Lenin on the Train

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Politics & Social Sciences

Merridale, Catherine

Politics & Government

Penguin

Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History

Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Twentieth-Century Russia

Russia's dark history and its modern-day legacy are the focus of this unique look at the troubled country, which confronts the nation's troubled past and examines the shadow cast by these events on the twentieth century. Reprint.

History

Russia

Penguin??Books

Moscow Politics and the Rise of Stalin: The Communist Party in the Capital, 1925-32

World

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945

A powerful, groundbreaking narrative of the ordinary Russian soldier's experience of the worst war in history, based on newly revealed sources
Of the thirty million who fought in the eastern front of World War II, eight million died, driven forward in suicidal charges, shattered by German shells and tanks. They were the men and women of the Red Army, a ragtag mass of soldiers who confronted Europe's most lethal fighting force and by 1945 had defeated it. Sixty years have passed since their epic triumph, but the heart and mind of Ivan -- as the ordinary Russian soldier was called -- remain a mystery. We know something about hoe the soldiers died, but nearly nothing about how they lived, how they saw the world, or why they fought. 
Drawing on previously closed military and secret police archives, interviews with veterans, and private letters and diaries, Catherine Merridale presents the first comprehensive history of the Soviet Union Army rank and file. She follows the soldiers from the shock of the German invasion to their costly triumph in Stalingrad, where life expectancy was often a mere twenty-four hours. Through the soldiers' eyes, we witness their victorious arrival in Berlin, where their rage and suffering exact an awful toll, and accompany them as they return home full of hope, only to be denied the new life they had been fighting to secure.
A tour de force of original research and a gripping history, Ivan's War reveals the singular mixture of courage, patriotism, anger, and fear that made it possible for these underfed, badly led troops to defeat the Nazi army. In the process Merridale restores to history the invisible millions who sacrificed the most to win the war.

Military

Picador

Focusing on the development of the Communist Party in Moscow between 1925 and 1932 and its ultimate assumption of absolute power. This volume examines in detail the political changes in Moscow, including the crisis over collectivization, and the organization strategy of the Party in Moscow.

Moscow Politics and The Rise of Stalin: The Communist Party in the Capital, 1925–32 (Studies in Soviet History and Society)

Europe

An account of perestroika's origins and development. The themes covered include politics, ideology, economics, foreign affairs, social change, the national question and cultural policy.

Perestroika: The Historical Perspective

Hodder Arnold

Ivan's War The Red Army, 1939-1945

Ivan's War: The Red Army at War 1939-45: The Red Army, 1941-45 [Hardcover]

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Faber & Faber, Limited

Essential reading, not just for those interested in the Eastern Front, but for anyone who wants to understand Russia.' Antony Beevor, Sunday Times They died in their millions, shattered by German shells and tanks, freezing behind the wire of prison camps, driven forward in suicidal charges by the secret police. Yet in all the books about the Second World War on the eastern front, there is very little about how the Russian soldier lived, dreamed and died. Catherine Merridale's discovery of archives of letters, diaries and police reports have allowed her to write a major history of a figure too often treated as part of a vast mechanical horde. Here are moving and terrible stories of men and women in appalling conditions, many not far from death. They allow us to understand the strange mixture of courage, patriotism, anger and fear that made it possible for these badly fed, dreadfully governed soldiers to defeat the Nazi army that would otherwise have enslaved the whole of Europe. The experience of the soldiers is set against a masterly narrative of the war in Russia. Merridale also shows how the veterans were treated with chilling ingratitude and brutality by Stalin, and later exploited as icons of the Great Patriotic War before being sidelined once more in Putin's new capitalist Russia.

Ivan's War

Faber&Faber

A brilliant new work of interpretative history that provides a unique perspective on the beautiful but tortured culture of twentieth-century Russia. Russia has endured more bloodshed than any other European country in the twentieth century. Yet, while countries such as Germany have learned the value of confronting the darker side of their own pasts, Russia has never faced the reality of its troubled history in a meaningful and collective way. In this provocative and highly original book, Catherine Merridale asks Russians difficult questions about how their country's volatile past has affected their everyday lives, their aspirations, their dreams, and their nightmares. Based on extensive research including rare imperial archives, Soviet propaganda, memoirs, letters, newspapers, literature, psychiatric studies, and texts, as well as interviews with doctors, priests, social workers, policemen, survivors, gravediggers, and funeral directors, Night of Stone seeks answers to the questions: What is the true impact of violence in the Soviet century? How successfully have the Russians psychologically rewritten their own histories? What rituals have survived the Soviet regime, and what do they tell us of the Russian mentality? Reminiscent of the highly successful The Hour of Our Death, Night of Stone is an emotionally wrenching, eloquent work that will appeal to all readers of Russian and European history as well as anyone interested in the processes of memory.

Viking Adult

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Lenin on the Train

Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History

Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Twentieth-Century Russia

Moscow Politics and the Rise of Stalin: The Communist Party in the Capital, 1925-32

Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945

Moscow Politics and The Rise of Stalin: The Communist Party in the Capital, 1925–32 (Studies in Soviet History and Society)

Perestroika: The Historical Perspective

Ivan's War: The Red Army at War 1939-45: The Red Army, 1941-45 [Hardcover]

Ivan's War

Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Twentieth-Century Russia