В Закавказье на много веков раньше, чем на других территориях Российской империи и СССР, возникли древние государства и уникальные культуры. Увы, географическое положение Закавказья на стыке Европы и Азии сделало этот регион ареной кровопролитных войн в течение 2,5 тысяч лет. Мир воцарился, когда пришли русские. В 90-е годы ХХ века контроль Москвы ослаб, и вновь началась череда войн, унесших...

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...

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...

Книга посвящена одному из самых больших археологических памятников Горного Крыма - ‘пещерному городу’ Эски-Кермену, возникшему в период средневековья. Эски-Кермену посвящено много статей в научных журналах, а также отдельных глав в научных монографиях и путеводителях по ‘пещерным городам’ Крыма. Однако книги, целиком посвященной Эски-Кермену, до выхода этой монографии не существовало....

В книге повествуется о самом важном судебном процессе в истории человечества - Нюрнбергском Международном военном трибунале. Книга основана на редких архивных документах, малодоступных источниках, новейших исследованиях, а также воспоминаниях современников и непосредственных участников тех далеких событий. Многие материалы публикуются впервые. Неудивительно, что некоторые исторические...

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.

The years 1945 to 1955 were a raw, wild decade that found many Germans politically, economically, and morally bankrupt. Victorious Allied forces occupied the four zones that make up present-day Germany. More than half the population was displaced; 10 million newly released forced laborers and several million prisoners of war returned to an uncertain existence. Cities lay in ruins—no mail, no...

The Beekeeper, by the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail, tells the harrowing stories of several women who managed to escape the clutches of Daesh. Mikhail extensively interviews these women-who’ve lost their families and loved ones, who’ve been sexually abused, psychologically tortured, and forced to manufacture chemical weapons-and as their tales unfold, an unlikely hero emerges: a...

Revolutions do not happen unexpectedly, empires do not perish out of the blue. The main lesson we can learn from the 1917 revolution is an understanding of why the emperor and his entourage, in a situation that required radical internal reforms, not only did not dare to carry out these reforms, but, on the contrary, tried with all their might to reverse the country's development,...

With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy seemed final. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. This faith was misplaced. Authoritarianism returned to Russia, as Vladimir Putin found fascist ideas that could be used to justify rule by the wealthy. In the 2010s, it has spread from east to west, aided by Russian warfare in Ukraine...

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,...

In this groundbreaking book, historian Götz Aly addresses one of modern history's greatest conundrums: How did Hitler win the allegiance of ordinary Germans? The answer is as shocking as it is persuasive: by engaging in a campaign of theft on an almost unimaginable scale-and by channeling the proceeds into generous social programs-Hitler literally bought his people's consent.