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Free Download Ronald D. Humble, "The Soviet Space Programme "
English | ISBN: 1032675470 | 2024 | 178 pages | PDF | 9 MB
The Soviet Space Programme (1988) presents a comprehensive over-view of the Soviet space programme from its beginnings up to the end of the 1980s. One important theme explored is the degree to which the Soviet space programme was oriented towards military capabilities. The book concludes that the degree of military involvement was indeed high.

Free Download The Soviet Nuclear Archipelago: A Historical Geography of Atomic-Powered Communism
by Per Högselius, Achim Klüppelberg
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9633866472 | 177 Pages | PDF | 4.2 MB

Free Download Danilo Udovicki-Selb, "Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes: Architecture and Stalin’s Revolution from Above, 1928-1938"
English | ISBN: 1474299865 | 2020 | 264 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Conventional readings of the history of Soviet art and architecture show modernist utopian aspirations as all but prohibited by 1932 under Stalin’s totalitarianism. Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes challenges that view. Radically redefining the historiography of the period, it reveals how the relationship between the Party and practicing architects was much more complex and contradictory than previously believed, and shows, in contrast to the conventional scholarly narrative, how the architectural avant-garde was able to persist at a time when it is widely considered to have been driven underground.

Free Download Post-Soviet Women: New Challenges and Ways to Empowerment
by Ann-Mari Sätre, Yulia Gradskova
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031380657 | 377 Pages | True PDF | 6.9 MB

Free Download Charles River Editors, Steve Knupp (Narrator), "Georgy Zhukov: The Life and Legacy of the Soviet Union’s Greatest General during World War II"
English | ISBN: 9798868707858 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~01:57:00 | 54 MB
The Soviets were so caught by surprise at the start of the attack that the Germans were able to push several hundred miles into Russia across a front that stretched dozens of miles long, reaching the major cities of Leningrad and Sevastopol in just three months. The first major Russian city in their path was Minsk, which fell in only six days. In order to make clear his determination to win at all costs, Stalin had the three men in charge of the troops defending Minsk executed for their failure to hold their position. This move, along with unspeakable atrocities by the German soldiers against the people of Minsk, solidified the Soviet will.
For the next several years, the vast expanses of southern Russia and the Ukraine comprised most of the Eastern Front, where the two sides wrestled lethally for supremacy. Endless rolling plains, vast forests, sprawling cities, and enormous tracts of agricultural land formed the environment over which millions of men and thousands of the era’s most formidable military vehicles fought for their respective overlords and ideologies. If Hitler’s Wehrmacht smashed the Red Army, he might not be able to hope for a lightning conquest, but the Fuhrer could expect the Soviet strongman to sue for peace on terms advantageous to Germany. If, conversely, the Red Army triumphed, Stalin could continue rallying the Soviet Union and move closer to expelling the loathed "Nemets" invaders from Russian soil – and perhaps carve out an empire in Central and Eastern Europe.

Free Download León Trotsky, Jonathan Booth (Narrator), "The Revolution Betrayed: What Is the Soviet Union and Where Is It Going?"
English | ASIN: B09Q9B46X9 | 2022 | M4B@64 kbps | ~09:39:00 | 281 MB
It is June 1936. Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) has finally been granted a visa for asylum in Norway, having been banned first from living in Paris, and then the whole of France. With him comes the draft of The Revolution Betrayed: What Is the Soviet Union and Where Is It Going?, which is completed and sent to the ✅Publishers on the 4th of August. The book, published by Faber in 1937, is considered to be Trotsky’s major work on Stalinism. Trotsky’s passion for the spirit of the Revolution he co-founded, his disgust and sadness at how the people of Russia have been betrayed by Stalin and his acolytes, shows us the bleak lives of 170 million Russians under the absolute control of ‘the Ten Thousand’ of the bureaucracy.
Trotsky reminds us of the high concepts of the 1917 October Revolution, (Marx’s ‘From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs’) with the sharing of the nation’s resources for the benefit of all. Prominent among such forward thinking was the commitment to lift women out of the trap of housework and childbirth by communal refectories and creches in the workplace. He praises the positive economic advances of the USSR since the death of Lenin – the growth in areas such as industrial and electrical output. But he notes the continued and inevitable low productivity (much lower than the capitalist West, he acknowledges) that is the result of lack of incentive for the Soviet worker. This, he argues, will never allow the country to lift itself up to full potential, despite Stalin’s ever-changing Five-Year Plans.
Indeed, it is this zig-zagging of panicked policy and bovine directionlessness that frustrates Trotsky so much. It is bad enough that Stalin and his self-serving cohorts have formed a Thermidorian regime of brutal repression and conservative nest-feathering. But even worse, their economic adventurism is carrying ‘the nation to the edge of disaster’.

Free Download Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists: Ilf and Petrov’s American Road Trip
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1316518469 | 355 Pages | PDF | 9 MB
In 1935, two Soviet satirists, Ilia Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, undertook a 10,000 mile American road trip from New York to Hollywood and back accompanied only by their guide and chauffeur, a gregarious Russian Jewish immigrant and his American-born, Russian-speaking wife. They immortalized their journey in a popular travelogue that condemned American inequality and racism even as it marvelled at American modernity and efficiency. Lisa Kirschenbaum reconstructs the epic journey of the two Soviet funnymen and their encounters with a vast cast of characters, ranging from famous authors, artists, poets and filmmakers to unemployed hitchhikers and revolutionaries. Using the authors’ notes, US and Russian archives, and even FBI files, she reveals the role of ordinary individuals in shaping foreign relations as Ilf, Petrov and the immigrants, communists, and fellow travelers who served as their hosts, guides, and translators became creative actors in cultural exchange between the two countries.

Free Download Eastern Front 1945
by Hiestand, William E.;Laurier, Jim;, Jim Laurier
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1472857828 | 97 pages | True PDF EPUB | 29.55 MB

Free Download Securing the Seas: the Soviet Naval Challenge and Western Alliance Options By Paul H. Nitze; Leonard Sullivan; Atlantic Council Working Group on Securing the Seas
2019 | 499 Pages | ISBN: 0367286904 | PDF | 51 MB
This book is the effort of experts brought together by the Atlantic Council to analyze the capabilities of the Western Alliance to defend sea lines of communication under various conditions of peace, tension, and war. It reviews the way in which Soviet naval forces have been used in the Alliance.

Free Download Crisis and Progress in the Soviet Economy, 1931-1933 by R. W. Davies
English | PDF | 1996 | 629 Pages | ISBN : 0333311051 | 139.2 MB
The profound economic crisis of 1931-33 undermined the process of industrialisation and the stability of the regime. In spite of feverish efforts to achieve the over ambitious first five-year plan, the great industrial projects lagged far behind schedule. These were years of inflation, economic disorder and of terrible famine in 1933.