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A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution
On the brink of the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, read the most vivid, moving, and comprehensive history of the events that changed the world It is history on an …
War and Peace: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
A major new translation of the classic work interweaves the stories of an idealist, a cynical intellectual, and a count's daughter against a backdrop of Napoleon's invasion of …
Story of Russia
The history book you need if you want to understand modern Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM A magnificent, magisterial thousand year history of Russia . . . by one of the masters of Russian …
The Story of Russia
A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects of History ‘The history book you need if you want to understand modern …
Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
The author of A People's Tragedy turns his attention to the culture of Russia, using the lives of writers, artists, and musicians to show how Russia has struggled to define its own …
The Crimean War: A History
From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians" (Financial Times) comes the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the modern age. The Charge of the Light …
Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A History
AN ORIGINAL READING OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, EXAMINING IT NOT AS A SINGLE EVENT BUT AS A HUNDRED-YEAR CYCLE OF VIOLENCE IN PURSUIT OF UTOPIAN DREAMS In this elegant and incisive …
Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991
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 London and is the author …
The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture
From the "master of historical narrative" (Financial Times), a dazzling, richly detailed, panoramic work--the first to document the genesis of a continent-wide European culture. …
Vallankumouksen Venäjä 1891-1991
Venäjän vallankumous oli sata vuotta kestänyt kehityskulku, eikä vain 1917 lähivuosiin kytkeytyvä tapahtumasarja. Ajanjakso sai alkunsa vuoden 1891 nälänhädästä ja päättyi …
The Story of Russia
"This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern Russia and its wars with Ukraine, with its neighbors, with America, and with the …