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  • 1
    UID:
    b3kat_BV012496064
    Format: X, 288 S.
    ISBN: 0195050002
    Content: Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by one of our foremost authorities on modern Russian history. Focusing on urban areas in the 1930s, Sheila Fitzpatrick shows that with the adoption of collectivization and the first Five-Year Plan, everyday life was utterly transformed. With the abolition of the market, shortages of food, clothing, and all kinds of consumer goods became endemic. It was a world of privation, overcrowding, endless queues, and broken families, in which the regime's promises of future socialist abundance rang hollow. We read of a government bureaucracy that often turned everyday life into a nightmare, and of the ways that ordinary citizens tried to circumvent it, primarily by patronage and the ubiquitous system of personal connections known as blat. And we read of the police surveillance that was ubiquitous to this society, and the waves of terror, like the Great Purges of 1937, that periodically cast this world into turmoil. Fitzpatrick illuminates the ways that Soviet city-dwellers coped with this world, examining such diverse activities as shopping, traveling, telling jokes, finding an apartment, getting an education, landing a job, cultivating patrons and connections, marrying and raising a family, writing complaints and denunciations, voting, and trying to steer clear of the secret police.
    Language: English
    Subjects: History
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    Keywords: Sowjetunion ; Stadt ; Alltag ; Geschichte 1930-1940 ; Sowjetunion ; Alltag ; Stalinismus ; Geschichte 1930-1940 ; Stalinismus ; Geschichte 1930-1940 ; Sowjetunion ; Sozialgeschichte 1930-1940 ; Sowjetunion ; Gesellschaftliches Bewusstsein ; Geschichte 1930-1940 ; Historische Darstellung
    Author information: Fitzpatrick, Sheila 1941-
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  • 2
    UID:
    b3kat_BV046764634
    Format: xi, 238 Seiten , Illustrationen
    ISBN: 9780190466459
    Content: "Pogroms and blood libels constitute the two classical and most extreme manifestations of tsarist antisemitism. They were often closely intertwined in history and memory, not least because the accusation of blood libel, the allegation that Jews murder Christian children to use their blood for ritual purposes, frequently triggered anti-Jewish violence. Such events were and are considered central to the Jewish experience in late tsarist Russia, the only country on earth with large scale anti-Jewish violence in the early twentieth century. Boasting its break from the tsarist period, the Soviet regime proudly claimed to have eradicated these forms of antisemitism. But, alas, life was much more complicated. The phenomenon and the memory of pogroms and blood libels in different areas of interwar Soviet Union-including Ukraine, Belorussia, Russia and Central Asia-as well as, after World War II, in the newly annexed territories of Lithuania, Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia are a reminder of continuities in the midst of revolutionary ruptures. The persistence, the permutation, and the responses to anti-Jewish violence and memories of violence suggest that Soviet Jews (and non-Jews alike) cohabited with a legacy of blood that did not vanish. This book traces the "afterlife" of these extreme manifestations of antisemitism in the USSR, and in doing so sheds light on the broader question of the changing position of Jews in Soviet society. One notable rupture in manifestations of antisemitism from tsarist to Soviet times included the virtual disappearance-at least during the interwar period-of the tight link between pogroms and blood allegations, indeed a common feature in the waves of anti-Jewish violence that erupted during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." --
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 207-226
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, PDF ISBN 978-0-19-046646-6
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, EPUB ISBN 978-0-19-046647-3
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-19-046648-0
    Language: English
    Subjects: History , Slavic Studies
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    Keywords: Sowjetunion ; Antisemitismus ; Pogrom ; Ritualmord ; Falsche Verdächtigung ; Geschichte 1917-1964 ; Beilis-Prozess
    URL: Rezension  (H-Soz-Kult)
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  • 3
    UID:
    b3kat_BV019365445
    Format: XIX, 300 S. , Ill.
