This book elucidates the complicated relationship between religion and national consciousness in the modern world, highlighting various cases in Central and Eastern Europe. Though those analyses, the authors show how religion, far from disappearing, strongly impacted the emergin…
Thisbook elucidates the complicated relationship between religion and nationalconsciousness in the modern world, shedding light on various cases in Centraland Eastern Europe. Though those analyses, the authors show how religion, far fromdisappearing, strongly impacted on the eme…
Here is the first full account of the widespread adoption of electricity in Russia, from the beginning in the 1880s to its early years as a state technology under Soviet rule. Jonathan Coopersmith has mined the archives for both the tsarist and the Soviet periods to examine a cr…
Skildring af den diplomatiske krise, der i 1962 udspandt sig mellem Kennedy og Khrusjtjov og bragte verden tæt på en atomkrig. Begivenhederne følges dag for dag og time for time og på baggrund af nye kilder afdækkes hidtil ukendte optrin. Bogen findes tillige i en dansk udgave s…
Beretning om USAs præsident John F. Kennedys diplomatiske anstrengelser for at undgå, at Sovjetunionen opsatte missilbatterier på Cuba.