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Bluecoat and pioneer : the recollections of John Benton Hart, 1864-1868
\"An annotated collection of the memoirs of frontiersman John Benton Hart, a young Kansas cavalryman who served in the Missouri border conflicts during the late Civil War and who witnessed pivotal events in the post-Civil War opening of the West and the displacement of native peoples in the future states of Wyoming and Montana.\"--Provided by publisher.
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New data on the practice of desertions from the Red (Soviet) Army as an expression of the anti-Soviet resistance of the Moldavian SSR population in the years 1944-1954
The history of the eastern part of what used to be Moldova, or the eastern area of Romanian territory located in the Pruto-Nistrean interfluve, which later became known as Bessarabia, is a tragic and turbulent one. In the last 200 years alone, this territory has undergone three occupations and annexations, all carried out by the Russian state in different forms: 1812, 1940, and 1944. The Sovietization of Moldova after the subsequent occupation of Bessarabia in the summer of 1944 proceeded with great difficulties, as the artificially created population of the Moldavian SSR resisted Soviet authorities in various ways. One of the forms of resistance was desertion from the Soviet Army. Desertion, a phenomenon characteristic of all armies worldwide, is a criminal offence that involves evading military service through various methods, such as fleeing from a unit or avoiding enlistment altogether. Under the conditions of forced Sovietization in the SSR between 1944 and 1953, this practice took on distinctly anti-Soviet characteristics, becoming a part of the population’s struggle against the occupiers.
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Heroes and Villains
Certain to engender debate in the media, especially in Ukraine itself, as well as the academic community. Using a wide selection of newspapers, journals, monographs, and school textbooks from different regions of the country, the book examines the sensitive issue of the changing perspectives – often shifting 180 degrees – on several events discussed in the new narratives of the Stalin years published in the Ukraine since the late Gorbachev period until 2005. These events were pivotal to Ukrai...
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Oleg Penkovsky
Oleg Penkovsky, a Soviet spy who switched allegiances to the West during the Cold War, helped to avert nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Military-Technical Cooperation of the USSR and the CHSR in the 30s of the 20th Century (According to the Memoirs of Chief Designer of Artillery Weapons of the Kirov Plant I.A. Makhanov). Part 2
Introduction. Memoirs of I.A. Makhanov, who in the 1930s was the chief designer of artillery weapons at the Kirov plant, contain unique data on the development of the military-technical thought and the defense sector of the USSR industry in the pre-war period. The published fragment of memoirs, first introduced into scientific circulation, supplements and corrects the ideas formed in historiography about the militarytechnical cooperation of the USSR and Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II. Methods and materials. The preparation of the source text for publication is carried out taking into consideration the modern requirements of archaeography. The published fragment is provided with archaeographic notes which allow to reconstruct the history of creation and modification of the text by the author. The scientific commentary provides information about personalities, place names and specific terms mentioned in the text. Analysis. The author pointed out that despite the supply of the latest weapons from Czechoslovakia to Yugoslavia, Italy, Turkey, Latin America, the share of purchases by the USSR was 50% and had broad prospects for increasing. The German occupation of 1938 suspended and then interrupted military-technical cooperation between the countries. Nevertheless, the Czech side fulfilled all obligations to the USSR. Result. As the published fragment of I.A. Makhanov proves, in the 1930s Czech specialists willingly acquainted the Soviet delegation with the latest developments in artillery systems. At the same time, after the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Germany, none of these weapons were brought to a prototype. Plants “Skoda” and “Zbroevka” were engaged only in the production and modernization of old weapons. Thus, the data of I.A. Makhanova confirm the hypothesis of sabotage of work for Nazi Germany by Czech designers led by V. Gromadko.
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The Terrorist's Dilemma
How do terrorist groups control their members? Do the tools groups use to monitor their operatives and enforce discipline create security vulnerabilities that governments can exploit?The Terrorist's Dilemmais the first book to systematically examine the great variation in how terrorist groups are structured. Employing a broad range of agency theory, historical case studies, and terrorists' own internal documents, Jacob Shapiro provocatively discusses the core managerial challenges that terrorists face and illustrates how their political goals interact with the operational environment to push them to organize in particular ways.
Shapiro provides a historically informed explanation for why some groups have little hierarchy, while others resemble miniature firms, complete with line charts and written disciplinary codes. Looking at groups in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America, he highlights how consistent and widespread the terrorist's dilemma--balancing the desire to maintain control with the need for secrecy--has been since the 1880s. Through an analysis of more than a hundred terrorist autobiographies he shows how prevalent bureaucracy has been, and he utilizes a cache of internal documents from al-Qa'ida in Iraq to outline why this deadly group used so much paperwork to handle its people. Tracing the strategic interaction between terrorist leaders and their operatives, Shapiro closes with a series of comparative case studies, indicating that the differences in how groups in the same conflict approach their dilemmas are consistent with an agency theory perspective.
The Terrorist's Dilemmademonstrates the management constraints inherent to terrorist groups and sheds light on specific organizational details that can be exploited to more efficiently combat terrorist activity.
