Leaders from Lenin to Gorbachev written by Thomas Streissguth and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the history of the Soviet Union through the exploits and achievements of the seven men who were its leaders from 1917 to 1991; Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko, and Mikhail Gorbachev.

Author : Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn
Publisher : London : Collins : Harvill Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letter to Soviet Leaders written by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn and published by London : Collins : Harvill Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Also published in Index on Censorship, April 1974.

Author : John Paxton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135456976
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leaders of Russia and the Soviet Union written by John Paxton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference work surveys the leaders of Russia and the Soviet Union- from Michael, the first Romanov tsar in 1613, through the creation and dissolution of the Soviet Union, to the present day President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin. Chronologically arranged, these biographies paint a thorough yet succinct portrait of 30 leaders including discussion about the family and education of each ruler, important legislation, events, and wars under each leader's rule; and each leader's achievements and impact on Russia or the Soviet Union.

Author : Carol Any
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810142770
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soviet Writers' Union and Its Leaders written by Carol Any and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies The Soviet Writers’ Union offered writers elite status and material luxuries in exchange for literature that championed the state. This book argues that Soviet ruler Joseph Stalin chose leaders for this crucial organization, such as Maxim Gorky and Alexander Fadeyev, who had psychological traits he could exploit. Stalin ensured their loyalty with various rewards but also with a philosophical argument calculated to assuage moral qualms, allowing them to feel they were not trading ethics for self‐interest. Employing close textual analysis of public and private documents including speeches, debate transcripts, personal letters, and diaries, Carol Any exposes the misgivings of Writers’ Union leaders as well as the arguments they constructed when faced with a cognitive dissonance. She tells a dramatic story that reveals the interdependence of literary policy, communist morality, state‐sponsored terror, party infighting, and personal psychology. This book will be an important reference for scholars of the Soviet Union as well as anyone interested in identity, the construction of culture, and the interface between art and ideology.

Author : George W. Breslauer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113487572X
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Khrushchev and Brezhnev as Leaders (Routledge Revivals) written by George W. Breslauer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1982, this book explores how Khrushchev and Brezhnev manipulated their policies and personal images as they attempted to consolidate their authority as leader. Central issues of Soviet domestic politics are examined: investment priorities, incentive policy, administrative reform, and political participation. The author rejects the conventional images of Khrushchev as an embattled consumer advocate and decentraliser, and of Brezhnev’s leadership as dull and conservative. He looks at how they dealt with the task of devising programs that combined the post-Stalin elite’s goals of consumer satisfaction and expanded political participation with traditional Soviet values.

Author : James M. Goldgeier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780801848667
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leadership Style and Soviet Foreign Policy written by James M. Goldgeier and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing connections between the domestic political experiences of these leaders and their behavior toward the United States during key foreign policy events, Goldgeier offers fresh interpretations of the Berlin blockade crisis of 1948, the Cuban missile crisis of 1961, the Middle East war of 1973, and German reunification in 1989-90. He argues that the defining moment in the development of a Soviet leader's style came during the period when the leader acted to consolidate power and neutralize adversaries in order to succeed a dead or deposed leader. Success in this period confirmed the effectiveness of the leader's first truly independent political action and shaped his distinctive political style - a style that reappeared in international bargaining.

Author : Robert C. Tucker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Culture and Leadership in Soviet Russia written by Robert C. Tucker and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dmitri Volkogonov
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439105723
Total Pages : 841 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Autopsy For An Empire written by Dmitri Volkogonov and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-05-01 with total page 841 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late Dmitri Volkogonov emerged in the last decade of his life as the preeminent Russian historian of this century. His crowning achievement is the account of the seven General Secretaries of the Soviet Empire in Autopsy for an Empire, a book that tells the entire history of the Soviet failure. Having utilized his still-unequaled access to the Soviet military archives, Communist Party documents, and secret Presidential Archive, Volkogonov sheds new light on some of the major events of twentieth-century history and the men who shaped them. We witness Lenin’s paranoia about foreigners in Russia, and his creation of a privileged system for top Party members; Stalin’s repression of the nationalities and his singular conduct of foreign policy; the origins and conduct of the Korean War; Kruschev’s relationship with the odious secret service chief, Beria, and his handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis; Brezhnev’s vanity and stupidity; a new view of Poland and Solidarity; the ossification of Soviet bureaucracy and the cynicism of the Politburo; and Mikhail Gorbachev’s Leninism and his role in history. By profiling the seven successive Soviet leaders from Lenin to Gorbachev, Volkogonov also depicts in painstaking detail the progressive self-destruction of the Leninist system. In his clear-eyed character assessments and political evaluations, lucidly translated and edited by Harold Shukman, Dmitri Volkogonov has once again performed an invaluable service to twentieth-century history.

Author : Walter G. Oleksy
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
ISBN 13 : 9780516032658
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mikhail Gorbachev, a Leader for Soviet Change written by Walter G. Oleksy and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 1989 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life and rise to power of the Soviet leader who has brought about the present openness of the Soviet Union to the West.

Author : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Appearances of Soviet Leaders written by United States. Central Intelligence Agency and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: