La invasión de Ucrania por parte de Rusia es solo la última de una larga historia de luchas por un territorio clave sujeto a disputas constantes entre Occidente y Oriente. Las puertas de Europa, ampliamente...

En los últimos meses de 1991 las reformas emprendidasnpor los líderes soviéticos habían creado una situación insoportable. La Unión Soviética se encaminaba a su fin, pero los principales artífices del...

El libro definitivo sobre el mayor conflicto militar de Europa desde la Segunda Guerra MundialLa invasión rusa de Ucrania en 2022 conmocionó al mundo. Sin embargo, el catedrático de historia de Harvard...

Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political independence. But today's conflict is only the latest in a long history of battles over Ukraine's existence...

From a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe and the prizewinning author of Chernobyl, the essential history of Russian imperialism. In 2014, Russia annexed the Crimea and attempted to seize a portion...

In the fall of 1961, KGB assassin Bogdan Stashinsky defected to West Germany. After spilling his secrets to the CIA, Stashinsky was put on trial in what would be the most publicized assassination case...

A Chernobyl survivor and the New York Times bestselling author of The Gates of Europe "mercilessly chronicles the absurdities of the Soviet system" in this "vividly empathetic" account of the worst nuclear...

A New York Times bestseller, this definitive history of Ukraine is “an exemplary account of Europe’s least-known large country” (Wall Street Journal).As Ukraine is embroiled in an ongoing struggle with...

BY THE AUTHOR OF CHERNOBYL: HISTORY OF A TRAGEDY, WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2018 WINNER OF THE PUSHKIN HOUSE RUSSIAN BOOK PRIZE 2015 On Christmas Day 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Gates of Europe offers “a stirring account of an extraordinary moment” in Russian history (Wall Street Journal)On Christmas Day, 1991, President George H....

1961. The height of the Cold War. Just hours before work begins on the Berlin Wall, a KGB assassin and his young wife flee for the West before the Iron Curtain comes down and traps them in the East forever....

L’invasion de l’Ukraine par la Russie en février 2022 a été un choc pour le monde entier. Pourquoi Poutine a-t-il déclenché cette guerre ? Et pourquoi cela paraissait-il inimaginable auparavant ? Les...

Ce livre est une histoire de l’Ukraine, du territoire et des hommes qui l’habitent, depuis Hérodote jusqu’à Zelensky. Racontée avec brio à travers une suite d’événements et de portraits des protagonistes...