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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Red Army"”.
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Counterintelligence methods of terrorist organisations and the factors that influence them: a comparative study of Revolutionary Organisation 17 November and the Red Army Faction
… Revolutionary Organisation 17 November and the Red Army Faction. It examines the commonly accepted factors that influence the counterintelligence methods of terrorist groups and evaluates their impact on the group’s strategy. The factors that are considered to be fundamental in a group’s …
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Nazi Ideology and the Pursuit of War Aim: 1941-45
… of this thesis is to examine what can be considered a military blunder on the part of the Nazi Germans. On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany launched a massive invasion into the Soviet Union and Soviet territories. The political goals of Operation Barbarossa were to seize hold of the expanses of land …
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Mikhail Tukhachevsky in the Russian Civil War
… and 1930s, the attendant mechanisation of the Red Army and his role in the development of the Soviet military/industrial complex have been well-researched. The “Tukhachevsky Affair”, the discussion surrounding his execution in the military purge of 1937, continues to attract interest. However, …
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All Stalin's men? Soldierly masculinities in the Soviet war effort, 1938-1945
… and priorities from the 1930s persisted in the Red Army despite the distinguished service of female combatants and divisions among male soldiers, commanders, and propagandists. Motives and actions such as hating and killing, comradeship and revenge, or serving Stalin and using skill, appeared as …
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Soviet-Polish relations, 1919-1921
… the development, or outcome, of the conflict. Redressing the balance of historiography, this thesis includes a greater examination of the conflict from the perspective of the Soviet regime. This firmly controlled the Russian decision-making process. By charting the war, it becomes clear that …
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In a hell of our own creation: Spatial context and the Wehrmacht’s genocidal war in Eastern Europe, 1941–1943
… executions, and the horrid maltreatment of Red Army prisoners of war. Through the lens of military geography, the spatial contexts that fostered frontline units’ existential fear of combat, their struggle to procure food and supplies, soldiers’ brutal responses to the threat of partisan …
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CAPTIVITY AND CONVERSION: AN IN-DEPTH STUDY OF SOVIET POWS IN AFGHANISTAN
… influenced Soviet soldiers to defect from the Red Army. In addition, I observe what issues most compelled some of these soldiers to convert to Islam and settle in Afghanistan rather than return to their homes in the Soviet Union or seek asylum in the West following their release. These factors …
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Terror in the Ostland: The Genesis of Nazi Collaboration, 1941-42
… of German occupation, or "liberation” from the Red Army, and proved to be the overwhelming motive for Eastern Europeans to murder their Jewish neighbors.
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The Polish Home Army and the struggle for the Lublin region 1943-1945
… Government-in-Exile created an underground army in the Lublin region, which, at its height, numbered 60,000 men. The underground Army was created in order to facilitate the reestablishment of an independent Poland. The Army that was created, the AK, was in effect, an alliance organisation …
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From Baader to Prada The Representation of Urban Terrorism in German-Language Film
… of filmmakers to the left-wing terrorism of the Red Army Faction (RAF) experienced by West Germany in the 1970s, and its legacy. At the height of its activity, the RAF violently shook the foundations of postwar German democracy with a string of politically motivated attacks against the Federal …
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National Identities in the Context of the USSR's Westward Expansion: Visions of Poles and Ukrainians in Soviet Cinema, 1925-1941
… belonged to interwar Poland before being conquered by the USSR in the wake of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Through close analysis of a range of often-overlooked feature and documentary films made in both the Soviet centre and the national republics, I examine cinematic depictions of Poles, …
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Activist Intellectuals and Counterterrorism Debates in the Federal Republic of Germany (1968-77)
… goals, the most famous example being the Red Army Faction (RAF). Much has been written about these groups and their actions, but this thesis situates the phenomenon of left-wing political violence in its historical and cultural context by focussing on the heated debate that ensued in the …
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The Explosion of Ethnic Retributive Violence in Czechoslovakia at the End of the Second World War
… of Poland and Czechoslovakia began a state sponsored, and Potsdam Conference approved program, of "orderly and humane" expulsions. While most twentieth and twenty first century historians have attributed these actions in Czechoslovakia as a continuation of the historical relationship between the …