| |
Sarajevo, 28 June 1914: The story of the assassination that changed the world.A historical account of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Using newly available sources and older material, David James Smith brilliantly reinvestigates and reconstructs the...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2010-12-23
ePub
|
This fascinating study examines wartime Chinese-Soviet relations from a Moscow-based, Chinese perspective at the ambassadorial level. The book includes descriptions of everyday life in Moscow, of embassy business, of contemporary events and diplomacy, of intelligence...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-11-30
PDF
|
Told from the perspective of its former Foreign minister, this is a uniquely candid account of Chechnya's struggle for independence and its two wars against Russia which will revise our understanding of the conflict and explain how it continues. Features new insights,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-11-14
PDF
|
The searing accounts of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniia Ginsberg and Varlam Shalamov opened the world's eyes to the terrors of the Soviet Gulag. But not until now has there been a memoir of life inside the camps written from the perspective of an actual employee of the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-11-04
PDF, ePub
|
Despite reports of exile proving disastrous to the region, 300,000 Russian subjects, from political dissidents to the elderly and mentally disabled, were deported to Siberia from 1823-61. Their stories of physical and psychological suffering, heroism and personal...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-09-29
PDF
|
This book traces the profound influence that Russian literature, which was tied inseparably to the political victory of the Russian revolution, had on China during a period that saw the collapse of imperial rule and the rise of the Communist Party.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-05-24
PDF
|
Seven leading specialists present chapters devoted to key themes in Soviet and post-Soviet Russian politics. Those themes include: the personal versus the institutional in the political process; legitimacy and legitimation; and change and collapse of a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-05-13
PDF
|
Peripheral cultures have been largely absent from the European canon of historiography. Seeking to redress the balance, Monika Baár discusses the achievements of five East-Central European historians in the nineteenth century: Joachim Lelewel (Polish); Simonas Daukantas...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-02-25
PDF
|
This book is the first interdisciplinary treatment of the cultural significance of the Decembrists' mythic image in Russian literature, history, film and opera in a survey of its deployment as cultural trope since the original 1825 rebellion and through the present day.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-12-21
PDF
|
This book showcases extensive research on gender under state socialism, examining the subject in terms of state policy and law; sexuality and reproduction; the academy; leisure; the private sphere; the work world; opposition activism; and memory and identity.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-11-23
PDF
|
The displacement of population during and after the Second World War took place on a global scale and formed part of a longer historical process of violence, territorial reconfiguration and state 'development'. This book focuses on the profound political, social and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-10-22
PDF
|
Russian Bureaucracy and the State provides a rich and innovative assessment ofRussian bureaucracy from 1881 to the present. From a variety of disciplinary perspectives, the work assesses the organization, personnel, and practices of officialdom across three different...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-09-23
PDF
|
This book presents theoretical and empirical investigation of the impact of human capital on economic growth in Ukraine during the period of 1989-2009. It defines place and role of human capital in the process of transition from the exogenous to the endogenous forms of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-08-31
PDF
|
This book draws on the latest archival releases – including those from the secret world of British intelligence – to offer the first comprehensive analysis of Anglo-Turkish relations during the Second World War, with a particular emphasis on Turkey's place in the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-07-23
PDF
|
After World War I, diplomats and leaders at the Paris Peace Talks redrew the map of Europe, carving up ancient empires and transforming Europe's eastern half into new nation-states. Drawing heavily on the past, the leaders of these young countries crafted national...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-07-21
PDF, ePub
|
This book illuminates a little-known but tremendously significant twentieth-century crisis in the Soviet Union. Drawing on archival materials declassified since the fall of communism, Nicholas Ganson situates the famine of 1946-47 at the crossroads of Soviet social and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-04-27
PDF
|
"If the Balkans hadn't existed, they would have been invented" was the verdict of Count Hermann Keyserling in his famous 1928 publication, Europe. Over ten years ago, Maria Todorova traced the relationship between the reality and the invention. Based on a rich selection...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-04-15
PDF, ePub
|
This incisive collection probes the history of colonialism within Europe and posits that Eastern Europe was in fact Germany s true "colonial" empire. Through a series of interdisciplinary essays ranging from 1850 to the European Union of today, this collection explores...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-02-02
PDF
|
Czech, German, and Noble examines the intellectual ideas and political challenges that inspired patriotic activity among the Bohemian nobility, the infusion of national identity into public and institutional life, and the role of the nobility in crafting and supporting...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-01-21
PDF, ePub
|
Explores the dynamics between Orthodoxy and politics in Romania, providing an accessible narrative on church-state relations from the establishment of the state in 1859 to the rise of Ceau?escu in 1965. The book argues that Romanian national communism had an ally in a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-12-10
PDF
|