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In 2006, Alice Walker, working with Women for Women International, visited Rwanda and the eastern Congo to witness the aftermath of the genocide in Kigali. Invited by Code Pink, an antiwar group wor……続きを見る

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanovsーand one of our pre-eminent historiansーcomes “a meticulously researched, authoritative biography” (The New York Times), the companion volu……続きを見る

From the reign of Tsar Nicholas II to the brutal cult of Stalin to the ebullient, uncertain days of perestroika, nowhere has the inextricable relationship between politics and culture been more star……続きを見る

Internationally admired for her reporting, especially on the Chechen wars, award-winning journalist Anna Politkovskaya has turned her steely gaze on the man who, until very recently, was a darling o……続きを見る

As Ukraine struggles to find its national identity, modern Ukrainian Pagans offer an alternative vision of the Ukrainian nation. Drawing inspiration from the spiritual life of past millennia, they s……続きを見る

Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history’s most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded–and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East E……続きを見る

2 Werke von Michail Bakunin Russischer Revolutionär und politischer Schriftsteller (1814-1876) Dieser Band enthält eine Sammlung von 2 Werken von Michail Bakunin. Ein dynamisches Inhaltsverzeichnis ……続きを見る

'It reads like fiction, but it is, astonishingly, history' The Times In 1917, an eccentric band of British spies is smuggled into newly-Soviet Russia. Their goal? To defeat Lenin's plan to destroy B……続きを見る

Stalin's Loyal Executioner, drawn from still-classified Soviet archives, chronicles the meteoric and bloody career of Nikolai Ezhov, NKVD leader and security chief, revealing the tragic scope of com……続きを見る

The "red files" revealed. Examining the period from the early 1930s through Stalin's death in 1953ーthe height of the Stalinist regimeーthis enlightening book reveals what we have learned from the a……続きを見る

Classical ballet was perhaps the most visible symbol of aristocratic culture and its isolation from the rest of Russian society under the tsars. In the wake of the October Revolution, ballet, like a……続きを見る

Kim (Kimball O'Hara) (1901) by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is a novel that “unfolds against the backdrop of The Great Game, the political conflict between Russia and Britain in Central Asia. It is s……続きを見る

With the coming of glasnost to the Soviet Union, filmmakers began to explore previously forbidden themes, and distributors released films that were suppressed by pre-glasnost-era censors. Soviet cin……続きを見る

Книга рассказывает о коллективной работе над космическим проектом специалистов России и Франции. О начале рассекречивания советской космической отрасли. Первые шаги на пути объединения творческих и ……続きを見る

In this amazing eBook you can find more than one hundred facts about the country of Russia. Separated into sections such as its geography, its people, famous Russian figures from history and many mo……続きを見る

Я подготовил серию книг, посвященных политическим процессам организованным большевиками в 20-е и 30-е годы. Шахтинское Дело было одним из первых. Оно было сфабриковано по прямому указанию Сталина в ……続きを見る

Я подготовил серию книг, посвященных политическим процессам организованным большевиками в 20-е и 30-е годы. Шахтинское Дело было одним из первых. Оно было сфабриковано по прямому указанию Сталина в ……続きを見る

Обвиняемым вменялся также саботаж и вредительство в банковской сфере и связь с иностранными разведками. Всего по данному делу было осуждено 122 человека. Я, Адриан Федорович Тимофеев,работал в то вр……続きを見る

As perceived icons of indifferent marginality, disorder, indolence, and parasitism, “Gypsies” threatened the Bolsheviks’ ideal of New Soviet Men and Women. The early Soviet state feared that its Rom……続きを見る

In Queer in Russia Laurie Essig examines the formation of gay identity and community in the former Soviet Union. As a sociological fieldworker, she began her research during the late 1980s, before a……続きを見る

Eco-nationalism examines the spectacular rise of the anti-nuclear power movement in the former Soviet Union during the early perestroika period, its unexpected successes in the late 1980s, and its s……続きを見る

This collection of essays by a distinguished group of international scholars is the first to analyze current Russian policies in China, Japan, and the two Koreas. Although Russia was a rising power ……続きを見る

The rapid changes in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union are often bewildering, with many frequent, highly significant changes in the different sectors of the economy and the political sys……続きを見る

Russia is famous for its vodka, and its culture of extreme intoxication. But just as vodka is central to the lives of many Russians, it is also central to understanding Russian history and politics.……続きを見る

With the collapse of the Soviet empire in the late 1980s, the Russian social landscape has undergone its most dramatic changes since the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, turning the once bland and mono……続きを見る

As the Soviet Union dissolved, so did the visions of past and future that informed Soviet culture. With Dystopia left behind and Utopia forsaken, where do the writers, artists, and critics who once ……続きを見る

A mesmerising, chilling close-up portrayal of Stalin from Milovan Djilas, a Communist insider - with an introduction from Anne Applebaum, author of Gulag and Iron Curtain This extraordinarily vivid ……続きを見る

An overriding assumption has directed scholarship in both European and Slavic history: that Kievan Rus’ was part of a Byzantine commonwealth separate from Europe. Raffensperger refutes this, and off……続きを見る

The unexpected end of the protracted conflict has been a sobering experience for scholars. No theory had anticipated how the Cold War would be terminated, and none should also be relied upon to expl……続きを見る

At the beginning of June 1961, the tensions of the Cold War were supposed to abate as both sides sought a resolution. The two most important men in the world, John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, ……続きを見る