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Dramatic history of Stalin's horrific purges of the 1930s, beginning with the Stalin-instigated murder of his perceived rival Leningrad Party chief Sergei Kirov. On Kirov's death Stalin and his NKVD fabricated elaborate plots that triggered the arrest and execution of millions of Russians. The infamous Zinoviev "show trial" was followed by the slaughter of Red Army senior commanders, the liquidation of Communist Party hierarchy, and the bizarre show trial of Old Bolshevik Nikolai Bukharin, a close colleague of Lenin. After Bukharin's forced confession he and many of the other Old Bolsheviks were executed despite international pleas for mercy. This resulted in several prominent communists such as Arthur Koestler disavowing the communist cause. Great Terror casualty figures reported by the author are 7-8 million for the 1930s purges and a minimum of 20 million deaths for the twenty-three years of the Stalin regime, although "this might require an increase or 50 per cent or so." Robert Conquest based much of his research on sources that became available after Khrushchev revealed secrets of Stalin's murderous regime, but before the Glasnost period opened the archives.

"...peerless...Brewer's has kept ahead of the game by compiling this marvelous compendium...It has captured the flavor of the past 100 years."--The TimesFrom American Express to American Psycho, Dadaism to Durex, the Zapata moustache to the Zinoviev letter, take an up-to-date look at the diverse and entertaining linguistic landscape of our culture. Here, deftly defined and intriguingly displayed, are thousands of words, phrases, slogans, names, events, and titles of songs, books, films, and TV programs that resonate with English-speaking people everywhere. In addition to many unusual gems, you'll find fascinating lists, focused on such varied subjects as rock group monikers, operations code names of World War II, nicknames of famous sportspeople, and some of the most celebrated advertising slogans of the past century.

C'est en 1977 que fut révélée à l'Occident l'œuvre de Zinoviev, le plus déconcertant, le plus inquiétant des dissidents soviétiques. Né en 1922 dans un village de la Russie profonde, au milieu d'une famille de kolkhoziens, Zinoviev connaît une enfance difficile, mais joyeuse. Les privations sont nombreuses, et omniprésente la répression de la police politique. Comme toute sa génération, il est élevé dans l'idéologie communiste. Il prend au sérieux les discours officiels, et lorsqu'il fait à son tour l'expérience de la société soviétique, il découvre qu'elle repose sur le mensonge, la délation, la terreur, les privilèges. Au nom d'un communisme idéal, il se révolte contre le socialisme réel. Staline devient à ses yeux le principal ennemi du peuple. Il rêve tout haut de l'assassiner – et se réveille à la redoutable prison de la Loubianka. Après la guerre, à laquelle il participe comme aviateur, Zinoviev connaît des années d'errance, de persécutions, de séjours en prison et d'internements. Il s'acharne à comprendre de l'intérieur le fonctionnement de la société communiste. Soljenitsyne avait dénoncé les horreurs de la période stalinienne ; Zinoviev délaisse les extrêmes pour la norme : il décrit le communisme au quotidien. Dans la trilogie composée des Hauteurs béantes, de L'Avenir radieux et du Veilleur de nuit – qui a valu à son auteur d'être expulsé de son pays en 1978 – Zinoviev raconte la vie dans l'enfer soviétique, dont il saisit qu'il n'est pas produit par les dirigeants, mais par les masses. Dans cette anti-utopie, l'histoire de l'humanité se résume par une lutte entre les forces de la civilisation et celles du communisme. Zinoviev ne croit à aucune possibilité de réformer le système : le dissident est un révolté contre toute forme de société.

This volume is the second instalment of Socialism in One Country 1924-1926. It falls into two parts. The first is a narrative of the party struggle leading to the break-up of the triumvirate, and the defeat of Zinoviev and Kamenev. The second reviews the constitutional developments of the period, and the principal party and Soviet institutions.

Jean Baudrillard’s last book was about America. His new one is about cats, Foucault, Alfa Romeas, leukemia, Catholicism, the Berlin Wall, mattresses, Laurent Fabius, Jean-Paul II, roses, Antarctica, Lech Walesa, mud wrestling, Zinoviev,  porn films, snow, feminism, Rio, Jacques Lacan, Stevie Wonder, Palermo, DNA and terrorism.“Cool Memories is the other side of America, the disillusioned side, presented in the form of a diary, though not in the classical sense. I’m trying to grasp a world in all its silences and its brutality. Can you grasp a world when you’re no longer tied to it by some kind of ideological enthusiasm, or by traditional passions? Can things “tell” themselves through stories and fragments? These are some of the questions posed in a book which may seem melancholic. But then I think almost every diary is melancholic. Melancholy is in the very state of things.”

This volume is the second instalment of Socialism in One Country 1924-1926. It falls into two parts. The first is a narrative of the party struggle leading to the break-up of the triumvirate, and the defeat of Zinoviev and Kamenev. The second reviews the constitutional developments of the period, and the principal party and Soviet institutions.