Biografie van de chef van de geheime staatspolitie (NKVD) (1899-1953).
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"The Cold War was a unique international conflict partly because Joseph Stalin sought socialist transformation of other countries rather than simply the traditional objectives. This intriguing book, based on recently accessible Soviet primary sources, is the first to explain the…
On November 16, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs Maxim Litvinov signed an agreement establishing diplomatic ties between the United States and the Soviet Union. Two days later Roosevelt named the first of five ambassadors he would place in Mosc…
"In the first systematic study of its kind, Hua-yu Li tackles one of the most important unresolved mysteries of the early history of the People's Republic of China - the economic policy shift of 1953. As a result of this policy shift, the moderate economic policies of "New Democ…
Provides translations of formerly top secret Soviet documents.
"The vast and complex tragedy of Stalin's purges, culminating in the Great Terror, made victims of millions of Russians between 1932 and 1939. This book assembles and translates into English for the first time an astonishing array of formerly top secret Soviet documents from tha…
"Krivitsky's first-hand account as the top Soviet espionage leader in western Europe and his ultimate defection is a fundamental document of the crisis preceding the Second World War. It reveals the horrors of Stalin's Great Terror to a disbelieving world as the dictator purged …