Soviet Union

Soviet Russia became one of the major world powers during the inter-war period. The country’s modernization and industrialization at break-neck speed was achieved at the expense of millions of victims left dead on Lenin’s and Stalin’s killing fields…

Ronald Radosh, Mary R. Habeck, Grigory Sevostianov (eds.), Spain Betrayed: The Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2001, 576 pp. Stanley G. Payne, The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and Communism, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2004, 400 pp. …

Johannes Rogalla von Bieberstein, Jüdischer Bolschewismus. Mythos und Realität (Jewish Boshevism. Myth and Reality), Edition Antaios, Dresden 2002, 312, €29.- "There is hardly any myth that is more important and which has more consequences than the one about ‘Jewish Bolshevism.’"—Prof. Dr. Ernst Nolte, Preface In a major work published a …

Editor's Note: Food and hunger have, for as long as we have records, played a part in the internal and external struggle for political power. The advance to barbarism entailed in the intentional mass privation and starvation of millions of men, women and children detailed below has become an all …

Viktor Suworow, Marschall Schukow – Lebensweg über Leichen, Pour-le-Mérite, Selent, Germany, 2002, 350 pp., €25.80 Prologue Every war produces genuine military strategists and heroes, many of whom die on the battlefield or whose exploits go unrecognized. Decorated "Hero of the Soviet Union" four times, Marshal Georgi Zhukov was indisputably the …

Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, Knopf, New York, 2004, 785 pp. The British Book Awards’ History Book of the Year has been awarded to the distinguished Anglo-Jewish journalist/novelist Simon Sebag Montefiore for his Stalin: the Court of the Red Star.[1] Montefiore’s special writing interest …

Yuri Rubtsov, Alter Ego Stalina (Based on declassified archival documents), Svonnitsa-MG, Moscow, 1999, 302 pp. Yuri Rubtsov, Iz-za spiny vozhdya: poli ticheskaya i voyennaya deyatel’nost L. Z. Mekhlisa (Behind the Leader’s Back; The Political and Military Activities of L. Z. Mekhlis), Kompaniya Ritm, Moscow, 2003, 253 pp. Until the appearance …

In celebration of the Golden Calf called political correctness, a "No-No word of the year" is chosen in Germany at the beginning of each new year (Unwort des Jahres). In 2003, the word chosen was "Tätervolk," which means "perpetrator people" or "perpetrator nation". This term is usually used to refer …

Alexander Solschenitsyn, "200 Jahre zusammen." Die russisch-jüdische Geschichte 1795-1916 (200 Years Together. The Russian-Jewish History 1795-1916), Herbig, Munich 2002, 560 pp., €34.90; "Zweihundert Jahre zusammen," Die Juden in der Sowjetunion (200 Years Together. The Jews in the Soviet Union), ibidem, 2003, 608 pp., €39.90. It may be said without hesitation …

Stalin's Apologist, Walter Duranty: The New York Times's Man in Moscow, by S.J. Taylor. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Hb., 404 pp., illustrated, $24.95; ISBN 0-19-505700-7. Flamboyant and opinionated, Walter Duranty represented the quintessence of the star newspaper reporter. His beat was the Soviet Union. From the Revolution to …

Czechoslovakia's Role in Soviet Strategy, by Josef Kalvoda, University Press of America, Pb, 382pp, $9.75. The author, a professional historian, was born in Czechoslovakia in 1923, left the CSR in 1948, has been living in the USA since 1951 and presently teaches at St. Joseph's College in West Hartford, Conn. …

Stalin's Secret War by Nikolai Tolstoy. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1981, 463pp, $18.50, ISBN 0-03-047266-0. Pawns of Yalta: Soviet Refugees and America's Role in Their Repatriation by Mark R. Elliott. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982, 287pp, $17.95, ISBN 0-252-00897-9. Our "present" has to a large degree been …

The Zhivago Affair by Peter Finn and Petra Couvée, Harvill Secker, London 2014 Boris Pasternak’s novel Doctor Zhivago was published in 1957, my last year at secondary school, and led to the award for its author of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958, my first year at university. David …

(Former Governor of the State of N.Y.) The American Hebrew, October 31, 1919: page 582 From across the sea six million men and women call to us for help, and eight hundred thousand little children cry for bread. These children, these men and women are our fellow-members of the human …

Dimitri Volkogonov, Lenin: Life and Legacy: A New Biography, London & New York, 1994. General a.D. Dimitri Volkogonov hatte bereits früher einmal mit seiner Stalin-Biographie, für die er exklusiven Zugang zu Stalins geheimen Verschlußsachen hatte, den Fuchs in den Hühnerstall gelassen. Volkogonov ist Sonderberater des russischen Präsidenten Jelzin und war …

Miron Dolot, Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust, W. W. Norton & Company, 1985. Überraschenderweise gibt es bis heute über den ukrainischen Hungerholocaust Anfang der dreißiger Jahre kaum Augenzeugenberichte. Ein solcher Bericht in englischer Sprache soll hier kurz vorgestellt werden. Miron Dolots Execution by Hunger wird auf der Umschlaginnenseite wie …

Leon Trotsky. By Irving Howe. Viking Press, 1978, 214 pages. Leon Trotsky has always had a certain appeal for intellectuals that the other Bolshevik leaders lacked. The reasons for this are clear enough. He was a writer, an occasional literary critic — according to Irving Howe, a very good one …

. La casa editrice EFFEPI ha presentato il proprio catalogo delle novità per l'Ottobre-2014. Estraiamo la presentazione dell'ultimo lavoro del dott. Valli; la penna è dello stesso Autore,... __________________________________________ Oligarchi, di cose ebraiche nel crollo dell'Unione Sovietica di Gianantonio Valli Copertina. Click...                   …

.   UNIONE SOVIETICA: “ FOSSE COMUNI CONTENENTI 12.500 CORPI “       Il governo del land del Brandeburgo ha affermato nel 2003 che gli inquirenti che hanno fatto scavare in un campo di prigionia gestito dai sovietici nella ex Germania dell’Est, hanno trovato fosse comuni contenenti i corpi di 12.500 persone. Il campo era …