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...
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...
The brilliance of Bertrand Russell needs no introduction, for he is one of the greatest philosophers, scientists and social critics of our time. The contents of this book, however, are of particular significance, for here we see Lord Russell’s...
In essays written jointly by specialists on Soviet and German history, the contributors to this book rethink and rework the nature of Stalinism and Nazism and establish a new methodology for viewing their histories that goes well beyond the...
Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine came from nowhere? Felshtinsky and Stanchev’s gripping history chronicles Ukraine’s story from its origins to its modern day struggle to ward off Russian interference. A bestseller published after Russia...