European Union Facts And History
Posted in EU Info on 10/06/2010 11:23 pm by admin
Backgrounder: Basic facts about NATO
Leaders from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization member states will meet in Lisbon, Portugal, on Friday and Saturday to seek ways to tackle the problems that the bloc currently faces.
EU History
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In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier’s Memoir of the Eastern Front (Modern War Studies) $10.34 In the hell that was World War II, the Eastern Front was its heart of fire and ice. Gottlob Bidermann served in that lethal theater from 1941 to 1945, and his memoir of those years vividly recaptures his grueling experiences with an army marching on the road to ruin. A riveting and reflective account by one of the millions of anonymous soldiers who fought and died in that cruel terrain, In… |
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The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine $11.33 The Harvest of Sorrow is the first full history of one of the most horrendous human tragedies of the 20th century. Between 1929 and 1932 the Soviet Communist Party struck a double blow at the Russian peasantry: dekulakization, the dispossession and deportation of millions of peasant families, and collectivization, the abolition of private ownership of land and the concentration of the remaining pe… |
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The Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia, 1917-1991 $13.06 If the Bolshevik revolution shook the world, the 74-year reign of socialists in the former Soviet Union certainly changed it. Now that the rule is over–at least for the moment–historians are beginning the process of placing the experience into its political, social and global contexts. Martin Malia, a former history professor at the University of California, Berkeley, has contributed mighti… |