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Stalin
 | Code: 003267
Brakman, Roman
Sekretnaia Papka Iosifa Stalina
Skrytaia Zhizn`
[ Sekretnaia Papka Iosifa Stalina : Skrytaia Zhizn` ]
Moscow: Ves` Mir, Iuventa, 2004
Language: Russian | Price: $ 33.00 | | Was Stalin an agent of the Tsar`s secret police? This question has been studied by many historians. They found out that Stalin made a systematic effort to hide this period of his life: deleted many files, destroyed several living witnesses, and created false evidence about his past. | |
| | | Code: 002184
Volkov, Solomon
Shostakovich i Stalin
Khudozhnik i Tsar`
[ Shostakovich i Stalin : Khudozhnik i Tsar` ]
Moscow: EKSMO, 2004
Language: Russian | Price: $ 34.00 | | This book is not exactly a biography of Dmitrii Shostakovich, neither is it a detailed analysis of his music. The author is focuses on the social and cultural circumstances of the Stalin`s epoch and his relations with creative people, like Shostakovich. | |
| | | Code: 019159
Miller, Frenk (Miller, Frank)
Stalinskii Fol`klor
[ Stalinskii Fol`klor : ]
St. Petersburg: Akademicheskii proekt, Izd-vo DNK, 2006
Language: Russian | Price: $ 21.00
Special price: $ 18.90 | | This monograph by Columbia University professor Frank Miller is about soviet pseudo-folklore of the 1930s. This new type of folklore was supervised by the party ideologists as closely as the rest of soviet literature. | |
| | | Code: 007026
Luri, R. (Lourie, Richard)
Stalin: Avtobiografiia
[ Stalin: Avtobiografiia : ]
Moscow: Zakharov, 2000
Language: Ðóññêèé | Price: $ 18.00
Special price: $ 14.40 | | A literary biography of Stalin by the American writer Richard Lourie. The author creates a psychological portrait of the communist tyrant that fills many lacunae in the available documents and witnesses about his personality and life. | |
| | | Code: 024937
Reifild, Donal`d (Rayfield, Donald)
Stalin i Ego Podruchnye
[ Stalin i Ego Podruchnye : ]
Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2008
Language: Russian | Price: $ 33.00 | | Stalin, like Hitler and other tyrants, relied on a group of his executioners. Coordinating and directing them, Stalin was not the only author and executor of his devilish plans. What were the motives of people who were part of his circle like Dzerzhinskii, Menshinskii, Yagoda, Ezhov, and Beriia, and who were fully his comrades-in-arms? Donald Rayfield reconstructs the organization and mechanism of functioning of the power pyramid, and proves that Stalin depended on the people in this pyramid to the degree that they depended on him. | |
| | | Code: 005032
Prudnikova, E.A
1953: Rokovoi God Sovetskoi Istorii
[ 1953: The Fatal year of the soviet history : ]
Moscow: Iauza, Eksmo, 2008
Language: Ðóññêèé | Price: $ 17.00 | | The Year 1953 is one of the most tragic years of the Russian national history, according to the author of this book. "The Year of political catastrophe which broke the fate of the country". The only person who Stalin wanted to see as his successor, was arrested and repressed. | |
| | | Code: 019614-1
Kapchenko, N.I. (Nikolai Ivanovich)
Politicheskaia Biografiia Stalina
Tom I (1879-1924)
[ A Political biography of Stalin : Volume one: 1879-1924 ]
Tver`: Severnaia Korona, 2004
Language: Russian | Price: $ 48.00 | | This is the first volume of a political biography of Stalin. It covers the first thirty fife years of his life. It is written in disagreement with other biographies. According to the author, Stalin was seeking power not for power itself, but always as a mean for bringing into life his social and political ideas, his political philosophy. | |
| | | Code: 018482
Balandin, Rudol`f
Vstat`! Stalin Idet!"
