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Nel 2010, dopo decenni di oblio, le icone del Salvatore e di san Nicola sono tornate alla luce: dipinte su due porte d'accesso al Cremlino, avevano osservato dall'alto per quattro secoli i mutamenti del paese, scomparendo poi nel nulla nel 1937. Si pensava fossero state distrutte dalla furia iconoclasta dello stalinismo, e invece erano state salvate da ignoti operai, nascoste per settant'anni sotto uno strato gentile di intonaco. In epoca d...

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The first book to put the experience of the ordinary Russian soldier at the heart of a narrative of the war on the Eastern Front. It sold over 10, 000 copies in hardback and will be a popular non-fiction book this Christmas.

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One of The Economist's Best Books of the YearA gripping, meticulously researched account of Lenin's fateful 1917 rail journey from Zurich to Petrograd, where he ignited the Russian Revolution and forever changed the world.In April 1917, as the Russian 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. When the news reached him, Lenin...

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Het Kremlin, zowel indrukwekkend als bedreigend, domineert al sinds eeuwen het stadsbeeld van Moskou en is alweer lange tijd het politieke en symbolische hart van Rusland. In Het Kremlin laat de auteur heel goed zien wat de citadel sinds het eind van de vijftiende eeuw is geweest: een orthodox-religieuze locatie, een schuilplaats van tirannen, een weelderig paleis, het hol van de bolsjewieken en het onderkomen van beruchte en beroemde leiders,...

Eine packende neue Geschichte Russlands - über 500 Jahre Herrschaft und Macht im Kreml, von Iwan dem Schrecklichen bis Wladimir Putin Der Kreml ist das imposante Symbol der russischen Nation. Hier wurden die mächtigen Zaren gekrönt, hier paradierte die glorreiche Rote Armee nach dem Sieg über Deutschland. Im Kreml schlägt das Herz der russischen Macht, hier entscheidet sich Russlands Schicksal. Die bedeutende Historikerin Catherine Merridale ...

In »Lenins Zug. Die Reise in die Revolution« erzählt die große britische Historikerin Catherine Merridale fulminant die Geschichte der berühmtesten Zugfahrt der Weltgeschichte, an deren Ende das Zarenreich unterging und die Sowjetunion entstand. Als 1917 der Erste Weltkrieg endlos zu werden drohte, beschloss die deutsche Regierung, den Revolutionär Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin nach Russland zu schmuggeln - nicht ahnend, dass Lenins Fahrt im plombie...

Catherine Merridale's books include Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Russia, which won the Heinemann Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, Ivan's War: The Red Army, 1939-45 and Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History, which won the Wolfson Prize for History and the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize.

A gripping account of how, in the depths of the First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in a 'sealed train' across Europe and changed the history of the worldBy 1917 the European war seemed to be endless. Both sides in the fighting looked to new weapons, tactics and ideas to break a stalemate that was itself destroying Europe. In the German government a small group of men had a brilliant idea: why not sow further confusion i...

A gripping account of how Lenin's 1917 train ride to Petrograd ignited the Russian Revolution.

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An examination of how modern Russia has coped with more unnecessary death than any other country on Earth during the 20th century. It looks at the way Russians themselves coped with bereavement when forbidden to mourn those seen as enemies of the state.

Focusing on the development of the Communist Party in Moscow between 1925 and 1932 and its ultimate assumption of absolute power. This volume examines in detail the political changes in Moscow, including the crisis over collectivization, and the organization strategy of the Party in Moscow.

The Kremlin is the heart of the Russian state, its very name a byword for enduring power. From Ivan the Terrible to Vladimir Putin, generations of Russian leaders have sought to use the Kremlin to legitimize their vision of statehood. To this day, its red stars and golden crosses blazing side by side, the Kremlin fulfills a centuries-old role: linking the country's present to its distant past and proclaiming the eternal continuity of the Russi...