Located at the western edge of the Eurasian steppe, Ukraine has long been the meeting place of empires - Roman to Ottoman, Habsburg to Russian - and they all left their imprint on the...
Stalin's life is one of the most extraordinary of the modern era, and Stephen Kotkin's new biography is the first to do full justice, both to the man himself and to the world which he both...
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD FLANAGANIn this fascinating journey Claudio Magris, whose knowledge is encyclopaedic and whose curiosity limitless, guides his reader from the source of the...
At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge swathe of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a...
The startling history of the Chernobyl disaster by Svetlana Alexievich, the winner of the Nobel prize in literature 2015- A new translation by Anna Gunin and Arch Tait based on the revised...
Regarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, THE HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION offers an unparalleled account of one of the most pivotal events in world...
The decision to go to war in 1914 had catastrophic consequences for Russia. The result was revolution, civil war and famine in 1917-20, followed by decades of communist rule. Dominic...
An epic story of courage and folly, this is the first history of how the Soviet Union's scientists became both the glory and the laughing stock of the intellectual world. Weaving together...
Ergens in dit duister van Natascha Wodin is het huiveringwekkende vervolg op Ze kwam uit Marioepol, het hartverscheurende boek over Wodins moeder. Ik was tien jaar oud toen mijn moeder...
A nuanced and comprehensive study of the political dynamics between Russia and key countries in Southeast Europe Is Russia threatening to disrupt more than two decades' of E.U. and U.S....
An epic new work of Russian history from a major new talent. From the beginning of the nineteenth century to the Russian Revolution, the tsarist regime exiled more than one million prisoners...