Tainaia Magiia Vozhdia
[ All Rise! Stalin is approaching!" : Secret magics of the leader ]
Moscow: Iauza, Eksmo, 2009
Language: Ðóññêèé | Price: $ 17.00 | | This book is an analysis of Stalin`s magic, which according to the author is the basis of the Stalin cult. Not only Russians felt the magnetism of his personality, but also many leaders of the world, including Winston Churchill and Roosevelt. | |
| | | Code: 002385
Alliluev, Vladimir
Alliluevy-Stalin: Khronika Odnoi Sem`i
[ Alliluevy-Stalin: Chronicle of one family : ]
Moscow: Molodaia Gvardiia, 2002
Language: Russian | Price: $ 22.50 | | This family chronicle narrates the relationship between the Alliluev family and Stalin, who married Nadezhda in 1918. Among the main characters are three generation of the Alliluev family, Stalin`s children, as well as Dzerzhinskii, Beriia, Khrushchev, Molotov, Malenkov, etc. | |
| | | Code: 026113
Benediktov, I.A., Rybin, A
Riadom so Stalinym
[ Alongside Stalin : ]
Moscow: Eksmo, Algoritm, 2010
Language: Ðóññêèé | Price: $ 16.00 | | Collection of memoirs about Stalin. Ivan Rybin was been his body guard beginning in 1931. Aleksei Rybin was the head of the secret service protecting the Russian government. | |
| | |  | Code: 025247
Khlevniuk, O.V
Khoziain: Stalin i Utverzhdenie Stalinskoi Diktatury
[ Boss: Stalin and the formation of the Stalin`s dictatorship : ]
Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2010
Language: Ðóññêèé | Price: $ 29.00 | | Based on archival materials this monograph studies the process of shifting from "collective governance" to the one-man dictatorship of Stalin in the pre-WWII Soviet Union. The author pays special attention to role of Stalin in making and implementing party and government decisions and to opposition to Stalin`s "revolution from above" in the party and society. | |
| | | Code: 023403
Blium, A., Mespule, M
Biurokraticheskaia Anarkhiia
Statistika i Vlast` pri Staline
[ Bureaucratic anarchy : Statistics and power under Stalin ]
Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2008
Language: Russian | Price: $ 29.00 | | This exciting study of the relation of knowledge and power in the USSR is based on a detailed inquiry into the biographies of the Soviet functionaries, mostly responsible for collecting and processing national statistics (P. | |
| | | Code: 002358
Dzhilas, Milovan (Djilas, Milovan)
Besedy so Stalinym
[ Conversations with Stalin : ]
Moscow: Tsentrpoligraf,
Language: Russian | Price: $ 11.00 | | Milovan Djilas (1911-1995), Yugoslavian political scientist and journalist, wrote this book in 1961. It is about WII, which caused the repartition of Europe, Russian-Yugoslavian relations of the post-war period, Stalin as a political leader of Russia. | |
| | | Code: 019889
Shad, M. (Schad, Martha)
Doch` Stalina
[ Daughter of Stalin : ]
Moscow: AST, Tranzitkniga, 2005
Language: Russian | Price: $ 22.10 | | Svetlana Alilueva, `the Kremlin princess", who seemed to have everything she could, became a wanderer who changed countries and continents in the search for love and happiness. Martha Schad met her many times, and tells the stories that help to create a portrait of Svetlana close to the "original". | |
| | | Code: 018667
Balandin, R., Mironov, S
Diplomaticheskie Poedinki Stalina
Ot Pilsudskogo do Mao Tzeduna
[ Diplomatic duels of Stalin : From Pilsudski to Mao ZeDong ]
Moscow: Veche, 2004
Language: Russian | Price: $ 24.00 | | This book portrays Stalin as an architect of the foreign policy of the USSR of his time. He won many diplomatic battles and outplayed such skillful politicians as W. Churchill, A. Hitler, C. Mannerheim, B. | |
| | | Code: 022814B
Pykhalov, Igor`
Za Chto Stalin Vyselial Narody?
