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By Theodor Seibert

Originally published in English in 1932, this book written by a German National Socialist journalist,  and fierce critic of Soviet Russia, was the result of extensive travelling throughout the Soviet Union from 1926-1929. Ranging from Turkestan to Eastern Siberia, this was one of the most…

Paperback – 2019-08-16 
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RLE: Early Western Responses to Soviet Russia

Edited by John O'Loughlin, Ralph S. Clem

This comprehensive volume observes how, after 25 years of transition and uncertainty in the countries that constituted the former Soviet Union, their political geographies remain in a state of flux. The authors explore the fluid relationship between Russia, by far the dominant economic and military…

Hardback – 2019-06-03 
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By Donald W. Treadgold

Originally published in 1955, this is an illuminating study of the political thought and action of the Russian intelligentsia, in the decade up to and including the Revolution of 1905-6. It is based on the writings, including those in the revolutionary press, by which the chief figures of the main…

Paperback – 2019-05-13 
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Routledge Library Editions: Vladimir Lenin

By A. J. Polan

Originally published in 1984 this book reconsiders the effect of Lenin on the politics and culture of the 20th Century. In a detailed examination of Lenin's famous text, The State and Revolution, the author argues that the peculiar status of this work presents readers with major problems of…

Paperback – 2019-05-13 
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Routledge Library Editions: Vladimir Lenin

By Stefan T. Possony

Originally published in the UK in 1966, this was the first biography of Lenin which tied together extensive material unearthed in WWII, and it illuminates the complex personality and explains the riddle of Lenin's seemingly impossible rise to power. Using primary sources such as previously…

Paperback – 2019-05-13 
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Routledge Library Editions: Vladimir Lenin

By Joseph Stalin

Translated from the Russian in 1928, this and the second volume of the same title give an invaluable picture of what the Russian leader Joseph Stalin understood by Leninism. Building on the pamphlet Foundations of Leninism, (which forms the first part of this book) the work presents a unified…

Paperback – 2019-05-13 
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Routledge Library Editions: Vladimir Lenin

By Max Eastman

The result of 10 years' worth of painstaking research, this volume, originally published in 1926 is a sympathetic critique of certain phases of revolutionary dictatorship in Russia. Among other things it focusses on the philosophy and psychology of Marxism, Marxian economics, Bolshevism, the…

Paperback – 2019-05-13 
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Routledge Library Editions: Vladimir Lenin

By Joseph Stalin

Translated from the Russian in 1933, this and the first volume of the same title give an invaluable picture of what the Russian leader Joseph Stalin understood by Leninism. Building on the pamphlet Foundations of Leninism, (which forms the first part of this book) the work presents a…

Paperback – 2019-05-13 
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Routledge Library Editions: Vladimir Lenin

By John Swettenham

When originally published in 1967 and using archive material from official records in Ottawa, this book threw new light on the motives and actions of the intervening powers. Allied intervention took place in three main areas: Northern and Southern Russia as well as Siberia. Canada was the major…

Paperback – 2019-04-13 
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Routledge Library Editions: The Russian Civil War

By Richard M Connaughton

This volume, originally published in 1990 and now with an updated Preface, gives an account of the Allies' last concerted attempt to destroy Russia's nascent Bolshevik regime. At the start, it looked like a threat that should be taken seriously, as the Reds' enemies both native and foreign…

Paperback – 2019-04-13 
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Routledge Library Editions: The Russian Civil War

By Uilleam Blacker

After the Second World War, millions of people across Eastern Europe, displaced as a result of wartime destruction, deportations and redrawing of state boundaries, found themselves living in cities that were filled with the traces of the foreign cultures of the former inhabitants. In the immediate…

Hardback – 2019-03-18 
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BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

By Serge Chakotin

First published in French in 1939, and later in English in 1940, this work by the author, analyses and strongly critiques the effect of Nazi propaganda on the psychology of the masses. By bringing together the political and the psychological, the author refers to the use of propaganda in order to…

Paperback – 2019-02-28 
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