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A riveting true-life thriller and revealing memoir from the daughter of an American intelligence officerthe astonishing true story of two spies and their families on opposite sides of the Cold War.

Examines the archaeology of landscapes, environments, and rural communities that constituted the transformative Archaic period on Cyprus.

Vanguard of the New Age unearths a largely ignored dimension of Canadian religious history.

Il est incontestable que l’Islande et le Groenland sont deux territoires différents, bien qu’ils soient voisins.

The 'nationality question' was long central to Soviet thought and policy, and the failure to provide a convincing answer played a major role in the break-up of the Soviet Union into ethnically or nationally defined states.

This book discusses Marx's relations with Russia, which have always been ambivalent.

This study explores the role of refugees in international relations by looking at the largest involuntary migration of Ukrainians in history.

This book asks three fundamental questions about the socialist experiment in twentieth-century Russia: How did Marxist ideas come to be implemented in Russia, a country entirely unsuited to them?

The Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought is an authoritative new reference and interpretive volume detailing the origins, development, and influence of one of the richest aspects of Russian cultural and intellectual life - its religious ideas.

This book reveals the primary causes of Habsburg defeat both in the Austro-Prussian War and the First World War.

This volume assembles more than 30 articles focusing on the visual, material, and environmental arts of the Ancient Near East.

In this sweeping study, Julie Hessler traces the invention and evolution of socialist trade, the progressive constriction of private trade, and the development of consumer habits from the 1917 revolution to Stalin's death in 1953.

While her journal concentrates on her efforts to teach weaving, carving, metal work, pottery, carpentry, basket weaving, and her best known accomplishment, the hooked mats that have become famous for their strong designs and meticulous craftsmanship, she also describes the local people and customs of St Anthony and life in the household of the Grenfell workers.

With introductory essays by historians, Framing Our Past emphasizes the lived experiences of women: their participation in many areas of social life, such as social rituals with other women; organized sporting clubs; philanthropic, spiritual and aesthetic activities; study and reading groups.

Stalinist Reconstruction and the Confrontation of a New Elite, 1945-53 looks at the postwar Stalin era through the eyes of industrial supervisors and offers a picture of the technical intelligentsia's transformation into the Soviet Union's social and political elite.

The anecdotal literature of late-medieval China is not unknown, but it is under-used.

History in the Soviet Union was a political project.

Interdoc was established in 1963 by Western intelligence services as a multinational effort to coordinate an anti-communist offensive.

Wer hätte Anfang 2017 gedacht, dass Emmanuel Macron die französischen Präsidentschaftswahlen gewinnen würde?

Juneteenth has been touted as a national day celebrating the end of slavery.

For many African Americans, getting a public sector job has historically been one of the few paths to the financial stability of the middle class, and in New York City, few such jobs were as sought-after as positions in the fire department (FDNY).

It was not until the emergence of the ideologies of Zionism and Socialism at the end of the last century that the Jewish communities of the Diaspora were perceived by historians as having a genuine political life.

As the Soviet Union collapsed, many scholars and policymakers predicted that the pillars of Communism would collapse along with the state.

This book provides a concise and innovative history of Italian migration to Australia over the past 150 years.

This book tells the story of Terania Creek - the world's first direct action blockade in defence of a forest, occurring in Australia in 1979.

The Reconstruction of Poland, 1914-23 is a significant reappraisal of the political, social and economic problems associated with the rebirth of an independent Polish state.

The book tells about people who lived in an era of historical cataclysms, wars and revolutions, changes in political formations.

This book explores the evolution of Canadian and Australian national identities in the era of decolonization by evaluating educational policies in Ontario, Canada, and Victoria, Australia.

This book tells the dramatic story of the unexpected disintegration of the Soviet Union.

Dieses Buch nimmt Sie mit auf eine packende Reise durch die düstersten Kapitel der europäischen Rechtsgeschichte.

'Two Romes have fallen.

Breaking new ground in the study of European colonialism, this book focuses on a nation historically positioned between the Western and Eastern Empires of Europe - Finland.

The book reflects upon the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the ensuing developments in Russia, the rest of the former Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe and elsewhere in the world.

Illuminating the experiences of immigrants to Australia in the late twentieth century, this book uses oral history to explore how identity and belonging are shaped through migration.

This book examines the autobiographies and diaries of Soviet homosexual men who underwent psychotherapy during the period from 1970 to 1980 under the guidance of Yan Goland, a psychiatrist-sexopathologist from Gorky.

An eye-opening interpretation of the infamous Gallipoli campaign that sets it in the context of global trade.

The collection contains materials of archival documents and memoirs concerning the famine of 1931-1933 in Central Kazakhstan.

This book brings together long-obscured histories to discuss Australia's cultural, social, and political diversity in depth.

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History, the National Book Award for Nonfiction, the George Bancroft Prize, and the Francis Parkman Prize, this absorbing volume explores the complexities of the Soviet-American relationship between the November Revolution of 1917 and Russia's final departure in March 1918 from the ranks of the warring powers.

This book traces the evolution of religious attitudes in an important transitional period in Russian history.

In "Bogomilen: Pioniere des Dualismus - Wie eine gnostische Bewegung das byzantinische Reich und darüber hinaus prägte", nimmt uns Elena Morozova mit auf eine fesselnde Reise in die Vergangenheit, um eine der geheimnisvollsten und einflussreichsten gnostischen Bewegungen des Mittelalters zu erkunden.

This volume covers the global history of the Lysenko controversy, while exploring in greater depth the background of D.

Despite over 200 million adherents, Eastern Orthodox Christianity attracts little scholarly attention.

Sound Relations delves into histories of Inuit musical life in Alaska to register the significance of sound as integral to self-determination and sovereignty.