[ For what did Stalin deport whole nations? : ]
Moscow: Iauza-press, 2010
Language: Ðóññêèé | Price: $ 18.00 | | This book is a part of the rewriting of recent Russian history and reevaluating Stalin`s role in it. This campaign is part of modern historiography and worth of scholars attention. The book addresses several questions. | |
| | | Code: 025156
Khromov, S.S
Po Stranitsam Lichnogo Arkhiva Stalina
[ Going through the Stalin`s personal archive : ]
Moscow: Izd-vo MGU, 2009
Language: Russian | Price: $ 29.00 | | This academic publication is based on materials from Stalin`s personal archive, most of them introduced for the first time. Khromov analyses about 200 documents related to Stalin’s activities as the General secretary of the CPSU. | |
| | | Code: 017640
Dzhugashvili-Stalin, Galina
Vnuchka Vozhdia: Ded, Otets, Ma i Drugie
[ Granddaughter of the leader: Grandfather, father, mother, and others : ]
Moscow: Veche, 2001 | Price: $ 18.00 | | This is a memoir of Galina Dzhugashvili-Stalin who is a daughter of Jacob Dzhugashvili, Stalin’s eldest son. According to the official story, Jacob fought as a pilot and was captured by the Germans. The wife of the German General Paulius asked Stalin to exchange her husband for Jacob, and Stalin made his famous reply that he does not trade a fieldmarshal for a soldier. | |
| | | Code: 007678
Zhukov, Iurii
Nastol`naia Kniga Stalinista
[ Handbook of a Stalinist : ]
Moscow: Eksmo, Iauza, 2010
Language: Russian | Price: $ 16.00 | | Iurii Zhukov was the first who got access to the secret archives of Stalin, Ezhov, and Beriia. This book addresses many issues, secrets, and tragedies of the Stalin epoch. | |
| | | Code: 021598
Istoriografiia Stalinizma
Sbornik Statei
[ Historiography of Stalinism : Collected articles ]
Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2007
Language: Russian | Price: $ 39.00 | | This is the first collective monograph which studies the historiography of Stalinism. The Stalin epoch is probably the most politicized in Russian historiography. The contributors try to depoliticize this topic by analyzing the various approaches to interpretation of the key moments of the historical development of Stalin`s system and applying various historiographical patterns. | |
| | | Code: 001271
Sokolov, B.V
Okhota na Stalina, Okhota na Gitlera
Tainaia Bor`ba Spetssluzhb
[ Hunting for Stalin, hunting for Hitler : Secret confrontation of the two intellegent services ]
Moscow: Veche, 2000
Language: Russian | Price: $ 15.00 | | This book is about the numerous attempts to assassinate the two leaders of the warring states: Stalin and Hitler. Russian military historian Boris Sokolov tells the story of five unsuccessful plots and the role of the secret services in their prevention. | |
| | | Code: 009736
I.V. Stalin: Shtrikhi k Biografii
[ I.V. Stalin: Notes toward biography : ]
Moscow: Novina-Gelios, 1995
Language: Russian | Price: $ 18.00 | | This brochure claims to be "objective materials about the person who led the country and the Communist party for 30 years, provided the victory of Soviet people in WW2 and of progressive forces over fascism". | |
| | | Code: 008471-3
Kolesov, D.V
I.V. Stalin: Pravo na Vlast`
[ I.V. Stalin: The Right to power : ]
Moscow: Moskovskii Psikhologo-Sotsial`nyi Institut - Flinta, 2000
Language: Ðóññêèé | Price: $ 16.50
Special price: $ 13.20 | | Dmitrii Kolesov is a specialist in the biological and social nature of a person`s character. In this book he analyzes Stalin`s type of political leader. According to the author, Stalin was never a revolutionary by personality, but rather a politician and statesman who inherited a revolutionary legacy. | |
| | | Code: 007702
Karpova, G.A., Siianov-Starodubtsev, M.I
