This gripping book assembles and translates into English for the first time top secret Soviet documents from 1932 to 1939, the era of Stalin's purges. The nearly 200 documents, including dossiers, police reports, private letters and secret transcripts, expose the hidden inner workings of the Communist Party and the dark inhumanity of the purge process.

Now updated with new facts, and abridged for use in Soviet history courses, this gripping book assembles top secret Soviet documents, translated into English, from the era of Stalin's purges. The dossiers, police reports, private letters, secret transcripts, and other documents expose the hidden inner workings of the Communist Party and the dark inhumanity of the purge process....(展开全部)

李德（Otto Braun）（1900年9月28日—1974年8月15日），又名华夫，曾用名李特罗夫。德国人，出生於慕尼黑，於孤兒院長大。1918年第一次世界大戰時被徵召入伍，但未參加戰爭。之後受師範教育，未成為教師卻加入德國共產黨。1921年在柏林被捕，旋獲釋，從事地下工作。1926年再被捕，入獄兩年後由共產黨人劫獄，逃出至莫斯科，進入伏龍芝軍事學院。1932年，實際部隊經驗只為伍長的李德作为共产国际派遣的中国共产党的军事顾问来到中国。1934年5月成为中国共产党最高领导层三人团的成员之一（另两位是博古和周恩来），曾经指挥第五次反围剿，期间國軍的不斷封鎖，導致紅軍被迫走上長征的逃亡路。1935年1月遵义会议中李德被剥夺领导权。后随红军长征到达了陕北，又从事了一段军事教育和研究工作。1939年奉命返回苏联。中国共产党认为李德在担任中共中央红军顾问期间...(展开全部)

For the last twenty years, The Destruction of the Bison has been an essential work in environmental history. Andrew C. Isenberg offers a concise analysis of the near-extinction of the North American bison population from an estimated 30 million in 1800 to fewer than 1000 a century later. His wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study carefully considers the multiple causes, cultural...(展开全部)

In this volume, Professor Niebuhr explores the philosophical and theological relationship of the human self to itself, others and God, with particular reference to both Hellenic and Hebraic frames of reference in Western thought, and as seen in the evolution of communities.

Victor Sebestyen's riveting biography of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin—the first major biography in English in nearly two decades—is not only a political examination of one of the most important historical figures of the twentieth century but also a fascinating portrait of Lenin the man. Brought up in comfort and with a passion for hunting and fishing, chess, and the English classics, ...(展开全部)

VICTOR SEBESTYEN was born in Budapest. He has worked as a journalist on many British newspapers including The Times, the Daily Mail, and the London Evening Standard, where he was foreign editor and editorial writer. He has also written for many American publications, including The New York Times, and was an editor at Newsweek. He is author of Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 ...(展开全部)

Victor Sebestyen's riveting biography of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin—the first major biography in English in nearly two decades—is not only a political examination of one of the most important historical figures of the twentieth century but also a fascinating portrait of Lenin the man. Brought up in comfort and with a passion for hunting and fishing, chess, and the English classics, ...(展开全部)

VICTOR SEBESTYEN was born in Budapest. He has worked as a journalist on many British newspapers including The Times, the Daily Mail, and the London Evening Standard, where he was foreign editor and editorial writer. He has also written for many American publications, including The New York Times, and was an editor at Newsweek. He is author of Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 ...(展开全部)