Friedrich Merz steht vor gewaltigen Aufgaben. Während Trump und Putin die alte Weltordnung zerstören, droht die AfD die politische Mitte in Deutschland zu sprengen. Der neue Bundeskanzler will ganz anders regieren als die abgewählte Ampel-Koalition. Dabei sind die Herausforderungen, an denen die Ampel krachend gescheitert ist, dieselben geblieben: Wirtschaftskrise, Klimawandel, Migration und...

Hans-Georg Maaßen diniert mit Donald Trump, JD Vance verteidigt in München die AfD, ein rechter Polit-Neuling aus Polen wird im Oval Office empfangen. Rechte Parteien und Interessenvertreter vernetzen sich international schneller als je zuvor, offen und hinter den Kulissen wird intensiv am Export des Trumpismus nach Europa gearbeitet – mit potenziell dramatischen Folgen für die Zukunft des...

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the German Democratic Republic presented a radically different Germany than what had come before and what exists today. Socialist solidarity, secret police, central planning, barbed wire: this was a Germany forged on...

Russian-born journalist Mikhail Zygar was ten years old when the Soviet Union collapsed. Now, after nearly ten years of research, he offers a timely and compelling new approach on Russian history—one that rewrites everything we thought we knew about the fall of the Soviet Union—and argues that its ending is yet to come. Starting with the historic launch of the first human into space in April...

In this compelling book, the renowned historian Karl Schlögel reconstructs with meticulous care the process through which, month by month, the terrorism of the Soveit regime in the late 1930s spiralled into the ‘Great Terror’ during which one and a half million human beings lost their lives within a single year. He shows how, in the shadow of the reign of terror, the regime around Stalin also...

Established in 1918, as a new state the First Czechoslovak Republic was keen to project a distinct image. Participation in World Fairs offered the perfect opportunity-. In this comprehensive account of Czechoslovak participation in international exhibitions of the interwar period Marta Filipová looks beyond the sleek façade of the modernist pavilions to examine the intersections of...

This first English-language synthesis of the history of Dnipro (until 2016 Dnipropetrovsk, until 1926 Katerynoslav) locates the city in a broader regional, national, and transnational context and explores the interaction between global processes and everyday routines of urban life. The history of a place (throughout its history called ‘new Athens’, ‘Ukrainian Manchester’, ‘the Brezhnev`s...

In his book, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like, and how it drives sound decisions. His journey provides an unprecedented entry into the corridors of power and a remarkable lesson in what makes an...

This book has four anonymous authors. But there are many more—volunteers living in Russia who have evacuated and continue to evacuate Ukrainian civilians from the bombings. Throughout the years of war, they have been active: they meet them at checkpoints between Russia and Ukraine, bring them to safe, warm apartments where they can breathe a sigh of relief, provide them with suitcases, food,...

»Wie dieses Buch zu lesen sei, um möglicherweise verstanden werden zu können, habe ich hier anzugeben mir vorgesetzt. – Was durch dasselbe mitgetheilt werden soll, ist ein einziger Gedanke. Dennoch konnte ich, aller Bemühungen ungeachtet, keinen kürzern Weg ihn mitzutheilen finden, als dieses ganze Buch. – Ich halte jenen Gedanken für Dasjenige, was man unter dem Namen der Philosophie sehr...

Der große Osteuropa-Historiker Karl Schlögel erzählt von der untergegangenen sowjetischen Welt in ihrem Jahrhundert. Er ist dabei, wenn die Megabauten des Kommunismus eingeweiht und die Massengräber des stalinschen Terrors freigelegt werden. Er erkundet die Weite des Eisenbahnlandes und die Enge der Gemeinschaftswohnung. Seine Archäologie legt Überlebensorte im Alltag frei – die Moskauer Küche...

Drawing on archival materials released in Russia, Richard Pipes chronicles the upheaval that began as a conservative revolt but was soon captured by messianic intellectuals intent not merely on reforming Russia but on remaking the world. He provides fresh accounts of the revolution's personalities and policies, crises, and cruelties, from the murder of the royal family through civil war,...