Om udviklingen af Mikoyan og Gurevich (Mig) flyene fra I-200 prototypen, et propelfly som fløj første gang den 5 april 1940 til MiG-9, som var et jetfly. Næsten samtidig blev Mig-15 udviklet, et 2. generations jetfly, med swept Wings. Udviklingen af MiG-9 blev stoppet til fordel…
In the 1940s and 1950s, Soviet musicians and ensembles were acclaimed across the globe. They toured the world, wowing critics and audiences, projecting an image of the USSR as a sophisticated promoter of cultural and artistic excellence. In Virtuosi Abroad, Kiril Tomoff focuses …
Under 2. Verdenskrig fik efterretningstjeneste og efteretningsvirksomhed et omfang, der var mange gange større end i tidligere krige. I bogen beskrives omfanget af virksomheden, og hvordan de allierede udvekslede efterretninger indbyrdes.
Examines the pivotal role of the media in creating Soviet society and personhood.
"From the start, the Soviet human space program had an identity crisis. Were cosmonauts heroic pilots steering their craft through the dangers of space, or were they mere passengers riding safely aboard fully automated machines? Tensions between Soviet cosmonauts and space engin…
Svetlana Alexievich reinvents a singular, polyphonic literary form, bringing together the voices of dozens of witnesses to the collapse of the USSR in a formidable attempt to chart the disappearance of a culture and to surmise what new kind of man may emerge from the rubble
Beskriver detaljeret og med mange illustrationer det sovjetiske jagerfly fra 1951, MiG-17 med Nato-betegnelsen Fresco.
Who are we? Where did we come from and where are we going? What is the meaning of life and death? Can we abolish death and live forever? These "big" questions of human nature and human destiny have boggled humanity's best minds for centuries. But they assumed a particular urgenc…
"War movies have long been the most influential genre in Russian cinema, so much so that in the Soviet Union's militaristic society, "cinema front" was used to describe the film industry itself. Denise J. Youngblood, an internationally recognized authority on Russian and Soviet …
The story of the Soviet Union is a complex one, and one that was for a long time inaccessible to western historians due to lack of documentation and ideologically motivated obfuscation, but it is one that Moshe Lewin is uniquely qualified to tell. Now that the smoke has cleared,…
Biography offering a vivid portrait that goes well beyond the habitual cliches of repression and suffering. Featuring quotations from previously unpublished letters as well as rarely-seen photographs, the author provides a fresh insight into the music and life of a composer whos…
General Gehlen fortæller om sit efterretningsarbejde under 2. verdenskrig, om sit efterfølgende samarbejde med USA's efterretningstjeneste og endelig om hans sidste job som efterretningschef i Vesttyskland. Den engelske udgave af bogen rummer afsnit, der ikke har kunnet medtages…
Om den sovjetiske politik i 1945-1949 i den okkuperede del af Tyskland, hvilke konsekvenser det fik for såvel tyskere som russere, og i sidste instans for efterkrigstidens Europa
