The rise of the Bolsheviks is an epic Russian story that now has a definitive end. The author has enlarged his work with a new preface that puts the revolutionary movement in perspective for the late-20th century.
The rise of the Bolsheviks is an epic Russian story that now has a definitive end. The author has enlarged his work with a new preface that puts the r...
Understanding the Cold War is the story of a man and an epoch. Its telling moves between detailed personal history and an Olympian assessment of the origins, significant events, and outcome of the Cold War. Professor Ulam describes his hometown, family, and early education, as well as his departure, with his brother, for the U.S. just days before the Nazi invasion of Poland would have trapped them. Then follows reminiscences of his college and Harvard years, all rich with anecdote and insight, and his thoughts as an acknowledged expert on Soviet affairs. The volume offers basic...
Understanding the Cold War is the story of a man and an epoch. Its telling moves between detailed personal history and an Olympian assessm...
In this magisterial and exciting book, Ulam offers a brilliant history of Russian political and intellectual life in those critical years from 1855 to 1884 and describes the successive conspiracies that shook the edifice of tsarist autocracy.
In this magisterial and exciting book, Ulam offers a brilliant history of Russian political and intellectual life in those critical years from 1855 to...
