soviet union

Examines issues spanning 150 years in Russian and Soviet history, analyzing questions and presenting excerpts from sources on ideologies and regimes, political parties, repression and terror, agriculture and industry, the social classes, war, and other topics.

Presents a comprehensive analysis of the social and political cataclysm that spread throughout Europe between 1914 and 1945; and describes how the world was changed by the events of two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust, and the rise and fall of Hitler's Third Reich.

Chronicles the lives of Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler, examining their childhoods, personalities, political methods, and impacts on history.

Chronicles the secret psychological warfare programs America developed at the height of the Cold War and explains how those propaganda campaigns targeted virtually every country in the free world.

Discusses the role President Reagan and his administrative staff had in ending the Cold War and developing a stronger relationship with the Soviet Union.

Chronicles the lives of the five Russian ambassadors President Roosevelt placed in Moscow in 1933, and describes the events that took place while they were there and the relationships the ambassadors had with Stalin and Roosevelt.

Contains thirty-four groups of essays, each of which includes an overview of an issue related to Russia in the revolutionary era, from 1890 to 1930, followed by two or more opposing opinions, arranged alphabetically by topic.

Presents thirteen essays by historians and sociologists on the leadership cults, war machines, and successor societies of Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia.

Analyzes the meaning and impact of the "Great Terror" that took place in the Soviet Union in the late 1930s, a period presided over by Stalin and characterized by the arrests and executions of people ranging from high Communist Party officials to ordinary citizens.