During the first two months of 1917 Russia was still a Romanov monarchy. Eight months later the Bolsheviks stood at the helm. They were little known to anybody when the year began, and their leaders were still under indictment for state treason when they came to power. You will not find another such sharp turn in history especially if you remember that it involves a nation of 1...(展开全部)

列夫·托洛茨基，工农红军、第四国际的主要缔造者，苏维埃俄国重要领导人。十月革命时，任俄国社会民主工党（布尔什维克）中央政治局委员、彼得格勒苏维埃主席。1927年1月共产国际执行委员会决定，撤销他的执行委员职务，同年11月被开除出党。1929年1月被驱逐出苏联。1938年组建第四国际，1940年8月在墨西哥遭暗杀。 丁笃本，毕业于北京大学历史系世界史专业，先后任湖南师范大学历史系讲师、副教授、教授，博士生导师，历史系主任，研究生院院长。2002年调入韶关学院任院长。专业方向为俄苏史、中亚史。精通俄文和英文，曾于1992年至1993年在俄罗斯做访问学者。主要著作有《红旗落地——苏联社会主义70年真相》、《苏联政体与官制史》、《世界之发现》、《中亚通史》（现代卷），翻译有《健康与权力 ："克里姆林宫医生"回忆录》。

拉博·德·圣艾蒂安（Rabaut de Saint Etienne，1743~1793），法国温和派革命者、第十届国民议会主席，因在国民议会中担任立法者和演说者而声名鹊起，曾参与有关《人权宣言》的辩论，著有《希腊的原始社会》等，在制宪会议期间致力于制定宪法，反对建立共和国。 顾伟，曲阜师范大学翻译学院讲师，苏州大学翻译学在读博士。发表论文六篇，出版译著两部，主持市厅级课题三项，参与国家级、省部级课题各一项。

马丁·吉尔伯特爵士，生于1936年，著名历史学家，著有81部作品，代表作品有《丘吉尔的一生》《第一次世界大战》《第二次世界大战》《二十世纪史》《大屠杀：犹太人的悲剧》等。他是牛津大学默顿学院名誉研究员、密歇根希尔斯代尔学院荣誉研究员、丘吉尔传记的权威作者。

The complex and often turbulent history of Russia over the course of the last 2000 years is brought to life in a series of 177 maps. It covers not only the expansion of Russia wars and its war but also provides a wealth of detail on topics such as its history of famine and anarchism to the growth of its naval strength. From 800 BC through the fall of the Soviet Union to the pre...(展开全部)

拉博·德·圣艾蒂安（Rabaut de Saint Etienne，1743~1793），法国温和派革命者、第十届国民议会主席，因在国民议会中担任立法者和演说者而声名鹊起，曾参与有关《人权宣言》的辩论，著有《希腊的原始社会》等，在制宪会议期间致力于制定宪法，反对建立共和国。 顾伟，曲阜师范大学翻译学院讲师，苏州大学翻译学在读博士。发表论文六篇，出版译著两部，主持市厅级课题三项，参与国家级、省部级课题各一项。

The Apartment: A Century of Russian History explains the true history of 20th-century Russia through the fictitious story of a Moscow family and their apartment. The Muromtsev family have been living in the same apartment for more than a century, generation after generation.Readers are taken through different rooms and witness how each generation actually lived alongside the la...(展开全部)

This is the first account of Russia's second revolution - the country's dramatic, wrenching transition from communist central planning to a market economy. Written by one of the finest writers on contemporary Russia, it is told by interweaving high politics with glimpses of the revolution's impact on the lives of ordinary people. Beginning with a sharp portrayal of the dismal l...(展开全部)

The Kingdom of Rye unearths the foods and flavors of the Russian land. Preeminent food studies scholar Darra Goldstein offers readers a concise, engaging, and gorgeously crafted story of Russian cuisine and culture. This story demonstrates how national identity is revealed through food—and how people know who they are by what they eat together. The Kingdom of Rye examines the R...(展开全部)