検索キーワード： ロシア

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」。

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．

У этой книги две задачи: первая—рассказать об изобретениях, сделанных в разное время нашими соотечественниками—максимально объективно, не приуменьшая и не преувеличивая их заслуг; вторая—развеять многочисленные мифы и исторические фальсификации, связанные с историей изобретательства.

Изобретательская мысль в Советском Союзе развивалась своеобразно. Ее поощряли в избранных областях — космической, военной, научной — и практически игнорировали в бытовой. Иначе говоря, мы совершали важнейшие прорывы в ракетостроении и фундаментальных исследованиях, но серьёзно отставали во всём, что касалось повседневной жизни, от пылесосов до автомобилей. У этой книги две задачи.

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 Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the most cataclysmic events in world history, profoundly shaping politics, international relations, social patterns, economics and science in the century that followed. It created long-lasting aftershocks which travelled far beyond its geographical...

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...

In April 1917, as Tsar Nicholas II's abdication sent shockwaves across war-torn Europe, the future leader of the Bolshevik revolution, Vladimir Lenin, was far away, exiled in Zurich. To lead the revolt, Lenin needed to return to Petrograd immediately. But to get there, he would have to cross Germany, which meant accepting help from the deadliest of Russia's adversaries and betraying his homeland.

Winner of the Costa Biography Award What makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his wife's death? When did the killing start? Based on revelatory research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic cobbler's son became a student priest, romantic poet...

Bloomsbury presents The Splintered Empires by Prit Buttar, read by Leighton Pugh. The last volume of Prit Buttar's best-selling series on the Eastern Front in World War I At the beginning of 1917, the three empires fighting on the Eastern Front were reaching their breaking points, but none was...

Winner of the British Book Awards History Book of the Year Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize This thrilling biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of Stalin as Soviet dictator, Marxist leader and Russian tsar...

Tantor Audio presents the complete audio version of the long awaited one-volume campaign history from the leading experts of the decisive clash of Nazi and Soviet forces at Stalingrad. Stalingrad is an abridged edition of the five-volume Stalingrad Trilogy.

Russia and China, the largest and most populous countries in the world, respectively, have maintained a delicate relationship for four centuries. In addition to a four-thousand-kilometer border, they have periodically shared a common outlook on political and economic affairs. But they are, in essence, profoundly different polities and cultures, and their intermittent alliances have proven difficult and at times even volatile. Philip Snow provides a full account of the relationship between these two global giants.

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.

Bill Browder iniciou sua vida adulta como um rebelde de Wall Street cujos instintos o levaram para a Rússia logo após a queda da União Soviética. E foi ali que ele fez fortuna. Esta é a trajetória de um ativista por acidente. Ao longo do caminho, ele expôs casos chocantes de corrupção no país e por muito pouco não consegue escapar com vida. Seu advogado russo, Sergei Magnitsky, não teve tanta sorte assim: terminou na cadeia, onde foi torturado até a morte.

Russia's forests account for nearly one-fifth of the world's wooded lands. The Oak and the Larch is the first-ever English-language exploration of this vast expanse—a dazzling environmental history of Russia that offers an urgent new understanding of the nature of Russian power, and of Russia's ideas of itself.

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...

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.

During the spring and summer of 1918, with World War I still undecided, British, French and American agents in Russia developed a breathtakingly audacious plan. Led by Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, a dashing, cynical, urbane thirty-year-old Scot, they conspired to overthrow Lenin’s newly established Bolshevik regime, and to install one that would continue the war against Germany on the Eastern Front. In the back streets of Petrograd and Moscow, in nightclubs, in cells beneath Lubianka prison, the conspirators engaged in a deadly game of wits for the highest possible stakes.

A "Best Non-Fiction to Read This Year" Selection from The New Statesman A magisterial, revisionist narrative history of the Soviet Union in its post-Stalin heyday, bringing a forgotten society to vivid life and offering a new explanation for how it suddenly collapsed. To those of us in the West...