Theft of a nation

Romania since communism

Gulag

Las Solovki; El Canal Mar Blanco-Mar Báltico; La Expedición de Vaigach; Teatro en el Gulag; Kolymá; La vía muerta

Black earth

a journey through Russia after the fall

L'Europa da Togliatti a Berlinguer

testimonianze e documenti: 1945-1984

Rusia

experimento con un pueblo: de 1991 a la actualidad

The dictattors

Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia

Half a century after their deaths, the dictatorships of Stalin and Hitler still cast a long and terrible shadow over the modern world. They were the most destructive and lethal regimes in history, murdering millions. They fought the largest and costliest war in all history ...

The fall of soviet communism

1985-91

Carry me back

the domestic slave trade in American life

Carry Me Back is a study of the slave trade in national perspective. It explores the origins of the slave trade; the rise and fall of the cotton kingdom; the growth of a market economy in the South and the role slave labor played in ...

La ocasión perdida

la Revolución Rusa de 1917: del régimen zarista a los horrores del estalinismo

El proceso revolucionario acaecido en Rusia en torno a 1917 ocupa un lugar destacado entre los acontecimientos que han configurado la historia del siglo XX. En el presente volumen, César Vidal nos ofrece una visión panorámica, apuntalada en una sólida tradición historiográfica, de los hechos ...

¿Adónde va China?

China se ha convertido en un inmenso taller. Con el desarrollo capitalista, por un lado, y la tradición comunista, por otro, ofrece el espectáculo de un país que recupera el camino del progreso en medio de un increíble desorden. Desde hace diez años acumula éxitos ...

Staline

une barbarie moderne

Les cuisines du Kremlin

argent et pouvoir dans la Russie de Poutine

Histoire du Parti communiste chinois

(1921-1949)

The making of the GDR 1945-53

from antifascism to Stalinism

Stalin's terror

high politics and mass repression in the Soviet Union

La Rusia post-soviética

Stalinism and the politics of terror

ideas and power in inter-war Russia

The relationship between ideas and politics in inter-war Russia has long been controversial, and historians have been sharply divided over the influence of Marxism on Stalinist politics. This study presents a reassessment of Bolshevik ideology, and of the ways in which it interacted with other ...

The nature of Stalin's dictatorship

The Politburo, 1924-1953

This title studes the nature of the political leadership system under Stalin. It focuses both on the formal institutions of power, such as the Politburo, and on the informal networks of decision-making that were a central feature of his system of rule. It draws on ...

Decisive encounters

the chinese civil war, 1946-1950

The chinese civil war was one of the key conflicts of the twentieth century. The communist victory determined Chinese history for several generations, and defined international relations in East Asia during the Cold War and after. Despite its importance and scope -its battles were the ...

Stalinism

the essential readings