For Russia, the Caucasus has never been a testing ground for military force. Through the Caucasus, the Russian state laid its geopolitical route to the East, bringing peace to the peoples and salvation from Ottoman and Persian enslavement.

Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker in 1963. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account. A major journalistic...

The author was the Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times from 1976-1982. His book is about the collapse of the USSR and highlights leaders from Brezhnev to Gorbachev.

Ancient states and unique cultures emerged in Transcaucasia many centuries earlier than in other territories of the Russian Empire and the USSR. Unfortunately, the geographical location of Transcaucasia at the junction of Europe and Asia made this region an arena of bloody wars for 2.5 thousand years. Peace reigned when the Russians arrived. In the 90s of the 20th century, Moscow's control...

Die erste große, vielstimmige Erzählung über die Erfahrungen der Jüdinnen und Juden, die während des Nationalsozialismus aus dem Deutschen Reich ins besetzte Osteuropa deportiert wurden. Auf Basis Hunderter Briefe, Postkarten, Tagebücher, Video-Aufzeichnungen und vieler weiterer Quellen verwebt die Historikerin Andrea Löw die individuellen Geschichten zu einem erschütternden Zeugnis. Ein...

Unweit des ostpreußischen Rastenburg, des heutigen Ketrzyn in Polen, befand sich ein zentraler Ort des Zweiten Weltkriegs: das »Führerhauptquartier Wolfsschanze«. Dort verbrachte Adolf Hitler nach dem Angriff auf die Sowjetunion den Großteil seiner Zeit. Dort wurde über die systematische Ermordung der europäischen Juden entschieden. Dort ereignete sich am 20. Juli 1944 das...

Eingepfercht auf einem Schiff hoffen jüdische Flüchtlinge auf ein neues Leben in Israel. Thomas Mann ist als berühmter Schriftsteller in den USA zwar privilegiert, aber auch er muss sich in einem Leben im Exil einrichten. Marianne Cohn gelingt die Rettung nicht. Sie wird auf der Flucht in die Schweiz geschändet und erschossen. Das Exil in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus besteht aus unendlich...

‘Memorial is a community of public organizations working on human rights and the history of victims of Soviet repression. At the moment when the Nobel Committee awarded Memorial the Peace Prize, Boris Belenkin was in Moscow in the courthouse and was a defendant in a lawsuit filed by the prosecutor's office, which had seized the society's premises. This book is not the history of Memorial, but...

The book is dedicated to one of the largest archaeological monuments of the Crimean Mountains - the 'cave city' of Eski-Kermen, which arose in the Middle Ages. Eski-Kermen has been the subject of many articles in scientific journals, as well as separate chapters in scientific monographs and guides to the 'cave cities' of Crimea. However, a book entirely dedicated to Eski-Kermen had not existed...

The book tells about the most important trial in the history of mankind - the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal. The book is based on rare archival documents, hard-to-reach sources, the latest research, as well as the memoirs of contemporaries and direct participants in those distant events. Many materials are published for the first time. It is not surprising that some historical...

In the memoir The Torture Camp on Paradise Street, Ukrainian journalist and writer Stanislav Aseyev details his experience as a prisoner for nearly three years at a modern-day concentration camp overseen by the Federal Security Bureau of the Russian Federation (FSB) in the Russian-controlled city of Donetsk.