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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 ...
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'An invaluable contribution to history.' Serhii Plokhy, Evening Standard
'Tells the story of the disaster and its gruesome aftermath with ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
'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 ...
Shortlisted for the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography
Victor Sebestyen's intimate biography is the first major work in English for nearly two decades ...
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 ...
Revised and updated with a new introduction and new final chapter.
Russia's recent past has encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror and two world ...
A masterful and definitive biography of one of the most misunderstood and controversial writers in Russian literature. Mikhail Sholokhov is arguable one of the most ...
The official death toll of the 1986 Chernobyl accident, 'the worst nuclear disaster in history', is only 54, and stories today commonly suggest that nature ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
'[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 ...
