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人間の限界を突破し、時空間の無限に到達せよ！ 宗教哲学者フョードロフの「人類復活」、共産主義者ボグダーノフの「血液交換」、ロケット工学の父ツィオルコフスキーの「完全生物」、生物地球化学者ヴェルナツキーの「精神圏」、歴史学者グミリョフの「新ユーラシア主義」……人間の不死・復活および宇宙進出を謳う「ロシア宇宙主義」。

She wasn’t just a spy. She was the face of a new era of espionage. In 2010, Anna Chapman was arrested as part of a secret Russian spy ring operating inside the United States. Young, attractive, and deeply embedded in American society, Chapman wasn’t the spy of Cold War films—she was...

Bloomsbury presents Collision of Empires: The War on the Eastern Front in 1914 by Prit Buttar, read by Leighton Pugh Collision of Empires is the first major historical work on the Eastern Front during World War I since the 1970s. One of the primary triggers of the outbreak of World War I was...

What lies behind the doors we are forbidden to open?In an age when satellites can photograph almost every corner of the planet and information travels around the world in seconds, there are still places most of us will never be allowed to enter. Some are protected by armed guards and razor wire...

冷戦時代の分断された世界を舞台に、国家の威信をかけた月面着陸競争の影で繰り広げられたソ連の巨大宇宙計画の軌跡を丹念にたどる歴史ノンフィクション。毎日の通勤時間や一人静かに思索に耽りたい夜に、技術と政...

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...

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。...

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...

Tucked away in Siberia, there are furry, four-legged creatures with wagging tails and floppy ears that are as docile and friendly as any lapdog. But, despite appearances, these are not dogs - they are foxes. They are the result of the most astonishing experiment in breeding ever undertaken - imagine speeding up thousands of years of evolution into a few decades. In 1959, biologists Dmitri Belyaev and Lyudmila Trut set out to do just that, by starting with a few dozen silver foxes from fox farms in the USSR and attempting to recreate the evolution of wolves into dogs in real time.

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.

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．

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...

While Vladimir Putin has been president and prime minister of Russia, the Kremlin has deployed the security services to intimidate the political opposition, reassert the power of the state, and carry out assassinations overseas. At the same time, its agents and spies were put beyond public accountability and blessed with the prestige, benefits, and legitimacy lost since the Soviet collapse.

In September 1921, four young men and Ada Blackjack, a diminutive 25-year-old Eskimo woman, ventured deep into the Arctic in a secret attempt to colonize desolate Wrangel Island for Great Britain. Two years later, Ada Blackjack emerged as the sole survivor of this ambitious polar expedition. This young, unskilled woman - who had headed to the Arctic in search of money and a husband - conquered the seemingly unconquerable north and survived all alone after her male companions had perished. 

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.

An extraordinary account of resistance, courage and survival in Putin's Russia, from a Pulitzer Prize-winning dissident with a uniquely hopeful message. Vladimir Kara-Murza has had a front-row seat on Russian history for a quarter of a century, both as witness and participant. He challenged...

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.

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...

A journalist writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, John Reed gives a gripping record of the events in Petrograd in November 1917, when Lenin and the Bolsheviks finally seized power. Containing verbatim reports both of speeches by leaders and the chance comments of bystanders, set against an idealized backcloth of the proletariat, soldiers, sailors, and peasants uniting to throw off oppression, Reed's account is the product of passionate involvement and remains a classic of reporting.

He was Grand Duke Michael, handsome brother of Tsar Nicholas II. She was the beautiful twice-divorced daughter of a Moscow lawyer. Their scandalous love affair and their runaway marriage to Vienna in 1912, trailed by the Tsar's secret police, caused uproar in Russia and was the talk of all Europe.