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The implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had different concepts for the future. Mikhail Gorbachev, a sophisticated and urbane reformer, sought to modernize and preserve the USSR; Boris Yeltsin, a coarse and a hard drinking “bulldozer,” wished to destroy the union and create a capitalist Russia. The defeat of the August 1991 coup attempt, carried out by hardline communists, shook Gorbachev’s authority and was a triumph for Yeltsin.

Despite the best efforts of a number of historians, many aspects of the ferocious struggle between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during the Second World War remain obscure or shrouded in myth. One of the most persistent of these is the notion - largely created by many former members of its own officer corps in the immediate postwar period - that the German Army was a paragon of military professionalism and operational proficiency whose defeat on the Eastern Front was solely attributable to the amateurish meddling of a crazed former Corporal.

During the last years of the Cold War, the Soviet Union sent some of its most elite troops to unfamiliar lands in Central Asia to fight a vaguely defined enemy, which eventually defeated their superior number with unconventional tactics. Although the Soviet leadership initially saw the invasion as a victory, many Russian soldiers came to view the war as a demoralizing and devastating defeat, the consequences of which had a substantial impact on the Soviet Union and its collapse.

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.

On a moonless night in January 1991, a dozen US aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. To the Iraqi air defenses, the planes seemed to come from nowhere. Each aircraft was more than 60 feet in length and with a wingspan of 40 feet, yet its radar footprint was the size of a ball bearing. Here was the first extensive combat application of Stealth technology. And it was devastating.

What do ordinary Russians think of Putin? Who are his supporters? And why might their support now be faltering? Alive with the voices and experiences of ordinary Russians and elites alike, Sam Greene and Graeme Robertson craft a compellingly original account of contemporary Russian politics.

Stalingrad was one of the largest, bloodiest, and most famous battles in history as well as one of the major turning points of World War II. For four winter months during the battle, German and Soviet forces fought over a single factory inside the city of Stalingrad. Lavishly illustrated with...

У этой книги две задачи: первая—рассказать об изобретениях, сделанных в разное время нашими соотечественниками—максимально объективно, не приуменьшая и не преувеличивая их заслуг; вторая—развеять многочисленные мифы и исторические фальсификации, связанные с историей изобретательства.

Изобретательская мысль в Советском Союзе развивалась своеобразно. Ее поощряли в избранных областях — космической, военной, научной — и практически игнорировали в бытовой. Иначе говоря, мы совершали важнейшие прорывы в ракетостроении и фундаментальных исследованиях, но серьёзно отставали во всём, что касалось повседневной жизни, от пылесосов до автомобилей. У этой книги две задачи.

大国の野望と戦火に翻弄されたバルト海の小さな港町が、いかにして灰燼の中から立ち上がり、世界最高峰の北欧デザインと高福祉を誇る美しい首都へと変貌を遂げたのか、息を呑むような都市史のドラマが展開します。...

Bloomsbury presents Warsaw: A City at War, 1939–45 by Prit Buttar and Lottie Taylor read by James Parsons Discover the history of Warsaw’s six-year struggle through the devastation of war and the city’s enduring spirit. In Warsaw: A City at War 1939–45, historians Prit Buttar and Lottie...

Rusia es uno de los países que más secretos guarda de nuestro planeta. Víctor Fernández, el Caminante Rojo, uno de los youtubers, con cientos de miles de seguidores, que mejor conoce esta zona del mundo, nos revela los misterios que esconden las regiones más inaccesibles de Rusia y la...

The definitive history of the self-destruction of the autocratic Romanov dynasty. “Filled with revelations and fresh insights and rich with observations.” —The Wall Street Journal In 1917, Imperial Russia faced a series of overlapping crises, from war to social unrest, that culminated in...

The #1 New York Times bestseller, now in an expanded audiobook edition that includes detailed historical context for the democracy-threatening Ukrainian conflict and a call to action for modern times. This edition includes the bestselling original essay collection On Tyranny, read by the author...

A prizewinning historian tells the dramatic story of the siege that changed the course of the First World War In September 1914, just a month into World War I, the Russian army laid siege to the fortress city of Przemysl, the Hapsburg Empire's most important bulwark against invasion. For six...

Two legendary former CIA operatives reveal the tactics they developed to survive the Cold War in Moscow and turn the odds in America’s favor—as referenced in Apple TV’s Emmy-winning spy thriller series, Slow Horses. “Devilishly fun.” —New York Times Book Review Antonio and Jonna...

Victor Sebestyen's riveting biography of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin—the first major biography in English in nearly two decades—is not only a political examination of one of the most important historical figures of the twentieth century but also a fascinating portrait of Lenin the man. Brought up...

This book explores Russia's relations with Eurasian countries in response to its growing isolation from the Western world. Vladimir Putin's world view, shaped by history and personal experience, has led to an ideological focus on an inevitable civilizational clash with the West, closely tied to...

"The wisest, most eloquent history of the Communist Party USA that has ever been written" (Michael Kazin, author of What It Took to Win), revealing how party members contributed to struggles for justice and equality in America even as they championed a brutal, totalitarian state, the USSR After...

Bloomsbury presents Osprey Campaign Series: Stalingrad 1942-43 (2): The Fight for the City by Robert Forczyk, read by Phillipe Bosher The second in a three-part series examining the Stalingrad campaign, one of the most decisive military operations in World War II, that set the stage for the...