In the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, people from across the political spectrum in Europe and America celebrated a great achievement, felt a common purpose and, very often...
Chosen 16 times as a 'Book of the Year' - the top non-fiction pick of 2012'The best work of modern history I have ever read' A. N. Wilson, Financial TimesAt the end of the Second World War, the Sov...
Anne Applebaum is a leading historian of communism and a penetrating investigator of contemporary politics. Here she sets her sights on the big question, one with which she herself has been deeply ...
This landmark book uncovers for the first time in detail one of the greatest horrors of the twentieth century: the vast system of Soviet camps that were responsible for the deaths of countless mill...
In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth century. With un...
The momentous new book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Iron Curtain. In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It...
„Za żelazną kurtyną to wyjątkowo ważna książka, która skutecznie podważa wiele mitów na temat początków zimnej wojny. Jest mądra, przenikliwa, niezwykle obiektywna i znak...
A vivid and human glimpse into Europe's borderlands as they emerged from Soviet rule - back in print after nearly 20 years'In this superb book, in which one senses the spirit of Franz K...
Autorka w precyzyjnie udokumentowanej książce ukazuje historię Gułagu – rozbudowanej sieci obozów pracy rozrzuconych po całym obszarze Związku Sowieckiego: od wysp na Morzu Bałtyckim p...
Autorka w precyzyjnie udokumentowanej książce ukazuje historię Gułagu – rozbudowanej sieci obozów pracy rozrzuconych po całym obszarze Związku Sowieckiego: od wysp na Morzu Bałtyckim p...