Russia

This essential biography, by the author most deeply familiar with the vast archives of the Soviet era, offers an unprecedented, fine-grained portrait of Stalin, the man and dictator....

The arms race between the Soviet Union and the USA was the most dangerous confrontation in the history of the world....

Published in 1913, My Childhood is the first in an autobiographical trilogy by the Russian writer and five-time Nobel Prize-nominee Maxim Gorky. Painfully moving in places, the book tells of the experiences of a young boy....

This best-selling account of the collapse of the Soviet Union combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism....

In 2014, the world witnessed the start of a mysterious series of cyberattacks. Targeting American utility companies, NATO, and electric grids in Eastern Europe, the strikes grew ever more brazen....

Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense fight with Russia to preserve its territorial integrity and political independence. But today's conflict is only the latest in a long history of battles over Ukraine's territory and its existence as a sovereign nation....

David Stahel's groundbreaking new account of Operation Typhoon captures the perspectives of both the German high command and individual soldiers, revealing that despite success on the battlefield the wider German war effort was in far greater trouble than is often acknowledged.

Beginning in the 18th century with the building of St. Petersburg - a 'window on the West' - and culminating with the challenges posed to Russian identity by the Soviet regime, Figes examines how writers, artists and musicians grappled with the idea of Russia itself....

The Russian Revolution had a decisive impact on the history of the 20th century. In the years following the collapse of the Soviet regime and the opening of its archives, it has become possible to step back and see the full picture....

Using archival records, in this book, David Stahel presents a history of Germany's summer campaign from the perspective of the two largest and most powerful Panzer groups on the Eastern front....

In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain....

In this thrilling history, Svetlana Lokhova takes the listener on a journey through Stalin’s most audacious intelligence operation, piecing together every aspect of Soviet spy Stanislav Shumovsky’s life and character using information derived from American and Russian archives....

The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the most cataclysmic events in world history, profoundly shaping politics, international relations, social patterns, economics and science in the century that followed....

Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. Putin and the Return of History examines difficult questions in the context of Russia’s thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Vladimir Putin’s politics of aggression....

A People’s Tragedy follows workers, soldiers, intellectuals and villagers as their world is consumed by revolution and then degenerates into violence and dictatorship....

Robert K. Massie returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became Catherine the Great. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into empress of Russia by sheer determination....

Briefly allies during World War II, Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin then tried to exterminate each other in sweeping campaigns unlike anything the modern world had ever seen, affecting soldiers and civilians alike....

Sensual, rebellious Anna falls deeply and passionately in love with the handsome Count Vronsky....

Mansur Abdulin fought in the front ranks of the Soviet infantry against the German invaders at Stalingrad, Kursk, and on the banks of the Dnieper. This is his extraordinary story....

The renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Mieville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution....

The highest-ranking Soviet bloc intelligence official ever to defect to the West, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa is at it again....

Durante más de medio siglo y hasta su abolición en 1991, el Comité para la Seguridad del Estado (KGB), conocido también en el mundo del espionaje...

A brilliant investigative narrative: How six average Soviet men rose to the pinnacle of Russia's battered economy....

A landmark collaboration between a thirty-year veteran of the CIA and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, The Main Enemy is the dramatic inside story of the CIA-KGB spy wars, told through the actions of the men who fought them....

 Ten Days That Shook the World is John Reed's phenomenal firsthand account of the October Revolution, leading up to the storming of the Winter Palace and the assumption of power by the Bolsheviks in 1917....

A riveting and deeply personal story, In Search of the Romanovs reveals hidden truths in the legends about the murder and disappearance of Russia's most famous royal family.

Mitreißend, prägnant und menschlich berührend erzählt Orlando Figes die Geschichte Russlands. Dabei entfaltet er das große Panorama der russischen Seele: von unsterblichen Mythen über die großartigen kulturellen Leistungen bis zur Weltmachtpolitik des 20. Jahrhunderts und unserer Gegenwart. In einer packenden Reise durch die Zeit erzählt Orlando Figes, wie die Russen sich selbst erlebten und wie sie sich im Laufe ihrer Geschichte immer wieder neu erfanden: Er ergründet ihre Anfänge als Jäger und Sammler und schildert das Leben der Bauern Russlands im ersten nachchristlichen Jahrtausend.

