"Concentrating on the formative years of the Cold War from 1943 to 1957, Patryk Babiracki reveals little-known Soviet efforts to build a postwar East European empire through culture. Babiracki argues that the Soviets involved in foreign cultural outreach tried to use 'soft power…
Maria Belodubrovskaya reveals the limits on the power of even the most repressive totalitarian regimes to create and control propaganda. Belodubrovskaya's revisionist account of Soviet filmmaking between 1930 and 1953 highlights the Maria Belodubrovskaya reveals the limits on th…
A fascinating new survey of the Caucasus which provides a unified narrative history of this complex and turbulent region at the borderlands of Europe, Asia and the Middle East, from prehistory to the present. For thousands of years the Caucasus has formed a hub of intersecting r…
The Russian Revolution had a decisive impact on the history of the twentieth century. Now, following the collapse of the Soviet regime and the opening of its archives, it is possible to step back and see the full picture of this event for the first time. This volume tells the gr…
En massiv bog om udviklingen i amerikansk-sovjetiske forhold 1969-1984 og årsagerne til denne udvikling. Ligeledes studeres faktorer omkring afspændingsforsøgene primo 1970'erne og sammenbruddet af disse forsøg ultimo 1970'erne samt de nye tilnærmelsesforsøg i 1980'erne.
Bogen er et opgør med myten om, at tyske militære enheder fra Værnemagten (Wehrmacht) ikke begik grove krigsforbrydelser i Sovjetunionen under 2. Verdenskrig, kun de specielle SS ledede indsatsgrupper blev beskyldt for grove forbrydelser og krænkelser mod den civile russiske bef…
Author's Note -- Part I: Last Years of the Old Empire, 1904-1914 -- Part II: The Great War : Imperial Self-Destruction -- The Great War Begins -- Germans, Jews, Armenians -- Tearing Themselves Apart -- Conflict and Collapse -- Part III: 1917 : Contest for Control -- Five Days th…
Forfatteren følger de politiske, økonomiske og diplomatiske relationer mellem Sovjetunionen og dets klientstat Vietnam, og han fortæller om den sovjetiske skuffelse over det beskedne udbytte af de store anstrengelser i Vietnam og om Vietnams mistænksomhed over for sovjetiske øns…
"This comparative historical sociology of the Bolshevik revolutionaries offers a reinterpretation of political radicalization in the last years of the Russian Empire. Finding that two-thirds of the Bolshevik leadership were ethnic minorities - Ukrainians, Latvians, Georgians, Je…
One of the most remarkable aspects of the transition process in the former Soviet Union has been the extent to which the economy has effectively become demonetized in recent years. At the time of Russia's financial crisis of 1998, it was estimated that up to 70% of industrial ou…
