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Show Trials: Stalinist Purges in Eastern Europe, 1948-1954

Book by George H. Hodos; Praeger Publishers, 1987

Subjects:

Communist Party Purges--History, Political Purges--Europe, Eastern--History, Trials (Political Crimes And Offenses)--Europe, Eastern

Collections: History, Entire Library

...The specific features of the Polish purges were determined by two tragic historical...Poles no reason to change their anti-Russian feelings. In the eastern provinces...account the fiercely nationalist and anti-Russian feelings of the population. It had to...
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Politics & Purges in China: Rectification and the Decline of Party Norms, 1950-1965

Book by Frederick C. Teiwes; M. E. Sharpe, 1979

Subjects:

China--Politics and government--1949-1976, Chung-kuo kung ch'an tang--Purges

Collections: History, Entire Library

...of the Japanese surrender. 60 Recent Russian sources in the context of Sino-Soviet...Soviet Union. Alex B. Ikonnikov, a White Russian raised in China who worked as a translator...Chinese nationalist with pronounced anti-Russian sentiments. It is also of interest that...
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The Soviet Purge: 1953 Version

Book by Herbert S. Dinerstein; Rand Corporation, 1953

Subjects:

Kommunisticheskaeiia Partieiia Sovetskogo Soeiiuza--Purges

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Professor Berven had examined Zhdanov half a year before his death and had signed a certificate "that the diagnosis the Russian doctors had made was right and that the treatment that was given was also right." Berven refused to say that the disease...
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The Resistance versus Vichy: The Purge of Collaborators in Liberated France

Book by Peter Novick; Columbia University Press, 1968

Subjects:

Criminal Justice, Administration Of--France, World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--France

Collections: History, Entire Library

...C. G.T. as a whole was taken on September 18, the day after the Russian invasion of Poland. While formally only those who "would not or could not" condemn the Russian invasion of Poland were to be expelled, the criterion adopted in practice...
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The Purge of Lo Jui-Ch`Ing: The Politics of Chinese Strategic Planning

Book by Harry Harding, Melvin Gurtov; Rand, 1971

Subjects:

China--Military Policy, Lo, Jui-Ch?Ing--1906-

Collections: History, Entire Library

...that the question of united action played little part in the purge of Lo Jui-ching. 102 First of all, the...Had Lo been in favor of united action with the Soviet Union, Russian accounts of the Cultural Revolution could be expected to treat...

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Journal Articles on: russian purges

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Kim Takes Control: The "Great Purge" in North Korea, 1956-1960

Journal article by Andrei N. Lankov; Korean Studies, Vol. 26, 2002

Subjects:

Communism--Models, Coups d'etat--History, Kim Il Sung--Political activity, Korean history, North Korea--Political aspects, Political purges--History, Political violence--History, Social change--Causes of, Stalinism

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Kim So Ryon (?; only the Russian transcription of his name is...indeed! Certainly, the purges were not confined to the academy...completely victorious. The purges of 1957-1960 were a North...equivalent of the Soviet Great Purge of 1937. In both cases, the purges targeted, above all, the...
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`The Party That Ate Itself': Julian Reed-Purvis Investigates Stalin's Role in the Origins of the Great Purges

Journal article by Julian Reed-Purvis; History Review, 2001

Subjects:

Communist Party (Soviet Union)--Powers and duties, Dictators--Powers and duties, History--Study and teaching, Political persecution--Social aspects, Russia--History, Stalin, Joseph--Powers and duties

Collections: History, Entire Library

...around 1.5 million Russians left the Party. Conscious...pretext for the great purges that followed. A terrified...origins of the Great Purges clearly lay well before...Kirov in Leningrad; the purge of Party members intensifies...replaces Yezhov and the purges ease. Further Reading Sheila Fitzpatrick, The Russian Revolution (Opus 2nd...
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A Problem in Self-Identity: Russian Intellectual Thought in the Context of the French Revolution

Journal article by Dmitry Shlapentokh; Journal of European Studies, Vol. 26, 1996

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Group identity--Analysis, Russians--Social aspects, Social identity--Analysis

