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Christian Rakovski (1873 - 1941): A Political Biography

By Francis Conte

Book information

Publisher
East European Monographs
Year
1989
ISBN
0880331534, 9780880331531
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (7909391 bytes)
Pages
517\523
Time added
2020-03-25 02:19:36

Description

The definitive biography of the Bulgarian-born communist revolutionary and, later, diplomat whose opposition to Stalin led to his downfall and eventual conviction during the purges of the 1930s. Contents Preface to the American Edition Chapter 1: Bulgarian Origins and Family Traditions (1873-1890) Chapter 2: Leader of the Socialist Movement in the Balkans (1900-1914) Chapter 3: Rakovski and World War I (1914-1917) Chapter 4: A Social Democrat Turns Bolshevik (1918) Chapter 5: Christian Rakovski, the Bolsheviks, and the Ukraine (1919) Chapter 6: A Revolutionary Strategy: Cominern, Diplomacy, and the Red Army (1919-1920) Chapter 7: Christian Rakovski and the Sovietization of the Ukrainian Campaign (1919-1920) Chapter 8: The Bolsheviks and the Ukrainian National Question (1919) Chapter 9: The Foreign Policy of the Soviet Ukraine (1919-1923) and Its Domestic Implications Chapter 10: Nationalism, Internationalism, and Bureaucracy Chapter 11: Relations between Soviet Russia and West European Governments (1921-1922) Chapter 12: The Reality of Ukrainian Diplomacy (1922—1923) Chapter 13: British-Soviet Relations (1923) Chapter 14: Rakovski as Ambassador to Great Britain Chapter 15: The Locarno Spirit (1925) Chapter 16: Christian Rakovski as Soviet Ambassador to France (December 1925—October 1927) Chapter 17: The Last Official Struggle (October-December 1927) Chapter 18: Exile to Astrakhan (January—Fall 1928) Chapter 19: The Years of Last Resistance (1929—1933) Chapter 20: Adherence to the “Party Line" (1934-1937) Chapter 21: The Trial and the End Chapter 22: Conclusion Footnotes

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