128 Results for : trotsky
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A Spy's Guide to Santa Fe and Albuquerque , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 182min
When thinking of New Mexico, few Americans think spy-vs.-spy intrigue, but in fact, to many international intelligence operatives, the state's name is nearly synonymous with espionage, and Santa Fe is a sacred site. The KGB's single greatest intelligence and counterintelligence coups, and the planning of the organization's most infamous assassination, all took place within one mile of Bishop Lamy's statue in front of Saint Francis Cathedral in central Santa Fe. In this fascinating guide, former CIA agent E. B. Held uses declassified documents from both the CIA and KGB, as well as secondary sources, to trace some of the most notorious spying events in United States history. His work guides modern visitors through the history of such events as the plot to assassinate Leon Trotsky, Ted Hall's delivery of technical details of the atom bomb to the KGB, and the controversial allegations regarding Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist Dr. Wen Ho Lee's contacts with China. Held provides background material as well as modern site locations to allow Cold War enthusiasts the opportunity to explore in a whole new way the settings for these historical events. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Pierce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/018640/bk_acx0_018640_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul (eBook, ePUB)
"Hugely enjoyable, magnificently researched, and deeply absorbing." —Jason Goodwin, New York Times Book Review At midnight, December 31, 1925, citizens of the newly proclaimed Turkish Republic celebrated the New Year. For the first time ever, they had agreed to use a nationally unified calendar and clock. Yet in Istanbul—an ancient crossroads and Turkey's largest city—people were looking toward an uncertain future. Never purely Turkish, Istanbul was home to generations of Greeks, Armenians, and Jews, as well as Muslims. It welcomed White Russian nobles ousted by the Russian Revolution, Bolshevik assassins on the trail of the exiled Leon Trotsky, German professors, British diplomats, and American entrepreneurs—a multicultural panoply of performers and poets, do-gooders and ne'er-do-wells. During the Second World War, thousands of Jews fleeing occupied Europe found passage through Istanbul, some with the help of the future Pope John XXIII. At the Pera Palace, Istanbul's most luxurious hotel, so many spies mingled in the lobby that the manager posted a sign asking them to relinquish their seats to paying guests. In beguiling prose and rich character portraits, Charles King brings to life a remarkable era when a storied city stumbled into the modern world and reshaped the meaning of cosmopolitanism.- Shop: buecher
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Animal Farm , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 191min
Animal Farm is George Orwell's great socio-political allegory set in a farmyard, where the animals decide to seize the farmer's land and create a co-operative that reaps the benefits of their combined labours. However, as with all great political plans, some animals see a bigger share of the rewards than others, and the animals start to question their supposed utopia. They decide that working for humans is doing them no favours, so under the leadership of Napoleon, the only Berkshire Boar on the farm, and the other pigs, they drive out the farmer and his cohorts and set about structuring their own society.Based on a list of supposedly animal-friendly rules such as "four legs good, two legs baaaaad", the animals work together to harvest their own food and run their own farm. However, little by little, the rules begin to mysteriously change, and the pigs seem to gain power little by little, making the animals question what society they were striving for in the first place and whether their new-found freedom is as liberating as they might have hoped. With direct allusions to political figures such as Lenin, Marx, Trotsky, Stalin, and Molitov, to name but a few, Animal Farm is one of the greatest socio-political works of all time, and this UNABRIDGED audio does it absolute justice. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Callow. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/csaw/000183/bk_csaw_000183_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The meeting of The Military Council under the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR June 1-4 1937
The meeting of The Military Council under the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR June 1-4 1937 ab 47.49 € als Taschenbuch: Tukhachevsky - Trotsky Collaboration. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,- Shop: hugendubel
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October: The Story of the Russian Revolution , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 697min
The renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Mieville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution, and here, on the centenary of the revolution, he provides his own distinctive take on its history. In February 1917, in the midst of bloody war, Russia was still an autocratic monarchy: nine months later it became the first socialist state in world history. How did this unimaginable transformation take place? How was a ravaged and backward country, swept up in a desperately unpopular war, rocked by not one but two revolutions? This is the story of the extraordinary months between those upheavals, in February and October, of the forces and individuals who made 1917 so epochal a year, of their intrigues, negotiations, conflicts and catastrophes. From familiar names like Lenin and Trotsky to their opponents Kornilov and Kerensky; from the byzantine squabbles of urban activists to the remotest villages of a sprawling empire; from the revolutionary railroad Sublime to the ciphers and static of coup by telegram; from grand sweep to forgotten detail. Historians have debated the revolution for 100 years, its portents and possibilities: the mass of literature can be daunting. But here is a book for those new to the events, told not only in their historical import but in all their passion and drama and strangeness. Because as well as a political event of profound and ongoing consequence, Mieville reveals the Russian Revolution as a breathtaking story. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Banks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/029800/bk_adbl_029800_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Russian Legends: The Life and Legacy of Nikita Khrushchev , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 115min
A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' Russian Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of Russia's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. For 30 years, much of the West looked on with disdain as the Bolsheviks took power in Russia and created and consolidated the Soviet Union. As bad as Vladimir Lenin seemed in the early 20th century, Joseph Stalin was so much worse that Churchill later remarked of Lenin, "Their worst misfortune was his birth ... their next worst his death." Before World War II, Stalin consolidated his position by frequently purging party leaders (most famously Leon Trotsky) and Red Army leaders, executing hundreds of thousands of people at the least. And in one of history's greatest textbook examples of the idea that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, Stalin's Soviet Union allied with Britain and the United States to defeat Hitler in Europe during World War II. Stalin had ruled with an iron fist for nearly 30 years before his death in 1953, which may or may not have been murder, just as Stalin was preparing to conduct another purge. With his death, Soviet strongman and long-time Stalinist Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), who had managed to stay a step ahead of Stalin's purges if only because he participated in them, became the Soviet premier. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Clem. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/086386/bk_acx0_086386_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Russian communists
Russian communists ab 33.99 € als Taschenbuch: Mikhail Gorbachev Leon Trotsky Vyacheslav Molotov Felix Dzerzhinsky Nikolai Bukharin Kliment Voroshilov Zhores Alferov Karl Radek Vladimir Mayakovsky Mikhail Botvinnik Vladimir Lenin Aleksandr Vasilevsky Victor Serge. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,- Shop: hugendubel
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Bolsheviks
Bolsheviks ab 38.49 € als Taschenbuch: Nikita Khrushchev Leon Trotsky Bolshevik Lavrentiy Beria Georgy Zhukov Russian Social Democratic Labour Party Nikolay Gerasimovich Kuznetsov Henri Barbusse Lev Kamenev Vladimir Mayakovsky Maxim Litvinov Christian Rakovsky Kamo. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,- Shop: hugendubel
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Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
Communist Party of the Soviet Union members ab 51.49 € als Taschenbuch: Leon Trotsky Vladimir Putin Anatoly Karpov Dmitri Shostakovich Nikolay Gerasimovich Kuznetsov Lev Kamenev Sergei Korolev Nursultan Nazarbayev Artem Mikoyan Ruslan Khasbulatov Alexander Lukashenko Christian Rakovsky. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,- Shop: hugendubel
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Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members ab 37.49 € als Taschenbuch: Leon Trotsky Vyacheslav Molotov Felix Dzerzhinsky Nikolai Bukharin Kliment Voroshilov Grigory Zinoviev Lev Kamenev Vladimir Mayakovsky Maxim Litvinov Vladimir Lenin Anastas Mikoyan Nikolai Krylenko Sergey Kavtaradze. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,- Shop: hugendubel
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