Stalinin hirmuhallintoa on kutsuttu joskus toiseksi holokaustiksi, ja sen vankileirien saaristoon hukkui jopa miljoonia ihmisiä. Aleksander Solzenitsynin, Eugenia Ginzburgin ja muiden kirjailijoiden leirikuvausten ansiosta vanki- ja työleirien kauheudet ovat tulleet tutuiksi koko maailmalle. Steph[...]

This biography traces Bukharin's rise to and fall from power, focusing particularly on the development of his theories and programmatic ideas during the critical period between Lenin's death in 1924 and the ascendancy of Stalin in 1929.[...]

In this wide-ranging and acclaimed book, Stephen F. Cohen challenges conventional wisdom about the course of Soviet and post-Soviet history. Reexamining leaders from Nikolai Bukharin, Stalin's preeminent opponent, and Nikita Khrushchev to Mikhail Gorbachev and his rival Yegor Ligachev, Cohen shows t[...]

An account of what really happened in Russia after the end of the Soviet Union, and how badly experts and the media misjudged it. The author shows that what many experts call "reform" has for most Russians been a catastrophic development and for the US the worst foreign policy disaster since Vietnam[...]

Instructors and students worldwide welcomed the fresh scholarship, lively and accessible introductions, helpful marginal glosses and notes, readable single-column format, all designed in support of the goal of the Oxford text: to bring the modern reader closer than before possible to Shakespeare's p[...]

Stephen Cohen updates his critically acclaimed book with a discerning view of significant recent events in the region, particularly the devastating earthquake in Kashmir and its after affects. The quake killed over 70,000 people and left another 3 million homeless in one of the most remote, inhospit[...]

Each year, people around the world spend well over one trillion dollars on travel and tourism, making this sector the world's largest, with employment of 300 million people, one-tenth of the global workforce. In this book Harold L. Vogel examines the business economics and investment aspects of majo[...]

Stalin's reign of terror in the Soviet Union has been called 'the other Holocaust'. During the Stalin years, it is thought that more innocent men, women and children perished than in Hitler's destruction of the European Jews. Many millions died in Stalin's Gulag of torture prisons and forced-labour [...]