A major contribution to the historiography of twentieth century Russia, The Bolsheviks in Power shines a revealing spotlight on the fateful first year of Soviet rule in Petrograd. It examines events that profoundly shaped the Soviet political system that endured through generations.

The book examines naval operations in the Baltic Sea during World War One (also known as the Battle of Åland Islands). The ensuing battle off the coast of Sweden was a victory for the Russian Navy.

A revisionist look at Khrushchev and his denunciation of Stalin and Stalin's terror.

Stefan Zweig based his biography of Marie Antoinette, who became the Queen of France at the age of fifteen, on the correspondence between her and her mother, and her great love the Count Axel von Fersen. Zweig analyzes the chemistry of a woman’s soul from her intimate pleasures to her public suffering as a Queen under the weight of misfortune and history. Zweig describes Marie Antoinette in the...

The story of Nicholas Urfe and his friendship with a demonic millionaire which leads to an elaborate series of staged hallucinations, riddles, and psychological traps, The Magus endures as the most enigmatic and magical novel in the Fowles canon, a work rich in symbols, conundrums, and labyrinthine twists of events.

1922 marked the beginning of the transition of Soviet Russia into a totalitarian society. The beginnings of NEP also brought with a crackdown on against those not sharing the new ideology: political opponents, the clergy, the intelligentsiia and more. This volume represents the first time that such an exhaustive array of documents have been published covering the critical years from the end...

Novels and short stories by Aleksei Tolstoy written from 1909 to 1944. The book includes fragments of memoirs of Korney Chukovsky about his friendship with the author.

True classics, a galaxy of characters, mystery and deep thoughts.

Vanity Fair is William Thackery’s masterpiece satire of English society in the Regency era of English history, and includes the Napoleonic war period. It is the story of a poor orphan of humble birth, Becky Sharp, and her ascension to the top of the upper-class social order. A born ‘operator,’ and ‘social climber,’ narcissistic Becky focuses upon raising her social and financial position by...