Komissar = The commissar /

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The People's Liberation Army as organization : reference volume v 1.0 /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to the PLA's Administrative and Operational Structure -- The Central Military Commission and Military Policy in China -- The Pinnacle of the Pyramid: The Central Military Commission -- The General Staff Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army: Organization, Roles, & Missions -- The General Political Department and the Evolution of the Political Commissar System -- The People's Liberation Army (PLA) General Logistics Department (GLD): Toward Joint Logistics Support -- The General Armament Department -- PLA Ground Forces: Moving Toward a Smaller, More Rapidly Deployable, Modern Combined Arms Force -- PLA Air Force Organization -- The Organization of the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) -- The Chinese Second Artillery Corps: Transition to Credible Deterrence -- The Institutional Lessons of Disaster: Reorganizing the People's Armed Police After Tiananmen.…”
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Frontier nomads of Iran : a political and social history of the Shahsevan / by Tapper, Richard

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Frontier nomads of Iran : a political and social history of the Shahsevan / by Tapper, Richard

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Arctic Mirrors : Russia and the Small Peoples of the North. by Slezkine, Yuri

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Arctic Mirrors : Russia and the Small Peoples of the North. by Slezkine, Yuri

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Dictatorship : from the origin of the modern concept of sovereignty to proletarian class struggle / by Schmitt, Carl, 1888-1985

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The conquest of the Russian Arctic / by Josephson, Paul R.

Table of Contents: “…Charting the Arctic landscape -- Neither cod nor coal -- The role of the Gulag in Arctic conquest -- The best-laid plans of commissars and Komsomolki : the Arctic sciences of places and people -- The nickel that broke the reindeer's back -- Transformation of taiga and tundra -- Rediscovering the Arctic.…”
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Cigarettes and Soviets : smoking in the USSR / by Starks, Tricia, 1969-

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Trotsky : a biography / by Service, Robert, 1947-

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Twenty years with the Jewish Labor Bund : a memoir of interwar Poland / by Goldstein, Bernard, 1889-1959

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Stalin : an appraisal of the man and his influence / by Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940

Table of Contents: “…Family and school -- Professional revolutionist -- The first revolution -- The period of reaction -- The new resurgence -- War and exile -- The year 1917 -- People's commissar -- The civil war -- The civil war (continued) -- From obscurity to the triumvirate -- The road to power -- The thermidorian reaction -- Kinto in power -- Three concepts of the Russian revolution.…”
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The final revolution : the resistance church and the collapse of communism / by Weigel, George, 1951-

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Chris Hani / by Macmillan, Hugh, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Interlude in Lesotho, 1975-82 -- 7. Political commissar : Zambia, Angola, Mozambique -- 8. From people's war to negotiations -- 9. …”
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German literary culture at the zero hour / by Brockmann, Stephen

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The damned and the dead : the Eastern Front through the eyes of Soviet and Russian novelists / by Ellis, Frank, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…-- Afterword -- Appendix A: Order of the headquarters of the Supreme Command of the Red Army, 270, 16th August 1941 -- Appendix B: Order of the People's Commissar for Defence of the USSR, 227, 28th July 1942 -- Appendix C: Statute concerning the main counter-intelligence directorate of the People's Commissariat of Defence ("SMERSH") and its agencies in the provinces, 21st April 1943.…”

Stalin : a biography / by Service, Robert, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…The revolutionary -- Stalin as we have known him -- The family Dzhughashvili -- The schooling of a priest -- Poet and rebel -- Marxist militant -- The party and the Caucasus -- On the run -- At the centre of the party -- Koba and Bolshevism -- Osip of Siberia -- Return to Petrograd -- Leader for the party -- The year 1917 -- October -- People's Commissar -- To the front! -- The Polish corridor -- With Lenin -- Nation and revolution -- Testament -- The opportunities of struggle -- Joseph and Nadya -- Factionalist against factions -- Despot -- Ending the NEP -- Terror-economics -- Ascent to supremacy -- The death of Nadya -- Modernity's sorcerer -- Fears in victory -- Ruling the nations -- Mind of terror -- The great terrorist -- The cult of impersonality -- Brutal reprieve -- Warlord -- The world in sight -- Approaches to war -- The devils SUP -- Barbarossa -- Fighting on -- Sleeping on the divan -- To the death! …”

The Damned and the Dead : The Eastern Front through the Eyes of the Soviet and Russian Novelists / by Ellis, Frank, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…-- Afterword -- Appendix A: Order of the headquarters of the Supreme Command of the Red Army, 270, 16th August 1941 -- Appendix B: Order of the People's Commissar for Defence of the USSR, 227, 28th July 1942 -- Appendix C: Statute concerning the main counter-intelligence directorate of the People's Commissariat of Defence ("SMERSH") and its agencies in the provinces, 21st April 1943.…”
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Stalin's quest for gold : the Torgsin hard-currency shops and Soviet industrialization / by Osokina, E. A.

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Civil-military relations in today's China : swimming in a new sea /

Table of Contents: “…/ Joseph Fewsmith -- The PLA in the new economy : plus Ca change, plus C'est la même chose / James Mulvenon -- The challenge of conscription in an era of social change / Sijin Cheng -- Demobilization and resettlement: the challenge of downsizing the People's Liberation Army / Maryanne Kivlehan-Wise -- People's war in the twenty-first century : the militia and the reserves / Dennis J. …”