The Secret Speech

Author : Tom Rob Smith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1847377157
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Speech written by Tom Rob Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-04-06 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soviet Union, 1956: Stalin is dead. With his passing, a violent regime is beginning to fracture - leaving behind a society where the police are the criminals, and the criminals are innocent. The catalyst comes when a secret manifesto composed by Stalin's successor Khrushchev is distributed to the entire nation. Its message: Stalin was a tyrant and a murderer. Its promise: The Soviet Union will transform. But there are forces at work that are unable to forgive or forget Stalin's tyranny so easily, that demand revenge of the most appalling nature. Meanwhile, former MGB officer Leo Demidov is facing his own turmoil. The two young girls he and his wife Raisa adopted have yet to forgive him for his involvement in the murder of their parents. They are not alone. Now that the truth is out, Leo, Raisa and their family are in grave danger from someone with a grudge against Leo. Someone transformed beyond recognition into the perfect model of vengeance.

Author : Tom Rob Smith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1847398081
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Child 44 written by Tom Rob Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DON'T MISS THE NEW TOM ROB SMITH NOVEL, COLD PEOPLE, OUT NOW! OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD MOSCOW, 1953. Under Stalin’s terrifying regime, families live in fear. When the all-powerful State claims there is no such thing as crime, who dares disagree? AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER IN OVER 30 LANGUAGES An ambitious secret police officer, Leo Demidov believes he’s helping to build the perfect society. But when he uncovers evidence of a killer at large – a threat the state won’t admit exists – Demidov must risk everything, including the lives of those he loves, in order to expose the truth. A THRILLER UNLIKE ANY YOU HAVE EVER READ But what if the danger isn’t from the killer he is trying to catch, but from the country he is fighting to protect? Nominated for seventeen international awards and inspired by a real-life investigation, CHILD 44 is a relentless story of love, hope and bravery in a totalitarian world. From the screenwriter of the acclaimed television series, THE ASSASSINATION OF GIANNI VERSACE: AMERICAN CRIME STORY.

Author : Grover Furr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789350022504
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Khrushchev Lied written by Grover Furr and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Taubman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393081729
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Khrushchev: The Man and His Era written by William Taubman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-04-17 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The definitive biography of the mercurial Soviet leader who succeeded and denounced Stalin. Nikita Khrushchev was one of the most complex and important political figures of the twentieth century. Ruler of the Soviet Union during the first decade after Stalin's death, Khrushchev left a contradictory stamp on his country and on the world. His life and career mirror the Soviet experience: revolution, civil war, famine, collectivization, industrialization, terror, world war, cold war, Stalinism, post-Stalinism. Complicit in terrible Stalinist crimes, Khrushchev nevertheless retained his humanity: his daring attempt to reform communism prepared the ground for its eventual collapse; and his awkward efforts to ease the cold war triggered its most dangerous crises. This is the first comprehensive biography of Khrushchev and the first of any Soviet leader to reflect the full range of sources that have become available since the USSR collapsed. Combining a page-turning historical narrative with penetrating political and psychological analysis, this book brims with the life and excitement of a man whose story personified his era.

Author : Kathleen E. Smith
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674977467
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moscow 1956 written by Kathleen E. Smith and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1956 Khrushchev stunned Communists by reciting a litany of Stalin’s abuses. His bid to rejuvenate the Party opened the door to upheaval, as Soviet citizens asked where the system had gone astray. Kathleen Smith contends that the year’s brief thaw set in motion a cycle of reform and retrenchment that would recur until the Soviet Union’s collapse.

Author : Daniel Leese
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139498118
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mao Cult written by Daniel Leese and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although many books have explored Mao's posthumous legacy, none has scrutinized the massive worship that was fostered around him during the Cultural Revolution. This book is the first to do so. By analyzing secret archival documents, Daniel Leese traces the history of the cult within the Communist Party and at the grassroots level. The party leadership's original intention was to develop a prominent brand symbol, which would compete with the nationalists' elevation of Chiang Kai-shek. However, they did not anticipate that Mao would use this symbolic power to mobilize Chinese youth to rebel against party bureaucracy itself. The result was anarchy and when the army was called in it relied on mandatory rituals of worship such as daily reading of the Little Red Book to restore order. Such fascinating detail sheds light not only on the personality cult of Mao, but also on hero-worship in other traditions.

Author : Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev
Publisher : Nottingham : Spokesman Books for the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The "secret" Speech written by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev and published by Nottingham : Spokesman Books for the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation. This book was released on 1976 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tom Rob Smith
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0446552089
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Speech written by Tom Rob Smith and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-19 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Rob Smith-the author whose debut, Child 44, has been called "brilliant" (Chicago Tribune), "remarkable" (Newsweek) and "sensational" (Entertainment Weekly)-returns with an intense, suspenseful new novel: a story where the sins of the past threaten to destroy the present, where families must overcome unimaginable obstacles to save their loved ones, and where hope for a better tomorrow is found in the most unlikely of circumstances . . . The Secret Speech Soviet Union, 1956. Stalin is dead, and a violent regime is beginning to fracture-leaving behind a society where the police are the criminals, and the criminals are innocent. A secret speech composed by Stalin's successor Khrushchev is distributed to the entire nation. Its message: Stalin was a tyrant. Its promise: The Soviet Union will change. Facing his own personal turmoil, former state security officer Leo Demidov is also struggling to change. The two young girls he and his wife Raisa adopted have yet to forgive him for his part in the death of their parents. They are not alone. Now that the truth is out, Leo, Raisa, and their family are in grave danger from someone consumed by the dark legacy of Leo's past career. Someone transformed beyond recognition into the perfect model of vengeance. From the streets of Moscow in the throes of political upheaval, to the Siberian gulags, and to the center of the Hungarian uprising in Budapest, The Secret Speech is a breathtaking, epic novel that confirms Tom Rob Smith as one of the most exciting new authors writing today.

Author : Jamil Hasanli
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498508146
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Khrushchev's Thaw and National Identity in Soviet Azerbaijan, 1954–1959 written by Jamil Hasanli and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jamil Hasanli’s research on 1950s’ Azerbaijan sheds light on the watershed period in Soviet history while also furnishing the reader with a greater understanding of the root causes of the dissolution of the USSR.

Author : Stephen F. Cohen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857730622
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Victims Return written by Stephen F. Cohen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stalin's reign of terror in the Soviet Union has been called 'the other Holocaust'. During the Stalin years, it is thought that more innocent men, women and children perished than in Hitler's destruction of the European Jews. Many millions died in Stalin's Gulag of torture prisons and forced-labour camps, yet others survived and were freed after his death in 1953. This book is the story of the survivors. Long kept secret by Soviet repression and censorship, it is now told by renowned author and historian Stephen F. Cohen, who came to know many former Gulag inmates during his frequent trips to Moscow over a period of thirty years. Based on first-hand interviews with the victims themselves and on newly available materials, Cohen provides a powerful narrative of the survivors' post-Gulag saga, from their liberation and return to Soviet society, to their long struggle to salvage what remained of their shattered lives and to obtain justice. Spanning more than fifty years, "The Victims Return" combines individual stories with the fierce political conflicts that raged, both in society and in the Kremlin, over the victims of the terror and the people who had victimized them. This compelling book will be essential reading for anyone interested in Russian history.