As the child of refugees of World War II Europe and a renowned philosopher and scholar of propaganda, Jason Stanley has a deep understanding of how democratic societies can be vulnerable to fascism: Nations don’t have to be fascist to suffer from fascist politics. In fact, fascism’s roots have been present in the United States long before Donald Trump.

Unweit des ostpreußischen Rastenburg, des heutigen Ketrzyn in Polen, befand sich ein zentraler Ort des Zweiten Weltkriegs: das »Führerhauptquartier Wolfsschanze«. Dort verbrachte Adolf Hitler nach dem Angriff auf die Sowjetunion den Großteil seiner Zeit. Dort wurde über die systematische Ermordung der europäischen Juden entschieden. Dort ereignete sich am 20. Juli 1944 das...

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...

«Мемориал» — это содружество общественных организаций, занимающихся правами человека и историей жертв советских репрессий. В тот момент, когда Нобелевский комитет наградил «Мемориал» Премией мира, Борис Беленкин находился в Москве в здании суда и выступал ответчиком по иску прокуратуры, наложившей арест на помещение общества.

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...

In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent, hoping to go abroad – perhaps to Czechoslovakia. Instead, he was sent to India – the first stop on a decades-long tour of the world that took Kapuscinski from Iran to El Salvador, from Angola to Armenia. Revisiting his memories of traveling the globe with a copy of Herodotus' Histories in tow,...

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,...

In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization-in effect a second Russian revolution-which forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms. The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European history. At least five million people died between 1931 and 1933 in the USSR. But instead of sending relief the Soviet state made use of the...