How to Understand Stalin's Rise to Power
Few dictators in world history have been as feared and reviled as Josef Stalin, who as head of the USSR from the mid-1920s to 1953 was responsible for the deaths of untold millions of Soviet citizens. Stalin's accession to power shortly after the ... [... more]
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Stalin's Letters to Molotov: 1925-1936 (Annals of ...
 Interesting revelations: This very interesting book exists thanks to inadequate means of communication and also to Molotov himself.He gave the original letters to the authorities long after Stalin's death.The letters are of great importance as they go [... more]
$22.50
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The Two-Edged Sword: A Study of the Paranoid Personality ...
What did Indira Gandhi, Josef Stalin and Winston Churchill have in common? The answer: paranoia. Paranoia is a much misunderstood word and a characteristic we all share. We need to know exactly what it is and what is does to us and those around us. Just [... more]
$8.48
A1 Books |
Josef Stalin Heavy Tanks 1944-94
The Iosef Stalin tanks were the ultimate heavy tanks developed by the Soviet Union and were popularly called 'Victory tanks' due to their close association with the defeat of Germany in 1945. Yet in spite of their reputation, the Stalin tanks emerged [... more]
$14.95
Motor Books |
Archives of War Gift 7pk
Archives of War is a comprehensive three-volume series that sheds new light on some of the darkest moments of this milennium--from the trenches of World War I, through the global devastation of World War II, to the intensity of the Cold War. The program [... more]
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The Hitler Book: The Secret Dossier Prepared for Stalin ...
Somewhat interesting but hardly a "must-read": "The Hitler Book", a posthumous biography of Hitler personally prepared for Stalin, is of interest only as a historical curiosity and for the insight it provides into the strange [... more]
$29.99
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The Most Evil Dictators in History
villains: The most evil dictators in this book are: Herod the Great Genghis Khan Shaka Zulu Josef Stalin Adols Hitler Mao Tse-Tung Anastasio Somoza 'Papa Doc' Duvalier Kim Il Sung Augusto Pinochet Nicolae Ceausescu Pol Pot Idi Amin Saddam Hussein Robert [... more]
$31.55
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Smart Power: Toward a Prudent Foreign Policy for America
Smart Power is smart reading: Ted Galen Carpenter has what most of the foreign policy establishment/elite woefully lacks: common sense. At the heart of Smart Power is a simple but powerful proposition: in the post-Cold War era and particularly in the [... more]
$24.95
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Stalin's Letters to Molotov: 1925-1936 (Annals of ...
Interesting revelations: This very interesting book exists thanks to inadequate means of communication and also to Molotov himself.He gave the original letters to the authorities long after Stalin's death.The letters are of great importance as they go [... more]
$55.00
Amazon.com |
The Lost Vanguard: Russian Modernist Architecture 1922-1932
the last vanguard: Richard Pare is one of the best architectural photographers in the world today. In more than ten years he has documented Soviet architecture from after the 1917 revolution (1922-32) and this book is a catalog of that work, some of [... more]
$85.00
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Emperor Francis Joseph: Life, Death and the Fall of the ...
Fascinating Read: Wonderful telling of the life of the last true Habsburg emperor. Although the author allows you to be sympathetic to Francis Joseph, he makes no excuses for his shortcomings as emperor as well. I bought this book as a guide for an [... more]
$24.95
Amazon.com |
Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that ...
Authenticity and "Truthiness": A fast-paced treatment of the Soviet Union's launch of the first artificial Earth satellite and the American response, but the narrative bogs down frequently as the author stops to fill in background information [... more]
$17.00
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