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  • Russia's War Against Ukraine

    The Whole Story

    by Mark Edele ...
    In February 2022 Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a fellow East Slav state with much shared history. Mark Edele, a world authority on the history of the Soviet Union, explains why and how this conflict came about. He considers competing historical claims and arguments with authority and lucidity. His primary focus, however, is on the different paths taken by these two former ... Read more

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  • Shelter from the Holocaust

    Rethinking Jewish Survival in the Soviet Union

    The first book-length study of the survival of Polish Jews in Stalin's Soviet Union.About 1.5 million East European Jews—mostly from Poland, the Ukraine, and Russia—survived the Second World War behind the lines in the unoccupied parts of the Soviet Union. Some of these survivors, following the German invasion of the USSR in 1941, were evacuated as part of an organized effort by the Soviet state, ... Read more

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  • Debates on Stalinism

    Series series Issues in Historiography
    Debates on Stalinism introduces major debates about Stalinism during and after the Cold War. Did 'Stalinism' form a system in its own right or was it a mere stage in the overall development of Soviet society? Was it an aberration from Leninism or the logical conclusion of Marxism? Was its violence the revenge of the Russian past or the result of a revolutionary mindset? Was Stalinism the work of a ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The Soviet Union

    A Short History

    by Mark Edele ...
    Series series Wiley Short Histories
    An acclaimed historian explores the dynamic history of the twentieth century Soviet UnionIn ten concise and compelling chapters, The Soviet Union covers the entire Soviet Union experience from the years 1904 to 1991 by putting the focus on three major themes: warfare, welfare, and empire. Throughout the book, Mark Edele—a noted expert on the topic—clearly demonstrates that the Soviet Union was ... Read more

    $26.00 USD

  • Stalinism at War

    The Soviet Union in World War II

    by Mark Edele ...
    "Masterfully told and compellingly reinterpreted." The Moscow TimesStalinism at War tells the epic story of the Soviet Union in World War Two.Starting with Soviet involvement in the war in Asia and ending with a bloody counter-insurgency in the borderlands of Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltics, the Soviet Union's war was both considerably longer and more all-encompassing than is sometimes ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Stalin's Defectors

    How Red Army Soldiers became Hitler's Collaborators, 1941-1945

    by Mark Edele ...
    Stalin's Defectors is the first systematic study of the phenomenon of frontline surrender to the Germans in the Soviet Union's 'Great Patriotic War' against the Nazis in 1941-1945. No other Allied army in the Second World War had such a large share of defectors among its prisoners of war. Based on a broad range of sources, this volume investigates the extent, the context, the scenarios, the ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Russia's War Against Ukraine

    The Whole Story

    by Mark Edele ...
    In February 2022 Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a fellow East Slav state with much shared history. Mark Edele, a world authority on the history of the Soviet Union, explains why and how this conflict came about. He considers competing historical claims and arguments with authority and lucidity. His primary focus, however, is on the different paths taken by these two former ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Politics of Veteran Benefits in the Twentieth Century

    A Comparative History

    What happened to veterans of the nations involved in the world wars? How did they fare when they returned home and needed benefits? How were they recognized—or not—by their governments and fellow citizens? Where and under what circumstances did they obtain an elevated postwar status?In this sophisticated comparative history of government policies regarding veterans, Martin Crotty, Neil J. Diamant, ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Totalitarian Dictatorship

    New Histories

    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern European History
    This volume takes a comparative approach, locating totalitarianism in the vastly complex web of fragmented pasts, diverse presents and differently envisaged futures to enhance our understanding of this fraught era in European history. It shows that no matter how often totalitarian societies spoke of and imagined their subjects as so many slates to be wiped clean and re-written on, older identities ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Soviet Veterans of the Second World War

    A Popular Movement in an Authoritarian Society, 1941-1991

    by Mark Edele ...
    Millions of Soviet soldiers died in the USSR's struggle for survival against Nazi Germany but millions more returned to Stalin's state after victory. Mark Edele traces the veterans' story from the early post-war years through to the end of the Soviet Union in 1991. He describes in detail the problems they encountered during demobilization, the dysfunctional bureaucracy they had to deal with once ... Read more

    $91.79 USD

  • Stalinist Society

    1928-1953

    by Mark Edele ...
    Series series Oxford Histories
    Stalinist Society offers a fresh analytical overview of the complex social formation ruled over by Stalin and his henchmen from the late 1920s to the early 1950s. Drawing on declassified archival materials, interviews with former Soviet citizens, old and new memoirs, and personal diaries, as well as the best of sixty years of scholarship, this book offers a non-reductionist account of social ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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