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The 1917 Revolution sent shockwaves throughout the globe, setting a chain of events in motion that would change the entire course of the 20th century ...
The victory over Nazi Germany in 1945, in which the Soviet Union played both the greatest part and suffered the greatest losses, found the country ...
In riveting prose, In the Midst of Civilized Europe repositions the pogroms as a defining moment of the twentieth century.
Between 1918 and 1921, over ...
A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union-showing how Gorbachev's misguided reforms led to its demise
In 1945 the Soviet Union controlled ...
"Schattenberg has done a service in rescuing the Brezhnev period from obscurity." The Morning Star
"[Offers an] unparalleled examination of the Brezhnev papers." Literary Review ...
Winner of the Costa Biography Award
What makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his ...
'One of the great love stories of history, in a league with Napoleon and Josephine, and Antony and Cleopatra ... Excellent, with dazzling mastery of detail ...
Nina Anisimova was born in 1909 in imperial St Petersburg. One of the most renowned character dancers of the Stalinist period, she won her way ...
A brilliant examination of the enigmatic Russian revolutionary about whom Winston Churchill said "few men tried more, gave more, dared more and suffered more for ...
The adventure of a lifetime to buy Stalin's secret multimillion dollar wine cellar located in Georgia; it is the Raiders of the Lost Ark ...
The Western understanding of what happened in Ukraine during World War II has been shaped by historical and ideological constructs created in the Kremlin. The ...
'It has been hand-planted by Tsarinas and felled by foresters. It has been celebrated by peasants, worshipped by pagans and painted by artists. It has ...
The Katyn Massacre of 22,000 Polish prisoners of war is a crime to which there are no witnesses. Committed in utmost secrecy in April-May ...
'They will live as human beings and die as human beings; and in this alone lies man's eternal and bitter victory over all the ...
A critically-acclaimed Sunday Times and Spectator book of 2020, and a major new literary voice.
Siberia's history is traditionally one of exiles, bitter cold ...