Memuary I.V. Stalina
Vospominaniia o Rossii
[ I.V. Stalin`s memoirs : Remembering Russia ]
Moscow: Profizdat, 2000
Language: Russian | Price: $ 18.00 | | This book is not fiction in the proper sense, but a transcript of telepathic contacts and conversations with Joseph Stalin. However it still has a value as a personal document, because it reflects modern Russian expectations of the great leader, the vision and understanding of Stalin`s thoughts, intentions, and personal history. | |
| | | Code: 007702-06
Karpova, G.A., Siianov, N.I
Interv`iu so Stalinym
God 2006: Sekretnye Memuary: Informatsiia o Proshlom i Budushchem Rossii
[ Interview with Stalin : 2006: Secret memoirs: Information about the past and future Russia ]
Moscow: AST, Astrel`, 2007
Language: Russian | Price: $ 19.00 | | This book is a sequal to “Memuary Stalina”. It is claimed to be a transcript of telepathic contacts and conversations with Joseph Stalin by two Russian mediums. Though it is not a document, it still reflects modern expectations of Russian audience of the great leader, the vision and understanding of Stalin`s thoughts, and his reflections on the current situation. | |
| | | Code: 015419
Balandin, R., Mironov, S
Klubok vokrug Stalina
Zagovory i Bor`ba za Vlast` v 1930-e Gody
[ Intrigues around Stalin : Plots and the struggle for power in 1930s ]
Moscow: Veche, 2002
Language: Ðóññêèé | Price: $ 19.50 | | This book is about plots and intrigues around Stalin in 1930. According to the authors, Stalin was fighting not for power as such, but rather his vision of internal and foreign policy, and he won not because he was a cowardly and cruel man, but because his vision was proved in building a superpower and the WWII victory. | |
| | | Code: 018807
Sukhodeev, Vladimir
Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin
Entsiklopediia
[ Joseph Stalin : Encyclopedia ]
Moscow: Algoritm, 2006
Language: Russian | Price: $ 27.00 | | The first post-soviet encyclopedia about Joseph Stalin. Illustrated with photographs and posters of Stalin`s epoch | |
| | | Code: 024313
Sukhodeev, V.V
Legendy i Mify o Staline
[ Legends and myths about Stalin : ]
Moscow: EKSMO, Algoritm, 2009
Language: Ðóññêèé | Price: $ 16.00 | | This book includes numerous stories about: Stalin`s personality, his decisions, and relations with other leaders. The author attempts to refute the main accusations against Stalin, calling them myths. Bibliography. | |
| | | Code: 012709-4
Lubianka. Stalin i MGB SSSR
Mart 1946 - Mart 1953: Dokumenty Vysshikh Organov Partiinoi i Gosudarstvennoi Vlasti
[ Lubianka: Stalin and MGB SSSR : March 1946 - March 1953: Documents ]
Moscow: Mezhdunarodnyi Fond "Demokratiia" (MFD), 2007
Language: Russian | Price: $ 49.00 | | This handbook contains archival documents on the history of the soviet organization which was the state secret police and punitive organ. These documents related to the activities of the MGB organs in 1946-1953 in the territories of Eastern Europe, Ukraine, Belorussia and the Baltic Republics. | |
| | | Code: 019022
Lubianka: Stalin i NKVD-NKGB-GUKR "Smersh": 1939 - Mart 1946
Arkhiv Stalina. Dokumenty Vysshikh Organov Partiinoi i Gosudarstvennoi Vlasti
[ Lubianka: Stalin and NKVD-NKGB-GUKR "Smersh": 1939 - March 1946 : Stalin`s archive. Documents of the supreme organs of the CPSU and the state: 1937-1938 ]
Moscow: Mezhdunarodnyi Fond "Demokratiia", 2006
Language: Russian | Price: $ 49.00 | | This is the third volume in this series about the role Joseph Dzhugashvili (Stalin) played in forming the soviet punitive system and using it as an instrument of governing the state and consolidation of the dictatorial regime. | |
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