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Author : Michael J. Hellyer
Release : 1978
Genre : North America
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Book Rating : 727/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Spotlight on North America and the USSR by : Michael J. Hellyer
Download or read book Spotlight on North America and the USSR written by Michael J. Hellyer. This book was released on 1978. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Release : 1975
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Book Synopsis Spotlight on Soviet Jewry by :
Download or read book Spotlight on Soviet Jewry written by . This book was released on 1975. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article reviews the history of Jewish immigration from the Soviet Union to the United States. It also provides an historical perspective of the acculturation process of Soviet Jewry. The author argues that Soviet Jews who chose to emigrate did so for a number of reasons: in order to legitimize the efforts of those dissidents before them; to provide a future for their children; for religious reasons; or to escape the impoverished repression of the Soviet Union. According to the author, it was this emigrating mass of poor Soviet Jews that helped create the eighty-eight Jewish communities that exist in the United States today. In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, 52:2.
Author : Jonathan Brunstedt
Release : 2021-07-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 752/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Soviet Myth of World War II by : Jonathan Brunstedt
Download or read book The Soviet Myth of World War II written by Jonathan Brunstedt. This book was released on 2021-07-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a bold new interpretation of the origins and development of World War II's remembrance in the USSR.
Author : Douglas Smith
Release : 2019-11-05
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 385/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Russian Job by : Douglas Smith
Download or read book The Russian Job written by Douglas Smith. This book was released on 2019-11-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing, little-known story of an American effort to save the newly formed Soviet Union from disaster After decades of the Cold War and renewed tensions, in the wake of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, cooperation between the United States and Russia seems impossible to imagine—and yet, as Douglas Smith reveals, it has a forgotten but astonishing historical precedent. In 1921, facing one of the worst famines in history, the new Soviet government under Vladimir Lenin invited the American Relief Administration, Herbert Hoover’s brainchild, to save communist Russia from ruin. For two years, a small, daring band of Americans fed more than ten million men, women, and children across a million square miles of territory. It was the largest humanitarian operation in history—preventing the loss of countless lives, social unrest on a massive scale, and, quite possibly, the collapse of the communist state. Now, almost a hundred years later, few in either America or Russia have heard of the ARA. The Soviet government quickly began to erase the memory of American charity. In America, fanatical anti-communism would eclipse this historic cooperation with the Soviet Union. Smith resurrects the American relief mission from obscurity, taking the reader on an unforgettable journey from the heights of human altruism to the depths of human depravity. The story of the ARA is filled with political intrigue, espionage, the clash of ideologies, violence, adventure, and romance, and features some of the great historical figures of the twentieth century. In a time of cynicism and despair about the world’s ability to confront international crises, The Russian Job is a riveting account of a cooperative effort unmatched before or since.
Author : Victoria Smolkin
Release : 2019-10-29
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 237/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Sacred Space Is Never Empty by : Victoria Smolkin
Download or read book A Sacred Space Is Never Empty written by Victoria Smolkin. This book was released on 2019-10-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Bolsheviks set out to build a new world in the wake of the Russian Revolution, they expected religion to die off. Soviet power used a variety of tools--from education to propaganda to terror—to turn its vision of a Communist world without religion into reality. Yet even with its monopoly on ideology and power, the Soviet Communist Party never succeeded in overcoming religion and creating an atheist society. A Sacred Space Is Never Empty presents the first history of Soviet atheism from the 1917 revolution to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Drawing on a wealth of archival material and in-depth interviews with those who were on the front lines of Communist ideological campaigns, Victoria Smolkin argues that to understand the Soviet experiment, we must make sense of Soviet atheism. Smolkin shows how atheism was reimagined as an alternative cosmology with its own set of positive beliefs, practices, and spiritual commitments. Through its engagements with religion, the Soviet leadership realized that removing religion from the "sacred spaces" of Soviet life was not enough. Then, in the final years of the Soviet experiment, Mikhail Gorbachev—in a stunning and unexpected reversal—abandoned atheism and reintroduced religion into Soviet public life. A Sacred Space Is Never Empty explores the meaning of atheism for religious life, for Communist ideology, and for Soviet politics.
