Biographical Dictionary Of The Comintern

Some 1,400 biographies cover leading personalities from 1917 to the present, paying special attention to politicians, journalists, social scientists, and writers who have contributed to glasnost. Most are brief (100 words or so), but the more important political leaders have substantial biographical

a collection of essays on some 275 individuals, including important figures from the 19th century and a few from the New Left, most of them (about 75 percent) born between 1870 and 1920 and prominent in the major left wing organizations of the first half of the 20th century. Choice

This extensive and accurate dictionary covers the Chinese communist revolution along with the international communist movement. While most leading Chinese communists went abroad, many foreign communists and leftists went to China for political and cultural exchange. The two hundred individuals in this biographical dictionary provided the crucial link between revolutionary movements in China, Europe, and America. The book also includes many Chinese who played important roles in the Comintern and went on to fill senior positions in the PRC.

Drawing on newly accessible archives as well as memoirs and other sources, this biographical dictionary documents the lives of some two thousand notable figures in twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europe. A unique compendium of information that is not currently available in any other single resource, the dictionary provides concise profiles of the region's most important historical and cultural actors, from Ivo Andric to King Zog. Coverage includes Albania, Belarus, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Moldova, Ukraine, and the countries that made up Yugoslavia.

THIS EXPANSIVE REFERENCE WORK PRESENTS THE FASCINATING BIOGRAPHIES OF 150 WOMEN SPIES. SPANNING THOUSANDS OF YEARS AND SCORES OF NATIONS, THIS ONE-OF-A-KIND BOOK TELLS AMAZING STORIES OF REMARKABLE PEOPLE ENGAGED IN LOVE AND WAR, HATRED AND REVENGE, GREAT ESCAPES AND DRAMATIC CAPTURES. EXAMPLES: MARIE BIRCKEL-THEODORA ACACIUS-MATA HARI-CLAIRE PHILLIPS.