William Fuller, a recognized expert on Russian military history, selected the notorious case of Colonel S. Myasoyedov and General V. Sukhomlinov as the topic of his new book. Involving the investigative materials not yet used by historians, the author combines the biographical narrative full of living details with the analysis of police, intelligence and judicial practices and offers a...

The book, initiated by the Yegor Gaidar Foundation, presents 14 large-scale interviews with political figures who, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, became the first leaders of the newly independent states. Askar Akaev, Leonid Kravchuk, Vytautas Landsbergis, Stanislav Shushkevich, Mircea Snegur, Gennady Burbulis, Akezhan Kazhegeldin, Arnold Ruutel, Ivar Godmanis, Isa Gambar, Tengiz...

In this remarkable book, Karl Schlogel unravels the interconnected histories of two of the world's most celebrated perfumes. In tsarist Russia, two French perfumers – Ernest Beaux and Auguste Michel – developed related fragrances honouring Catherine the Great for the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty. During the Russian Revolution and Civil War, Beaux fled Russia and took the formula...

A museum of and travel guide to the Soviet past, The Soviet Century explores in evocative detail both the largest and smallest aspects of life in the USSR, from the Gulag, the planned economy, the railway system, and the steel city of Magnitogorsk to cookbooks, military medals, prison camp tattoos, and the ubiquitous perfume Red Moscow. The book examines iconic aspects of Soviet life,...

Ukraine is a country caught in a political tug of war: looking East to Russia and West to the European Union, this pivotal nation has long been a pawn in a global ideological game. And since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in March 2014 in response to the Ukrainian Euromaidan protests against oligarchical corruption, the game has become one of life and death.

It is no coincidence that the memory of crimes in which not external forces, but your own state is to blame, is called the 'difficult past'. Recognizing one's own responsibility without shifting it to external or internal enemies, time and circumstances is incredibly difficult psychologically, politically and legally. Only at first glance it seems that there are many examples of such...

Revolutions do not happen unexpectedly, empires do not perish for no reason. The main lesson that we can learn from the revolution of 1917 is the understanding of why the emperor and his entourage, in a situation that required cardinal internal reforms, not only did not decide on these reforms, but, on the contrary, tried with all their might to reverse the development of the country,...

End of 1995. It is very difficult for the old president to relinquish power - especially when his entourage assures that no one but him can cope. Even lying in a hospital bed after a heart attack, Boris Yeltsin decides to run again. These elections will mark a watershed in the history of Russia. The president's supporters will make every possible and impossible effort to preserve freedom. And...

Friday, April 10, 1981: In Jena, 23-year-old Matthias Domaschk boards the express train to Berlin. He wants to go to a birthday party. But he never arrives, because the fully occupied train is stopped in Jueterbog, and Matthias and three other people from Jena are arrested. He is dead two days later after an interrogation in the Stasi detention center in Gera. What happened then?

A provocative study of German peace of mind For the first time since the end of the exhibition 'War of Destruction. Crimes of the Wehrmacht 1941 to 1944' Hannes Heer spoke about the background to the campaign against the show, which he directed. She had questioned the legend of the clean Wehrmacht, and the shock was correspondingly great. The attempts to defame the exhibition were successful...

It has become acceptable again to make Hitler a scapegoat in order to clean up the German past. The Hitler and spear expert Joachim Fest, Bernd Eichinger's award-winning film 'Der Untergang' and the popular television series by Guido Knopp are the key witnesses for the current rollback in the historical perspective. Will Hitler become the leader of the Germans again?

Time novel and fate panorama. The 'Anschluss' of Austria by the Nazis in March 1938 and their invasion of Vienna was a traumatic turning point in European history. Manfred Fluegge tells vividly and in detail about the tragic mistake of Kurt Schuschnigg and the failure of the world public. In an alternation of historical representation and exemplary life stories of actors and victims, including...