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THE DESIGN ENGINEER’S M.I. KOSHKIN MEMORANDUM ON THE PROGRESS OFWORK OF NEWARTILLERY SYSTEMS CREATION IN THE KIROV’S PLANT DESIGN BUREAU (From the Funds of the Central State Archive of Historical and Political Documents of Saint Petersburg)
Introduction. The publication is devoted to an urgent topic: the history of the creation of artillery weapons systems in the pre-war USSR (1930s). Until recently, in Soviet and Russian historiography, the work of design bureaus of those years was judged by the memoirs of Colonel-General and designer of artillery weapons Vasiliy Grabin and his employees, who on the eve of the war won the fight for the right to transfer new artillery guns to mass production. Grabins main competitor, Ivan Makhanov, was remembered only as “a talented engineer who was unjustly convicted and perished in Stalins dungeons”. Materials. In the process of preparing for the publication of Makhanovs memoirs one of the authors of this article, Andrei Riabkov, identified among the recently declassified documents and prepared for publication a memo from design engineer Mikhail Koshkin, which contains a thorough analysis of the progress of creating new artillery systems at the Kirov plant. This note allows us to critically comprehend the memoirs of both Makhanov and Grabin. Analysis. Ivan Makhanov was prone to technical risk, but due to the lack of managerial experience and the desire to take on “everything”, he rarely managed to bring his ideas to implementation in reliably working structures. Results. By the end of the 30s of the twentieth century, he acquired the necessary knowledge and experience, several tools of his development were put into a series, but the arrest and imprisonment of Makhanov and some of his subordinates in the ITL on charges of “conscious sabotage and espionage” ultimately put an end to these developments. The published document can also be used in a special biographical study to assess the human qualities of Mikhail Koshkin.
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Demographic Consequences of the Stalingrad Battle
The first information about the losses of the Red Army and the Wehrmacht in the Battle of Stalingrad, the deaths of the civilian population of the Stalingrad region during the Nazi occupation were published back in the years of the Great Patriotic War. Later many authors investigated these questions. In the early 1990s, Soviet losses were calculated by a group of specialists of the General Staff under the leadership of Colonel General G. F. Krivosheev. However, there are alternative points of view on this issue. In general, the demographic consequences of the Battle of Stalingrad as a complex scientific problem have not been sufficiently studied. The authors of the article consider different types of losses, mention major military associations and units that took part in the fights for Stalingrad, as well as the number of soldiers in military units. The special attention is paid to the losses of civilian population. According to the most conservative estimates, the military losses of both parties in the Stalingrad battle amounted to at least 2–2.5 million people. The population of the Stalingrad region declined as a result of evacuation, hostilities and occupation by more than 0.5 million people, or nearly by a quarter. Mass losses led to significant deformations in the demographic structure of the population of the Stalingrad and neighboring regions. The number of working age men suffere the especially sharp decline. These deformations had determined the unfavorable trends in the demographic development of the region for many decades. In the introductory part of the paper E.F. Krinko describes the main types of losses and correlation of military forces by the beginning of the Stalingrad Battle. The conclusions made by the author summarize the overall research results. M. V. Medvedev reveals specific types of military and civilian losses suffered as a result of the Stalingrad Battle.
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A STUDY OF SOVIET INFLUENCE ON THE FORMATION OF THE NORTH KOREAN ARMY
This article examines the influence of Soviet Army experience and tradition on the formation of the army of North Korea in the late 1940s–1950s. As North Korea itself was born out of the Soviet occupation zone, the USSR exercised a strong influence and the Korean People’s Army was largely shaped in the Soviet image. The author analyses North Korean military regulations, unit structure, ranks, the political officer system and Party organisations in the army. The article’s findings are that the KPA was moulded according to the Soviet model, borrowing elements of its structure from different eras of Soviet history, including those that predated the creation of the North Korean state. Although some elements of its Soviet origin disappeared over time, it would not be an exaggeration to say the North Korean army is still a Soviet-type one.
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Bringing the War Home
In this first comprehensive comparison of left-wing violence in the United States and West Germany, Jeremy Varon focuses on America's Weather Underground and Germany's Red Army Faction to consider how and why young, middle-class radicals in prosperous democratic societies turned to armed struggle in efforts to overthrow their states. Based on a wealth of primary material, ranging from interviews to FBI reports, this book reconstructs the motivation and ideology of violent organizations active during the 1960s and 1970s. Varon conveys the intense passions of the era--the heat of moral purpose, the depth of Utopian longing, the sense of danger and despair, and the exhilaration over temporary triumphs. Varon's compelling interpretation of the logic and limits of dissent in democratic societies provides striking insights into the role of militancy in contemporary protest movements and has wide implications for the United States' current \"war on terrorism.\"Varon explores Weatherman and RAF's strong similarities and the reasons why radicals in different settings developed a shared set of values, languages, and strategies. Addressing the relationship of historical memory to political action, Varon demonstrates how Germany's fascist past influenced the brutal and escalating nature of the West German conflict in the 60s and 70s, as well as the reasons why left-wing violence dropped sharply in the United States during the 1970s. Bringing the War Home is a fascinating account of why violence develops within social movements, how states can respond to radical dissent and forms of terror, how the rational and irrational can combine in political movements, and finally how moral outrage and militancy can play both constructive and destructive roles in efforts at social change.
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