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...later a victim of the purges, was regarded as a prime candidate for the Russian Napoleon.(19) Trotsky...form or another, and Russian nationalism integrated...Soviet (mostly ethnic Russians) scholars, the French...widow of the famous Russian poet and a victim of Stalins purges, recalled a story about...
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Andrei Bitov on "Russian Wealth"

Journal article by Cynthia Simmons; International Fiction Review, Vol. 34, 2007

Subjects:

Authors, Russian--Criticism and interpretation, Bitov, Andrei--Criticism and interpretation, Periodicals--Social aspects, Russia--Economic aspects, Russia--History, Russian Wealth (Periodical)--Social aspects, Russian literature--Analysis, Russian literature--History, Russian writers--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...generation in a long line of Russian scholars. His line, the...traditionally preserved the legacy of Russian high culture. Yet, his parents...denounced in the Stalinist purges, arrested, and imprisoned...novel, on the legacy of the Russian land and common people. These...everything that Russia and Russians have inherited. Humans descend...
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Resurgent Russian Economy?

Journal article by Vladimir Popov; International Journal, Vol. 63, 2008

Subjects:

Economic growth, Political leadership, Presidents, Putin, Vladimir, Russia, Russian history

Collections: History, Entire Library

...is rapidly approaching the Russian level of HDI. At least there...the rocky 1990s. No wonder Russian citizens appreciate the new...showed that over 60 percent of Russians were willing to see Putin...disintegration. The majority of Russian citizens are prepared to...entrepreneurs of lesser stature, the purges in Chechnya, and for the...knew no bounds. This is how Russians responded in polls conducted...

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Magazine Articles on: russian purges

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A Monastic Revival: Stella Rock Sees a Renaissance of Religious Traditions at What Was One of Russia's Most Vibrant Monasteries before the Soviet Purge

Magazine article by Stella Rock; History Today, Vol. 59, February 2009

Subjects:

Monasteries--History, Religious institutions--Buildings and facilities, Religious organizations--Buildings and facilities, Russia--Religious aspects, Russian Orthodox Eastern Church--Buildings and facilities

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Monasteries before the Soviet Purge. by Stella Rock The Russian Orthodox Church has played a...traditions, singing ancient Russian chants from old notation and...oblique references to it in the Russian State Historical Archive. The...
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Left Behind: Estonia's Russians

Magazine article by Ben Barber; World and I, Vol. 19, September 2004

Subjects:

Estonian foreign relations--Analysis, Estonian history--Analysis, Estonians--Cultural policy, Russian Orthodox Eastern Church--Analysis, Russian language--Analysis, Russians--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Russians--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...joke about how every Russian who did not go back...defend the 20 million Russians left orphaned by the...finally ending with Russians at the end of the 1800s...or killed in Stalins purges. When Germany seized...industries to work with Russian systems and settling half a million Russians to take the best jobs...
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The Constraints of Russian Culture

Magazine article by Hugh Ragsdale; The National Interest, Fall 1993

Subjects:

Democracy--Evaluation, Russia--History, Russians--Attitudes

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...restoration of the old Soviet Union to the Russian Federation in which they now live. The new economic insecurity of many Russians reinforces another Russian tradition: the egalitarianism of envy...of mentalities and thereby to early Russian prosperity. The Russians are caught in a double bind, damned...
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Why Russians Should Not Read Sartre, or the Search for God in Two Extremities of Europe

Magazine article by Yelena Mazour-Matusevich; Cross Currents, Vol. 59, December 2009

Subjects:

Elite (Social sciences)--Evaluation, French fiction--Criticism and interpretation, Novelists--Works, Russian fiction--Criticism and interpretation, Sartre, Jean-Paul--Works

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...intellectual endeavor. Indeed, if Russian literature exists for man and is addressed...bourgeoisie are purely French concepts. The Russians (and many others) did not understand...writer Dmitry Merezhkovsky put it, Russian people can be accused of many crimes...salvation of human souls, both French and Russian forms of spiritual awakening mostly...all great religions. Epilog: So why Russians should not read Sartre? It appears...
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In the Company of Lenin: Embarking on a Study of the Russian Revolutionary's Long Years in Exile, Helen Rappaport Unveiled the Strangely Compelling and Sometimes Surprising Private Life of a Man Driven by Dogma

Magazine article by Helen Rappaport; History Today, Vol. 59, October 2009

Subjects:

Heads of state--History, Lenin, Vladimir I.--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...revolution, the Gulag, the purges had been done and done very...among his colleagues. The Russian word konspiratsiya (in the...his fellow activists in the Russian underground at home and abroad...frequently quarrelsome world of the Russian revolutionary in exile in...help of others; not just the Russians in the movement who protected...

