Jens Bisky legt eine Gesamtdarstellung der Geschichte Berlins vor, wie es sie seit Jahrzehnten nicht gegeben hat, vom Dreißigjährigen Krieg bis in die Gegenwart. Eine faszinierende Erzählung über Aufstieg, Fall und Neubeginn – und zugleich ein packendes Panorama deutscher wie europäischer Geschichte im Spiegel einer einzigartigen Metropole.

Seit dem Mittelalter war der Osten Europas auch Heimat vieler Deutscher. Sie siedelten in den baltischen Gebieten, in Ostpreußen, Schlesien und am Unterlauf der Donau und Wolga, überwiegend in friedlicher Nachbarschaft mit den Polen, Tschechen, Balten und Ungarn– bis der Zweite Weltkrieg zu ihrer Flucht und Vertreibung führte. Zusammen mit Historikern haben sich SPIEGEL-Autoren auf die Spuren...

In this compelling book, the renowned historian Karl Schlögel reconstructs with meticulous care the process through which, month by month, the terrorism of the Soveit regime in the late 1930s spiralled into the ‘Great Terror’ during which one and a half million human beings lost their lives within a single year. He shows how, in the shadow of the reign of terror, the regime around Stalin also...

Russian-born journalist Mikhail Zygar was ten years old when the Soviet Union collapsed. Now, after nearly ten years of research, he offers a timely and compelling new approach on Russian history—one that rewrites everything we thought we knew about the fall of the Soviet Union—and argues that its ending is yet to come. Starting with the historic launch of the first human into space in April...

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the German Democratic Republic presented a radically different Germany than what had come before and what exists today. Socialist solidarity, secret police, central planning, barbed wire: this was a Germany forged on...

Ezhegodnyi biograficheskii spravochnik. Around 1000 biographies of leading elites.

Full title: Chetvertaia mirovaia voina. Informatsionno-analiticheskii spravochnik po negosudarstvennym voenizirovannym sistemam.

The book examines the philosophical and legal concept of war and the gight against international terrorism in different democracies. The crisis of democracies on issues of war and peace. The essence and nature of wars waged by democratic states. Methods of warfare employed by democratic states. Civilizations and wars: history and modernity. The humanization of military policy and military...

Volume 29 is dedicated to the Volga-Ural region and the small ethnic groups and small groups of ethnic Russians.

This volume in the series is dedicated to the theoretical and practical problems of racial studies and ethnographic anthropology.

For twenty-five years, China has been transitioning from a planned to a market economic system with Chinese characteristics. Profound progressive changes in the economic and social spheres, brought about by gradual reforms in China, are taking place against the backdrop of dynamic development of social production and a consistent increase in the income and living standards of a significant...

The book you hold in your hands is a true gift for all sincere patriots of the USSR, from veterans to young people, who are still ready to joyfully and proudly raise a toast To our Victory! in World War II. This collection consists of thorough research by leading patriotic scholars who assess the leading role of the Soviet Union in defeating German fascism, Japanese militarism, and in...