wyszukanych pozycji: 30
The Cossacks and Religion in Early Modern Ukraine
ISBN: 9780199247394 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Famous as ferocious warriors, the Ukrainian Cossacks developed their fighting skills in the religious wars against the Tartars, Turks, Poles, and Russians. In this fascinating study, Serhii Plokhy examines the "confessionalization" of religious life in the early modern period, showing how Cossack involvement in the religious struggle between Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism helped shape not only Ukrainian but also Russian and Polish cultural identities.
Famous as ferocious warriors, the Ukrainian Cossacks developed their fighting skills in the religious wars against the Tartars, Turks, Poles, and Russ...
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964,53 zł |
Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
ISBN: 9780141993287 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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81,85 zł |
Der Mann mit der Giftpistole
ISBN: 9783838217895 / Niemiecki / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Im Herbst 1961 lief der KGB-Attentäter Bogdan Staschinski nach Westdeutschland über. Nachdem er der CIA seine Geheimnisse verraten hatte, wurde Staschinski vor Gericht gestellt. Der Prozess hatte unter anderem das öffentlichkeitswirksamste Attentat des Kalten Krieges zum Gegenstand - die Ermordung des ukrainischen Nationalistenführers Stepan Bandera 1959 in München. Die durch den Fall Staschinski ausgelöste Ãffentlichkeit zwang den KGB, seine Vorgehensweise im Ausland zu ändern, und trug dazu bei, die Karriere von Alexander Schelepin zu beenden - einem der... Im Herbst 1961 lief der KGB-Attentäter Bogdan Staschinski nach Westdeutschland über. Nachdem er der CIA seine Geheimnisse verraten hatte, wur... |
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150,84 zł |
The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
ISBN: 9781324051190 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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109,15 zł |
Brány Evropy
ISBN: 9788076890626 / Czeski / 2023 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Ukrajina dnes bojuje s Ruskem o zachování své územní celistvosti a politické nezávislosti. Současný konflikt je však pouze poslední v dlouhé řadě bitev o území Ukrajiny a její existenci coby svrchovaného národa. Jak ve své nejnovější knize Brány Evropy píše oceněný historik Serhii Plokhy, k pochopení současnosti a budoucnosti Ukrajiny je třeba dobře poznat její minulost.
Ukrajina byla utvářena říšemi, které ji využívaly jako strategickou bránu mezi Východem a Západem - od římské říše přes osmanskou po nacistické Německo a... Ukrajina dnes bojuje s Ruskem o zachování své územní celistvosti a politické nezávislosti. Současný konflikt je však pouze poslední v dlou...
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95,61 zł |
Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
ISBN: 9781324035985 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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78,83 zł |
Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: An Untold Story of World War II
ISBN: 9780141991108 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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55,70 zł |
The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union
ISBN: 9781780746463 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. On Christmas Day 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union. By the next day the USSR was officially no more and the USA had emerged as the world's sole superpower. Award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy presents a page-turning account of the preceding five months of drama, filled with failed coups d'etat and political intrigue. Honing in on this previously disregarded but crucial period and using recently declassified documents and original interviews with key participants, he shatters the established myths of 1991 and presents a bold new interpretation of the Soviet...
On Christmas Day 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union. By the next day the USSR was officially no more and the USA had eme...
