This book offers studies on the history of foreign churches in St. Petersburg since the founding of the city in 173 till the Revolution in 1917. Moreover, archivists give detailed overviews and ins...
Historic journey through the European continent at the end of the 20th century. Spellbinding.
Cd-Rom met kaarten van Sint-Petersburg. Handige zoekfuncties. Chronologisch overzicht. Belangrijke personen.
Inclusief een uitvouwbare tijdbalk van bijna vier meter.
Leningrad (now reverted to its pre-1914 name of St Petersburg) was surrounded by German forces in 1941 and cut off from the rest of Russia. It was besieged for nearly three years, the great city's ...
The siege of Leningrad constituted one of the most dramatic episodes of World War II, one that individuals and the state began to commemorate almost immediately. Official representations of 'heroic...
This book explores the impact of the 1917 Revolution on factory life in the Russian capital. It traces the attempts of workers to take control of their working lives from the February Revolution th...
Biograficheskij slovar'-spravochnik vklyuchaet okolo 700 statej o gosudarstvennykh, politicheskikh, voennykh, religioznykh, obschestvennykh, revolyutsionnykh deyatelyakh, predstavitelyakh nauki, li...
Over 'De algemene crisis in de arbeidersbeweging'
n this pioneering analysis of diffuse underclass anger that simmers in many societies, Joan Neuberger takes us to the streets of St. Petersburg in 1900-1914 to show us how the phenomenon labeled ho...
Published posthumously, this history is based on the old adage that St. Petersburg is Russia's "window to the West," that it represents a "psychological force, an intellectual vision, and a way of ...
On 8 September 1941, eleven short weeks after Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, his brutal surprise attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded. The siege would not be lifted for two a...
All offers of surrender from Leningrad must be rejected,” wrote Adolph Hitler on September 29, 1941, at the outset of Operation Barbarossa. ?In this struggle for survival, we have no interest in ...
Russian Book. Publisher: Meshcheriakov. Pages: 240. Year: 2015. Cover: Softcover.
Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony was first played in the city of its birth on 9 August, 1942. There has never been a first performance to match it. Pray God, there never will be again. Almost a year...
This bilingual book presents the results of a unique cooperation between Russian and Dutch archeologists, biologists, geographers and historians, who researched various interrelated aspects of the ...
WILHELMINA TRIESMAN (1901-1982), een Rotterdams ateliermeisje, verloor haar Nederlandse nationaliteit toen zij in 1920 met een Russische zeeman trouwde. Als communiste en 'politieke emigrante' vluc...
Het is een nationaal epos geworden: het verhaal van een handjevol mannen die aan het eind van de zestiende eeuw onder erbarmelijke omstandigheden, belaagd door ijsberen en extreme kou, een lange, d...
Aan de hand van de bewogen levens van de grote Russisch-Joodse schrijvers Isaak Babel en Vasili Grossman schetst Michel Krielaars in 'Alles voor het moederland' een beeld van een meedogenloze werel...
On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destructionThe House of Government is unlike a...
Tussen 1974 en 1984 trokken jonge idealisten uit alle uithoeken van de Sovjet-Unie naar Oost-Siberie om de BAM te bouwen, het grootste civiele bouwproject aller tijden'. De ruim drieduizend kilomet...
Wat verbindt ons met al diegenen die in de voorbije eeuw geleefd hebben? Is het niet hun menselijkheid, hun blindheid soms, meer nog dan hun grote en kleine heldendom? Geert Mak schreef een biograf...