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Agents of Terror

Ordinary Men and Extraordinary Violence in Stalin's Secret Police

By: Alexander Vatlin

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Agents of Terror

Ordinary Men and Extraordinary Violence in Stalin's Secret Police

By: Alexander Vatlin

During Stalin's Great Terror, more than a million Soviet citizens were arrested or killed for political crimes they did not commit. Who carried out these purges, and what motivated them? Alexander Vatlin opens up the world of the Soviet perpetrators using detailed evidence from one Moscow suburb. Spurred by ambition or fear, local secret police rushed to fulfill quotas for arresting "enemies of the people"-even when it meant fabricating evidence. Vatlin confronts head-on issues of historical agency and moral responsibility in Stalin-era crimes.

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University of Wisconsin Pres

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0299310809

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Agents of Terror

Ordinary Men and Extraordinary Violence in Stalin's Secret Police

By: Alexander Vatlin

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Ordinary Men and Extraordinary Violence in Stalin's Secret Police

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Victorious in Defeat

The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887-1975

By: Alexander V. Pantsov

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Victorious in Defeat

The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887-1975

By: Alexander V. Pantsov

An extensively researched, comprehensive biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth century’s most powerful and controversial figures Chiang Kai-shek (1887–1975) led the Republic of China for almost fifty years, starting in 1926. He was the architect of a new, republican China, a hero of the Second World War, and a faithful ally of the United States. Simultaneously a Christian and a Confucian, Chiang dreamed of universal equality yet was a perfidious and cunning dictator responsible for the deaths of over 1.5 million innocent people. This critical biography is based on Chiang Kai-shek’s unpublished diaries, his extensive personal files from the Russian archives, and the Russian files of his relatives, associates, and foes. Alexander V. Pantsov sheds new light on the role played by the Russians in Chiang’s rise to power in the 1920s and throughout his political career—and indeed the Russian influence on the Chinese revolutionary movement as a whole—as well as on Chiang’s complex relationship with top officials of the United States. It is a detailed portrait of a man who ranks with Stalin, Roosevelt, Hitler, Churchill, and Gandhi as leaders who shaped our world.

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Yale University Press

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0300271697

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9780300271690

Making the World Safe for Dictatorship

By: Alexander Dukalskis

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Making the World Safe for Dictatorship

By: Alexander Dukalskis

Making the World Safe for Dictatorship is about how authoritarian states manage their image abroad using both "promotional" tactics of persuasion and "obstructive" tactics of repression. All states attempt to manage their global image to some degree, but authoritarian states in the post-Cold War era have special incentives to do so given the predominance of democracy as an international norm. Alexander Dukalskis looks at the tactics that authoritarian states use for image management and the ways in which their strategies vary from one state to another. Moreover, Dukalskis looks at the degree to which some authoritarian states succeed in using image management to enhance their internal and external security, and, in turn, to make their world safe for dictatorship.

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Oxford University Press

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0197520138

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French and Soviet Musical Diplomacies in Post-War Austria, 1945-1955

By: Alexander Golovlev

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French and Soviet Musical Diplomacies in Post-War Austria, 1945-1955

By: Alexander Golovlev

French and Soviet Musical Diplomacies in Post-War Austria, 1945-1955 investigates how promoting 'national' music and musicians was used as an important asset by France and the USSR in post-Nazi Austria, covering music’s role in international relations at various levels, within changing power frameworks. Bridging international relations, musical sociology, media studies, and Cold War history, four incisive chapters examine the crossroads of Soviet, French, and Austrian cultural politics and discourse-building, presented in two parts - institutions of musical diplomacy: Soviet and French cultural diplomats in comparison; sounds of music coming to Austria: Soviet and French musicians on tour. Using a communication- and media-oriented approach, this study casts new light, firstly, on the interpretative power of 'receiving' publics and, secondly, on the role of cultural transmitters at different levels. This is a valuable study for those specialising in Russian and East European music and music and politics. It will also appeal to cultural historians and all those interested in the intersections between music, international relations, and Cold War history.