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65,84 zł |
Atoms and Ashes: From Bikini Atoll to Fukushima
ISBN: 9780141997179 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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65,84 zł |
Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
ISBN: 9781324021049 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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120,07 zł |
Unmaking Imperial Russia: Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the Writing of Ukrainian History
ISBN: 9781442628441 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 630 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. From the eighteenth century until its collapse in 1917, Imperial Russia - as distinct from Muscovite Russia before it and Soviet Russia after it - officially held that the Russian nation consisted of three branches: Great Russian, Little Russian (Ukrainian), and White Russian (Belarusian). After the 1917 revolution, this view was discredited by many leading scholars, politicians, and cultural figures, but none were more intimately involved in the dismantling of the old imperial identity and its historical narrative than the eminent Ukrainian historian Mykhailo Hrushevsky... From the eighteenth century until its collapse in 1917, Imperial Russia - as distinct from Muscovite Russia before it and Soviet Russia after it - ... |
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207,48 zł |
Der Angriff
ISBN: 9783455015881 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Welche Folgen hat Russlands Angriff in den kommenden Jahrzehnten für den Westen und die Welt? Dieses hochaktuelle, dringende Buch gibt Antworten auf entscheidende Fragen unserer Zeit. In seinem neuen Buch gibt der renommierte Historiker und Ost-Europa-Experte Serhii Plokhy Antworten darauf, wie Russlands Krieg die Weltordnung der nächsten Jahrzehnte verändern wird. Er erzählt von einem ukrainischen Volk, das als Frontstaat im jetzt anbrechenden neuen Kalten Krieg endlich seine Identität gefunden hat. Und er skizziert eine globale Außenpolitik, die sich wieder weg von... Welche Folgen hat Russlands Angriff in den kommenden Jahrzehnten für den Westen und die Welt? Dieses hochaktuelle, dringende Buch gibt Antworten a... |
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117,12 zł |
Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
ISBN: 9780393540819 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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109,20 zł |
The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story
ISBN: 9781786071767 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. In the autumn of 1961, a KGB assassin defected to West Germany. Bogdan Stashinsky had already travelled on numerous occasions to Munich, where he had singlehandedly tracked down and killed the enemies of the communist regime. His weapon was a specially designed secret: it killed without leaving any trace. The true story that inspired The Man with theGolden Gun by Ian Fleming
In the autumn of 1961, a KGB assassin defected to West Germany. Bogdan Stashinsky had already travelled on numerous occasions to Munich, where he had ...
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60,77 zł |
Tsars and Cossacks: A Study in Iconography
ISBN: 9780916458959 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Ukrainian Cossacks used icon painting to investigate their relationship not only with God but also their relationship with the Russian tsar. Could Emperor Peter I and his adversary in the Battle of Poltava (1709) - the Cossack Hetman Ivan Mazepa - be depicted in the same icon? Why did the Cossack colonials commission icons with the portraits of their tsars, but not of their own Cossack leaders, the hetmans? Could a Catholic king be portrayed in an Orthodox icon? Why are the Russian tsars and Orthodox hierarchs missing on some of the Zaporozhian Cossack icons? In this groundbreaking study,...
Ukrainian Cossacks used icon painting to investigate their relationship not only with God but also their relationship with the Russian tsar. Could Emp...
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87,09 zł |
The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine's Past and Present
ISBN: 9780674268821 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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294,57 zł |
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
ISBN: 9780141988351 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2018 'As moving as it is painstakingly researched. . . a cracking read' Viv Groskop, Observer On 26 April 1986 at 1.23am a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine exploded. While the authorities scrambled to understand what was occurring, workers, engineers, firefighters and those living in the area were abandoned to their fate. The blast put the world on the brink of nuclear annihilation, contaminating over half of Europe with radioactive fallout. In Chernobyl, award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy draws... WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2018 'As moving as it is painstakingly researched. . . a cracking read' Viv Groskop, ... |
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55,70 zł |
The Cossack Myth
ISBN: 9781107022102 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the years following the Napoleonic Wars, a mysterious manuscript began to circulate among the dissatisfied noble elite of the Russian Empire. Entitled The History of the Rus', it became one of the most influential historical texts of the modern era. Attributed to an eighteenth-century Orthodox archbishop, it described the heroic struggles of the Ukrainian Cossacks. Alexander Pushkin read the book as a manifestation of Russian national spirit but Taras Shevchenko interpreted it as a quest for Ukrainian national liberation and it would inspire thousands of Ukrainians to fight for the freedom...
In the years following the Napoleonic Wars, a mysterious manuscript began to circulate among the dissatisfied noble elite of the Russian Empire. Entit...
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522,27 zł |
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
ISBN: 9781541617070 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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86,69 zł |
The Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation
ISBN: 9780465098491 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 2014, Russia annexed the Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine. While the world watched in outrage, this blatant violation of national sovereignty was only the latest iteration of a centuries-long effort to expand Russian boundaries and create a pan-Russian nation. In Lost Kingdom, award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy argues that we can only understand the confluence of Russian imperialism and nationalism today by delving into the nation's history. Spanning over 500 years, from the end of the Mongol rule to the present day, Plokhy shows how leaders from Ivan... In 2014, Russia annexed the Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine. While the world watched in outrage, this blatant violation of nat... |
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177,80 zł |