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Небольшая повесть о появлении русских на Амуре в XVII веке. Рассказ о том, почему мы туда пришли, и из-за чего ушли. О безнадежных боях, деревянных городах, пустых землях, немецком наемнике, ставшем……続きを見る

The Soviet Union was the largest state in the twentieth-century world, but its repressive power and terrible ambition were most clearly on display in Europe. Under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, t……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Aufzeichnungen aus einem Totenhaus" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Aufzeichnungen aus einem Totenhaus i……続きを見る

Aus den Kindertagen einer "geborenen" Kommunistin hin zu glücklichen Zeiten in Moskau und der Rückkehr in ein fremdes Nachkriegs-Österreich. Elisabeth Markstein, die Tochter von Hilde und Johann Kop……続きを見る

Stalins Sowjetunion duldete keine Nomaden. Die im Land umherziehende Bevölkerung war weder politisch noch ökonomisch kontrollierbar. Staatliche Herrschaft ließ sich unter diesen Umständen kaum durch……続きを見る

When Lenin died and the Russian Revolution began to devour its leaders, Trotsky survived longer than most as an exile in Mexico, until his assassination in 1940. The Essential Trotsky, first publish……続きを見る

The Defence of Terrorism, originally written in 1920 on a military train during the Russian Civil War, represents one of Trotsky’s most wide-ranging and original contributions to the debates that do……続きを見る

Historians consider the Battle of Rzhev "one of the bloodiest in the history of the Great Patriotic War" and "Zhukov's greatest defeat". Veterans called this colossal battle, which continued for a t……続きを見る

“Michael Farquhar doesn’t write about history the way, say, Doris Kearns Goodwin does. He writes about history the way Doris Kearns Goodwin’s smart-ass, reprobate kid brother might. I, for one, pref……続きを見る

Я подготовил серию книг, посвященных политическим процессам организованным большевиками в 20-е и 30-е годы. Шахтинское Дело было одним из первых. Оно было сфабриковано по прямому указанию Сталина в ……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur la bataille de Stalingrad en moins d’une heure ! Le 23 août 1942, l’armée allemande convaincue de sa supériorité entre à Stalingrad, ne se doutant pas u……続きを見る

Я родилась в Сибири в поселке Черемшаные ключи Нижнеингашского района Красноярского края. Затем я приехала покорять Москву,где работала на рынке, а потом устроилась в компьютерную компанию, купила к……続きを見る

What if Russia had turned westward instead of east? One woman's defiance could change the fate of a nation. Red Corner is a gripping alternate history set in the fractured, war-torn lands of medieva……続きを見る

This is the first major re-assessment of Ivan the Terrible to be published in the West in the post-Soviet period. It breaks away from older stereotypes of the tsar – whether as ‘crazed tyrant’ and ‘……続きを見る

Written by a group of leading experts on Artic affairs, this book offers a historically informed and comprehensive study of the geopolitics and security challenges of the Arctic. The key aim of the ……続きを見る

During the 1990s, the "roving bandits", big business or the oligarchs, stole Russia. They gained influence over President Yeltsin and his government, and gradually shaped policy in their own interes……続きを見る

This is a comprehensive account of the rise of the late medieval Russian monarchy with Moscow as its capital, which was to become the territorial core of the Soviet Union. The legacy of the Grand Pr……続きを見る

Twentieth and twenty-first century communism is a failed experiment in social engineering that needlessly killed approximately 60 million people and perhaps tens of millions more. These high crimes ……続きを見る

Sputnik blasted off in late 1957 and the Space Age and Space Race between the Cold War adversaries heated up. U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower was under pressure to do more in the science and ……続きを見る

This impressive work, set to become the standard history on the subject, offers a definitive survey of peasant society in Russia, from the consolidation of serfdom and tsarist autocracy in the 17th ……続きを見る

Being a good citizen under Stalin meant taking an active part in political rituals, such as elections, parades, festive meetings, political information sessions, and subscriptions to state bonds. In……続きを見る

Groomed for the stage since childhood, Zoya Frank-Paradowski exceeded her mother's expectations. Her raw talent coupled with her beauty lead her to success in ballet, theater, film, and opera under ……続きを見る

Larger in area than the United States and Europe combined, Siberia is a land of extremes, not merely in terms of climate and expanse, but in the many kinds of lives its population has led over the c……続きを見る

AVS/Sankt Petersburg Vattenspeglingar från Neva, ljusa kvällar i maj, spiran från Peter Paultornet i disig dubbelexponering i Eremitagets buktade fönster! Etisk turism, lärargrupp och skolborgarråd ……続きを見る

Интересно написанное, живое и документально аргументированное исследование о таинственных случаях из истории России, Русского государства и славянских племен. Поднимаются таинственные, загадочные и ……続きを見る

This insightful volume offers a radical reassessment of the infamous “Gulag Archipelago” by exploring the history of Vorkuta, an arctic coal-mining outpost originally established in the 1930s as a p……続きを見る

This book embraces the political, intellectual, social and cultural history of Soviet Russia. Providing a useful perspective of Putin’s Russia, and with a strong historical and religious background,……続きを見る

What caused the Russian Revolution? Did it succeed or fail? Do we still live with its consequences? Orlando Figes teaches history at Birkbeck, University of London and is the author of many acclaime……続きを見る

**WINNER OF THE WOLFSON PRIZE 2013 The extraordinary story of the Kremlin - from prize-winning author and historian Catherine Merridale** Both beautiful and profoundly menacing, the Kremlin has domi……続きを見る

From Orlando Figes, international bestselling author of A People's Tragedy, Just Send Me Word is the moving true story of two young Russians whose love survived Stalin's Gulag. Lev and Svetlana, kep……続きを見る