The author examines turbulent days of 1917 and the rise of the Bolsheviks and the power-cult and dictatorship of Lenin and Stalin.

Detailed collection of archival documents from the Soviet Military Occupational Administration of East Germany investigating German science and technology. Covers the period 1945-1949. Many of these documents are published for the first time. A must for any scholar of the Cold War, German occupation.

This book is a tribute to the memory of Victor Zaslavsky (1937û2009), sociologist, ΘmigrΘ from the Soviet Union, Canadian citizen, public intellectual, and keen observer of Eastern Europe.In seventeen essaysleading European, American and Russian scholars

The monograph focuses on the variety of prevailing perceptions about topics such as: the state of Israel, one's relationship to the country of residence, the Jewish religion, the aftermath of the Holocaust, and the influx of post-soviet immigrants. Cohen-

'If political economy, i.e. the interdisciplinary study of interrelationships between political institutions and economic systems, has ever made sense, it is exactly now. Hardly any better example of mutual influence and co-determination between political

Exploring theater practices in communist and post-communist Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, this book analyzes intertextuality or 'inter-theatricality' as a political strategy, designed to criticize contemporary political conditions while at the same time

Alternative strategies of economic development have received little attention in the literature. Academics rarely compare certain strategic features or assess the performance of different strategies in terms of outcomes. This book seeks to address that ga

«Лолита» Владимира Набокова не просто произвела фурор среди современников писателя — она и по сей день остается одним из самых популярных романов в мире. Однако мало кто знает, что сюжет книги во многом вдохновлен историей похищения Салли Хорнер, одиннадцатилетней девочки, о которой Набоков узнал из газет.

Wolfgang Leonhard war ein Junge von 13 Jahren, als er mit seiner Mutter das nationalsozialistische Deutschland verlassen musste und in die Sowjetunion emigrierte. Dort wuchs er nach der Verhaftung seiner Mutter in einem Heim für deutsche und österreichische Emigranten auf, studierte an der Moskauer Pädagogischen Hochschule für Fremdsprachen und trat dem Komsomol bei. Er erlebte den Ausbruch des...

«Neue Frau», der «Neue Mann», «Neues Wohnen», «Neues Denken». Als es Mitte der Zwanziger auch wirtschaftlich aufwärtsgeht, wird Deutschland ein anderes Land. Frauen erobern die Rennpisten und Tennisplätze, gehen abends alleine aus, schneiden sich die Haare kurz. Unisex kommt in Mode, Androgynes und Experimentelles. Jähner erzählt von der Erfindung der Freizeit, von Boxhallen und Tanzpalästen,...

ina Gordeeva is one of the most famous independent journalists in Russia. This is a book about grief. The grief of people with different political views and positions, from different cities of Ukraine and Russia, with different destinies, who were united by a common misfortune - war. Gordeeva loves her heroes, and out of trust and love, documentary evidence of this terrible time is born....