The story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts - first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets - by hiding them on their bodies, burying them in bunkers, and smuggling them across borders
"Conceived as a sequel to The Struggle for the Eurasian Borderlands, this book radically shifts the focus away from a comparison of the centuries' old competition among multi-cultural conquest empires for hegemony in Eurasia to the Soviet Union, the central player in the renewal…
" The study of strategic surprise has long concentrated on important failures that resulted in catastrophes such as Pearl Harbor and the September 11th attacks, and the majority of previously published research in the field determines that such large-scale military failures ofte…
The decision to go to war in 1914 had catastrophic consequences for Russia. The result was revolution, civil war and famine in 1917-20, followed by decades of Communist rule. By looking at the origins and results of the First World War from a mostly Russian angle it offers a rad…
"Drawing on new research, including the diaries, memoirs, and personal letters of both Lenin and his friends, Victor Sebestyen's biography--the first in English in nearly two decades--is not only a political examination of one of the most important historical figures of the twen…
Eyewitnesses to the Russian Revolution
Selections from testimonials, debates, documents, and memoirs fill this new reader, bringing to life the voices of men and women who witnessed firsthand the inspiring, heroic, and sometimes tragic story of 1917
"Sara Pankenier Weld argues that its central writers, artists, and theorists self-consciously used an aesthetic inspired by children's art, language, perspective, and logic to accomplish the artistic renewal they were seeking in literature, theory, and art. She treats the influe…