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184

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Taylor & Francis

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1000827763

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9781000827767

Exit from Hegemony

The Unraveling of the American Global Order

By: Alexander Cooley,Daniel Nexon

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Exit from Hegemony

The Unraveling of the American Global Order

By: Alexander Cooley,Daniel Nexon

We live in a period of great uncertainty about the fate of America's global leadership. Many believe that Donald Trump's presidency marks the end of liberal international order-the very system of global institutions, rules, and values that shaped the American international system since the end of World War II. Trump's repeated rejection of liberal order, criticisms of long-term allies of the US, and affinity for authoritarian leaders certainly undermines the American international system, but the truth is that liberal international order has been quietly eroding for at least 15 years. In Exit from Hegemony, Alexander Cooley and Daniel Nexon develop a new, integrated approach to understanding the rise and decline of hegemonic orders. Their approach identifies three distinct ways in which the liberal international order is undergoing fundamental transformation. First, Russia and China have targeted the order, positioning themselves as revisionist powers by establishing alternative regional institutions and pushing counter-norms. Second, weaker states are hollowing out the order by seeking patronage and security partnership from nations outside of the order, such as Saudi Arabia and China. Even though they do not always seek to disrupt American hegemony, these new patron-client relationships lack the same liberal political and economic conditions as those involving the United States and its democratic allies. Third, a new series of transnational networks emphasizing illiberalism, nationalism, and right-wing values increasing challenges the anti-authoritarian, progressive transnational networks of the 1990s. These three pathways erode the primacy of the liberal international order from above, laterally, and from below. The Trump administration, with its "America First" doctrine, accelerates all three processes, critically lessening America's position as a world power.

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Oxford University Press

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0190916494

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Mao

The Real Story

By: Alexander V. Pantsov,Steven I. Levine

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Mao

The Real Story

By: Alexander V. Pantsov,Steven I. Levine

Originally published in a different version in 2007 in Russian by Molodaia Gvardiia as Mao Tzedun"--Title page verso.

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Simon and Schuster

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1451654480

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9781451654486

The Kremlin's Chinese Advance Guard

Chinese Students in Soviet Russia, 1917-1940

By: Daria Arincheva,Alexander Pantsov

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The Kremlin's Chinese Advance Guard

Chinese Students in Soviet Russia, 1917-1940

By: Daria Arincheva,Alexander Pantsov

This book is a comprehensive historical study of the Bolshevik system of ideological and political indoctrination of a substantial number of Chinese revolutionaries, who studied in Comintern international institutions in Soviet Russia from the October Revolution of 1917 to the Great Terror of the late 1930s. Including analysis of previously unknown documentary materials from the Bolshevik Party and Comintern archives, as well as memoirs of former Chinese students and prisoners of Stalin’s camps, the book determines how effective the training of Chinese students in the main educational centers in Moscow was, how well it compared to the existing level of Marxist education in the USSR, and how the Stalinist regime defined the lives and fates of the Chinese revolutionaries in Soviet Russia. In raising questions about the transferability of revolutionary ideology, experience, and practice from the revolutionaries of one country to would-be revolutionaries in other countries the authors ask: can revolution be exported? Shedding light on an under-explored aspect of the early history of the CCP and the Soviet Bolshevik Party this book will be a valuable resource to both students and scholars of Chinese and Russian history and politics.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000873900

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Agents of Terror

Agents of Terror

Agents of Terror

Agents of Terror

Victorious in Defeat

Victorious in Defeat

Making the World Safe for Dictatorship

Making the World Safe for Dictatorship

French and Soviet Musical Diplomacies in Post-War Austria, 1945-1955

French and Soviet Musical Diplomacies in Post-War Austria, 1945-1955

Exit from Hegemony

Exit from Hegemony

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Mao

The Kremlin's Chinese Advance Guard

The Kremlin's Chinese Advance Guard

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