Tato rozsáhlá dokumentární historie pokrývá celých sedmdesát pět let existence Sovětského svazu. Přední západní i ruští badatelé v ní představují dosud neviděné, historicky významné dokumenty z bývalých sovětských státních a stranických archivů. Každý svazek je doplněn informativními úvody, pronikavým komentářem a vyčerpávajícími poznámkami. Tato série je nepostradatelným průvodcem ke studiu sovětských dějin a vzestupu i pádu mezinárodního komunismu.
Based on documents and photographs from recently opened Russian archives and from Western collections, a surprising new portrait of the last Russian tsar and his family during the Bolshevik revolution challenges long-held views of the Romanovs. UP.
Collects the writings of a diverse group of people who survived imprisonment in the Gulag, recounting their experiences and relationships, and offering insight into the psychological aspects of life in the camps.
Including letters from individuals to newspapers, institutions or leaders, this collection gives voice to the experiences, thoughts and feelings of ordinary Russian people - workers, peasants, soldiers - as expressed in their own words during the vast upheavals of 1917. schovat popis
Assembles some of the top secret Soviet documents, from the era of Stalin's purges. This title includes the dossiers, police reports, private letters, secret transcripts, and other documents that expose the hidden inner workings of the Communist Party and the dark inhumanity of the purge process.
Lenin - the man, the revolutionary, and the world leader - has remained an enigma, part myth arising from the tumult of the Russian Revolution and part image carefully controlled for nearly seventy years by the leaders of the Soviet Union and their sympathizers abroad. The Unknown Lenin, containing long concealed documents from the Soviet archives, helps correct the myth and revise the image. Lenin emerges here as a ruthless, manipulative leader who used terror, subversion, and persecution to achieve his goals.