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Gareth Jones
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Gareth Jones
"This excellent book serves as a warning to journalists not to be taken in by official sources and political ideology but to report what they actually learn through their own efforts. Gamache deserves commendation for his research and careful reconstruction of Jones' reportorial journeys." --Prof. Maurine H. Beasley, College of Journalism, U. of Maryland *** "...meticulously researched book [that] returns Gareth Jones to his rightful status, as one of the most outstanding journalists of his generation, in a tumultuous era that depended upon honest journalism as its main source of news."--Nigel Linsan Colley *** "Extraordinary...Jones' articles...caused a small sensation...Because [his] noteb...
Stalin's Apologist
Short, unattractive, hobbling about Stalin's Moscow on a wooden leg, Walter Duranty was an unlikely candidate for the world's most famous foreign correspondent. Yet for almost twenty years his articles filled the front page of The New York Times with gripping coverage of the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. A witty, engaging, impish character with a flamboyant life-style, he was a Pulitzer Prize winner, the individual most credited with helping to win the U.S. recognition for the Soviet regime, and the reporter who had predicted the success of the Bolshevik state when all others claimed it was doomed. But, as S.J. Taylor reveals in this provocative biography, Walter Duranty played a key ...
Assignment in Utopia
This is a story of belief, disillusionment and atonement. Long identified with leftist causes, the journalist Eugene Lyons was by background and sentiment predisposed to early support of the Russian Revolution. A "friendly correspondent," he was one of a coterie of foreign journalists permitted into the Soviet Union during the Stalinist era because their desire to serve the revolution was thought to outweigh their desire to serve the truth. Lyons first went to the Soviet Union in 1927, and spent six years there. He was there as Stalin consolidated his power, through collectivization and its consequences, as the cultural and technical intelligentsia succumbed to the secret police, and as the ...
Gareth Jones
Życiorys Garetha Jonesa zostanie opowiedziany przez Agnieszkę Holland w jej najnowszym filmie. W 1933 roku młody dziennikarz Gareth Jones samotnie podróżuje na wschód, by zrobić wywiad z dyktatorem Józefem Stalinem. Podczas tej podróży dowiaduje się o „ukraińskim kryzysie”. Jako jeden z nielicznych zachodnich korespondentów dostaje się na ogarniętą terrorem Ukrainę, gdzie jest świadkiem największego głodu w historii ludzkości. Na własne oczy widzi sowieckie zbrodnie, słucha o ludziach umierających z głodu i aktach kanibalizmu. Po powrocie na Zachód mówi światu o Wielkim Głodzie. Zaszczuty przez skorumpowanych dziennikarzy, którzy podważają jego wiarygodność, zostaje odrzucony przez środowisko. Sposób, w jaki miał zostać pogrążony, zainspirował nawet George’a Orwella podczas pisania Folwarku zwierzęcego. Gareth Jones jako jeden z pierwszych zrozumiał mechanizmy rządzące światem w latach 30.: narodziny dyktatorskich reżimów czy rozwój propagandy. Ta lekcja pozostaje ciągle aktualna. Mirosław Wlekły – reporter, autor bestsellera Tu byłem. Tony Halik.
The Circle of Ceridwen
Now in Hard Cover - The Complete Saga! It is the year 871. Of seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, five have fallen to the invading Vikings. . Across this war-torn landscape travels fifteen year old Ceridwen, now thrust into the lives of the conquerors... Epic...immensely satisfying...an impressive achievement - Historical Novel Society
“Truth Behind Bars”
Just north of the Arctic Circle is the settlement of Vorkuta, a notorious camp in the Gulag internment system that witnessed three pivotal moments in Russian history. In the 1930s, a desperate hunger strike by socialist prisoners, victims of Joseph Stalin’s repressive regime, resulted in mass executions. In 1953, a strike by forced labourers sounded the death knell for the Stalinist forced labour system. And finally, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a series of strikes by new, independent miners’ unions were central to overturning the Stalinist system. Paul Kellogg uses the story of Vorkuta as a frame with which to re-assess the Russian Revolution. In particular, he turns to the contributions of Iulii Martov, a contemporary of Lenin, and his analysis of the central role played in the revolution by a temporary class of peasants-in-uniform. Kellogg explores the persistence and creativity of workers’ resistance in even the darkest hours of authoritarian repression and offers new perspectives on the failure of democratic governance after the Russian Revolution.
