Best of
Soviet-Union

1986

The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine


Robert Conquest - 1986
    Between 1929 and 1932 the Soviet Communist Party struck a double blow at the Russian peasantry: dekulakization, the dispossession and deportation of millions of peasant families, and collectivization, the abolition of private ownership of land and the concentration of the remaining peasants in party-controlled "collective" farms. This was followed in 1932-33 by a "terror-famine," inflicted by the State on the collectivized peasants of the Ukraine and certain other areas by setting impossibly high grain quotas, removing every other source of food, and preventing help from outside--even from other areas of the Soviet Union--from reaching the starving populace. The death toll resulting from the actions described in this book was an estimated 14.5 million--more than the total number of deaths for all countries in World War I.Ambitious, meticulously researched, and lucidly written, The Harvest of Sorrow is a deeply moving testament to those who died, and will register in the Western consciousness a sense of the dark side of this century's history.

The Madhouse


Aleksandr Zinoviev - 1986
    

The Volga Tatars: A Profile in National Resilience


Azade-Ayşe Rorlich - 1986
    The central theme of the book is the shaping and evolution of the identity of these people, focusing on the history of the first non-Christian and non-Slavic people incorporated into the Russian state.

Passage Through Armageddon: The Russians in War & Revolution 1914-18


W. Bruce Lincoln - 1986
    One of our foremost historians of Russia dramatically recounts the story of how the Russian people lived through the terrible gales of war and revolution that swept their land between 1914 and 1918; based on documents up to now inaccessible.

Western Transfer of Technology to the Soviet Union


Antony C. Sutton - 1986
    

The Policies Of Genocide: Jews And Soviet Prisoners Of War In Nazi Germany


Gerhard Hirschfeld - 1986
    

Soviet Navy Today - Warships Illustrated


Milan N. Vego - 1986