Intimate Enemies is a brilliant study of the transformation of Bolshevik Party ideology, language, and power relations during the crucial period leading up to Stalin's seizure of power. Combining e...
Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused as much controversy as the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Trotsky's extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible...
One of Stalin's most heinous acts was the ruthless repression of millions of peasants in the early 1930s, an act that established the very foundations of the gulag. Solzhenitsyn barely touched upon...
How did Andrei Sakharov, a theoretical physicist and the acknowledged father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, become a human rights activist and the first Russian to win the Nobel Peace Prize? In his ...
Dat er onder het regime van Stalin miljoenen slachtoffers de dood vonden is bekend, Dat velen die dood in de Goelag vonden is ook bekend, Maar wat gebeurde er met hen die hun gevangenschap in de ka...
Andrei Sakharov (19211989), a brilliant physicist and the principal designer of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, later became a human rights activist andas a resulta source of profound irritation to th...
Vertaald uit het Duits. Oorspronkelijke titel: Terror und Traum. Moskau 1937. (2008) Schijnprocessen en grootschalige arrestaties markeren het hoogtepunt van Stalins dictatorschap, maar in de scha...
November 2009. An emaciated young lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, is led to a freezing isolation cell in a Moscow prison, handcuffed to a bed rail, and beaten to death by eight police officers. His crime...
Zubok distills the ideas, personalities, and ultimate failures of the generation of Russian intellectuals who sought to cleanse socialism of its Stalinist stain. His poignant portrait raises the qu...
Dit boek vertelt het aangrijpende verhaal van de voormalige Russische dissident Aleksandr Ogorodnikov (1950). Hij groeit op met het communisme, bekeert zich tot de christelijke orthodoxie en richt ...
The collectivization of Soviet agriculture in the late 1920s and 1930s forever altered the country's social and economic landscape. It became the first of a series of bloody landmarks that would co...
During the Great Terror (1937 to 1938), at least 1.5 million Soviet citizens were arrested for alleged crimes against the state. Some 700,000 of them were shot. A dozen years after the fall of the ...
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How is it that some prisoners of the Soviet gulag—many of them falsely convicted—emerged from the camps maintaining their loyalty to the party that was responsible for their internment? In camp...
Het is een verhaal met epische allure, en een hartverscheurend menselijk drama tegelijk. Verloren adel is het eerste boek over de vergeten geschiedenis van de verliezers van de Russische Revolutie:...
Marina Petrovna Romanova (1892-1981) was een familielid van de laatste Russische tsaar. Zij groeide op aan het Russische hof en vestigde zich in 1919 in Frankrijk, op de vlucht voor het revolutiona...
Zowel het Russische collectieve geheugen als dat van de westerse gemeenschap denkt bij de Siberische strafkampen alleen aan de periode onder Stalin en de zogeheten Goelagarchipel. Maar lang voordat...