The first collected works of Academician Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (1921-1989) include 'Memories' (in three volumes), a collection of articles, letters, speeches and interviews 'Anxiety and Hope' (in two volumes), as well as the first published novel-document ' Diaries of Andrei Sakharov and Elena Bonner (in three volumes). The first volume publishes the beginning of the documentary novel by...

Brigitte Reimann ist in ihren Tagebüchern offen und schonungslos gegen sich selbst und andere. Sie erzählt darin ihr stürmisches, kreatives und unangepasstes Leben und fängt wie nebenbei Geist und Stimmung einer ganzen Periode deutscher Geschichte ein. Es ist ihr scharfer, auch gegen sich selbst unerbittlicher Blick, der dieses Werk nicht nur zu einem einzigartigen Lebenszeugnis macht, sondern...

Never before have Dmitry Gromov and Oleg Ladyzhensky written documentary prose - only fiction. We never kept diaries. But the invasion of Ukraine changed everything. These diaries are not the fantasy that Oldie is used to. A different language, a different style - to match the circumstances.

What do we know about the feelings and fears of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers? In the early 1990s, Wolf-Rüdiger Osburg set out to visit the last witnesses to the war. 135 soldiers at the front gave him information and reported on the war in all its facets: relentlessly, in detail and honestly. It tells of total exhaustion, of hunger and deprivation, of the constant proximity of death,...

The first, modern, post-Soviet biography of the scientist-encyclopedist and poet Mikhail Lomonosov, one of the main pillars of modern Russian culture. The author used not only archival materials and documents, but also the writings of Lomonosov's contemporaries to complete the picture of the man in the context of his time.

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...

Since his speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2004, Obama has captured attention as reporters, politicos, and ordinary citizens have wondered if he might be the nation's first black president. Chicago Tribune reporter Mendell argues that although Obama's rise to the national stage might seem unplanned, it is the outcome of a carefully calculated strategy by an ambitious man. Mendell...