Hitler and Stalin

1993
Dictators

Author: Alan Bullock

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category: Dictators

Page: 1158

View: 2250


The Stalin Phenomenon

1989
History

Author: N.A

Publisher: Stosius Incorporated/Advent Books Division

ISBN: N.A

Category: History

Page: 147

View: 7198


Stalin's Russia

1949
Communism

Author: Suzanne Labin

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category: Communism

Page: 492

View: 6979


SCOTT (copy 1) From the John Holmes Library collection.

Stalin's Secret War

1981
Soviet Union

Author: Nikolai Tolstoy

Publisher: Jonathan Cape

ISBN: N.A

Category: Soviet Union

Page: 463

View: 1442


Stalin's Revolution

1965
Agriculture

Author: Irwin Peter Halpern

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category: Agriculture

Page: 870

View: 6832


Stalin, Man of History

1979
History

Author: Ian Grey

Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

ISBN: N.A

Category: History

Page: 547

View: 6833


Chronicles Stalin's life, discusses the sources of his political thinking, and examines the events which made him an absolute ruler who had an overwhelming influence on the shaping of twentieth-century political history

STALINS AVIATION GULAG

1996-11-17
Antiques & Collectibles

Author: KERBER LL,Leonid Lʹvovich Kerber

Publisher: Smithsonian Inst Press

ISBN: N.A

Category: Antiques & Collectibles

Page: 394

View: 7285


"Credit for much of Stalin's aviation program lay with Andrei N. Tupolev (1888-1972), one of Russia's most talented aviation designers, whose fortunes plummeted with those of his profession. In the latter half of the decade, the entire aeronautical establishment fell victim to the massive wave of arrests and killings known as the Great Purge. Arrested in 1937, Tupolev was sent not to the notorious labor camps, but to a sharaga, or special prison, established in Moscow specifically for aviation designers and engineers." "Stalin's Aviation Gulag is a sympathetic memoir of Tupolev's life and work by engineer L.L. Kerber, whose collaboration with Tupolev spanned most of their careers. At the heart of Kerber's chronicle is a description of the sharaga's daily life, which verged on the surreal. Well-fed and well-clothed but supervised by Party and police functionaries with little knowledge of aviation, Tupolev and his team of 150 specialists worked under the threat of harsh reprisal for the least setback. Dependent on Stalin's whims, permitted only infrequent, heavily guarded inspections of the aircraft they created, they nevertheless managed to circumvent both political dangers and technical constraints to develop the two major Soviet aircraft of World War II: the fast, twin-engined Pe-2 and the Tu-2, a medium bomber. Kerber also documents the postprison achievements of his mentor, who, after his release in 1941, went on to design the Soviet replica of the B-29 Superfortress as well as many of the giant passenger jets of the cold war era."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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