Catherine Merridale
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on previously closed military and secret police archives and interviews with veterans, a comprehensive history of the Red Army rank and file follows the soldiers from the shock of the German invasion to their costly triumph in Stalingrad.
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
A meticulously researched account of Lenin's fateful rail journey across Europe to Petrograd, where he ignited the Russian revolution and forever changed the world. In the early spring of 1917, as the First World War stretched on and Tsar Nicholas II's abdication sent shock waves across Europe, the future leader of the Bolshevik revolution, Vladimir Lenin, was far away, exiled in Zurich. When the news reached him, Lenin immediately resolved to return...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"A magisterial, richly detailed history of the Kremlin, and of the centuries of Russian elites who have shaped it--and been shaped by it in turnThe Kremlin is the heart of the Russian state, a fortress whose blood-red walls have witnessed more than eight hundred years of political drama and extraordinary violence. It has been the seat of a priestly monarchy and a worldly church; it has served as a crossroads for diplomacy, trade, and espionage; it...
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