The Big Picture. National Archives and Records Service.

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A biography of no place : from ethnic borderland to Soviet heartland / Kate Brown. by Brown, Kate (Kathryn L.)

Table of Contents: “…Machine derived contents note: Glossary -- Introduction -- 1 Inventory -- 2 Ghosts in the Bathhouse -- 3 Moving Pictures -- 4 The Power to Name -- 5 A Diary of Deportation -- 6 The Great Purges and the Rights of Man -- 7 Deportee into Colonizer -- 8 Racial Hierarchies -- Epilogue: Shifting Borders, Shifting Identities -- Notes -- Archival Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Index.…”
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On Stalin's team : the years of living dangerously in Soviet Politics / Sheila Fitzpatrick. by Fitzpatrick, Sheila

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Title; Copyright; Contents; Explanatory Note; Glossary; Introduction; One The Team Emerges; Two The Great Break; Three In Power; Four The Team on View; Five The Great Purges; Six Into War; Seven Postwar Hopes; Eight Aging Leader; Nine Without Stalin; Ten End of the Road; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; Biographies; Bibliography of Works Cited; Index; Section 1; Section 2…”
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The Russian revolution, 1917-1945 / Anthony D'Agostino. by D'Agostino, Anthony

Table of Contents: “…Land and people -- The intelligentsia and the West -- Russia the modernizing old regime -- Russia goes to war -- 1917 -- Civil war and war communism, 1918-1921 -- From Lenin to Stalin, 1921-1928 -- The Soviets in world affairs -- Agricultural collectivization and five-year plan, 1929-1933 -- The Great Purge and the path to World War Two -- The fate of the revolution -- The Hitler-Stalin pact, 1939-1941 -- World War Two : Russia versus Germany -- A debate: Was Stalin necessary?…”
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Policing Stalin's socialism : repression and social order in the Soviet Union, 1924-1953 / David R. Shearer. by Shearer, David R., 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: policing, social order, and repression under Stalin -- A new kind of class war -- Police and social disorder -- A Soviet gendarmerie -- Informants, surveillance, and prophylactic policing -- Cataloging the population -- The campaigns against marginals -- Policing juveniles, policing debates -- Passports, identity, and mass policing -- "Once and for all time" : background to the Great Purges -- The mechanics of mass purging -- Outside the margins : the case of Kiril Korenev -- The war and postwar trends -- Conclusions: Repression, citizenship, and Stalin's socialism.…”
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The Soviet Union, Episode 1 / 3DD Entertainment.

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Motherland : Russia in the 20th century / David R. Marples. by Marples, David R.

Table of Contents: “…The period of change : collectivization, industrialization, and the Great Purge, 1929-1940 -- ch. 5. Soviet foreign policy in the interwar period, 1919-1940 -- ch. 6. …”
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The Soviet Story.

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Dmitry Shostakovich / Pauline Fairclough. by Fairclough, Pauline, 1970-

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Greetings, Pushkin! : Stalinist cultural politics and the Russian national bard / Jonathan Brooks Platt. by Platt, Jonathan Brooks

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World War II : roots and causes / revised, edited, and with an introduction by Keith Eubank.

Table of Contents: “…Stalin's foreign policy / Robert C. Tucker ; The great purges and collective security / Jiri Hochman -- The devil's bargain. …”
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Stalin's Psychiatrist - Joseph Stalin.

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Moscow, the fourth Rome : Stalinism, cosmopolitanism, and the evolution of Soviet culture, 1931-1941 / Katerina Clark. by Clark, Katerina

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Red star over Hollywood : the film colony's long romance with the left / Ronald Radosh, Allis Radosh. by Radosh, Ronald

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Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini Totalitarianism in the Twentieth Century. by Pauley, Bruce F.

Table of Contents: “…-- Health and Eugenics in Nazi Germany -- Religion: The Basic Incompatibility -- Chapter 7 Totalitarian Terror -- The Great Purges in the Soviet Union -- Terror and Persecution in the Fascist States…”
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The defiant life of Vera Figner : surviving the Russian revolution / Lynne Ann Hartnett. by Hartnett, Lynne Ann

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The last revolutionaries : German communists and their century / Catherine Epstein. by Epstein, Catherine

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The Russian Revolution / Sheila Fitzpatrick. by Fitzpatrick, Sheila

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