This book examines how the types, numbers and designs of Russian warships were determined in the years preceding the two world wars, with the three-way interplay of naval staff, naval designers, and political leaders, resulting in fleets that contained some outstanding units but were, on the whole, inappropriate to the tasks set by those wars.
This is a collection of essays (with contributors from Britain, Continental Europe and the USA) dealing with the character and aftermath of Stalinism in the USSR.
This historical study of the development of social welfare systems in divergent countries draws on a variety of essays to examine the work of each country in turn, followed by a comparison of all three and an examination of social experiments in regions of recent settlement.
The period between the Revolution of 1917 and Stalin's coming to power in the early 1930s was one of the most exciting for all branches of the arts in Russia.
This selection of documents - for the most part never before translated into English - traces the process of modernization which took place in Russia between 1856 and 1881.
The final volume of Robert Service's major trilogy on Lenin's political life takes the account from the Brest-Litovsk Treaty of 1918 to the Bolshevik leader's death in 1924.
Abraham Jimnez Enoa writes like an angel and has an impressively keen social radarHes an exceptional interlocutor, and, for readers of this unmissable book, hes an empathic, sincere guide to his Cuba, a country as beautiful and beloved as it is sad and unjust.
