Название: Измена в Кремле. Протоколы тайных соглашений Горбачева с американцами
Автор: Бешлосс М., Тэлботт С.
Издательство: ООО «ТД Алгоритм»
Год: 2016
Cтраниц: 350
Формат: pdf
Размер: 11 мб
Язык: русский

Строуб Тэлботт - видный американский политик. Он двадцать один год проработал в журнале «Тайм», после чего поступил на государственную службу в качестве специального советника Госсекретаря США по вопросам новых независимых государств на постсоветском пространстве.

Название: The House in the Rue Saint-Fiacre: A Social History of Property in Revolutionary Paris
Автор: H.B. Callaway
Издательство: Harvard University Press
Серия: Harvard Historical Studies
Год: 2023
Страниц: 305
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 12.9 MB

A bold account of property reform during the French Revolution, arguing that the lofty democratic ideals enshrined by revolutionary leaders were rarely secured in practice―with lasting consequences. Property reform was at the heart of the French Revolution. As lawmakers proclaimed at the time, and as historians have long echoed, the Revolution created modern property rights. Under the new regime, property was redefined as an individual right to which all citizens were entitled. Yet as the state seized assets and prepared them for sale, administrators quickly found that realizing the dream of democratic property rights was far more complicated than simply rewriting laws.

Название: The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia
Автор: Sheila Miyoshi Jager
Издательство: Belknap Press/Harvard University Press
Год: 2023
Страниц: 625
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 10.2 MB

A dramatic new telling of the dawn of modern East Asia, placing Korea at the center of a transformed world order wrought by imperial greed and devastating wars. In the nineteenth century, Russia participated in two “great games”: one, well known, pitted the tsar’s empire against Britain in Central Asia. The other, hitherto unrecognized but no less significant, saw Russia, China, and Japan vying for domination of the Korean Peninsula. In this eye-opening account, brought to life in lucid narrative prose, Sheila Miyoshi Jager argues that the contest over Korea, driven both by Korean domestic disputes and by great-power rivalry, set the course for the future of East Asia and the larger global order. A vivid story of two geopolitical earthquakes sharing Korea as their epicenter, The Other Great Game rewrites the script of twentieth-century rivalry in the Pacific and enriches our understanding of contemporary global affairs, from the origins of Korea’s bifurcated identity―a legacy of internal politics amid the imperial squabble―to China’s irredentist territorial ambitions and Russia’s nostalgic dreams of recovering great-power status.

Название: America as Overlord: From World War Two to the Vietnam War
Автор: Hal Draper
Издательство: Haymarket Books
Год: 2023
Страниц: 185
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub (true), mobi
Размер: 10.1 MB

From 1932 until his death in 1990, Hal Draper was a prolific Marxist writer and socialist organizer who successfully combined rigorous research and passionate outrage to assess his political era. In this still-indispensable collection of essays written in the 1950s and 60s, Draper grapples with the role of the United States in the world, situating post-war American imperialism in a global picture of capitalist competition and expansion. The essays in this volume include Draper’s discussions of the United States' involvement in Guatemala, Guam, Samoa, Cuba, Vietnam, and elsewhere, as well as his, more general, socialist guide to national liberation movements.

Название: Россия. Век XX. 1901–1964. Опыт беспристрастного исследования
Автор: Вадим Кожинов
Язык: русский
Издательство: Медиарост
Год: 2023
Страниц: 1340
Формат: pdf
Размер: 11 Мб

Известный русский мыслитель, историк, филолог и публицист Вадим Кожинов осуществляет в данной книге масштабную реконструкцию внутренней логики исторического процесса в нашей стране в период с 1901 по 1964 год. «Мышление в фактах» – так сам автор обозначил свой метод постижения истории. Обилие привлеченных материалов, безбоязненное стремление разрушать стереотипы и развенчивать мифы, острота мысли – все это характеризует особый «кожиновский» стиль.

