Russia's Life-saver

2004 History

Author : Albert Loren Weeks
Release : 2004
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 362/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Russia's Life-saver by : Albert Loren Weeks

Download or read book Russia's Life-saver written by Albert Loren Weeks. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The United States is a country of machines. Without the use of these machines through Lend-Lease, we would lose this war." --Josef Stalin (1943), quoted in W. Averell Harriman and Elie Abel, Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin, 1941-1946, Random House, N.Y., 1975, p. 277 The United States shipped more than $12 billion in Lend-Lease aid to Stalin's Russia during World War II. Materials lent, beginning in late 1941 before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, included airplanes and tanks, locomotives and rails, construction materials, entire military production assembly lines, food and clothing, aviation fuel, and much else. Lend-Lease is now recognized by post-Soviet Russian historians as essential to the Soviet war effort. Wielding many facts and statistics never before published in the U.S., author Albert L. Weeks keenly analyzes the diplomatic rationale for and results of this assistance. Russia's Life-Saver is a brilliant contribution to the study of U.S.-Soviet relations and its role in World War II.

Russia's Life-Saver

2004-01-29 History

Author : Albert L. Weeks
Release : 2004-01-29
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 540/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Russia's Life-Saver written by Albert L. Weeks. This book was released on 2004-01-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The United States is a country of machines. Without the use of these machines through Lend-Lease, we would lose this war.' —Josef Stalin (1943), quoted in W. Averell Harriman and Elie Abel, Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin, 1941-1946, Random House, N.Y., 1975, p. 277 The United States shipped more than $12 billion in Lend-Lease aid to Stalin's Russia during World War II. Materials lent, beginning in late 1941 before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, included airplanes and tanks, locomotives and rails, construction materials, entire military production assembly lines, food and clothing, aviation fuel, and much else. Lend-Lease is now recognized by post-Soviet Russian historians as essential to the Soviet war effort. Wielding many facts and statistics never before published in the U.S., author Albert L. Weeks keenly analyzes the diplomatic rationale for and results of this assistance. Russia's Life-Saver is a brilliant contribution to the study of U.S.-Soviet relations and its role in World War II.

The Whisperers

2008-09-04 History

Author : Orlando Figes
Release : 2008-09-04
Genre : History
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Download or read book The Whisperers written by Orlando Figes. This book was released on 2008-09-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a huge range of sources - letters, memoirs, conversations - Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin. Those who shaped the political system became, very frequently, its victims. Those who were its victims were frequently quite blameless. The Whisperers recreates the sort of maze in which Russians found themselves, where an unwitting wrong turn could either destroy a family or, perversely, later save it: a society in which everyone spoke in whispers - whether to protect themselves, their families, neighbours or friends - or to inform on them.

Bitter Waters

1998-08-14 History

Author : Gennady M. Andreev-Khomiakov
Release : 1998-08-14
Genre : History
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Download or read book Bitter Waters written by Gennady M. Andreev-Khomiakov. This book was released on 1998-08-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on life and work after the author's release in 1935 from a Soviet labor camp, his story is told chronologically, and begins with his difficulties finding a job in the Russian provinces. This memoir may be most valuable for what it reveals about Russian society and economy and the indomitable creativity with which ordinary people sustained both their lives.

Life on the Russian Country Estate

1997-09-01 History

Author : Priscilla R. Roosevelt
Release : 1997-09-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 627/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Life on the Russian Country Estate written by Priscilla R. Roosevelt. This book was released on 1997-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Om livet på de russiske godser indtil revolutionen

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