This learned volume is about as chilling as historiography gets." -Walter Laqueur, The New Republic ... a one-volume study of Auschwitz without peer in Holocaust literature." -Kirkus Reviews ... a comprehensive portrait of the largest and most lethal of the Nazi death camps... serves as a vital contribution to Holocaust studies and a bulwark ......
Veteran Soviet statesman and longtime Politburo member Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan is perhaps best remembered in both the West and the post-Soviet space as a master political survivor who weathered every Soviet leader from Lenin to Brezhnev. Less well known is the pivotal role that Mikoyan played in dismantling and rejecting the Stalinist legacy and ......
Veteran Soviet statesman and longtime Politburo member Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan is perhaps best remembered in both the West and the post-Soviet space as a master political survivor who weathered every Soviet leader from Lenin to Brezhnev. Less well known is the pivotal role that Mikoyan played in dismantling and rejecting the Stalinist legacy and ......
Reform, Protest, and Suppression in Croatia, 1968-1971
The mass movement known as the Croatian Spring began with the Socialist Republic of Croatia's ruling Communist party, led by a new generation of party leaders who sought greater economic and political autonomy from Yugoslavia's federal government. It quickly grew outside of the party, particularly among students and intellectuals, and led to a ......
Reform, Protest, and Suppression in Croatia, 1968-1971
The mass movement known as the Croatian Spring began with the Socialist Republic of Croatia's ruling Communist party, led by a new generation of party leaders who sought greater economic and political autonomy from Yugoslavia's federal government. It quickly grew outside of the party, particularly among students and intellectuals, and led to a ......
This is a fascinating and unusual collection that deserves attention." -Bloomsbury Review ... this anthology of poetry is a breath of fresh air. It provides the reader with the means of gaining a deeper insight into Somali life through what is to the Somalis their most important cultural form, namely, poetry." -Bulletin of the School of Irental & ......
Transportation's Orphan and Its Struggle for Survival
Discover the story of Amtrak, America's Railroad, 50 years in the making. In 1971, in an effort to rescue essential freight railroads, the US government founded Amtrak. In the post-World War II era, aviation and highway development had become the focus of government policy in America. As rail passenger services declined in number and in quality, ......
On the nights of July 16 and 17, 1942, French police rounded up 11-year-old Joseph Weismann, his family, and 13,000 other Jews. They were held for five days at the Velodrome d'Hiver stadium, before being sent by cattle car to the Beaune-la-Rolande transit camp. But where would they be transported to? Separated from his parents, who were deported ......
From 1929 to 1958, hundreds of thousands of prisoners and exiles from across the Soviet Union were sent to the harsh yet resource-rich Komi Republic in Russia's Far North. When the Soviet Union collapsed, former prisoners sent their autobiographies to Komi's local branches of the anti-Stalinist Memorial Society and history museums. Using these ......
