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Roy Medvedev

Auteur van Laat de geschiedenis oordelen

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Roy Medvedev is the historian whose monumental Let History Judge was the first major insider account by a prominent Soviet dissident. He lives in Moscow and London Zhores Medvedev is the author of many books of Russian political commentary. He has lived in London since his exile from the Soviet toon meer Union in 1973 toon minder
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Werken van Roy Medvedev

Laat de geschiedenis oordelen (1971) 264 exemplaren
Triomf en tragedie een politiek portret van Josef Stalin (1988) — Medewerker — 215 exemplaren
Wie is er gek? (1971) 78 exemplaren
The Unknown Stalin (2003) 58 exemplaren
On Socialist Democracy (1975) 56 exemplaren
Post-Soviet Russia (2000) 27 exemplaren
The October Revolution (1979) 22 exemplaren
Nikolai Bukharin: The Last Years (1980) 22 exemplaren
On Stalin and Stalinism (1979) 20 exemplaren
Leninism and Western Socialism (1981) 11 exemplaren
The Samizdat Register (1977) 9 exemplaren
Riabilitare Stalin? 9 exemplaren
Dopo la rivoluzione 8 exemplaren
China and the Superpowers (1986) 8 exemplaren
On Soviet Dissent (1980) 7 exemplaren
Neizvestnyj Andropov (1999) 3 exemplaren
Qui a écrit le Don paisible ? (1975) 3 exemplaren
Nepoznati Staljin 1. (2012) 1 exemplaar
Dopo la rivoluzione 1 exemplaar
PUTIN - Povratak Rusije (2007) 1 exemplaar
Stalin sconosciuto (2021) 1 exemplaar
Oktober 1917 1 exemplaar
Gray Cardinal 1 exemplaar
Locos a la fuerza (1973) 1 exemplaar
L'Urss che cambia (1987) 1 exemplaar

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A unique view of the Khrushchev period as seen by two prominent Soviet dissidents.
 
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LarkinPubs | 1 andere bespreking | Mar 1, 2023 |
Great... anecdotes of stalin... assumes some background.
 
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apende | 2 andere besprekingen | Jul 12, 2022 |
An in-depth look at how Stalin gained and kept power, one of the nastiest monsters the world has seen, who without the slightest regret instituted policies that he knew caused the needless torture and killing of tens of millions of his countrymen, who could value nothing except as it affected him personally. A paranoid whose chief attribute was an excellent memory, often used visciously, unjustly and lethally against his revolutionary comrades when they were of no further use to him. A man who rarely and reluctantly bothered to visit factories, farms or troops, content equally to deliver grand or detailed plans from his armchair and who for effect relied always first of all upon terror.

A good survey also of the Russian revolution of 1917 and preceding events. Good portraits of the more important Bolsheviks and their various fates at the hands of Stalin. Well-organized with information from many cited sources. Apparently an excellent translation.

The point of view is troubling. Much that happened within the USSR is not mentioned, such as anti-Jewish pogroms encouraged and ordered by Stalin. There is little or nothing about the sizable aid in food and military supplies shipped, at a high cost in western lives (U-boat sinkings) and goods, to Russia in World War II by the U.S. and Great Britain which likely saved hundreds of thousands of Soviets from starvation and additional battle losses in a prolonged war. Not mentioned is the forced building of cities and factories in Siberia at arbitrary and economically unsuitable locations resulting in continual drains on the rest of the economy.

There is discussion of the heroic work done in the Gulag (labs within prison grounds!) by wrongly imprisoned Russian scientists developing the A- and H-Bombs, but no hint that Russian spies in the U.S. and Great Britain had stolen detailed plans of both bombs several times over, so that the Russians had only to implement the discoveries made in the U.S. by the world's most brilliant scientists over a period of years and costing billions.

As the writer had access to secret Soviet files, it is remarkable that there is nothing about massive Russian spying the world over, particularly in the United States, some revealed by defecting spies and the extensive intercepts assembled by U.S. intellegence of covert coded Soviet espionage transmissions (the recently declassified Venona Project; see also Elizabeth Bentley, Whittaker Chambers and Igor Gouzenko) which eventually fingered Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter White, Julius Rosenberg and other highly placed U.S. (and British and Canadian) officials and scientists as Soviet spies who implemented and expoited numerous grave security breaches over many years. Other important subversive Soviet operations in other countries go unmentioned as well. All of this changed geopolitical balances and therefore the history of the 20th century.

In short, the author's research and book appear to have been tailored especially to satisfy a Russian view, and there was much else that I was interested in but did not find.
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KENNERLYDAN | 1 andere bespreking | Jul 11, 2021 |
Есть пометки на первых страницах
 
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