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Ivan the Terrible - the name evokes the legend of a cruel and dangerously insane tyrant. Fearful Majesty explores that legend and exposes the man, his nature, and his time. This acclaimed biography ……続きを見る

Winner of the 2022 Ab Imperio Award Hoping to unite all of humankind and revolutionize the world, Ludwik Zamenhof launched a new international language called Esperanto from late imperial Russia in ……続きを見る

Fino alla sua caduta (9 novembre 1989), il Muro ha rappresentato la divisione in due di Berlino ma anche il confine visibile fra due ideologie, due concezioni di società, due mondi. Berlino Ovest af……続きを見る

Everyday Belonging in the Post-Soviet Borderlands examines the Russophone communities in peripheral cities adjacent to the Russian borders in Estonia and Kazakhstan. The research adopts a cross-disc……続きを見る

История о крестьянском мальчишке из глухой российской деревни, загадочным образом перебравшемся во время гражданской войны в Америку. Джек провел восемь лет в США, возмужал, окреп физически и мораль……続きを見る

This book is the only comprehensive history of the total experience of the Russian Civil War. Focusing on the key Volga city of Saratov and the surrounding region, Donald Raleigh is the first histor……続きを見る

A new history shows that, despite Marxism’s rejection of money, the ruble was critical to the Soviet Union’s promise of shared prosperity for its citizens. In spite of Karl Marx’s proclamation that ……続きを見る

In "The Kronstadt Rebellion," Alexander Berkman presents a meticulous analysis of the 1921 uprising of sailors at Kronstadt, a critical episode in the Russian Revolution. The book is not only a poig……続きを見る

St. Petersburg – heute die Partnerstadt von Hamburg – ist eine junge Stadt. Im Mai 1703 von Zar Peter I. scheinbar gegen jede Vernunft und gegen erheblichen Widerstand im sumpfigen Delta der Newa am……続きを見る

'A stunningly original study of Stalinist society... Essential reading for anyone interested in how human beings navigate a path through times of extraordinary upheaval, privation and danger' - Dani……続きを見る

This book looks at the different ways in which Russian historians and authors have thought about their country’s first Antarctic expedition (1819-21) over the past 200 years. It considers the effect……続きを見る

Award-winning journalist and bestselling author Luke Harding's haunting, brilliant account of the insidious methods used against him by a resurgent Kremlin which led to him becoming the first weste……続きを見る

This book interrogates the relations between nostalgias of today and past utopias in the context of the space age of the 20th century and its cinematic representations in the USSR and in post-Soviet……続きを見る

An illuminating account of Russia’s attemptsーand failuresーto achieve great power status in Asia. Since Peter the Great, Russian leaders have been lured by opportunity to the East. Under the tsars,……続きを見る

Quatrième de couverture Vers l’autre flamme – Apres seize mois dans l’U.R.S.S., publié en 1929, marque le début de la série de témoignages critiques et désillusionnés des militants. La préface de Ve……続きを見る

The book aims to trace and explain the historical evolution of Moscow, the capital of the Tsardom of Russia, Soviet Union and Russian Federation, as a political entity and political community, and t……続きを見る

This is the untold story of the Russian Revolution: its antecedents, its far-reaching changes, its betrayal by Bolshevik terror, and the massive resistance of non-Bolshevik revolutionaries. This in-……続きを見る

In this work Sidney Hook, a distinguished scholar, examines the chief issues which have divided Marxists from non-Marxists, and Marxists from each other. This volume of exposition, comment and readi……続きを見る

A massive effort to determine the objectives and techniques of Soviet communism by intensive examination of all the works of Lenin and Stalin. "In this book I shall attempt to portray the spirit of ……続きを見る

IMPORTANT techniques of Soviet foreign policy still remain almost unexamined. One of these is the complex amalgam of propaganda, deception, and sometimes mutually profitable transactions with non-So……続きを見る

Few European nations are so little known to the world at large as Belorussia. For centuries this Eastern European country has served as a pawn in the power plays of predatory neighbors. In this, the……続きを見る

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Soviet philologist, literary dissident, and university professor Viktor Duvakin made it his mission to interview the members of the artistic avant-garde who had su……続きを見る

Lektor Erik Christensen giver i bogen fra 1973 sit bud på en systematisk skildring af den udvikling, som Lenins revolutionsteori gennemgik i perioden 1894 til 1917. Christensen påviser blandt andet,……続きを見る

This book explores the changing evolution of memory debates on places intimately linked to the lives and deaths of different fascist, para-fascist and communist dictators in a truly transnational an……続きを見る

War and Peace is a novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russkii Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of T……続きを見る

Over 20,000 ethnic Russians migrated to Australia after World War II – yet we know very little about their experiences. Some came via China, others from refugee camps in Europe. Many preferred to ke……続きを見る

A military hero? Or a traitor to his comrades and his country? A gripping thriller full of suspense and intrigue, from master author Max Hennessy. When, in 1939, a letter cast doubts on the military……続きを見る

This excellent reference source brings together hard-to-find information on the constituent units of the Russian Federation. The introduction examines the Russian Federation as a whole, followed by ……続きを見る

Stories of the secret underground Cold War–era Soviet music subculture that distributed forbidden music on used hospital x-rays. During the Cold War era, the songs that Soviet citizens could listen ……続きを見る

This book presents key works of Boris Hessen, outstanding Soviet philosopher of science, available here in English for the first time. Quality translations are accompanied by an editors' introductio……続きを見る