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Free Download David Lane, "Elites and Identities in Post-Soviet Space"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 113811846X | EPUB | pages: 214 | 0.9 mb
The dissolution of the communist system led to the creation of new states and the formation of new concepts of citizenship in the post-Soviet states of Central and Eastern Europe.

Free Download Valentin Gonzalez, Julian Gorkin, "El Campesino Life And Death In Soviet Russia"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1016433409 | EPUB | pages: 232 | 0.6 mb
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Free Download John D. Clarke, "French Eagles, Soviet Heroes: The Normandie-Niemen Squadrons on the Eastern Front"
English | ISBN: 0750940743 | 2005 | 288 pages | PDF | 1425 KB
In 1942, General de Gaulle agreed to send French pilots to fight alongside the Red Air Force against the Germans on the Eastern Front. On 1 September 1942, the Groupe de Chasse III or 3rd Fighter Group ‘Normandie’ was created, equipped with Yak-3 fighter aircraft. On 5 April 1943, pilots Preziosi and Durand shared the unit’s first ‘kill’. Over the next two years, the group became the most highly decorated fighter unit ever to fly for France, and the second highest scoring fighter air group of the Soviet Air Force. Such was their notoriety that in May 1943 an order was signed by the German General Keitel stating that all ‘Normandie’ pilots were to be shot if captured. The ‘Normandie’ Group took an active part in the air support of the epic Battle of Kursk and in 1944 Stalin added ‘Niemen’ to their title in recognition of the help they rendered to the Soviet Army in crossing this river. The first of the Western Allies to capture and occupy German territory, ‘Normandie-Niemen’ clashed with the crack German fighter group JG51 Molders in the air battle over Konigsberg in March 1945. By the war’s end the Group had racked up an impressive 273 confirmed victories and another 36 probables.

Free Download To the Gates of Stalingrad: Soviet-German Combat Operations, April-August 1942, The Stalingrad Trilogy, Volume I (Modern War Studies) by David Glantz, Jonathan M. House
English | April 21, 2009 | ISBN: 0700616306 | 678 pages | EPUB | 43 Mb
The confrontation between German and Soviet forces at Stalingrad was a titanic clash of armies on an unprecedented scale-a campaign that was both a turning point in World War II and a lasting symbol of that war’s power and devastation. Yet despite the attention lavished on this epic battle by historians, much about it has been greatly misunderstood or hidden from view-as David Glantz, the world’s foremost authority on the Red Army in World War II, now shows.

Free Download David Howard Goldberg, Paul Marantz, Stephen Page, "The Decline Of The Soviet Union And The Transformation Of The Middle East"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0813386527, 0367306646 | EPUB | pages: 240 | 0.7 mb
For more than three decades, the Soviet Union was a major force in the Middle East, and superpower rivalry exacerbated many of the conflicts endemic to the region. The end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union have fundamentally altered the rules of the game in Middle East politics, producing a new fluidity in the region, new diplomatic alignments, and new opportunities for peace. The contributors place recent developments in historical and political context, analyzing changes in Soviet Middle East policy under Gorbachev as well as evaluating developments since the demise of the Soviet Union. The evolution of Moscow’s policy toward the Arab states, Israel, the P.L.O., and the U.N. is given special attention. The contributors also examine the emergence of Islamic fundamentalism in the new states of Central Asia and weigh the potential implications of this development for the Middle East. In addition, they discuss security issues related to the transfer of military technology from former Soviet republics to the countries of the Middle East.

Free Download Meike Wulf, "Shadowlands: Memory and History in Post-Soviet Estonia"
English | ISBN: 178533073X | 2016 | 258 pages | PDF | 1308 KB
Located within the forgotten half of Europe, historically trapped between Germany and Russia, Estonia has been profoundly shaped by the violent conflicts and shifting political fortunes of the last century. This innovative study traces the tangled interaction of Estonian historical memory and national identity in a sweeping analysis extending from the Great War to the present day. At its heart is the enduring anguish of World War Two and the subsequent half-century of Soviet rule. Shadowlands tells this story by foregrounding the experiences of the country’s intellectuals, who were instrumental in sustaining Estonian historical memory, but who until fairly recently could not openly grapple with their nation’s complex, difficult past.

Free Download Laima Zilinskiene, "Soviet and Post-Soviet Lithuania – Generational Experiences "
English | ISBN: 0367902028 | 2021 | 248 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This book explores the impact on different generations of Lithuanians of the fifty-year Soviet modernisation project which was implemented in Lithuania from 1940 to 1991. It reveals the specific characteristics of ‘the last Soviet generation’, born in the 1970s, and sets this generation apart from those who were born earlier and later. It analyses changes in attitudes, choices and relationships in a variety of social spheres and contexts and the adaptation skills which were required during the late Soviet and post-Soviet transformation processes. Overall, it presents a great deal of detail on the social experiences of different generations in late Soviet and post-Soviet society.

Free Download Red Moon: The Soviet Conquest of Space (Popular Astronomy) by Massimo Capaccioli
English | May 9, 2024 | ISBN: 3031547594 | 216 pages | MOBI | 0.84 Mb
The book is about the "space race", starting from the earliest steps of astronautics to the Moon landings of Armstrong and Aldrin. The conquest of space began as a by-product of an exquisitely military project, the rapid, and efficient delivery of explosives, conventional and then nuclear, over great distances into enemy territory. It happened at the turn of World War II, first with the V2s, the Wunderwaffen that von Braun had created for his Führer, and, after the surrender of Germany and Japan, with the intercontinental ballistic missiles that the Russians and Americans built to serve as cabs for atomic bombs. Restrained by the fear of nuclear holocaust, the two great powers that had momentarily divided the government of the world turned the risky muscular confrontation into an unusual race to climb the sky: a stage race with a conventional finish line marked by the human landing on the Moon. Under the constant guidance of Sergei Korolev, the mysterious "chief designer", the Soviets got off to a surprise start and stayed in the lead until almost the end, with the Sputniks, the orbital flights of Gagarin and Tereshkova, the first spacewalk, and the unmanned soft landings on the Moon and Venus, only to be caught up and overtaken by the Americans at the very edge. An adventure that lasted a total of twelve years, marked by brilliant and courageous men, by astute and far-sighted politicians, by patriotism and ambition, and, as always, regulated by luck, which profoundly affected our world and the design of its future.

Free Download Unstuck in Time: On the Post-Soviet Uncanny
by Eliot Borenstein
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1501777882 | 215 Pages | PDF | 1.23 MB

Free Download Soviet and Nazi Defectors: Counter-Intelligence in WW2 and the Cold War
by Nigel West
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1036113884 | 296 Pages | True ePUB | 1.08 MB