wyszukanych pozycji: 61
Stalin: A Biography
ISBN: 9780674022584 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Overthrowing the conventional image of Stalin as an uneducated political administrator inexplicably transformed into a pathological killer, Robert Service reveals a more complex and fascinating story behind this notorious twentieth-century figure. Drawing on unexplored archives and personal testimonies gathered from across Russia and Georgia, this is the first full-scale biography of the Soviet dictator in twenty years. Service describes in unprecedented detail the first half of Stalin's life--his childhood in Georgia as the son of a violent, drunkard father and a devoted mother; his... Overthrowing the conventional image of Stalin as an uneducated political administrator inexplicably transformed into a pathological killer, Robert ... |
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122,90 zł |
Trotsky: A Biography
ISBN: 9780330439695 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Revolutionary practitioner, sparkling writer and icon of the Revolution, Leon Trotsky lived a brilliant life in extraordinary times. Robert Service draws on hitherto unexamined archives to draw a portrait of the man and his legacy.
Revolutionary practitioner, sparkling writer and icon of the Revolution, Leon Trotsky lived a brilliant life in extraordinary times. Robert Service dr...
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90,98 zł |
Trotsky: A Biography
ISBN: 9780674062252 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 648 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Robert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Leon Trotsky. Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing and, given his prominence, the most understudied of the Soviet revolutionaries. Using new archival sources including family letters, party and military correspondence, confidential speeches, and medical records, Service offers new insights into Trotsky. He discusses Trotsky's fractious relations with the leaders he was trying to bring into a unified party before 1914; his attempt to... Robert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Le... |
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112,19 zł |
Lenin: A Biography
ISBN: 9780330518383 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Lenin is a colossal figure whose influence on 20th-century history cannot be underestimated. This biography makes use of archive material to piece together his private as well as public life in an effort to give a complete picture of Lenin.
Lenin is a colossal figure whose influence on 20th-century history cannot be underestimated. This biography makes use of archive material to piece tog...
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87,72 zł |
The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution
ISBN: 9781447293101 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The acclaimed account of the last eighteen months of Tsar Nicholas II's life and reign from one of our finest historians of Russia.
The acclaimed account of the last eighteen months of Tsar Nicholas II's life and reign from one of our finest historians of Russia.
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69,56 zł |
Lenin: A Biography
ISBN: 9780674008281 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Lenin's politics continue to reverberate around the world even after the end of the USSR. His name elicits revulsion and reverence, yet Lenin the man remains largely a mystery. This biography shows us Lenin as we have never seen him, in his full complexity as revolutionary, political leader, thinker, and private person. Born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov in 1870, the son of a schools inspector and a doctor's daughter, Lenin was to become the greatest single force in the Soviet revolution--and perhaps the most influential politician of the twentieth century. Drawing on sources only... Lenin's politics continue to reverberate around the world even after the end of the USSR. His name elicits revulsion and reverence, yet Lenin the m... |
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133,61 zł |
Stalin: A Biography
ISBN: 9780330518376 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Service brings 30 years of involvement with Russia and its history to bear on this most controversial and enigmatic of figures. The events of the October Revolution, the Civil War, the Great Terror and, above all, World War II, more open to examination than ever before, are probed to explain the nature of Stalin's personality.
Service brings 30 years of involvement with Russia and its history to bear on this most controversial and enigmatic of figures. The events of the Octo...
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90,98 zł |
Soudruzi!
ISBN: 9788025701058 / Czeski / 2009 / 508 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Od zhroucení komunismu ve východní Evropě a SSSR uplynula téměř dvě desetiletí. Robert Service, jeden z předních odborníků na moderní ruské dějiny a profesor na Oxfordské univerzitě, si vytyčuje úkol prozkoumat historii komunismu ve světě. Čerpá z četných zdrojů, mimo jiné i z nově zpřístupněných dokumentů, a nabízí jak lidský pohled na tuto problematiku, tak i globální analýzu. Český čtenář už zná jeho podrobný životopis Lenina. Ve své velice rozsáhlé, avšak čtivé monografii, Service portrétuje i další inspirátory, tvůrce i...
Od zhroucení komunismu ve východní Evropě a SSSR uplynula téměř dvě desetiletí. Robert Service, jeden z předních odborníků na moderní ru...
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97,13 zł |
The Russian Revolution, 1900-1927
ISBN: 9780230220409 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This popular, concise and approachable text discusses the key debates and themes surrounding the Russian Revolution. The expandedfourth edition has been thoroughly revised and updated in the light of the latest research, and now features a new scene-setting Introduction and maps. "
This popular, concise and approachable text discusses the key debates and themes surrounding the Russian Revolution. The expandedfourth edition has be...
