Trefferliste "Russian History" - alle Bücher, CDs, Blu-ray Discs und mehr

Mark B Smith

Exit Stalin

To those of us in the West, the Soviet Union is synonymous with Stalinism. The common view of the USSR is of a brutal regime that squelched dissent and oversaw a drab, terrified society. Yet as Cambridge …

Paul W Werth,

How Russia Got Big

How Russia Got Big accounts for Russia's changing physical scope over some seven centuries.Even people who know little about Russia know that it is big. This concise book tells the story of how it became …

James Verini

The Theater

In the tradition of John Hersey's Hiroshima , a terse and piercing look at a critical episode in the Ukraine War, from the award-winning author of They Will Have to Die Now.In March of 2022, three weeks a…

Iryna Ramanava,

The Branding of the Red Dragon

This book examines the relationships between the peasantry and the authorities; both central and local ones; through the prism of the political events of 1937-1939.During the All-Union Census of the USSR …

Stefan Hedlund

Russia Reverts to Muscovy

Russia Reverts to Muscovy explores the implications of removing the notion of "Russia" from political and scholarly discourse.The book posits the following questions: Should the state ruled from…

Mikhail Zygar

The Dark Side of the Earth

Named a Best History Book of the Year by The Times (London)From "one of the most thoughtful Russian writers of our time" (Yulia Navalnaya) comes "an extraordinarily revealing account" …

Filip Kovacevic

KGB Literati

Once out of active service, many former spies have turned to writing spy fiction. They drop the dagger and pick up the pen. Some are very successful, like James Bond's creator Ian Fleming or the novelists…

Jamison R. Firestone

Rule Of Lies Hb

'This book is NUTS! - in the best possible way. A relentless roller coaster ride through the heaven and hell of modern Russia' PETER POMERANZEV'Written with all the pace and energy of a John Grisham novel…

Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky (1840-1893)

The Nutcracker op. 71

Jamison R. Firestone

Rule Of Lies Exaiie Pb

'This book is NUTS! - in the best possible way. A relentless roller coaster ride through the heaven and hell of modern Russia' PETER POMERANZEV'Written with all the pace and energy of a John Grisham novel…

Cassio de Oliveira

Our Best Friend in America

In 1960, the popular Soviet magazine Krokodil dubbed Mark Twain the USSR's "American Friend No. 1." This surprised neither the Kremlin nor the magazine's readers: Twain and especially his Missis…

Yuri Felshtinsky, Michael Stanchev

Blowing up Ukraine

How Putin has plotted with mounting violence since 1999 to subdue the Ukrainians and how the population resisted through "Maidan" revolutions and what the impact of the Kremlin's aggression on g…

Russia's War on Ukraine and the Crisis of World Order

Russia's war on Ukraine has been closely watched and widely debated worldwide. These discussions extend beyond the war itself to encompass its implications for the world order and the future of globalisat…

Ruth Averbach

The Making of a Man

Aleksandr Aleksandrov was an author and soldier in service of the Russian tsar, active in the Prussian theater of the War of the Fourth Coalition (1806--7) and in the Napoleonic Wars. In scholarship, he i…

Richard Crowder

Détente

Between 1968 and 1975, there was a subtle thawing of relations between East and West, for which Brezhnev coined the name Détente, and - perhaps - a chance to end the Cold War. The leaders of the United St…

Shaun Walker

The Illegals

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 examination of how that hidden history shaped both R…

Society and Intellectual Life in Russia

The invasion of Ukraine on February 24th 2022 sent shockwaves around the world. Putin took lives, homes and shattered hopes for peace. But how did this affect Russian scholarship and society? This urgent …

Society and Intellectual Life in Russia

The invasion of Ukraine on February 24th 2022 sent shockwaves around the world. Putin took lives, homes and shattered hopes for peace. But how did this affect Russian scholarship and society? This urgent …

Tharik Hussain

Muslim Europe

'Vital, important' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE 'Perspective-shattering' CAROLINE SANDERSON 'Offers a fresh, bracing perspective on European history' THE TIMESFor over 1,400 years, Muslims have been an integral part…