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Account of the Afghan communist movement

Drawing from a 2014 Hoover Institution conference focused on the life and principles of Andrei Sakharov, this book shows how the work and thinking of this eminent Russian nuclear physicist and courageous human rights campaigner can help find solutions to the nuclear threats of today. The essays tell the compelling story of the metamorphosis of Sakharov—from a distinguished physical scientist into a courageous, outspoken dissident humanitarian voice.

The "red files" revealed. Examining the period from the early 1930s through Stalin's death in 1953—the height of the Stalinist regime—this enlightening book reveals what we have learned from the archives, what has surprised us, and what has confirmed what we already knew. Most of the authors have worked with these archives since they were opened.

Truman Smith's memoirs of interviews during his visits to Germany in 1922.

This volume, chiefly Wolfe's letters from 1939 with unpublished speeches and writings from the Hoover Archives, illuminates his struggle to uncover the truth about the history of Soviet Russia and his anguish over his earlier allegiances not only to Lenin but to Karl Marx as well. When intellectuals in Eastern Europe and China are going through the same soul-searching process, this book is especially timely.

China's Nationalists had an impressive record of achievement in the prewar years, although there were serious weaknesses along with the strengths. They brought about a major transformation after the chaotic warlord era of the twenties. They largely overcame separatist revolts; established a functioning government with a radically improved fiscal system and good credit; stabilized exchange and reformed the economy; and started a promising program of economic development.

This book is no longer available in print form. However, a Google Editions e-book version can be purchased here.

This book is no longer available in print form. However, a Google Editions e-book version can be purchased here.

Why did the People's Republic of China and Vietnam, two "comrades and brothers," engage in such a tragic war?

This collection of essays provides perspective on The Cold War, the CNN-produced 24-part television series and accompanying book, and presents material on both sides of the debate: Is the CNN series an accurate depiction or revisionist history? CNN's Cold War Documentary presents material on both sides of the debate to answer this queston.

Experts continue to debate one of the most important political questions of the twentieth century—why did Communism collapse so suddenly? These essays suggest that a wide range of forces—political, economic, strategic, religious, add the indispensable role of the principled statesman and the brave dissident—brought about the collapse of communism.

A study in the relationship between one department of the Colonial Office and the colonies in which it had responsibility.

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One of the most important studies yet undertaken of the American Communist movement.

Covering an eventful period in Herbert Hoover’s career—and, more specifically, his life as a political pugilist from 1933 to 1955—The Crusade Years is a previously unknown memoir that Hoover composed and revised during the 1940s and 1950s—and then, surprisingly, set aside. A parallel volume to Hoover’s Freedom Betrayed, this work recounts Hoover’s family life after March 4, 1933, his myriad philanthropic interests, and, most of all, his unrelenting “crusade against collectivism” in American life. Rescued from obscurity, this nearly forgotten manuscript is published here—and its contents made available to scholars—for the first time.

How dissatisfaction with the school system led to the Cultural Revolution.

Vivid reports of the struggle of two parties vying for supremacy in postczarist Russia.

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"Socialism is the wave of the future" ran the communist slogan once repeated incessantly throughout the world. Socialism was supposedly irresistible and irreversible. The global "coorelation of forces" would inevitably shift against the West, and the Soviet Union and its allies would ultimately emerge as global victors. But it was communism that went into the trash bin of history.