From the tender and intimate stories of people caring for their loved ones as they deteriorate from radiation sickness to the moving stories of the people in the surrounding cities told suddenly to abandon their homes, this definitive translation of Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich’s masterpiece closely examines the human realities of the Chernobyl disaster and the half-century we have lived...

They Thought They Were Free is an eloquent and provocative examination of the development of fascism in Germany. Mayer’s book is a study of ten Germans and their lives from 1933-45, based on interviews he conducted after the war when he lived in Germany. Mayer had a position as a research professor at the University of Frankfurt and lived in a nearby small Hessian town which he disguised with...

Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world's most esteemed historians and intellectuals is a singular achievement. Postwar is the first modern history that covers all of Europe, both east and west, drawing on research in six languages to sweep readers through thirty-four nations and sixty years of political and cultural change-all...

This book discusses the history of the concept of an 'Aryan community' and describes the process of constructing an Aryan identity, as well as the persistence of the Aryan myth across both temporal and geopolitical dimensions. It addresses, for the first time, the evolution of the Aryan myth in Russia and its resurgence in the post-Soviet space. The study traces the formation and development of...

The book is dedicated to that chapter of the socio-political history of Odessa, which was not included in the official summaries of Soviet newspapers, textbooks, monographs. This is the history of social groups, a cross-section of the political mood of that era and the conditions of life in the metropolis.

In Hotel Exile, Jane Rogoyska evokes in novelistic prose the emotions, dilemmas, and fates of the hotel's patrons. In the 1930s, Europe's bohemian artists and political activists, forced to flee their homes when Hitler came to power, met at the Lutetia with the hope of forming an alternative government. But when war came, Paris was occupied, and the hotel became the headquarters of the German...

Did Kings Saul, David, and Solomon actually exist? Who authored the Pentateuch, and which events described in the Old Testament truly took place? In exploring the most complex enigmas of biblical studies, Russian scholar Andrey Desnitsky asks: is it valid to treat Holy Scripture as a historical source? Can we reconstruct the biblical past using the scientific method, and to what extent are such...

It is not only financial capital that is facing difficulties today. These challenges hinder the development of the information society and manifest as a decline in the intellect’s orientation toward the future. In his new book, the renowned scholar—philologist, philosopher, and cultural theorist—Igor Pavlovich Smirnov examines the turmoil shaking the global economy in the 21st century as an...

When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, novelist and journalist Andrey Kurkov was forced to flee his hometown of Kyiv. This journal is a harrowing record of the months leading up to and after the invasion, as Kurkov and his family migrate to western Ukraine for shelter. Surrounded by others fleeing violence, he pens incisive dispatches on the latest border conflicts and bombardments, and...

Barely two years later, on January 30, 1933, Hitler was appointed the fifteenth chancellor of the Weimar Republic. Within 53 days of that date, he had effected one of the most astonishing transformations in modern democracy, using the provisions of the Constitution to turn a democratic republic into an authoritarian state. Drawing from his 800-page political playbook, Mein Kampf, Hitler banned...

In September 2022, Scandinavian seismologists detected what seemed to be an undersea earthquake near the Danish island of Bornholm. Instead, several powerful explosions had destroyed Nord Stream, the $20 billion pipeline system that transported cheap Russian gas to Germany under the Baltic Sea. The mysterious blasts shifted global geopolitics, disrupted European economies, and triggered a...