'Comrade Stalin wishes to speak with you.'A fascinating exploration of the relationship between writers and tyranny, from the winner of the first Man Booker International Prize.
Less than a month after it marched into France in summer 1870, the Prussian army had devastated its opponents, captured Napoleon III and wrecked all assumptions about Europe's pecking order. Other ...
First published over sixty years ago, Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl has reached millions of young people throughout the world. In July 1942, thirteen-year-old Anne Frank and her family, fleein...
Publikacja albumowa składająca się z fotografii oraz kadrów filmowych wybranych z licznych archiwów fotograficznych i filmowych w Polsce i na świecie.Te wizualne świadectwa pows...
Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era. An...
Central Europe is not just a space on a map but also a region of shared experience - of mutual borrowings, impositions and misapprehensions. From the Roman Empire onwards, it has been the target of...
'I'm a fairly calm fellow; I don't usually get het up about things. But I was, let's say, concerned when I tuned into the Moscow Echo radio station and heard that the Kremlin had put a price on my ...
The book offers a comprehensive overview of changes in Chinese society in the last seventy years, since the formation of the People’s Republic of China. Within its pages, several authors focu...
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the GDR pr...
Geography comes before history. Islands cannot have the same history as continental plains. The United Kingdom is a European country, but not the same kind of European country as Germany, Poland or...
'Magisterial' - Guardian'Outstanding' - Ian KershawVladimir Putin is a pariah to the West.Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the United States...
This monograph analyses the way that Jews were portrayed in various scholarly journals and lay gazettes published in French in the United Provinces of the Netherlands, mostly by Huguenot refugees. ...
Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book distils Japan's long, complex and fascinating history into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals. These vivid and entertaining portraits take th...
Książka Jolanty Ambrosewicz-Jacobs stanowi interesującą lekturę z dziedziny studiów nad polską pamięcią Holokaustu, a zwłaszcza jej kształtowania w procesie edukacji. Niemal w całości oparta...
Książka pt. "ZEŁENSKY. Zdumiewający bohater Ukrainy, który oparł się Putinowi i zjednoczył świat" to opowieść o zadziwiającym i niezwykłym liderze. Zagłębiając się strona po ...
This volume contains a selection of articles from Holocaust. Studies and Materials published by the Centre for Holocaust Research during 2014–2016. This is already the fourth English volume i...
Od królowej Anny do królowej Wiktorii. Wykłady o literaturze i kulturze brytyjskiej z XVIII i XIX wieku. Tom 7Siódmy tom serii From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria zaw...
Kompleksowa analiza sytuacji politycznej, gospodarczej i geograficznej regionu Bałkanów Zachodnich po upadku komunizmu, rozłamu państwowego i interwencji sił międzynarodowych.Ksi...
Ciekawe spojrzenie na czasy komunizmu w Europie i Rosji, jego transformację oraz rolę elit politycznych w tym procesie. Autor przybliża ideologię, omawia pojęcia oraz wytyka słabości "nowych d...