"A gripping read with fascinating political insight." (Sunday Times, London)
"Elegant, elegiac and poignant...Thubron is an intrepid traveler, a shrewd observer and a lyrical guide... to the river, ……続きを見る
Stretching from the tributaries of the Danube to the Urals and from the Russian forests to the Black and Caspian seas, the vast European steppe has for centuries played very different roles in the R……続きを見る
The Soviet ship Indigirka was trapped in a violent snowstorm off the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. On December 13, 1939 she wrecked with the loss of 741 lives. The majority of deaths were pr……続きを見る
The book will appeal to students, scholars, and enthusiasts of Russian history, Chinese history, and natural history, as well those interested in the history of frontiers and empires.
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著者:Miron Dolot
出版社: W. W. Norton & Company
発売日: 2011年02月14日
Seven million people in the "breadbasket of Europe" were deliberately starved to death at Stalin's command. This story has been suppressed for half a century. Now, a survivor speaks.
In 1929, in an ……続きを見る
The second sensational volume of 'One of the biggest intelligence coups in recent years' (The Times)
When Vasili Mitrokhin revealed his archive of Russian intelligence material to the world it cause……続きを見る
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia, from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature……続きを見る
La constitución de una Rusia eslava y ortodoxa se fue configurando, de reinado en reinado, gracias a la labor de los monarcas de la primera dinastía rusa: la Casa de Rúrik, denominada así a partir d……続きを見る
Winner of the 1994 Heldt Prize from the Association of Women in Slavic Studies
A manual on household management, the Domostroi is one of the few sources on the social history and secular life of Rus……続きを見る
著者:Paul Le Blanc
出版社: Haymarket Books
発売日: 2014年06月15日
Praise for Paul Le Blanc's Lenin and the Revolutionary Party:
"A work of unusual strength and coherence, inspired not by academic neutrality but by the deep conviction that there is much to learn fr……続きを見る
The only Bolshevik leader to write his memoirs, Leon Trotsky published this remarkable book in 1930, the first year of a perilous, decade-long exile that ended with his assassination in Mexico. Expe……続きを見る
In the immediate aftermath of the Revolution, the Western powers were anxious to prevent the spread of Bolshevism across Europe. Lenin and Trotsky were equally anxious that the Communist vision they……続きを見る
The New York Times bestselling author of The Gates of Europe offers “a stirring account of an extraordinary moment” in Russian history (Wall Street Journal)
On Christmas Day, 1991, President George ……続きを見る
著者:Peter Brock
出版社: University of Toronto Press
発売日: 2016年05月30日
Polish populism, which advocated agrarian socialism by either revolutionary or reformist means, emerged first among the émigrés who had left Poland after the Russians defeated the nationalist uprisi……続きを見る
“Why have I been exiled to prison?” It was a question millions of Soviet citizens asked themselves in the latter 1930s and in the years that followed World War Two. The charges brought against those……続きを見る
Hadji-Mourat est un roman de Léon Tolstoï écrit entre 1896 et 1904, et paru à titre posthume en 1912. Son protagoniste est le chef avar Hadji Murad (1790-1852), un des opposants à la conquête russe ……続きを見る
'One of the biggest intelligence coups in recent years' The Times
For years KGB operative Vasili Mitrokhin risked his life hiding top-secret material from Russian secret service archives beneath his……続きを見る
著者:Greg King
出版社: Turner Publishing Company
発売日: 2007年06月01日
Power, pageantry, and pride
Queen Victoria ruled the most powerful empire the world has ever seen, covering one fourth of the earth's land surface, reigning over subjects on every continent, and exe……続きを見る
In his new book, Two Shining Souls, James Cracraft explores the decades-long encounter of Jane Addams, the famous American social reformer and peace activist, with Leo Tolstoy, the acclaimed Russian……続きを見る
In the fall of 1961, KGB assassin Bogdan Stashinsky defected to West Germany. After spilling his secrets to the CIA, Stashinsky was put on trial in what would be the most publicized assassination ca……続きを見る
Centuries after he ruled Russia from 1689 to 1725, Peter the Great remains one of the most revered and enigmatic leaders in world history. Now in a new edition, this penetrating study by noted Yale ……続きを見る
On the centenary of the 1917 Russian Revolution, paeans to the conquering Bolsheviks will be sung. Bloodstained highlights the darker echoes coming from that event, with a mixture of classic and new……続きを見る
The story of the world's largest, longest, and best financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful, gruesomely tragic, and never before fully told
The immense 18th-century scien……続きを見る
著者:Francine Hirsch
出版社: Cornell University Press
発売日: 2014年10月31日
When the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917, they set themselves the task of building socialism in the vast landscape of the former Russian Empire, a territory populated by hundreds of different people……続きを見る
Originally published in 1992 and now available as an ebook.
This edition does not include any images.
WINNER OF THE 'LOS ANGELES TIMES' BOOK AWARD FOR HISTORY
Now that the great Soviet empire has fi……続きを見る
著者:Boris Sokolov
出版社: Helion and Company
発売日: 2013年04月24日
This book investigates several controversial issues regarding the role of the Soviet Union and the performance of the Soviet government and Red Army, to which the author provides some provocative an……続きを見る
Developed in the early 1950s to meet a Soviet Army requirement and first flown in June 1957, the Mi-6 was the largest-yet helicopter created in the Soviet Union. Its notable features included a powe……続きを見る
Russia is dying from within. Oligarchs and oil barons may still dominate international news coverage, but their prosperity masks a deep-rooted demographic tragedy. Faced with staggering population d……続きを見る
著者:Luke Harding
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2017年11月16日
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An explosive exposé that lays out the story behind the Steele Dossier, including Russia’s decades-in-the-making political game to upend American democracy and the Trum……続きを見る
著者:Clifford M. Foust
出版社: The University of North Carolina Press
発売日: 2018年06月15日
This is the first published study in English of Russian trade and commercial relations with China from the Treaty of Kiakhta (1727) to the early nineteenth century. It is a study in Russian economic……続きを見る