"Patrick Lescot's Before Mao is a deeply moving saga of Li Lisan, Mao's predecessor at the head of the Communist Party and a key member of the Russian and Chinese revolutions. Told in an engaging style that reads more like a novel than a standard history, Lescot skillfully unfol…
"Patrick Lescot's Before Mao is a deeply moving saga of Li Lisan, Mao's predecessor at the head of the Communist Party and a key member of the Russian and Chinese revolutions. Told in an engaging style that reads more like a novel than a standard history, Lescot skillfully unfol…
Biografie van de Russische revolutionair en politicus Lev Davidovič Trockij (pseud. van Lejb Davidovič Bronštejn ; 1879-1940).
How Soviet citizens in the 1920s and 1930s internalized Soviet ways of looking at the world and living their everyday lives.
This book explores the unprecedented historical phenomenon of Soviet young women's en masse volunteering for World War II combat in 1941 and writes it into the twentieth-century history of women, war, and violence. It narrates a story about a cohort of Soviet young women who cam…
Amerikaanse ambassadeur in de Sovjet-Unie van 1987 tot 1991, beschrijft de ondergang van het communisme in de Sovjet-Unie