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Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Report on the USSR.
Author: Report on the Soviet Union in 1956
Author: Institut Zur Erforschung Der UdSSR. SymposiumPublisher:
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Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Soviet Commitment to Education
Author: United States. Education Mission to the U.S.S.R.Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Quality Of Life In The Soviet Union
Author: Horst HerlemannPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000308812
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
"Quality of life" is a difficult concept to define, and particularly so when referring to the Soviet Union because Westerners have many preconceptions about Soviet living conditions. This volume goes a long way toward illuminating the realities of daily Soviet life and stands as an important contribution to our understanding of the Soviet Union. Contributors focus primarily on the relation of quality of life to living conditions but also discuss the quality and availability of state-provided services such as education, health care, and housing. Of special interest is their coverage of problems in Soviet society, including working conditions in factories, living conditions in rural areas, alcohol abuse, and the status of the elderly. Together these essays show that although the Soviet government has made great strides in improving the living conditions of its citizens, Soviet living standards and services are relatively poor by Western standards and several important social problems continue to burden the Soviet people.
A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End
Author: Peter KenezPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139451022
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
An examination of political, social and cultural developments in the Soviet Union. The book identifies the social tensions and political inconsistencies that spurred radical change in the government of Russia, from the turn of the century to the revolution of 1917. Kenez envisions that revolution as a crisis of authority that posed the question, 'Who shall govern Russia?' This question was resolved with the creation of the Soviet Union. Kenez traces the development of the Soviet Union from the Revolution, through the 1920s, the years of the New Economic Policies and into the Stalinist order. He shows how post-Stalin Soviet leaders struggled to find ways to rule the country without using Stalin's methods but also without openly repudiating the past, and to negotiate a peaceful but antipathetic coexistence with the capitalist West. In this second edition, he also examines the post-Soviet period, tracing Russia's development up to the time of publication.
Stalin's Genocides
Author: Norman M. NaimarkPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400836069
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The chilling story of Stalin’s crimes against humanity Between the early 1930s and his death in 1953, Joseph Stalin had more than a million of his own citizens executed. Millions more fell victim to forced labor, deportation, famine, bloody massacres, and detention and interrogation by Stalin's henchmen. Stalin's Genocides is the chilling story of these crimes. The book puts forward the important argument that brutal mass killings under Stalin in the 1930s were indeed acts of genocide and that the Soviet dictator himself was behind them. Norman Naimark, one of our most respected authorities on the Soviet era, challenges the widely held notion that Stalin's crimes do not constitute genocide, which the United Nations defines as the premeditated killing of a group of people because of their race, religion, or inherent national qualities. In this gripping book, Naimark explains how Stalin became a pitiless mass killer. He looks at the most consequential and harrowing episodes of Stalin's systematic destruction of his own populace—the liquidation and repression of the so-called kulaks, the Ukrainian famine, the purge of nationalities, and the Great Terror—and examines them in light of other genocides in history. In addition, Naimark compares Stalin's crimes with those of the most notorious genocidal killer of them all, Adolf Hitler.
USSR, Post Report
Author: United States. Department of StatePublisher:
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Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The Results of the First Five Year Plan
Author: Joseph StalinPublisher:
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Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Report of the Medical Exchange Mission to the USSR, Maternal and Child Care, October 12-November 11, 1960
Author: National Institutes of Health (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Document USSR-54
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9781901240191
Category : Katyn Massacre, Katynʹ, Russia, 1940
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
'The Report by a Special Soviet Commission, 24 January 1944, concerning the shooting of Polish officer prisoners of war in the forest of Katyn. The executions had been carried out in autumn in 1941 by the German "Staff of the Construction Battalion 537." In spring 1943 the Germans, by blackmailing witnesses into giving false evidence and by other means, had tried to make it appear that the Soviet NKWD was responsible for the shooting of the 11,000 victims.'--T.p. verso.