Rusya’da 1905’de patlak veren ve ancak 1907’de bastınlabilen ilk devrimden sonra, o karanlık, karışık yıllarda (19071917) idamlar, intiharlar salgın şeklini almıştı. Rusya’nın dört bir yanında darağaçları kuruldu. Cellatlar gece gündüz, durmadan çalışıyor, cellat yetişmiyordu.O mahut Schlüsselburg kalesi ve çoğunluğu kale şeklinde olan diğer hapishaneler, mahpuslarla dolup dolup taşıyordu. Çar mahkemeleri ara vermeden çalışıyordu. Ve bir gece geçmiyordu ki şafak vakti bir kaç genç insan asılmasın.

Tolstoy Shakespeare'den sonra dünya dillerine en çok tercümesi yapılan yazardır. Sadece 18881908 yıllan arasında çeşitli dünya dillerine çevrilip yayımlanan eserlerinin satış sayısı 20 milyonu bulmaktaydı. Tolstoy çocukluğunda ağabeyi Nikolay'dan çok etkilenmiş ergenliğinde Rousseau okumuş gençliğinde önce Doğu dilleriyle ilgilenmiş daha sonra hukuku tercih etmiştir. Ancak yalın ve parlak dehası onu özgür olmaya itince hukuk fakültesini de terketmiştir. Tolstoy uzun bir süre seyahat etmiş tabiatı ve insanı incelemiştir. Batı'yı ve kendi ülkesini insanlarını tanımış yeni bir pedagoji sistemi geliştirmiştir. Tolstoy çağını çok iyi gözlemiştir. Aristokrat sınıfın amaçsız debdebeli yaşantısına ateş püskürmüştür.

Sovyet Devrimi'nin ilk yılları… Yoksulluk, cehalet, her hastalığın devasını bir damla ilaçta bulabileceğine inananlar… Yabanın ortasında genç bir doktor, hem hastalıklarla hem cehaletle savaşarak büyüyecek genç bir doktor… "Hayır… Mücadele edeceğim. Elimden geldiği kadar savaşacağım."

Dopo il successo di Putin e Ucraina, Nicolai Lilin ci racconta l'enigma Rasputin, una delle figure più affascinanti, controverse e misteriose della storia russa. Rasputin è stato tante cose: un mistico rozzo ma con grande seguito, un guaritore, un seduttore, un visionario dai tratti profetici, un manipolatore di anime morte, per dirla con Gogol, un abile e furbo stratega. Un "impostore" dalla vita piena di contraddizioni, un arrampicatore sociale, un genio che sapeva parlare al cuore delle persone semplici e non solo. Aveva ai suoi piedi la dinastia dei Romanov.

One of the most notorious yet least understood body of troops that fought for the Third Reich during World War II was the infamous Sondereinheit Dirlewanger, or the "Dirlewanger Special Unit." Formed initially as a company-sized formation in June 1940 from convicted poachers, it served under the command of SS-Obersturmführer Oskar Dirlewanger, one of the most infamous criminals in military history. After assisting in putting down the Warsaw Uprising during 1944, by November of that year it had been enlarged and retitled as the 2. SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger.

Разгоревшаяся война Севера и Юга… И попавший в эту эпоху русский человек, вставший на сторону Конфедерации, прикладывающий все силы для сокрушения северян. Почему? Да потому, что он помнит родной XXI век и ту необъятную власть, которую захватили финансовые транснациональные корпорации. Потому что понимает ненависть стоящих за спиной президента Линкольна к южанам, к Конфедерации. Ибо ничего так не боятся банкиры, как победы тех, которые их считают теми, кем они являются на самом деле — то есть обычными дешевыми ростовщиками, которых и на порог-то пускать неприлично.

Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée de "la" biographie politique de Lénine, par le maître d’œuvre du Livre noir du communisme, best-seller mondial. Vladimir Ilitch Oulianov, plus connu sous le nom de Lénine, a été l’un des personnages clés du XXe siècle. Celui qui, avant 1917, n’était connu que des habitués du mouvement révolutionnaire russe est soudain apparu en pleine lumière. Il s’empara avec une formidable audace du pouvoir en Russie, y créa le premier régime communiste qui allait essaimer dans une vingtaine de pays jusqu’en 1989-1991, ainsi qu’une Internationale dirigeant plus de 90 partis dans le monde.

In this book, bestselling historian Jonathan Dimbleby describes and analyses this momentous year, covering the military, political and diplomatic story in his evocative style. Drawing on previously untranslated German, Russian and Polish sources, we see how sophisticated new forms of deception and ruthless Partisan warfare shifted the Soviets’ fortunes, how their triumphs effectively gave Stalin authority to occupy Eastern Europe and how it was the events of 1944 that enabled Stalin to dictate the terms of the post-war settlement, laying the foundations for the Cold War . . .