‘Twists of Fate and Arbitrariness’ is a book of memoirs by Grigory Grigorov, a contemporary of the 20th century, who lived an unusual, complex and eventful life. He was a witness and direct participant in the events of the first half of the century – revolutions, the Civil War; in the twenties he took a direct part in political life, many of his testimonies about the inner life of the top of...

Texts and letters of Gogol, all about spiritual growth and personal development.

The two-volume collection of documents from N.S. Khrushchev's personal archives provide one more opportunity to study one of the most remarkable and simultaneously most controlversial leader of the Soviet Union. Through his personal archives, we are able to get an image of Khrushchev not only as a great political figure, but also a private citizen and analyze his activities at various stages...

Under this cover, various voices are united, at one time - from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s - in the USSR belonged to the social movement of nonconformists, which gave rise to the term dissidents. These are voices of different generations, different political convictions, different fates. Soviet dissidence has never been a monolithic political movement — it has always been a choir of...

The author of the new book is journalist Vladimir Fedorin, former deputy editor-in-chief of the Russian Forbes and editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian version of the magazine. Fedorin repeatedly met with businessman and politician Kakha Bendukidze, thanks to which the famous Georgian reforms took place, raising the country in the rating of ease of doing business and significantly reducing the...

In an innovative effort to situate Baltic testimonies to the Gulag in the broader international context of research on displacement and memory, scholars from the Baltic States, Western Europe, Canada, and the United States seek answers to the following questions: Do different groups of deportees experience deportation differently? How do the accounts of women, children and men differ in their...

A career diplomat in the Hungarian Diplomatic Service from the age of 25, Antal Ullein-Reviczky served in Vienna, Paris, Istanbul, and Zagreb from 1919-1938, when he became head of the Press Department at the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs until August 1943, obtaining the rank of Minister Plenipotentiary in December 1940. He was the right hand man of Prime Minister Miklos Kallay and...

Whence Henry Miller's title for this, one of his most appealing books; first published in 1957, it tells the story of Miller's life on the Big Sur, a section of California coast where he lived for fifteen years. Big Sur is the portrait of a place 'one of the most colorful in the U.S. 'and of the extraordinary people Miller knew there: writers (& writers who didn't write), mystics seeking...

Polish hontology. Things and people in the years of transition.

Bismarcks »Gedanken und Erinnerungen« sind das bedeutendste Zeugnis politischer Memoirenliteratur in der deutschen Geschichte. Nicht als geschlossene Darstellung seiner politischen Laufbahn oder kontinuierliche Schilderung der historischen Ereignisse entfaltet dieses außergewöhnliche Werk seine Wirkung, sondern als große staatspolitische Reflexion und als brillant erzähltes Erinnerungsbuch, das...

When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Victoria Amelina was busy writing a novel, taking part in the country’s literary scene, and parenting her son. Now she became someone new: a war crimes researcher and the chronicler of extraordinary women like herself who joined the resistance. These heroines include Evgenia, a prominent lawyer turned soldier, Oleksandra, who documented tens of...