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132,22 zł |
Comrades!: A History of World Communism
ISBN: 9780674046993 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Almost two decades after the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR, leading historian Robert Service examines the history of communism throughout the world. Comrades moves from Marx and Lenin to Mao and Castro and beyond to trace communism from its beginnings to the present day. Offering vivid portraits of the protagonists and decisive events in communist history, Service looks not only at the high politics of communist regimes but also at the social conditions that led millions to support communism in so many countries. After outlining communism's origins with...
Almost two decades after the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR, leading historian Robert Service examines the history of com...
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101,48 zł |
Kremlin Winter: Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin
ISBN: 9781509883059 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A riveting account of Vladimir Putin's rule since his return to the Russian presidency in 2012.
A riveting account of Vladimir Putin's rule since his return to the Russian presidency in 2012.
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58,85 zł |
Lenin: A Political Life: Volume 3: The Iron Ring
ISBN: 9780333293928 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 393 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. The final volume of Robert Service's major trilogy on Lenin's political life takes the account from the Brest-Litovsk Treaty of 1918 to the Bolshevik leader's death in 1924. Attention is paid to the military, political and economic conditions as they changed; to the internal pressures of the party's politics; to ideological imperatives; and to one man's reaction to events and situations he had only imperfectly anticipated. The volume incorporates not only the post-1985 documentary revelations but also the results of the author's searches in the Moscow archives since 1991.
The final volume of Robert Service's major trilogy on Lenin's political life takes the account from the Brest-Litovsk Treaty of 1918 to the Bolshevik ...
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585,00 zł |
Lenin: A Political Life: Volume 2: Worlds in Collision
ISBN: 9780333293911 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 435 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. In this second volume of his Lenin trilogy, Robert Service builds on the approach established in the first. He emphasises the extraordinary circumstances in Russia and the world enabling Lenin to come to power in 1917. He also details ways whereby Lenin led a turbulent Bolshevik party and adjusted its policies so as to gain authority in the soviets. Lenin the crafty and pragmatic politican as well as the utopian and merciless class warrior are portrayed.
In this second volume of his Lenin trilogy, Robert Service builds on the approach established in the first. He emphasises the extraordinary circumstan...
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194,97 zł |
Ballads of a Cheechako
ISBN: 9781500194895 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, af...
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31,52 zł |
The Trail of '98 (Esprios Classics): Illustrated by Maynard Dixon
ISBN: 9781034339038 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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158,85 zł |
Lenin: A Political Life: Volume 2: Worlds in Collision
ISBN: 9780333640623 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 435 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. In this second volume of his Lenin trilogy, Robert Service builds on the approach established in the first. He emphasises the extraordinary circumstances in Russia and the world enabling Lenin to come to power in 1917. He also details ways whereby Lenin led a turbulent Bolshevik party and adjusted its policies so as to gain authority in the soviets. Lenin the crafty and pragmatic politican as well as the utopian and merciless class warrior are portrayed.
In this second volume of his Lenin trilogy, Robert Service builds on the approach established in the first. He emphasises the extraordinary circumstan...
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194,97 zł |
Spies and Commissars
ISBN: 9781610392396 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The early years of Bolshevik rule were marked by dynamic interaction between Russia and the West. These years of civil war in Russia were years when the West strove to understand the new communist regime while also seeking to undermine it. Meanwhile, the Bolsheviks tried to spread their revolution across Europe at the same time they were seeking trade agreements that might revive their collapsing economy. This book tells the story of these complex interactions in detail, revealing that revolutionary Russia was shaped not only by Lenin and Trotsky, but by an extraordinary miscellany of... The early years of Bolshevik rule were marked by dynamic interaction between Russia and the West. These years of civil war in Russia were years whe... |
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107,32 zł |
The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century, Fifth Edition
ISBN: 9780141992051 / Miękka / 2020 / 768 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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98,04 zł |
Ballads Of A Bohemian
ISBN: 9781409785484 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book contains a collection of poems written by Robert William Service. The poems are linked through a common narration by the "author," Stephen Poore, detailing his bohemian life in Paris prior to the war, his experiences during World War I, and its aftermath. A fantastic collection of poesy that will appeal to a range of poetry lovers, this book is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Service's seminal work. Robert William Service (1874 - 1958) was a prolific British-Canadian writer and poet, most famous for his poems "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee."...
This book contains a collection of poems written by Robert William Service. The poems are linked through a common narration by the "author," Stephen P...
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76,91 zł |
Songs of the High North
ISBN: 9780713650822 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The vigour, humour and rugged rhythms of Robert Service's ballads of Yukon have given them great appeal. This is a collection of 39 poems that relate to his years in North America, and include Men of the High North, The Ballad of the Northern Lights and Eldorado.
The vigour, humour and rugged rhythms of Robert Service's ballads of Yukon have given them great appeal. This is a collection of 39 poems that relate ...
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80,27 zł |