explores them in “Crucibles of Power,” narrating what happened in Smolensk and nearby areas during the war. Through diaries, memoirs and other documents illuminating the lives of individual ...

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A week after the Germans invaded the U.S.S.R. on June 22, 1941, Soviet authorities in Smolensk, a medium-size city some 250 miles west of Moscow, issued an order to evacuate parts of its Communist ...

Crucibles of Power returns to the Smolensk Region with fresh eyes and fresh sources. Prizewinning historian Michael David-Fox traces the experiences of Smolensk residents between the interwar years ...

David-Fox provides a detailed examination of the tragic history of the western Soviet territories that swapped hands between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany twice between 1941 and 1943.

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Although India, Pakistan and Germany have had three powerful women in power, gender parity across other metrics remain low.

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