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This book presents a new picture of the politics, economics and process of government in the Soviet Union under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev. Based in large part on original research in recen……続きを見る

If we rely on logic of history of political and legal teachings, then this implies that this history began in Rus' at the time when pagans were huddled into a river. This fact in itself is of little……続きを見る

The thirteenth of President Wilson's Fourteen Points of 1918 read: "An independent Polish state should be erected which should include the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations, w……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur la bataille de Koursk en moins d’une heure ! Après la cuisante défaite de Stalingrad, Adolf Hitler a besoin d’un coup d’éclat pour rassurer le peuple al……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur la chute du mur de Berlin en moins d’une heure ! 9 novembre 1989. Après plus de 28 ans, le mur séparant Berlin-Ouest, démocratie à l’occidentale, et Ber……続きを見る

Николай Алексеевич Полевой (1796ー1846) ー русский писатель, критик, журналист и историк. Родился в Иркутске. Издавал и редактировал знаменитый «Московский телеграф» (1825ー1834). После закрытия жур……続きを見る

Николай Эдуардович Гейнце (1852ー1913) ー русский беллетрист, журналист, драматург; автор множества исторических романов. В своих произведениях он допускал немало исторических вольностей, но его кни……続きを見る

This new book is a chronological narrative of the experiences of Evgenii Moniushko, who lived through and survived the first year of the siege of Leningrad and who served as a junior officer in the ……続きを見る

Казимир Валишевский (1849ー1935) ー польский писатель, историк, экономист, социолог. Учился в Варшаве и Париже, в 1875ー1884 гг. преподавал в Кракове, с 1885 г. постоянно жил и работал во Франции. В……続きを見る

Николай Николаевич Алексеев (1871ー1905) ー писатель. Выходец из дворян Петербургской губернии; сын штабс-капитана. Окончил петербургскую Введенскую гимназию. Учился на юридическом факультете Петерб……続きを見る

Имя популярнейшего беллетриста Василия Петровича Авенариуса (1839ー1919) известно почти исключительно в детской литературе. Он не был писателем по профессии и работал над своими произведениями очень……続きを見る

Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent is the first book to fully explore the expansive and ill-understood role that Russia's ancient Christian faith has played in the fall of Soviet Communism and in the rise ……続きを見る

Although 1989 and 1991 witnessed more spectacular events, 1990 was a year of embryonic change in Russia: Article 6 of the constitution was abolished, and with it the Party's monopoly on political po……続きを見る

In Soviet Russia the desire for freedom is also a desire for the freedom to love. Lovers live as outlaws, traitors to the collective spirit, and love is more intense when it feels like an act of res……続きを見る

'An excellent and important work' Literary Review 'Anyone concerned about how the bear will respond will find this historically informative account an accessible and stimulating guide' Sunday Expres……続きを見る

The world first heard of Klaus Fuchs, the head of theoretical physics at the British Research Establishment at Harwell in February 1950 when he appeared at the Old Bailey, accused of passing secrets……続きを見る

With Hitler's invasion of Russia on 22 June 1941, the Eastern front opened and politicians and generals around the world predicted the swift destruction of the Soviet armies. Nazi Germany threw its ……続きを見る

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: William the Conqueror, the first Norman King of England Saladin, historic Muslim leader Genghis Khan, famous leader of the Mongol emp……続きを見る

The amazing true story of how London became home to the Russian super-rich – told for the first time ever. A dazzling tale of incredible wealth, ferocious disputes, beautiful women, private jets, me……続きを見る

When Rachel Polonsky went to live in Moscow, she found an apartment block in Romanov Street, once a residence of the Soviet elite. One of those ghostly neighbours was Stalin's henchman Vyacheslav Mo……続きを見る

On 17 July 1918, four young women walked down into the cellar of a house in Ekaterinburg. The eldest was twenty-two, the youngest only seventeen. Together with their parents and their thirteen-year-……続きを見る

Is Russian history one big inevitable failure? The Soviet Union's demise and Russia's ensuing troubles have led many to wonder. But this is to look through a skewed prism indeed. In this provocative……続きを見る

In a fascinating "urban biography," Michael Hamm tells the story of one of Europe's most diverse cities and its distinctive mix of Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, and Jewish inhabitants. A splendid urba……続きを見る

Mapping the territory where political science and psychology intersect, Explorations in Political Psychology offers a broad overview of the the field of political psychologyーfrom its historical evo……続きを見る

A major history of the shtetl's golden age The shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misu……続きを見る

“A riveting look at today’s Russia under the leadership of Vladimir Putin.”ーThe Kingston Observer In Putin’s Labyrinth, acclaimed journalist Steve LeVine, who lived inand reported from the former S……続きを見る

In the fall of 1965 the Israeli newspaper Haaretz sent a young journalist named Elie Wiesel to the Soviet Union to report on the lives of Jews trapped behind the Iron Curtain. “I would approach Jews……続きを見る

"REMARKABLE . . . A WONDERFUL STORY." --The Boston Globe The father is a high-ranking Communist officer, a Jew who survived Stalin's purges. The son is a "refusenik," who risked his life and happine……続きを見る

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A gripping story of man pitted against nature’s most fearsome and efficient predator. This "travelogue about tiger poaching in Russia’s far east opens up a new genre ... [the] ……続きを見る

From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians" (Financial Times) and a Wolfson History Prize winner, comes the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the modern age. The Char……続きを見る