Книга Константина Гаазе «Куда дрейфуют диктатуры» рассказывает об исторической эволюции российской автократии, закономерным итогом которой стало полномасштабное вторжение в соседнюю страну. Задумываясь о том, почему Россия напала на Украину, автор с ходу отметает два избитых тезиса — об извечной исторической судьбе страны и о зловещей личности ее правителя. Вместо этого он предлагает...

Кирилл Кобрин — писатель, историк, журналист, или, по его словам, «пишущий на русском языке европейский литератор и историк». Среди его героев — Венцеслав Холлар, Франц Кафка, Антуан-Жан Гро, Наполеон Бонапарт, Томас Манн, Эдуард Гиббон, сам автор и все мы, к несчастью оказавшиеся в это время и в этом месте.

‘Великая шахматная доска’ Збигнева Бжезинского стоит в одном ряду с важнейшими произведениями политической мысли человечества – ‘Политикой’ Аристотеля и ‘Государем’ Макиавелли, ‘О войне’ Клаузевица и ‘Столкновением цивилизаций’ Хантингтона. Геополитические модели и прогнозы, которые рассматривает Бжезинский, останутся актуальными еще много лет.

As Ukraine is embroiled in an ongoing struggle with Russia to preserve its territorial integrity and political independence, celebrated historian Serhii Plokhy explains that today's crisis is a case of history repeating itself: the Ukrainian conflict is o

In the United States, democracy is under attack by an authoritarian movement that has found fertile ground among the country’s conservative politicians and voters, but similar movements have found homes in the hearts and minds of people around the globe. To understand the shape, form, and stakes of this assault, we must go back to extract lessons from our past.

Donald Trump versprach vor seiner erneuten Wahl, die liberale Demokratie aus den Angeln zu heben. Er wurde nicht trotz, sondern wegen dieses Versprechens gewählt. In ihrem Bestseller Gekränkte Freiheit zeigten Carolin Amlinger und Oliver Nachtwey, wie Libertarismus und Autoritarismus miteinander verschmelzen könnten. Zwei Jahre später hat die Realität ihre soziologische Diagnose auf bedrückende...

In March of 2022, three weeks after invading Ukraine, Russian forces bombed the shelter housed in the Donetsk Regional Academic Drama Theater, in the city of Mariupol. The bombing stands, to this day, as the single worst act of mass civilian killing of the war. This book tells the story of the group of ordinary Ukrainians--workers, teachers, actors--who built that shelter, giving succor to...

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...