Many of these images are being reproduced here for the first time. More than 550 posters, photographs and graphics are reproduced to the highest quality, accompanied by insightful and informative texts. The story ends with the intrigue surrounding the dictator's gruesome death in 1953. Revolutionary upheaval turns into Civil War and famine Stalin's Great Terror of the 1930s is followed by the brutal onslaught of Nazi invasion. Its urgent, cinema-verité style plunges the reader into the centre of the shattering events that brought hope, chaos, heroism and horror to the citizens of the world's first workers' state. Red Star Over Russia is a breathtaking visual history of the Soviet Union, from 1917 to the death of Stalin. New Soviet Order of the Red Star #2080565 Moscow Platinpribor Factory (MZPP) production €90.'Powerful and immaculately produced' - Eye Magazine.Soviet Order of the Red Star #2051925 Moscow Platinpribor Factory (MZPP) production €95.00.He uninterruptedly provided the mortar company with ammunition despite severe enemy mortar fire €135.00 Soviet Order of the Red Star #1892059 Awarded to Foreman Fedor Vladimirovich Tyutyunikov for courage and bravery in the battles at the outskirts of the city of Sevastopol in April 1944.Soviet Order of the Red Star #1335183 Probably awarded early 1945 €85.00.The citations of his other awards are translated to English €120.00 Under his command several tanks were destroyed, among which 6 Tiger Tanks. Pyotr Andreevich Zhdanov for 15 year service in the Red Army. Soviet Order of the Red Star #909353 Awarded to Lt.Most likely awarded second half of 1944 €70.00 Soviet Order of the Red Star #862134 In worn condition.Sold Out Soviet Order of the Red Star #313260 Excellent example awarded to Lieutenant Vasily Gerasimovich Kushnarev for repairing 52 tanks, of which 4 tanks were repaired directly on the battlefield under enemy fire €130.00.Soviet Order of the Red Star #216284 Awarded to T-34 tank commander Lieutenant Grigory Stepanovich Mansurov for annihilating 3 guns and one dugout with the enemy infantry in it from his tank and up to 1 platoon of German soldiers and officers with machine gun fire €270.00.Being injured he did not leave the gun and went on fighting the unequal battle and destroyed two machine guns and 7 fascists €420.00 Later, during the offensive, the combat team was incapacitated leaving Chistyak alone at his gun reflecting counterattacks. Documented group of an Order of the Red Star #202183 and Order of Glory 3rd class #70836 Awarded to Guards Sergeant Chistyak for rolling out his gun on his own initiative destroying 3 machine guns, 5 bunkers and over 20 fascists.Sergeant Evgeny Ivanovich Lebedev for shooting down a German twin-engine fighter of the Messerschmitt 110 type from a captured 20mm anti-aircraft gun and a Henschel 126 aircraft €320.00 New Soviet Order of the Red Star #144165 Awarded to Guards Sr.Soviet Order of the Red Star #56608 Awarded to Lieutenant Fedor Petrovich Sitolenko for destroying an enemy dugout used to amass the enemy troops, an enemy supply caravan and several fortified targets in the village of Tychkino (Russia) €460.00. Red Banner #537870, two Orders of the Red Star #3489273 + #3751320 (rotating tool!), Order of the Patriotic War #3449214 + more All in superb condition and awarded to Colonel Andrej Prokofievich Kolomiytsev (Андрей Прокофьевич Коломийцев) €760.00
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