They say that history is written by the victors. But what if history—or what we come to know as history—has all along been written by the wrong people? What if everything we’ve been told is only part of the story? What if...
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Richard Pipes’s
THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
“Masterful and timely … [Pipes’s] history blends uncannily with today’s … headlines.… A brilliantly focused portrait.”
—Newsweek
“Pipes’s compellingly written account … is … a...
Charles Clover, award-winning journalist and former Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times, here analyses the idea of “Eurasianism,” a theory of Russian national identity based on ethnicity and geography. Clover traces Eurasianism’s...
The history of Russia—from Kievan Rus to Vladimir Putin
Russia: A History cuts through the myths and mystery that have surrounded Russia from its earliest days, with startling revelations from classified archives that until...
On June 22, 1941, Germany launched the greatest land assault in history on the Soviet Union, an attack that Adolf Hitler deemed crucial to ensure German economic and political survival. As the key theater of the war for the Germans, the eastern...
Биографии и мемуары, История
The GULag Archipelago Volume 1: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
Автор: Солженицын Александр Исаевич
Серия: GULag Archipelago #1
Язык: английский
Год: 2007
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Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn’s chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society
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“Best Nonfiction...
RUSSIA A HISTORY
Third Edition
EDITED BY
GREGORY L. FREEZE
Oxford University Press
1. FROM KIEV TO MUSCOVY: THE BEGINNINGS TO 1450
Janet Martin
2. MUSCOVITE RUSSIA 1450–1598
Nancy Shields Kollmann
3. FROM MUSCOVY TOWARDS ST...
In October 1942, a panzer officer wrote ‘Stalingrad is no longer a town… Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure’. The battle for Stalingrad became the focus of Hitler and Stalin’s determination to...
Военная история, История
The Korsun Pocket: The Encirclement and Breakout of a German Army in the East, 1944
During the second half of 1943, after the failure at Kursk, Germany’s Army Group South fell back from Russia under repeated hammer blows from the Red Army. Under Erich von Manstein, however, the Germans were able to avoid serious defeats, while at...
Военная история, История
The Khazars: A Judeo-Turkish Empire on the Steppes, 7th - 11th Centuries AD
The Khazars were one of the most important Turkic peoples in European history, dominating vast areas of southeastern Europe and the western reaches of the Central Asian steppes from the 4th to the 11th centuries AD. They were also unique in that...