In 1991, in a huge experiment with a people and in a state of euphoria, Boris Yeltsin abolished the USSR and recreated the Russian nation. At the point of its declaration it was in a state of econo...
Russian history is ready to be reinterpreted. This book puts Russia into a fresh historical perspective and enables the reader to consider the weight of the past resting on current attempts to fash...
Following Lenin (2000) and Stalin (2005), this work continues Service's series about leaders of the Bolshevik Revolution. Looming in his portrait of Trotsky, the Bolsheviks' outstanding orator and ...