Russia

"A beautifully written, clear-eyed biography of a very Russian tragedy.”—Dan Jones, The Sunday Times From one of our most acclaimed historians, a major new biography of one of history’s most disturbing, dubious masterminds, showing how a Siberian peasant, through his seduction of the...

In his monumental narrative of the outbreak of the First World War and the ill-fated Russian offensive into East Prussia, Solzhenitsyn has written what Nina Krushcheva, in The Nation, calls "a dramatically new interpretation of Russian history." The assassination of tsarist prime minister Pyotr...

Este Libro negro del comunismo es una historia de los horrores que la aplicación de esa ideología ha generado en el mundo desde 1917. Desde la instauración del primer estado totalitario de la historia, a raíz de la revolución bolchevique de octubre de 1917, hasta su triunfo en países como Cuba en 1959, pasando por territorios en que sigue vigente (China, en primer lugar), este libro es un alegato demoledor de los crímenes, el terror y la represión que han acompañado a esta ideología en su difusión por el mundo desde hace más de un siglo.

Professor, friend, Soviet spy; who was the real Hugh Hambleton? He was a well-respected economist who had studied and worked at some of the most prestigious universities in the world, as well as NATO and the Canadian International Development Agency. Yet, in December 1982, he was charged by a British court of spying for the KGB and sentenced to ten years in jail. Over the course of thirty years Hambleton had deceived his friends and colleagues as he passed photographs of thousands of classified items to the Soviet Union.

At the Twentieth Congress of the CPSU February 24-25 1956, Khrushchev delivered a report in which he denounced Stalin’s crimes and the ‘cult of personality’ surrounding Stalin.