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Newspaper Articles on: russian purges

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PURGE OF THE NATIVE HEART; A Host of Lithuanians, a Cabal of Russians, No Scots. and No Idea Who's in Charge on Saturday

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 22, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

PURGE OF THE NATIVE HEART; A Host of Lithuanians, a Cabal of Russians, No Scots. and No Idea Whos in Charge on Saturday...GREECHAN THIS is starting to look like an old-fashioned purge. Anyone would think that Vladimir Romanov has something...
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Call for Unity as Russia Remembers the Victims of Stalinist Purges; INTERNATIONAL

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), October 31, 2007

Subjects:

Putin, Vladimir

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Remembers the Victims of Stalinist Purges; INTERNATIONAL. Vladimir...repeat of its tragic past. The Russian President, a former KGB spy...for the victims of Stalins purges with a visit to Butovo, a...Patriarch Alexiy II, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, after passing...to commemorate millions of Russians who were killed in purges...
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Yeltsin Fires Most Cabinet Members: Retains 2 Reformers in Sweeping Purge

Newspaper article by Martin Sieff; The Washington Times, March 12, 1997

Subjects:

Chubais, Anatoly

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Retains 2 reformers in sweeping purge by Martin Sieff President Boris...month. The announcement sent Russian stock prices soaring and seemed...of New York and an expert on Russian nationalism. "The imperative...wages to the long-suffering Russian people, Mr. Merkel said...
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Russia's Olympic Flop Sparks Athletics Purge

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), March 5, 2010

Subjects:

News agencies, The Associated Press

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Olympic Flop Sparks Athletics Purge. Byline: Simon Shuster Associated...Vancouver Olympics, triggering a purge of sporting officials in an...sporting world Thursday as Russian Olympic Committee chief Leonid...surgically removing a tattoo of the Russian flag.
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'Macbeth' Russian Style; Satire on Savage Oppression

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 6, 2007

Subjects:

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...satirical intent is clear: The Russian people have merely swapped...the Great Terror of Stalins purges. "Lady Macbeth" is also intensely Russian, a worthy successor to Modest...Brunhilde. This taxing Russian role requires a superwoman...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: russian purges

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Russian Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

RUSSIAN LITERATURE literary works mainly produced in the historic area...earliest days in Church Slavonic and after the 17th cent. in the Russian language. Early Literature Russian literature was first produced after the introduction of Christianity...
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...events in pre-1917 Russian history were extolled...thousand victims of the purges were such prominent CPSU...demands, and the Finnish-Russian War of 1939 40 resulted...round of anti-Semitic purges, killing many prominent...the government claimed Russian origins for nearly everything...
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Ukraine

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the nationalist movement in Russian Ukraine. This movement was...advance) and 1943 44 (the Russian advance). Most of Ukraines...tacit junior partners of the Russians in governing the Soviet Union...Nikita Khrushchev , although a Russian by birth, served as first...carried out the Stalinist purges in Ukraine. In 1986 one of...
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Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...vich p styirnak , 1890 1960, Russian poet and translator. Pasternak...for many years. During the purges of the 1930s, Pasternak came...Pasternak became the hero of Russian intellectuals. His very rare...the great tradition of the Russian epic. The life of the physician...
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Communist Party , in Russia and the Soviet Union

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...1898 they united to form the Russian Social Democratic Labor party...Seizure of Power When the Russian Revolution began in Mar...Bolshevik party from 1918 the All-Russian Communist party was at the...from rural areas. A series of purges in the 1930s decimated the...

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