In 1945, when the Red Army marched in, eastern Germany was not "occupied" but "liberated." This, until the recent collapse of the Soviet Bloc, is what passed for history in the German Democratic Republic. Now, making use of newly opened archives in Russia and Germany, Norman Nai…
Biografie van de chef van de geheime staatspolitie (NKVD) (1899-1953).
Between 1953 and 1960, the government of the Soviet Union released hundreds of thousands of prisoners from the Gulag as part of an attempt to redress the excesses of the Stalin era. In this work, the author explores the impact of these returnees, both political and criminal, on …
Between 1953 and 1960, the government of the Soviet Union released hundreds of thousands of prisoners from the Gulag as part of an attempt to redress the excesses of the Stalin era. In this work, the author explores the impact of these returnees, both political and criminal, on …
Between Stalin's death in 1953 and 1960, the government of the Soviet Union released hundreds of thousands of prisoners from the Gulag as part of a wide-ranging effort to reverse the worst excesses and abuses of the previous two decades and revive the spirit of the revolution. T…
"Glasnost, most commonly translated into English as "openness," was a key concept of Mikhail Gorbachev's administration as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. This adapted tool of Leninist media control became not only a part of perestroika, Gorbachev's…
Introduction: Entangled Histories in the Age of Extremes / Michael David-Fox. - "A Belgium of Our Own" : The Sack of Russian Kalisz, August 1914 / Laura Engelstein. - United by Barbed Wire : Russian POWs in Germany, National Stereotypes, and International Relations, 1914-1922 / …
