CK - Russia 2

Of the thirty volumes in the authoritative Academy edition of Chekhov's collected works, fully twelve are devoted to the writer's letters. This is the first book in English or Russian addressing thi……続きを見る

"O livro deixa de lado as doutrinações ideológicas e consegue destrinchar os acontecimentos desse evento-chave do século XX tanto para especialistas quanto para leigos." Passados cem anos, a Revoluç……続きを見る

After the collapse of the Soviet Union the Caucasus was wracked by ethnic and separatist violence as the peoples of the region struggled for self-determination. Vicken Cheterian, who spent many year……続きを見る

'From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. . .' With these words Winston Churchill famously warned the world in a now legendary speech……続きを見る

Du tekstoj, kiuj malsame karakterizas la reĝimon de la USSR sub Stalino. La unua de Lanti, la iniciatinto de la Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda (SAT), el anarĥiisma vidpunkto; la dua de Leo Trocko, el ma……続きを見る

Initially expected to bring efficiency to the Russian economy and prosperity to Russian society, the shock therapy of price liberalization, privatization and macroeconomic stabilization introduced u……続きを見る

'[R]eadable and thoughtful . . . does an excellent job of exploring how the murderous political police in all its incarnations defined the Soviet Union, and left a poisonous legacy still with us tod……続きを見る

This monograph traces the history of the dissident as a transnational phenomenon, exploring Soviet dissidents in Communist Central Europe from the mid-1960s until 1989. It argues that our understand……続きを見る

In July 1941, the Soviet Union was in mortal danger. Imperiled by the Nazi invasion and facing catastrophic losses, Stalin called on the Soviet people to “subordinate everything to the needs of the ……続きを見る

Tiuj ĉi tekstoj de Trocko inter 1931 (kiam li prave konkludis, ke venko de Hitlero – kiu efektive okazis apenaŭ du jarojn poste – signifus militon kontraŭ la USSR, sed malprave ankoraŭ supozis, ke l……続きを見る

In 1939, a ten-year-old Igor Golomstock accompanied his mother, a medical doctor, to the vast network of labour camps in the Russian Far East. While she tended patients, he was minded by assorted 't……続きを見る

On October 4, 1957, the day Leave It to Beaver premiered on American television, the Soviet Union launched the space age. Sputnik, all of 184 pounds with only a radio transmitter inside its highly p……続きを見る

In 1920, Lenin authorised a plan to transform Karelia, a Russian territory adjacent to Finland, into a showcase Soviet autonomous region, to show what could be achieved by socialist nationalities po……続きを見る

Este es un libro acerca de la vida en la Rusia urbana en el apogeo del estalinismo. Trata de viviendas comunitarias atestadas, de esposas abandonadas y esposos que no pagaban los alimentos de sus hi……続きを見る

I Led Three Lives: Citizen, Communist, Counterspy, first published in 1952, is a fascinating account of the author’s infiltration into the American Communist party in the 1940’s as a counterspy who ……続きを見る

Red Money for the Global South explores the relationship of the East with the “new” South after decolonization, with a particular focus on the economic motives of the Council for Mutual Economic Ass……続きを見る

After the defeat at Stalingrad, Hitler had lost his momentum and was looking for a way to regain it. Operation Citadel was the intended means to fulfill that objective. If successful, a number of So……続きを見る

Conventional readings of the history of Soviet art and architecture show modernist utopian aspirations as all but prohibited by 1932 under Stalin's totalitarianism. Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes……続きを見る

The incorporation of German territories east of the Oder and Western Neisse rivers into Poland in 1945 was linked with the difficult process of an almost total exchange of population and involved th……続きを見る

This book describes and analyses two iconic figures in twentieth-century naval history: the German Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz and the Russian Admiral Sergei Gorshkov. It examines the men, what they ……続きを見る

Op 9 augustus 2020 wordt Alexander Loekasjenko voor de 6de keer tot president van Wit-Rusland 'verkozen'. De stembusgang is opnieuw op groteske wijze vervalst, het startsein voor een regelrechte ops……続きを見る

In one of the most iconic images from World War II, a Russian soldier raises a red flag atop the ruins of the German Reichstag on April 30, 1945. Known as the Victory Banner, this piece of fabric ha……続きを見る

Between 1945 and 1953, while the Soviet Union confronted postwar reconstruction and Cold War crises, its unchallenged leader Joseph Stalin carved out time to study scientific disputes and dictate ac……続きを見る

Tiuj ĉi tekstoj de Trocko inter 1931 (kiam li prave konkludis, ke venko de Hitlero – kiu efektive okazis apenaŭ du jarojn poste – signifus militon kontraŭ la USSR, sed malprave ankoraŭ supozis, ke l……続きを見る

Du tekstoj, kiuj malsame karakterizas la reĝimon de la USSR sub Stalino. La unua de Lanti, la iniciatinto de la Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda (SAT), el anarĥiisma vidpunkto; la dua de Leo Trocko, el ma……続きを見る

Sep jarojn post la Oktobra Revolucio Trocko, la ĉefa gvidanto apud Lenino dum la Oktobro 1917, bedaŭras, ke tiu granda evento ne estas uzata por politika klerigado. Li prezentas ĉi tie tiujn instruo……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

This book explores the consequences of the latest political shifts in Central Eastern Europe: the rise of right-wing parties and, among other things, politics becoming more invested in history. Thes……続きを見る

Pongamos el nombre de Rasputín a la cabeza de este libro, de esta figura fantástica, casi legendaria, porque en la última década del régimen. Rasputín es la personificación de la locura y la crimina……続きを見る

We put at the head of this book the name of Rasputin, of this fantastic, almost legendary figure, because in the last decade of the regime. Tsarist, Rasputin is the one who personifies more intensel……続きを見る