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In this monumental book, Ronald Grigor Suny sheds light on the least understood years of Stalin's career, bringing to life the turbulent world in ...
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Superb, enthralling and necessarily terrifying . . . every step feels spring-loaded with tension... extraordinary.' The New York TimesThe story of Chernobyl is ...
'Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? A ...
The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and ...
In the late 1990s, John Baker was known as a purveyor of quality rare and old wines. Always entrepreneurial and up for adventure, he was ...
In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. Red Famine shows how this happened, who was responsible, and ...
Russia's recent past has encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror and two world wars, and the country is still undergoing huge change.
In his ...
Siberia's history is traditionally one of exiles, bitter cold and suffering. Yet there is another tale to tell. Dotted throughout this remote landscape are ...
The extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became one of the most powerful women in history.
The fascinating true story behind HBO's ...
On the morning of 26 April 1986 Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history- the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power ...
Also released as Voices from Chernobyl A new translation by Anna Gunin and Arch Tait based on the updated and expanded text On 26 April ...
What caused the Russian Revolution?
Did it succeed or fail?
Do we still live with its consequences?
Orlando Figes teaches history at Birkbeck, University of ...
'They will live as human beings and die as human beings; and in this alone lies man's eternal and bitter victory over all the ...
'[R]eadable and thoughtful . . . does an excellent job of exploring how the murderous political police in all its incarnations defined the Soviet Union, and left ...
At the turn of the century, the Russian economy was growing by about 10% annually and its population had reached 150 million. By 1920 the ...