    ISBN: 0465027431
    Content: "From 1943 to 1949, tens of thousands of Greek soldiers and guerillas fought and slaughtered each other - as well as thousands of innocents - in a civil war of unrelenting and shocking savagery. In the wake of the Allied liberation of Greece from German occupation, the fighting transformed into a full-scale civil war, pitting the Communist insurgents against U.S.- and British-backed government forces. As a proxy war between the postwar superpowers, the Greek Civil War became the first hot zone of the Cold War." "In Red Acropolis, Black Terror, historian Andre Gerolymatos recounts the full history of this divisive conflict, exposing old wounds that still fester beneath the surface of contemporary Greek society. He tells the stories of ordinary Greek men, women, and children caught up in turbulent times and by powerful foreign forces intent on exerting political control on the Balkan region. In telling detail, Gerolymatos relates the atrocities committed by both sides, such as the mass graves around Athens, where Communist partisans executed hundreds of civilians, and the notorious military tribunals and prison islands established by right-wing authorities to punish leftist sympathizers." "From the early years of the German occupation, when resistance groups first began to organize in the mountains, to the assassination of U.S. journalist George Polk in 1948, Red Acropolis, Black Terror tells the riveting story of one of the most important "small wars" of the twentieth century - a war that had lasting influence on the post-war world and had a profound impact on American foreign policy."
    Content: "In many ways, the Greek Civil War heralded America's future involvement in Vietnam: not only did it mark the first time the United States used napalm, but it was the test-case for American counterinsurgency operations and convinced U.S. policy-makers that such wars were winnable. Red Acropolis, Black Terror presents the personal horrors of this brutal war, while exploring the global issues that made this conflict so vital to understanding the Cold War that followed."--BOOK JACKET
    Language: English
    Subjects: History
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    Keywords: Griechischer Bürgerkrieg ; Griechenland ; Bürgerkrieg ; USA ; Sowjetunion ; Geschichte 1943-1949 ; Bibliografie
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  • 4
    UID:
    gbv_1029934576
    Format: xx, 364 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten , Illustrationen , 24 cm
    Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
    ISBN: 1476760373 , 9781476760377
    Content: The incredible story of the 1983 war game that triggered a tense, brittle period of nuclear brinkmanship between the United States and the former Soviet Union. - "The Cold War's most dangerous moment: a high-stakes and secretive game of nuclear brinksmanship that played out in the forests of Germany, in stealthy submarines underneath the Atlantic and Pacific, in hidden London compounds, in fortified bunkers and code rooms across the globe. The year was 1983. The world was on the brink. And American spies were missing the warning signals. Marc Ambinder explains the anxious period between the United States and the Soviet Union from 1982 to 1984, with the Able Archer 83 war game as the fulcrum of the tension. With astonishing and clarifying new details, he recounts the scary series of close encounters that tested the limits of ordinary men and powerful leaders. Ambinder explains how political leadership triumphed over misunderstandings and the strife of interests, helping the two countries work toward a fragile peace. The Brink provides one of the most comprehensive and chilling descriptions of the nuclear command and control process, from intelligence warnings to the composition of the nuclear codes themselves. Ambinder reveals, with significant new reporting, the full story of the much-whispered-about continuity of government program that President Reagan built up to give the presidency a chance to survive a bolt-from-the-blue attack. He also provides glimpses into the secret world of preemptive electronic attack that scared the Soviet Union into action. Ambinder's account reads like a thriller, as it recounts the spy-versus-spy games that kept both countries--and the world--in check. From geopolitics in Moscow and Washington, to sweat-caked soldiers fighting in the trenches of the Cold War, to high-stakes war games across NATO and the Warsaw Pact, this book serves as the definitive intelligence, nuclear, and national security history of one of the most precarious times in recent memory."--Dust jacket
