"In 2014, Russia annexed the Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine. While the world watched in outrage, this blatant violation of national sovereignty was only the latest iteration of a centuries-long effort to expand Russian boundaries and create a pan-Russian nati…
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Afskrækkende diplomati. Japans vej til Stillehavskrigen. Udvalgte oversættelser fra japansk: Taiheiyo senso e no michi: kaisen gaiko shi.
The drying up of the Aral Sea - a major environmental catastrophe of the late twentieth century - is deeply rooted in the dreams of the irrigation age of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a time when engineers, scientists, politicians, and entrepreneurs around t…
Many theories have been offered to explain the disintegration of the Soviet Union, yet none sufficiently explain the speed and profundity of the empire's collapse. In this powerful polemic, Wisla Surska disputes popular interpretations of the dissolution of the Soviet Union and …
"'An Ecology of the Russian Avant-Garde Picturebook' takes a new approach to interpreting 1920s and 1930s picturebooks by prominent Russian writers, artists, and intellectuals by examining them within the ecological environment that, first, made them possible and, then, led to t…
"Based on historical records, One Day We Will Live Without Fear tells what life was like for people in the Soviet police state. The author outlines the seven basic principles on which that police state operated during its entire history, from the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 to …
The East-West struggle for supremacy from 1945 to 1989 shaped the lives of hundreds of millions and brought the world to the brink of disaster on several occasions. More than two decades on, the debate over its causes and dynamics is far from over. Drawing on the latest archival…
"Because of their visibility in society and ability to shape public opinion, prominent literary figures were among the first targets of Communist repression, torture, and incarceration. Authors such as Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn famously documented the experience of internment in So…
Forfatteren, oberst Herrington, opbyggede i årene 1983-93 Foreign Counterintelligence Activity, FCA, som blev ansvarlig for amerikansk kontraspionage rettet mod Sovjetunionen og dens vasalstater. Aktiviteterne blev hovedsagelig rettet mod Sovjetunionens og DDR's spionage mod Ame…
Forfatteren, oberst Herrington, opbyggede i årene 1983-93 Foreign Counterintelligence Activity, FCA, som blev ansvarlig for amerikansk kontraspionage rettet mod Sovjetunionen og dens vasalstater. Aktiviteterne blev hovedsagelig rettet mod Sovjetunionens og DDR's spionage mod Ame…
The collapse of the Soviet empire in 1991 removed a decades-long system of successful control of potential ethnic and regional conflict. The result was the eruption of numerous conflicts over state-building, some of which degenerated into violence and some of which were resolved…
In this engaging life of the twentieth century's most self-consciously learned dictator, Geoffrey Roberts explores the books Stalin read, how he read them, and what they taught him. Stalin firmly believed in the transformative potential of words and his voracious appetite for re…
