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Am 28. Mai 1987 landet der 19-jährige Mathias Rust aus Wedel bei Hamburg mit einem Sportflugzeug auf dem Roten Platz in Moskau. Die hochgerüstete Weltmacht Sowjetunion ist blamiert. Michail Gorbatsc……続きを見る

This book is aimed both at researchers and advanced students of Central Asia, the space of the former USSR, and the foreign policy of Russia and China. The authors adopt a sociological approach in u……続きを見る

Throughout their shared history, Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches have lived through a very complex and sometimes tense relationship –-not only theologically, but also politically. In most cas……続きを見る

Russland will wieder Global Player werden. Das militärische Vorgehen in Syrien an der Seite von Diktator Assad und die Unterstützung des aufständischen Generals Haftar in Libyen haben dies der Welt ……続きを見る

A Revolução Russa de 1917 foi um período de conflitos, iniciado em 1917, que derrubou a monarquia russa e levou ao poder o Partido Bolchevique, de Vladimir Lênin. A Rússia tinha uma grande massa de ……続きを見る

Gedreven door fantasie en vastberadenheid staken de Noor Thor Heyerdahl en zijn bemanning de Stille Oceaan over op een rieten vlot, al waarschuwden alle experts dat ze de overkant niet zouden halen.……続きを見る

An important perspective on US intelligence as well as its Russian adversary. A very worthwhile contribution. ーHayden Peake, Studies in Intelligence Spymaster’s Prism is a prescient study of our un……続きを見る

The final page in the political history of the Soviet Union was turned on March 19, 2019, when Nursultan Nazarbayev, the last former Chairman of a Soviet Republic who had managed to stay in power fo……続きを見る

Authoritative yet accessible, the definitive undergraduate text on Russian geography and culture has now been thoroughly revised with current data and timely topics, such as the annexation of Crimea……続きを見る

This interdisciplinary collection of essays on the social and cultural life of late imperial Russia describes the struggle of new elites to take up a "middle position" in society--between tsar and p……続きを見る

Fyodor Sergeyevich Olferieff (1885–1971) led a remarkable life in the shadows of history. This book presents his memoirs for the first time, translated and annotated by his granddaughter Tanya A. Ca……続きを見る

Questo saggio è innanzitutto un lavoro di ricerca storica, senza remore, timori, e reticenze, su di un personaggio tra i più importanti della Grande Storia. Ma non è solo e semplicemente la cronaca ……続きを見る

Представляем читателю фундаментальный труд, выдающегося русского историка и фольклориста А. Н. Афанасьева (1826–1871 гг.), широко известного в России, как издатель «Народных русских сказок». А. Н. А……続きを見る

Aun cuando la vida de Tsvietáieva está marcada por la tragedia, su poesía es extraordinariamente vitalista. “No amo la vida como tal, para mí comienza a significar algo, esto es, a tener sentido y p……続きを見る

A devastating story of the struggle of civilians caught up in the conflict in eastern Ukraine “A nightmarish, raw vision of contemporary eastern Ukraine under siege. . . . With a poet’s sense of lyr……続きを見る

“This book provides a deep reading of Nikolai Karazin’s works and his relationship with Central Asia. Elena Andreeva shows how Karazin’s prolific creations have much to tell us about Russian imperia……続きを見る

This book focuses upon significant aspects of Stalinism as a system in the USSR. It sheds new light on established questions and addresses issues that have never before been raised in the study of S……続きを見る

**FINALIST FOR THE PEN JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY “Feminism, history, literature, politicsーthis tale has all of that, and a heroine worthy of her own turn in the spotlight.” ーThere……続きを見る

'They will live as human beings and die as human beings; and in this alone lies man's eternal and bitter victory over all the grandiose and inhuman forces that ever have been or will be.' Vasily Gro……続きを見る

One of the great writers of the nineteenth century, Nikolai Gogol was born and raised in Ukraine before he was lionized and canonized in Russia. The ambiguities within his subversive, ironic works a……続きを見る

The Akunin Project is the first book to study the fiction and popular history of Grigorii Chkhartishvili, one of the most successful writers in post-Soviet Russia. In the first two decades of the tw……続きを見る

This book examines the role of imperial narratives of multinationalism as alternative ideologies to nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the Middle East from the revolutions o……続きを見る

***A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * One of The East Hampton Star's 10 Best Books of the Year* From the New York Times bestselling author of The Most Dangerous Book, the true story behi……続きを見る

El libro se originó a partir de un curso tomado en Kiev en la Unión Soviética en 1972, en plena vigencia del régimen comunista. Luego vino una gran oportunidad para conocer cómo vivía realmente la g……続きを見る

Whites and Reds: A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and Commissar tells the story of Russia's encounter with viniculture and winemaking. Rooted in the early-seventeenth century, embraced by Pete……続きを見る

Industrial sociologists for many years have been limited almost entirely to studies of Western factories. For the Communist world they have been compelled to advance hypotheses based upon the assump……続きを見る

George Blake (1922-2020), zoon van een Nederlandse moeder en een Egyptisch-Joodse vader, was een van de belangrijkste dubbelagenten van de Koude Oorlog. Hij zat in het Nederlandse verzet, maar vluch……続きを見る

Lênin é considerado um dos grandes nomes do pensamento comunista e o responsável pela primeira revolução socialista da história. A obra de Aline Ferreira e Gabriel Teles aponta para uma análise que ……続きを見る

A cento anni dalla Rivoluzione d’Ottobre cosa sappiamo di quegli eventi? Quanto è rimasto nelle generazioni più giovani di quella storia complessa, violenta, alla lunga perdente – e tuttavia animata……続きを見る

A un secolo dalla rivoluzione d’ottobre, Slavoj Žižek ci parla di Lenin e soprattutto lo fa parlare attraverso i suoi scritti. Colui che è stato definito il filosofo più pericoloso dei nostri giorni……続きを見る