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This essential text has been fully revised, updated and expanded to take account of new material and events since the publication of the third edition. The last chapters focus on the inclusion of most of the Eastern European states into the EU and the book now also features more tables, maps and Further Reading. ...
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During the Red Army’s first major war, its ill-equipped, starving troops fought fellow countrymen and an invasion force of 10,000 American, British, and French soldiers in the freezing wastelands of Siberia and the Ukraine. A brutal and fast-moving war, sieges were broken by fiercely armored trains immortalized in Dr. Zhivago. Land battles in the frozen east of Europe such as Kazan and Kakhovka were very different from those fought in the west—as the Nazis would also learn to their cost 20 years later. ...
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Covering the horrors that took place in Latvia from the beginning of the Second World War until 1947, this book focuses on the heart of the 20th century: Stalinist industrialization, collectivization and political annihilation; Nazi expansionism and genocide; with local nationalism, local nationalist rivalries, and local anti-Semitism. The author traces the developments in one particular region of Latvia, Daugavpils. There, the dilemma of Hitler or Stalin, the ideological struggle of fascism or communism was more acute than anywhere else in Europe since the population was actively involved in establishing both....
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