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Pages: 367
Authors: Vicky Davis
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-11-30 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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The 1943 battle to free the Soviet Black Sea port of Novorossiisk from German occupation was fought from the beach head of Malaia zemlia, where the young Colone
The Soviet Myth of World War II
Language: en
Pages: 323
Authors: Jonathan Brunstedt
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-07-15 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Provides a bold new interpretation of the origins and development of World War II's remembrance in the USSR.
Soviet Space Mythologies
Language: en
Pages: 355
Authors: Slava Gerovitch
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-18 - Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

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From the start, the Soviet human space program had an identity crisis. Were cosmonauts heroic pilots steering their craft through the dangers of space, or were
Collapse of an Empire
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Pages: 354
Authors: Yegor Gaidar
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-01 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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"My goal is to show the reader that the Soviet political and economic system was unstable by its very nature. It was just a question of when and how it would co
New Myth, New World
Language: en
Pages: 484
Authors: Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-01 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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The Nazis' use and misuse of Nietzsche is well known. In this pioneering book, Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal excavates the trail of long-obscured Nietzschean ideas