Название: Выживание в экстремальных ситуациях
Автор: Доусуэлл П.
Издательство: М.: Росмэн
Год: 1996
Cтраниц: 65, цвет.ил.
Формат: pdf
Размер: 20 мб
Язык: русский

Удивительные факты в документальных историях. Изложение рассказов о людях, смотревших смерти в лицо и сумевших остаться в живых. Главное, что их спасло - твердое стремление выжить любой ценой. Личный опыт и советы этих людей наиболее ценны.

Название: A Spy Like No Other: The Cuban Missile Crisis, the KGB and the Kennedy Assassination
Автор: Robert Holmes
Издательство: Biteback Publishing
Год: 2012
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 15 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The arms race between the Soviet Union and the USA was the most dangerous confrontation in the history of the world. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's decision to place nuclear missiles in Cuba, and US President John F. Kennedy's willingness to call his bluff, brought the Soviet Union and the West to the edge of a cataclysmic nuclear war. Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Robert Holmes, a British diplomat in Moscow during the early 1960s, provides an answer to one of the greatest mysteries of the Cold War. Kennedy's confidence in his brinkmanship hung on the evidence provided by Oleg Penkovsky, the MI6/CIA agent inside Soviet military intelligence.

Название: A Mighty Fleet and the King's Power: The Isle of Man, AD 400 to 1265
Автор: Tim Clarkson
Издательство: John Donald
Год: 2023
Страниц: 240
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 11.5 MB

Situated in the middle of the Irish Sea, the Isle of Man is like a stepping-stone between the lands that surround it. In medieval times, it played an important role in the histories of Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales. This book explores the first part of that turbulent era, tracing the story of the Isle of Man from the fifth to the thirteenth centuries. It looks at the ways in which various peoples – Britons, Scots, Irish, English and Scandinavians – influenced events in Man over a period of more than 800 years. A large portion of the book is concerned with the Vikings, a group whose legacy – in place names, old burial mounds and finely carved stones – is such a vivid element in the Manx landscape today. In broad chronological terms, the book’s main focus is the early medieval period or Early Middle Ages – an era commonly seen as encompassing the period 400 to 1100 – together with a further 160 years to accommodate the Manx royal dynasty founded by Godred Crovan. The narrative therefore includes much of the period known as the Central Middle Ages, spanning four centuries from 900 to 1300. A substantial portion of the book inevitably deals with the Viking Age, the chronological limits of which – in Britain, at least – are usually defined by two significant events: the Norse raid on Lindisfarne in 793 and the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066. Historians nevertheless recognise that many of the characteristics of ‘Viking-type’ activity continued well beyond the eleventh century in the Irish Sea region and in the maritime zones lying off the northern and western coasts of Scotland.

Название: Best of Enemies: The Last Great Spy Story of the Cold War
Автор: Gus Russo, Eric Dezenhall
Издательство: Grand Central Publishing
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 22 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The thrilling story of two Cold War spies -- CIA agent Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko -- and their improbable friendship at a time when they should have been anything but. In 1978, CIA maverick Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko were new arrivals on the Washington, DC intelligence scene, with Jack working out of the CIA's counterintelligence office and Gennady out of the Soviet Embassy. Both men, already notorious iconoclasts within their respective agencies, were assigned to seduce the other into betraying his country in the urgent final days of the Cold War, but instead the men ended up becoming the best of friends-blood brothers.

Название: Бои за историю
Автор: Февр Л.
Издательство: М.: Наука
Год: 1991
Cтраниц: 635
Формат: djvu
Размер: 14 мб
Язык: русский

Предлагаемая Вашему вниманию книга – сборник статей крупнейшего французского историка Люсьена Февра (1878–1956), объединённых в труде «Бои за историю». Свою главную задачу Февр усматривал в обосновании новых принципов исторического познания. Пафос его творчества – возвращение историческому знанию утраченного им гуманистического содержания, насыщение истории проблематикой, связанной с жизнью современного общества и диктуемой коренными, глубинными его запросами.