    Content: Part I. Decapitation. Détente's rise and fall ; Toward protracted nuclear war ; Decapitation ; Man in the gap ; Project RYAN ; Warning ; Zero-zero ; Ivy League '82 ; Bogging down ; The view from London -- Part II. To the brink. 1983 ; The Evil Empire ; SDI and sabotage ; Provocations ; Diamonds ; Spy vs. spy ; Green shoots ; The Phantom (part I) ; The Phantom (part II) ; The day before the day after ; Able Archer 83 ; FLASH telegram ; Validate and authenticate ; Open hatches -- Part III. Endgame(s). Sacrifice ; Warning of war ; Ivan and Anya ; What did we miss? ; Arguing on behalf of Soviet fears ; How can this be? ; Roll the dice ; A new hope : but still, Star Wars? ; Not to miss the chance ; To Geneva
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781476760391
    Language: English
    Keywords: USA ; Sowjetunion ; Ost-West-Konflikt ; Geschichte 1982-1984 ; Bibliografie
    Author information: Reagan, Ronald 1911-2004
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  • 5
    UID:
    gbv_1667262475
    Format: xii, 361 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First edition: October 2019
    ISBN: 9781541730168
    Content: "Moscow-based journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan look at the complex, ever-shifting role of Russian emigrés since the 1917 October Revolution to the present day. From secret agents to doomed dissidents, the story of Russian emigrés is an invaluable angle through which to understand Russia in the modern world."--
    Note: Enthält Literaturangaben und ein Register , Soviet/Russian foreign intelligence organizations and departments in charge of keeping tabs on Russian emigrés -- Cast of characters -- Introduction -- Part I: Spies and dissidents -- Talent spotting -- Identifying targets -- The cost of love -- "The Horse" -- "The Mother" -- Operations area: United States -- The tide turns -- Warring narratives -- Stalin's daughter -- Now it's official -- Bear in the West -- The KGB thinks big -- Moving people -- The other Russia -- Part II: Market forces -- Moving the money -- The scheme devised -- Muddying the waters -- Some habits die hard -- Cooperation and rebranding -- Part III. Putin's project -- A fresh start --The siege -- Getting out the message -- The crisis -- Courting the White Church -- Reunion -- Part IV. Means of outreach -- Political emigration: restart -- Illusions crushed -- "We need some targeted hits" -- Desperate times -- When the party's over -- Eliminating the problem -- Chasing a poison -- Everything old is new again -- The fears of the super-rich -- Epilogue.
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781541730182
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-5417-3018-2
    Language: English
    Subjects: Political Science
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    Keywords: Sowjetunion ; Russland ; Auswanderer ; Politischer Flüchtling ; Spionage ; Geschichte 1924-2018
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  • 6
    UID:
    gbv_1605252603
    Format: x, 321 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten
    Edition: First American edition
    ISBN: 0812912187
    Content: Kennedy vs. Khrushchev. And in the middle, in the very heart of Europe, Berlin, a gateway to freedom for thousands of East Germans. When on an August night in 1961 a barbed wire wall was erected cutting the city in half, the world moved toward war. Norman Gelb explores the whole story of the Berlin Wall, from its genesis in the Allied Armies' race for Berlin through the completion of the ninety-nine-mile wall that has been a geopolitical fact for twenty-five years. Relying on sources ranging from public figures like Dean Rusk, McGeorge Bundy, and then-mayor of Berlin Willy Brandt to the diaries and reminiscences of Berlins, he renders not only the operatic public drama – the soldiers, the diplomacy, the decisionn-making process in Washington, the psychologies of Kennedy and Khrushchev, the tanks snout-to-snout in the streets – but also the anonymous story of blockade runners and citizens cuaght in the storm of world events. Beginning with the occupation, he brings the drama to life – the airlift, the flood of refugees that forced the Soviet hand, the threats of war that followed the historic night of the building of the Wall, and the West's reluctant accommodation with the Soviet Union. The story of the Berlin Wall is more than just an account of the splitting of a city. Played out in Washington, Moscow, London, and Paris as well as in Germany, it is a story of power politics and nuclear brinkmanship. Norman Gelb combines incident, personality, and analysis in a forceful narrative of the world at the edge.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 305-306 , Enthält ein Register
    Language: English
    Keywords: USA ; Berlinfrage ; Sowjetunion ; Geschichte 1958-1962 ; Berliner Mauer ; Geschichte 1961-1962
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