Russia

The Goths--a rumoured people first known by history around the river Vistula in present Poland--was the people that more than other contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire. It was however also the Goths who preserved the Roman culture against other Germanic tribes. Earlier it has been generally ... More

CONTENTS The Struggle for the Creation of a Social-Democratic Labour Party in Russia (1883 - 1901) Formation of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party. Appearance of the Bolshevik and the Menshevik Groups Within the Party (1901 - 1904) The Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks in the Period of the Russo... More

This study was compiled from a series of reports written especially for the Historical Division, EUCOM, by several former German generals. All of these officers had extensive combat experience during World War II, especially on the eastern front. The principal author, for example, was successively c... More

A bestseller in hardcover, "Charlie Wilsons War" tells what became of the largest covert operation in history. Moving from the back rooms of the Capitol to arms-dealer conventions to the Khyber Pass, this is a compulsively readable account of the inside workings of the CIA.... More

A history of the events that helped create the conditions of the current world crisisIn this broad introductory volume, Ralph Magnus and Eden Naby detail Afghanistan's physical situation, human environment, and modern history, as well as the rise and fall of competing internal forces, most recently ... More

For the first time on CD, Nelson Mandela tells the extraordinary story of his life--an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph. Abridged. 5 CDs.Read by Danny Glover, with an introduction by Kofi Annan. Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time:... More

The fictional events narrated in Mole! – an English translation of Otran, a novel by Ashokamitran – take place within a period of seven months, nearly all of them in the American Midwest. The narrator, a culturally rooted writer from Chennai, is transplanted amidst a motley group of fellow-write... More

Containing firsthand narrative, personal stories, and groundbreaking reporting, this work examines the Russia under Vladimir Putin, who the authors assert along with his circle of close associates from the former KGB have waged a methodical campaign to end Russia's democratic experiment and reconsol... More

John Lewis Gaddis is an internationally renowned historian of the Cold War and has been called 'the dean of Cold War historians' by The New York Times. He is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of History at Yale University, is on the advisory board of the Cold War International History Project and has s... More

Beginning with World War II and ending with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the author provides a thrilling account of the strategic dynamics that drove the age, rich with illuminating portraits of its major personalities and fresh insight into its most crucial events.In 1950, when Joseph Stalin, ... More

A devastating account of contemporary Russia by a great and brave writer. A Russian Diary is the book that Anna Politkovskaya had recently completed when she was murdered in a contract killing in Moscow. It covers the period from the Russian elections of December 2003 to the tragic aftermath of the ... More

This remarkably ambitious book tells the story of the great social and political catastrophe that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945. In a period of almost continuous upheaval society was transformed by two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust and the rise and fall of the Third Reic... More

A brilliant weave of personal involvement, vivid biography and political insight, "Koba the Dread" is the successor to Martin Amis's award-winning memoir, "Experience," "Koba the Dread" captures the appeal of one of the most powerful belief systems of the 20th century -- one that spread through the ... More

A world-renowned historian presents the definitive history of the Crimean War, the conflagration that was a watershed in history and pointed the way to what mass warfare would be like in the 20th century. 24 illustrations.The Crimean War is one of history's most compelling subjects. It encompassed h... More

Volume 2 of the gripping epic masterpiece, The story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for Nearly a decade... More