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Focusing on the development of the Communist Party in Moscow between 1925 and 1932 and its ultimate assumption of absolute power. This volume examines in detail the political changes in Moscow, including the crisis over collectivization, and the organization strategy of the Party in Moscow.

In 1917 leek er nog lang geen einde te komen aan de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Nieuwe wapens en tactieken werden ontwikkeld om de oorlog te winnen. De Duitse regering kwam op het idee om verwarring te zaaien in het toch al chaotische Rusland door de revolutionaire extremist Vladimir Iljitsj Lenin, in ballingschap in Zwitserland, naar Petrograd te laten reizen. Met de hulp van Ruslands grootste vijand reed de verzegelde trein door Duitsland. Tijdens ...

A gripping account of how Lenin's 1917 train ride to Petrograd ignited the Russian Revolution.

A powerful, groundbreaking narrative of the ordinary Russian soldier's experience of the worst war in history, based on newly revealed sourcesOf the thirty million who fought in the eastern front of World War II, eight million died, driven forward in suicidal charges, shattered by German shells and tanks. They were the men and women of the Red Army, a ragtag mass of soldiers who confronted Europe's most lethal fighting force and by 1945 had de...