“All truth passes through 3 stages. First it’s ridiculed. Second, it’s violently opposed. Third, it’s accepted as being self-evident.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
1. International Red Cross records refute “official” death toll....
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It is a common misunderstanding that the Red Army, on Stalin’s order, halted outside Warsaw in August 1944 to let the German troops suppress the Polish uprising in the capital. Joseph Stalin of course didn’t want to let a pro-British Polish...
Why, asks Daniel Rancour-Laferriere in this controversial book, has Russia been a country of suffering? Russian history, religion, folklore, and literature are rife with suffering. The plight of Anna Karenina, the submissiveness of serfs in the 16th...
Russia under the Old...
Книга пермского историка О. Лейбовича посвящена событиям и людям поздней сталинской эпохи в советской провинции. Описание событий он...
Overthrowing the conventional image of Stalin as an uneducated political administrator inexplicably transformed into a pathological killer, Robert Service reveals a more complex and fascinating story behind this notorious twentieth-century...
Charles Clover, award-winning journalist and former Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times, here analyses the idea of “Eurasianism,” a theory of Russian national identity based on ethnicity and geography. Clover traces Eurasianism’s...
История
Смута в культуре Средневековой Руси: Эволюция древнерусских мифологем в книжности начала XVII века
Смута 1598-1613 гг. стала для древнерусской культуры сложным и глубинным кризисом, положившим начало «переходному» столетию. Идеи и...
Prion’s internationally bestselling Sex Lives series presents lighthearted accounts of the sexual escapades of major figures in history, politics, religion, the arts, and film. Irreverent and gossipy, the books are packed with carnal tidbits and...
Richard Pipes’s
THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
“Masterful and timely … [Pipes’s] history blends uncannily with today’s … headlines.… A brilliantly focused portrait.”
—Newsweek
“Pipes’s compellingly written account … is … a...