著者:Neil Short
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2013年05月20日
In the years following the Civil War, plans were drawn up to build a major set of fortifications along the Russian western border.
Work began in 1926, leading to a front that stretched over 2,000km ……続きを見る
Why were Hollywood producers eager to film on the other side of the Iron Curtain? How did Western computer games become popular in socialist Czechoslovakia's youth paramilitary clubs? What did Finni……続きを見る
Sergei Shargunovs A Book Without Photographs follows the young journalist and activist through selected snapshots from different periods of his remarkable life. Through memories both sharp and vague……続きを見る
著者:Shaun Walker
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2025年04月15日
ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF 2025 • The definitive history of Russia’s most secret spy program, from the earliest days of the Soviet Union to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and a revelatory ex……続きを見る
Grigori Rasputin remains one of history's most enigmatic and controversial figures. From his humble beginnings in Siberia to his rise as a spiritual advisor to the Russian imperial family, Rasputin'……続きを見る
How the West sleepwalked into another Cold War
A native of Yalta, Constantine Pleshakov is intimately familiar with Crimea's ethnic tensions and complex political history. Now, he offers a much-need……続きを見る
'MikhaIl Fishman, a veteran journalist of the Putin era, tells the Nemtsov story with extraordinary reportorial detail and a profound sense of what could have been' David Remnick, author of Lenin's ……続きを見る
The Russian Revolution: How the Tsars Lost Their Empire chronicles the dramatic collapse of the 300-year Romanov dynasty and the end of imperial Russia. This compelling historical narrative examines……続きを見る
This work presents the memoirs of Ingerid Lotze, detailing her unusual childhood. Born in Heidelberg, Nazi Germany, in April 1937, she is the last scion of the von Below-Saleske nobility. Her mother……続きを見る
This volume presents a new cultural history of the transformation of Russia to the Soviet Union. It looks at how the literature, the sciences and the arts played a key role in the emergence from a l……続きを見る
Frederick Whishaw's 'Moscow' is a vivid and intricate exploration of the Russian capital, capturing its complex interplay between history, culture, and the everyday lives of its citizens. Whishaw em……続きを見る
著者:Francis Hayes
出版社: Francis Hayes
発売日: 2018年12月06日
It was the most decisive battle of the Second World War. It brought the two most ruthless dictators of the 20th Century against each other in an epic clash of wills. It would kill close to 2 million……続きを見る
Whether voluntary or coerced, hopeful or desperate, people moved in unprecedented numbers across Russia's vast territory during the twentieth century. Broad Is My Native Land is the first history of……続きを見る
Ivan Sergeevich Gagarin analyzes questions of nationality and religious identity in nineteenth-century Russian history as reflected in the life of Jesuit priest Ivan Gagarin. A descendent of one of ……続きを見る
Winner of the Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies
Co-winner of the Charles Taylor Book Award
How do ordinary people navigate the intense uncertainty of the onset of war? Individu……続きを見る
This memoir by one of the foremost scholars of the Soviet period spans three continents and more than half a centuryーfrom the 1950s when Lewis Siegelbaum's father was a victim of McCarthyism up thr……続きを見る
Tamizdat offers a new perspective on the history of the Cold War by exploring the story of the contraband manuscripts sent from the USSR to the West. A word that means publishing "over there," tamiz……続きを見る
The Moralist International analyzes the role of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian state in the global culture wars over gender and reproductive rights and religious freedom. It shows how t……続きを見る
Fluid Russia offers a new framework for understanding Russian national identity by focusing on the impact of globalization on its formation, something which has been largely overlooked. This approac……続きを見る
The Lives of Soviet Secret Agents: Religion and Police Surveillance in the USSR explores the covert world of secret police surveillance within the Soviet Union, delving into lesser-known grassroots ……続きを見る
著者:Philip Short
出版社: Random House
発売日: 2022年06月30日
'A perfect mirror to its subject... should be compulsory reading' Observer
Vladimir Putin is a pariah to the West.
He has the power to reduce the West to nuclear ashes. He invades his neighbours, me……続きを見る
Dans "Abrégé de l'histoire de l'Ukraine", Mykhailo Hrushevskyi propose une synthèse exhaustive et nuancée de l'évolution historique de l'Ukraine, allant des temps anciens jusqu'à la fin du XIXe sièc……続きを見る
Being swamp by the Second World War at the age of 23 years Ernest Kaukhcheshvili, at that time a fifth-year student at the Leningrad Technological Institute of Refrigeration Industry, shares his mem……続きを見る
Hannes Hofbauer verfolgt das Phänomen der Russophobie zurück bis ins 15. Jahrhundert, als der Zar im Zuge der kriegerischen Reichsbildung gegen Nordwesten zog. Es ging um Herrschaft, Konkurrenz und ……続きを見る
In "Our Revolution," Leon Trotsky presents a compelling first-hand account of the 1917 Russian Revolution, providing both a passionate narrative and a critical analysis of the event that reshaped wo……続きを見る
'The History of the Russian Empire' is a vibrant anthology that vividly encapsulates the multifaceted narrative of Russia's grand historical tapestry through the prismatic lens of Saki (H. H. Munro)……続きを見る
A New York Times bestseller
The secret history of America's submarine warfare is revealed for the first time in this "vividly told, impressively documented" (The New York Times) and fast-paced chron……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
著者:Sherzod Muminov
出版社: Harvard University Press
発売日: 2022年01月04日
The odyssey of 600,000 imperial Japanese soldiers incarcerated in Soviet labor camps after World War II and their fraught repatriation to postwar Japan.
In August 1945 the Soviet Union seized the Ja……続きを見る
著者:Charlie English
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2025年07月01日
“A story as fascinating as it is undersung . . . a riveting account” (The New York Times Book Review, Best Books of 2025 So Far) of the CIA’s secret program to smuggle millions of books through the ……続きを見る