Yet like millions of others who suffered during Stalin's reign of terror, she was arrested—on trumped-up charges of being a Trotskyist terrorist and counter-revolutionary—and sentenced to prison. With an amazing eye for detail, profound strength, and an indefatigable spirit, Ginzburg recounts the years, days, and minutes she endured in prisons and labor camps, including two years of solitary confinement. A classic account of survival, Journey into the Whirlwind is considered one of the most important documents of Stalin's regime ever written.

    The book attests to the fact that the nightmare of Stalin camps did not disappear, repressive machine continued to work also in the [poslestalinskoe] time: the closed law courts, the complete lawlessness of political prisoners, " [vospitanie]" by hunger and much other. Its victim became Anatoliy [Marchenko], who was killed in The [chistopolskoy] prison in 1986. On the whole he conducted in the camps and references 19 and one-half of years, about which and he told in his books. Book of " My of [pokazaniya]" it is written in 1967

    From the reign of Alexander I to the abdication of Nicholas II, this wide-ranging survey of Russian history follows the development of institutions, classes, political movements, and individuals and draws on a large body of documentary material and contemporary scholarship, making an important contribution to pre-revolutionary Russian studies.

    After a long traditional history, it is now in a state of change. With the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, five newborn Central Asian states have emerged in place of the former Soviet Central Asia and Afghanistan. Central Asia provides the most comprehensive survey of the history of the impact of Russian rule upon the political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural life of this diverse region. Together, these essays convey a sense of the region’s community as well as the divisive policies that have affected it for so long.Now in its third edition (it was first published in 1967 and revised in 1989), this new edition of Central Asia has been updated to include a new preface, a revised and updated bibliography, and a final chapter that brings the book up to 1994 in considering the crucial problems that stem from a deprivation of sovereign, indigenous leadership over the past 130 years. This volume provides a broad and essential background for understanding what has led up to the late twentieth-century configuration of Central Asia.

    The book covers elements of diplomacy in the inter-war years, and the diplomatic and political history of those years.

    Starting from the Russian civil war of the whites and reds up until the mid 60's. A lot of WW2 coverage as well.