The term "tandem" was used to describe the Putin-Medvedev combination which ruled Russia from 2008 to 2012, when Medvedev was president and Putin prime minister. Many people saw Putin as the real wielder of power, with Medvedev as his puppet. Others, however, saw Medvedev as a v…
Im New York der 1930er Jahre formierte sich eine Gruppe Intellektueller um die politisch orientierte Literaturzeitschrift Partisan Review. Dieser seit den späten 1960er Jahren mit dem Begriff »New Yorker Intellektuelle« bezeichnete Zirkel spaltete sich in den 1940er und 1950er J…
After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has been in the past 25 years. Putin's motives, his reasons for seeking confrontation with the West, remain for many a mystery. Not for Mikhail Gorbachev. In this new work, Ru…
After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has been in the past 25 years. Putin's motives, his reasons for seeking confrontation with the West, remain for many a mystery. Not for Mikhail Gorbachev. In this new work, Ru…
After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has been in the past 25 years. Putin's motives, his reasons for seeking confrontation with the West, remain for many a mystery. Not for Mikhail Gorbachev. In this new work, Ru…
Le premier volet de l'histoire mondiale du communisme s'attache à l'aventure politique qui a porté des millions d'hommes et de femmes aux plus folles espérances. Comment expliquer ce succès, pourquoi le communisme a-t-il triomphé dans certaines régions, pourquoi a-t-il partout é…
Le second volet de cette histoire mondiale du communisme est consacré à la part de tragédie humaine que ce système a engendrée. La guerre civile permanente que les régimes communistes ont menée contre leur population explique l'hécatombe sans précédent qui en a résulté. ©Electre…
Who thought of Europe as a community before its economic integration in 1957? Dina Gusejnova illustrates how a supranational European mentality was forged from depleted imperial identities. In the revolutions of 1917 to 1920, the power of the Hohenzollern, Habsburg and Romanoff …
Who thought of Europe as a community before its economic integration in 1957? Dina Gusejnova illustrates how a supranational European mentality was forged from depleted imperial identities. In the revolutions of 1917 to 1920, the power of the Hohenzollern, Habsburg and Romanoff …
"Who thought of Europe as a community before its economic integration in 1957? Dina Gusejnova illustrates how a supranational European mentality was forged from depleted imperial identities. In the revolutions of 1917 to 1920, the power of the Hohenzollern, Habsburg and Romanoff…
'Europe after empire' is a pioneering comparative history of European decolonization from the formal ending of empires to the postcolonial European present. Elizabeth Buettner charts the long-term development of postwar decolonization processes as well as the histories of inward…
Kriege, Krisen, Katastrophen - die Jahre zwischen 1914 und 1945 erscheinen manchen Zeitgenossen wie ein zweiter dreißigjähriger Krieg. Sie sind das "deutsche Kapitel" in der Geschichte des Westens und das schrecklichste Kapitel in der Geschichte der Menschheit. Heinrich August W…
Radical ideologies may manifest differently at first, but they do follow a similar logic: truth claims, promises of salvation and a unifying common enemy. In Yemen's transition process today, the secessionist movement Al-Hirak has summoned the spirit of South Yemen, the only Mar…
