Widely acclaimed as the best one-volume survey text available, A History of Russia presents the whole span of Russia's history, from the origins of the Kievan state and the building of an...
Qui remplacera Pierre le Grand? Qui succédera au réformateur despotique et visionnaire? A la mort du Tsar, en 1725, toute la Russie s'inquiète. Les grandes familles complotent, les proches...
The first single-volume history of the century's most tragic and brutal revolution. It will be the definitive account for a new generation. From the Trade Paperback edition.
De Geschiedenis van Bulgarije , met vele foto's geïllustreerd, is het eerste wetenschappelijk verantwoorde overzicht van de geschiedenis van een Balkanland in het Nederlandse taalgebied. Ze...
En bog om Den røde Hær omfattende en redegørelse for den historiske udvikling fra 1941-1985, en analyse af hærens operationsprocedurer, om normer i hæren, hærens flyvevåben, og endelig en...
World attention has focused on the newly independent Baltic states of Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania, as they struggle to become politically and economically viable. In this timely book,...
De Sovjetunie heeft Hitler-Duitsland de nekslag toegebracht. Maar hoe is dat gegaan en wie zijn de mensen die dat mogelijk hebben gemaakt? In dit boek vertellen Russische deelnemers aan de...
This is a study of Petrograd in the period immediately following the Russian Revolution. Formerly the imperial capital, St. Petersurg, in the years after 1917 Petrograd became a...
From the late 1920s onwards, forced collectivisation, state-directed industrialisation, mass purging and the party's control of culture, refashioned Russia and gave birth to a new type of...
"The Magic Lantern" is one of those rare books that define a historic moment, written by a brilliant witness who was also a participant in epochal events. Whether covering Poland’s first...
Had Elizabeth, the exquisite granddaughter of Queen Victoria, not married the Grand Duke Serge of Russia, she would not have found herself, first, at the heart of the opulent court in St....
" C'est assurément dans la révolution que la Russie aurait le moins de peine à se montrer originale, à faire du neuf et du slave, mais à quel prix ? Avec quels sacrifices pour la science et...
Ruim tachtig jaar na de beëindiging van de tsaristische heerschappij in Rusland zijn de gevolgen van deze ingrijpende omwenteling nog altijd merkbaar. De romantiek van het oude Rusland...