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...
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...
Robert Service, acclaimed historian and commentator on Soviet matters, turns his meticulous eye to the ragtag group of people known as spies and commissars and, with narrative flair and impeccable research, reveals one of the great untold stories of the 20th century.
Robert Service, acclaimed historian and commentator on Soviet matters, turns his meticulous eye to the ragtag group of people known as spies and commi...
Robert Service, famous for his ballads of life in the Gold Rush years of the Yukon, among them The Shooting of Dangerous Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee," painted pictures of artists, grisettes and models from the merry, tragic life of bohemian Paris of the early 1900s, inspired by the shadows of World War I as it fell across the city. Throughout these poems are expressions of the poet's own homespun philosophy. His verses offered gaiety, humour, mostalgia and pathos while his comments on women, life and death, ambition, success and failure, were all aimed to evoke quick...
Robert Service, famous for his ballads of life in the Gold Rush years of the Yukon, among them The Shooting of Dangerous Dan McGrew" and "The Crematio...