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Beim Anblick der bewaffneten Soldatenhorde lief mir ein kalter Schauer den Rücken hinunter. Sie hatten sich in ihren verschiedenen Uniformen, mit Schlaggegenständen bewaffnet, vor uns aufgebaut. Die……続きを見る

Mass gravesites uncovered after the war dot the suburbs around Prijedor. I was witness to the last breaths of many of the thousands buried there – but not those of my two brothers. Both perished, an……続きを見る

Stalin's Gulag at War places the Gulag within the story of the regional wartime mobilization of Western Siberia during the Second World War. Far from Moscow, Western Siberia was a key area for evacu……続きを見る

This intellectually discomfiting, disturbingly provocative, yet still thoroughly scholarly Handbook reproduces the intellectual ferment that accompanied the Russian Revolution including the wholly p……続きを見る

In June 2009, Richard Goldstone was a global hero, honored by the MacArthur Foundation for its prize in international justice. Four months later, he was called a “quisling” and compared to some of t……続きを見る

This book highlights the quantitative methods of data mining and information visualization and explores their use in relation to the films and writings of the Russian director, Dziga Vertov. The the……続きを見る

During a television broadcast in 1959, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower remarked that "people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people……続きを見る

A detailed City guide of Sibiu, one of the most beautiful city of Transylvania, Romania. After a brief historical summary, the reader will find information on accommodation, eating, how to travel th……続きを見る

Traditionally the Reformation has been viewed as responsible for the rupture of the medieval order and the foundation of modern society. Recently historians have challenged the stereotypical model o……続きを見る

This hitherto unpublished first-hand witness account, written in 1968-9, tells the story of a privileged Polish woman whose life was torn apart by the outbreak of the Second World War and Soviet occ……続きを見る

With only 1.3 million inhabitants, Estonia is one of Europe's least populous nations--yet it boasts one of the continent's fastest growing economies. In the first serious English-language history of……続きを見る

29 maggio 1453, le difese di Costantinopoli cedono di fronte allo sterminato esercito di Maometto il Conquistatore dopo quasi due mesi di durissimo assedio. L'ultimo imperatore bizantino, Costantino……続きを見る

Nella filosofia orientale è diffuso l'ideale metaforico dell'essere come l'acqua. Per aver successo, in una strada densa di imprevisti, è necessario comportarsi come farebbe un ruscello. Vale a dire……続きを見る

Poland is a tenacious survivor-state: it was wiped off the map in 1795, resurrected after the First World War, apparently annihilated again in the Second World War, and reduced to satellite status o……続きを見る

Women from the state socialist countries in Eastern Europeーwhat used to be called the Second Worldーonce dominated women’s activism at the United Nations, but their contributions have been largely ……続きを見る

Les Cosaques est un roman de Léon Tolstoï écrit en grande partie dans son domaine de Nikolskoïe-Viazemskoïe (Russie) et publié en 1863. Il a été acclamé par Ivan Bounine (écrivain russe, auteur de r……続きを見る

Jeune militaire respecté, le prince Dmitri Ivanovitch Nekhlioudov retourne goûter à la vie civile quelque temps dans une riche ville de province près de Nijni Novgorod (Nijni Novgorod est l´une des ……続きを見る

Extrait : Tu es soldat, on t’a appris à tirer, à te servir de la baïonnette, à marcher, on t’a appris la gymnastique et la « littérature », on t’a conduit aux exercices et aux revues, peut-être même……続きを見る

Tu es soldat, on t’a appris à tirer, à te servir de la baïonnette, à marcher, on t’a appris la gymnastique et la « littérature », on t’a conduit aux exercices et aux revues, peut-être même as-tu été……続きを見る

A Research Guide to Southeastern Europe: Print and Electronic Sources is designed to aid those interested in exploring this dynamic region in locating the best resources available, whether looking f……続きを見る

From 1932 to 1933, a catastrophic famine, known as the Holodomor ("extermination by hunger"), raged through Ukraine, killing millions of people. Although the Soviet government denied it, news about ……続きを見る

Extrait : Commençons notre chant par les Muses, habitantes du haut et divin Hélicon, qui, près d’une noire fontaine, devant l’autel du puissant fils de Cronos, mènent des danses légères ; qui, après……続きを見る

The Great War was a turning point of the twentieth century, giving birth to a new, modern, and industrial approach to warfare that changed the world forever. The remembrance, awareness, and knowledg……続きを見る

An extensive revision of the valued but unobtainable 1960 edition. Nearly 300 key documents are now readily available in translation. 続きを見る

Americans Experience Russia analyzes how American scholars, journalists, and artists envisioned, experienced, and interpreted Russia/the Soviet Union over the last century. While many histories of d……続きを見る

The Kentish Coast written by Charles G. Harper who was an English author and illustrator. This book was published in 1914. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally impor……続きを見る

This book examines the Kemalist ideology of Turkey from two perspectives. It discusses major problems in the existing interpretations of the topic and how the incorporation of Soviet perspectives en……続きを見る

Since its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Armenia has experienced a reversal from democratization to a Soviet-style authoritarian regime and has been accused of repressive approaches to ……続きを見る

Held together by apparatchiks and, later, Tito's charisma, Yugoslavia never really incorporated separate Balkan nationalisms into the Pan-Slavic ideal. Macedonia - frequently ignored by Belgrade - h……続きを見る

Ukrainian Cinema: Belonging and Identity during the Soviet Thaw is the first concentrated study of Ukrainian cinema in English. In particular, historian Joshua First explores the politics and aesthe……続きを見る