"This is not a Politburo, but a madhouse," The post World War II Sovietization of East Germany up to the 1953 worker's uprising.
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Beria - My Father : Inside Stalin's Kremlin
For almost 20 years two men from Georgia dominated the Russians and its empire: Stalin and Beria as head of what was to become the KGB. This book is a memoir of daily life with these two men who sent millions to their graves. It vividly paints Stalin's increasingly psychotic nature and the dread that pervaded everyone's life, even that of Beria, but also the incomprehensible loyalty that Stalin inspired among women such as the author's mother, also a Georgian. It also contains Sergio's anecdotes like the time he was chased by Svetlana, Stalin's nymphomaniac daughter. Upon Stalin's mysterious death, Beria dramatically lost the struggle for power with Khrushchev, a Russian, who murdered him with the aid of his fellow politburo members. This book shows what it was like to grow up at the top in a duplicitous and deeply immoral and violent atmosphere.
The politics of affect and emotion in contemporary Latin American cinema : Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, and Mexico
Between Neo-realist Sentimentality and Modernist Shock: New Latin American Cinema and Beyond Thrilling Histories: Questions of Genre and History Affecting Legacies: Contemporary Structures of Feeling Alien/Nation: Contemporary Youth in Film Emotional Investments: Global Networks and Transnational Affective Communities