Russia category: 2582 books

The Classic text on Communist Guerrilla warfare includes an excellent introduction by Brigadier General Samuel Griffith USMC who was also the translator. “In 1937 Mao...wrote a succinct pamphlet that has become one of the most influential documents of our time....the first systematic analysis...

Soviet orders and medals are milestones in the history of the USSR, a record of the progress made by the world’s first socialist country over the last seventy-odd years. This period was characterised by unexampled valour displayed by the Soviet people in the defence of their Homeland in war and...

Dal 1994 il 20 per cento dell’Azerbaigian è, di fatto, sotto il controllo delle forze armate dell’Armenia. In quell’anno fu negoziato il cessate-il-fuoco che congelò il conflitto (1992-1994) fra i separatisti armeni del Nagorno-Karabakh sostenuti dai soldati armeni e l’esercito di Baku....

The savage partisan war on the Eastern Front during World War II saw a wide variety of forces deployed by both sides. On the Soviet side, civilian partisans fought alongside and in co-operation with Red Army troops and Red Army and NKVD 'special forces'. On the German side, German Army security divisions,...

Durante la Guerra Fredda nessuno avrebbe immaginato che il crollo dell’Unione Sovietica sarebbe stato scatenato da dinamiche interne, e nemmeno che sarebbe avvenuto in relativa calma, senza grandi conflitti. Il lavoro di Stephen Kotkin mostra che la prima causa del collasso sovietico non è stata...

Russian edition of Red Notice by Bill Browder A real-life political thriller about an American financier in the Wild East of Russia, the murder of his principled young tax attorney, and his dangerous mission to expose the Kremlin’s corruption.

Questo lavoro analizza non solo le intense relazioni economiche e militari dell'Unione Sovietica e dei paesi del Patto di Varsavia con l'Argentina, durante il tragico e sanguinoso periodo del Proceso de Riorganizacion Nacional (1976-83), sotto i generali Videla, Viola, Galtieri, ma indaga anche i...

"Ian Grey's Peter the Great reads like a novel . . ." - Louis Fischer. The first modern Russian was Peter the Great. In this enthralling biography of that remarkable ruler, award-winning historian Ian Grey paints an illuminating portrait - clear, objective, and without malice or sentimentality....

In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the incident—unexplained violent injuries, signs that they cut open and fled the tent without proper clothing or shoes, a strange final photograph...

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. Arguably no person in history had such a direct and negative impact on the lives of so many as Joseph Stalin. Under the Red Tsar terror knew no limits, it did not discriminate; no one was safe, no institution, no single town or village was immune....

Russian playwright and historian Radzinsky mines sources never before available to create a fascinating portrait of the monarch, and a minute-by-minute account of his terrifying last days.

Extrait : "Il y avait ici une maîtresse de danse, appelée la Nodin, bonne chrétienne, bonne catholique, mais peu scrupuleuse et se passant volontiers de messe. De bonnes gens bien intentionnés lui remontrèrent que cette longue abstinence scandalisait, et que, pour ses domestiques, ses voisins, les gens du pays, elle ferait bien d'aller quelquefois à l'église."

This widely acclaimed biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of Stalin as Soviet dictator, Marxist leader, and Russian tsar. Based on groundbreaking research, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals the fear and betrayal,...

The dramatic, first-hand account of the historic 1986 Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Iceland—the definitive weekend that was the key turning point in the Cold War—by President Reagan’s arms control director, Ken Adelman. In October 1986, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met for a forty-eight-hour...