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大国の野望と戦火に翻弄されたバルト海の小さな港町が、いかにして灰燼の中から立ち上がり、世界最高峰の北欧デザインと高福祉を誇る美しい首都へと変貌を遂げたのか、息を呑むような都市史のドラマが展開します。...

A beautiful society wife from St. Petersburg, determined to live life on her own terms, sacrifices everything to follow her conviction that love is stronger than duty. A socially inept but warmhearted landowner pursues his own visions instead of conforming to conventional views. The adulteress and the philosopher head the vibrant cast of characters in Anna Karenina, Tolstoy's tumultuous tale of passion and self-discovery. Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

ナチス・ドイツとスターリンのソ連という二つの巨大な全体主義が激突する中、その狭間で引き裂かれた東欧の人々の知られざる経験と凄惨な記憶を鮮明に描き出します。通勤中や休日の静かな時間に、重厚で緊迫感のあ...

絶対的な専制君主であるツァーリの支配と、社会を根底から覆す革命の嵐が交錯する千年の興亡史から、巨大な帝国のDNAを鮮やかに解き明かします。現代の複雑な世界情勢を深く理解したいと願う知的好奇心を満たす、波...

技術的な小さな綻びと人間の組織的な隠蔽がいかにして交錯し、一国のトラブルを世界を揺るがす未曾有の歴史的危機へと変貌させたのかを描き出す、緊迫のドキュメンタリーです。静かな夜の思索タイムや、通勤中の深...

理想と現実の激しい衝突を通じて、共産主義という歴史的イデオロギーがいかに世界を熱狂させ、そして悲劇的な崩壊へ向かったのかを解き明かす壮大な知の旅。19世紀の産業化が生んだ格差への怒りが、いかにして20世...

大国に翻弄されながらも、巧みな外交戦略と不屈のレジリエンスで独立を死守した小国の生存戦略を解き明かす歴史ノンフィクションです。知的好奇心を満たしたい通勤のひとときや、静かに教養を深めたい夜のリラック...

Opening with a panorama of Russian society, from the cloistered world of the Tsar to the brutal life of the peasants, A People’s Tragedy follows workers, soldiers, intellectuals and villagers as their world is consumed by revolution and then degenerates into violence and dictatorship. Drawing on vast original research, Figes conveys above all the shocking experience of the revolution for those who lived it, while providing the clearest and most cogent account of how and why it unfolded.

強大なロシア帝国の崩壊から共産主義の誕生まで、理想と欲望が交錯する激動の世界史を追体験し、現代社会のルーツを深く理解する圧倒的な歴史ドキュメンタリー。毎日の通勤時間や知的好奇心を満たしたい夜のひとと...

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Berlin by Antony Beevor, read by Peter Noble. Berlin: The Downfall 1945 is Antony Beevor's brilliant account of the fall of the Third Reich. The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in...

The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand and his wife were perhaps the most fateful of the modern era. An act of terrorism of staggering efficiency, it fulfilled its every aim: it would liberate Bosnia from Habsburg rule, and it created a powerful new Serbia, but it also brought down four great empires, killed millions of men and destroyed a civilization. What made a seemingly prosperous and complacent Europe so vulnerable to the impact of this assassination?

A memoir of service by the American ambassador who was on the diplomatic front lines when Putin invaded Ukraine, Midnight in Moscow is the first behind-the-scenes account of how U.S.-Russia relations hit their nadir—and a playbook for our unfolding confrontation. For weeks before Russia’s...

November 2009. Sergei Magnitsky, is led to an isolation cell in a Moscow prison, and beaten to death by eight police officers. His crime? To testify against the Russian Interior Ministry officials involved in a conspiracy to steal $230 million of taxes. Magnitsky’s brutal killing has remained...

Bloomsbury presents An Impeccable Spy by Owen Matthews, read by Mike Grady. SHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE PRIZE 'The most formidable spy in history' IAN FLEMING 'His work was impeccable' KIM PHILBY 'The spy to end spies' JOHN LE CARRÉ Born of a German father and a Russian mother, Richard...

The Gulag - a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners - was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, to its collapse in the era of glasnost.

Oleg Gordievsky was the highest ranking KGB officer ever to work for Britain. For eleven years, he acted as a secret agent, reporting to the British Secret Intelligence Service while continuing to work as a KGB officer. He gave such a clear insight into the mind and methods of the KGB and the...

Spymaster, defector, double agent....Here is the remarkable true story of the man who ran Russia's post-cold-war spy program in America. The revelations are stunning. Many spies have told their stories. None has the astonishing immediacy, relevance, and cautionary warnings of Comrade J.

テロルや飢餓で数千万人もの犠牲者を生んだ「究極の野蛮」か，帝政ロシアの版図を維持・拡大し，遅れた農業国を近代的な工業大国へと押し上げた未曾有の成功譚か．体制下を生きた市民の声を拾い，「再スターリン化」と呼ばれる現在までを射程に，その構想，実態，遺産を考察する．

It is June 1936. Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) has finally been granted a visa for asylum in Norway, having been banned first from living in Paris, and then the whole of France. With him comes the draft of The Revolution Betrayed: What Is the Soviet Union and Where Is It Going?, which is completed...

Accessible to students, tourists, and general listeners alike, this book provides a broad overview of Russian history since the ninth century. Paul Bushkovitch emphasizes the enormous changes in the understanding of Russian history resulting from the end of the Soviet Union in 1991. Since then, new material has come to light on the history of the Soviet era, providing new conceptions of Russia's pre-revolutionary past.