Free Download Diane P. Koenker, "Moscow Workers and the 1917 Revolution: Studies of the Russian Institute, Columbia University"
English | 2016 | pages: 439 | ISBN: 0691638861, 0691101884 | PDF | 27,9 mb
Whereas most Soviet and American scholars of the Russian Revolution have emphasized the great leaders and the great events of 1917, Diane Koenker reverses this trend in a study of the Russian working class.

Free Download Roberta Allbert Dayer, "Bankers and Diplomats in China 1917-1925: The Anglo-American Relationship"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 1135167656, 0714631183, 1138964344 | EPUB | pages: 324 | 0.8 mb
First Published in 1981. Contrary to Chairman Mao's assertion that political power comes from the barrel of a gun, this study contends that political power in China in the early 1920s emanated from the boardrooms of foreign banks. The author's interest in the way financial concerns have shaped foreign policy began with the discovery that the Lloyd George government attempted to influence the American government's policy on the British war debts by offering concessions concerning the renewal of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. This study should provide understanding concerning the causes of Chinese bitterness as well as suggest the conflicts experienced by diplomats in balancing public and private interests.

Free Download Barry Pateman, "A History of the French Anarchist Movement, 1917 to 1945"
English | 2002 | ISBN: 0313320268, 1904859828 | PDF | pages: 310 | 13.9 mb
"An impressive work, attentive to detail, abundantly well-documented and clearly addressing some key dilemmas of anarchist organizations."-Anarchist Studies

Free Download Walter Reid, "To Arras, 1917: a volunteer's odyssey"
English | 2011 | pages: 200 | ISBN: 1843410540 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
To Arras, 1917 is a biography of the author's uncle, Ernest Reid, who died in 1917, an officer in the Black Watch, of wounds sustained in the Battle of Arras. Born and raised in Paisley, educated at Paisley Grammar School, then Glasgow University, Ernest Reid intended to become a lawyer before he volunteered for war service. The author the climate in which he grew up, and the influences which formed him and his generation, the generation which supplied the subalterns of the Great War. As a result, although the book remains primarily a biography of its subject, it also explored the spirit in which Britain, still essentially Victorian, went to war in 1914. This is the true and poignant account of a young Scottish officer, pinned down and fatally wounded in No-man's land on the first day of the Battle of Arras, on Easter Monday 1917. The gripping narrative creates a mood of sombre inevitability. It does not simply set out the events of Captain Ernest Reid's life, but puts Ernest's life into its moral as well as its historical context and describes the cultural influences - the code of duty, an unquestioning patriotism - that moulded him and his contemporaries for service and sacrifice in the killing fields of France and Flanders. In retrospect, he and they seem almost programmed for the role they were required to play, and in this lies the pathos at the heart of this moving book.

Free Download Wilfred R. Bion, "War Memoirs 1917-1919: Second Edition"
English | 2015 | pages: 321 | ISBN: 1782203583, 0367329638 | PDF | 5,8 mb
Bion's War Memoirs is perhaps the most exceptional piece of autobiography yet written by a psychoanalyst. The first section of the book is documentary, consisting of the entire text of the diaries which the author wrote as a young man to record his experiences on the Western Front in 1917-1919, and this volume also includes the photographs and diagrams with which he illustrated his recollections. The diaries are followed by two later essays, in which he reflects upon his wartime experiences. The author has long been renowned as one of the great psychoanalysts, his career spanning much of the twentieth century and making him one of the most influential names in the field. The author's war diary, which he kept with him during combat, covered his years fighting in France during the First World War. He was just twenty years old when he began writing it. War Memoirs constitutes the final part of the author's autobiography.

Free Download Deborah and the War of the Tanks 1917 (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BZ5VN2P8 | 2023 | 17 hours and 27 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 498 MB
Author: John A. Taylor
Narrator: Jonathan Cowley
Deborah is a British First World War tank that rose from the grave after taking part in one of the most momentous battles in history. In November 1917, she played a leading role in the first successful massed tank attack at Cambrai. Eighty years later, in a remarkable feat of archaeology, the tank's buried remains were rediscovered and excavated, and are now preserved as a memorial to the battle and to the men who fought in it. John Taylor's book tells the tale of the tank and her crew and tracks down their descendants to uncover a human story every bit as compelling as the military one.

Free Download Russians: 4 in 1 Leaders of Soviet Russia 1917-1991: History of Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Gorbachev (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9781839382635 | 2023 | 11 hours and 55 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 328 MB
Author: A.J. Kingston
Narrator: A.I. Madison
This book offers a comprehensive examination of the lives and legacies of the four most influential leaders in Russian history: Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, and Mikhail Gorbachev. Through detailed explorations of their ideologies, policies, and the events that defined their respective tenures in power, this book provides an insightful look at the forces that shaped modern Russia. From Lenin's establishment of the Bolshevik government to Stalin's brutal purges, Khrushchev's reforms, and Gorbachev's attempts at perestroika and glasnost, each leader's impact on Soviet Russia is examined in depth. Through their stories, listeners can gain a deeper appreciation for the complexities of the Soviet system and the challenges faced by those who sought to lead it. This book is essential listening for anyone interested in Russian history, politics, or the global events of the 20th century. It is a rich and engaging exploration of the lives of the individuals who shaped one of the most powerful nations of the modern era, and their legacies that continue to resonate to this day.

Soviet Naval Infantry 1917-91
by Greentree, David;Shumate, Johnny;, Johnny Shumate
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1472851625 | 65 pages | True PDF EPUB | 27.87 MB

James S. Corum, "Bloody April 1917: The birth of modern air power "
English | ISBN: 1472853059 | 2022 | 96 pages | EPUB | 19 MB
Researched from original-language primary sources, this is a uniquely well-informed and multi-faceted history of the World War I air campaign of Bloody April.

Russia: People and Empire, 1552-1917 By Geoffrey Hosking
1998 | 576 Pages | ISBN: 0674781198 | PDF | 17 MB
The Soviet Union crumbles and Russia rises from the rubble, once again the great nation--a perfect scenario, but for one point: Russia was never a nation. And this, says the eminent historian Geoffrey Hosking, is at the heart of the Russians' dilemma today, as they grapple with the rudiments of nationhood. His book is about the Russia that never was, a three-hundred-year history of empire building at the expense of national identity.Russia begins in the sixteenth century, with the inception of one of the most extensive and diverse empires in history. Hosking shows how this undertaking, the effort of conquering, defending, and administering such a huge mixture of territories and peoples, exhausted the productive powers of the common people and enfeebled their civic institutions. Neither church nor state was able to project an image of Russian-ness that could unite elites and masses in a consciousness of belonging to the same nation. Hosking depicts two Russias, that of the gentry and of the peasantry, and reveals how the gap between them, widened by the Tsarist state's repudiation of the Orthodox messianic myth, continued to grow throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Here we see how this myth, on which the empire was originally based, returned centuries later in the form of the revolutionary movement, which eventually swept away the Tsarist Empire but replaced it with an even more universalist one. Hosking concludes his story in 1917, but shows how the conflict he describes continues to affect Russia right up to the present day.