Containing analyses of everything from prisoner poetry to album covers, Belomor: Criminality and Creativity in Stalin’s Gulag moves beyond the simplistic good/evil paradigm that often accompanies Gulag scholarship. While acknowledging the...
A new edited translation of the Soviet Staff study of the Red Army’s Belorussian operation in the summer of 1944, which was unprecedented in terms of its scale, scope and strategic consequences.
The Soviet Stavka had planned a campaign consisting...
Als Bestiarien werden Textsammlungen des Mittelalters bezeichnet, in denen verschiedene Tierarten in ihren Eigenschaften beschrieben werden. Aus der Sicht mittelalterlich-christlicher Naturdeutung ist zoologische Verhaltensforschung immer auch...
Berlin was the city at the very center of World War Two. It was the launching pad for Hitler’s empire, the embodiment of his vision of a “world metropolis.” Berlin was also the place where Hitler’s Reich would ultimately fall. Berlin...