It is a common misunderstanding that the Red Army, on Stalin’s order, halted outside Warsaw in August 1944 to let the German troops suppress the Polish uprising in the capital. Joseph Stalin of course didn’t want to let a pro-British Polish...
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Was Revolution Inevitable? Turning Points of the Russian...
Communism's rise and eventual fall in Eastern Europe is one of the great stories of the 20th century. Within this context, the Russian Revolution's role and legacy overshadows all else. In Was Revolution Inevitable?, former British Ambassador to...
This paper studies structural transformation of Soviet Russia in 1928-1940 from an agrarian to an industrial
economy through the lens of a two-sector neoclassical growth model. We construct a large dataset
that covers Soviet Russia during 1928-1940...
June 18, 1815, was one of the most momentous days in world history, marking the end of twenty-two years of French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. On the bloody battlefield of Waterloo, the Emperor Napoleon and his hastily formed legions...
A The Times best book of 2019
'In fewer than 150 pithy pages, Galeotti sketches a bleak, but convincing picture of the man in the Kremlin and the political system that he dominates' - The Times
Meet the world's most dangerous man. Or is he?
Who is...
Год: 2006
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Weapon. A Visual History of Arms and...
Westminster Abbey is the most complex church in existence. National cathedral, coronation church, royal mausoleum, burial place of poets, resting place of the great and of the Unknown Warrior, former home of parliament, backdrop to the funeral of...
History is an endlessly fascinating topic, but one aspect of it that really grabs me is alternative history, that small question with endless possibilities: What if? So much of the world could be totally changed if pivotal events had gone a...