This history of the turbulent destiny of Kino ("film" in Russian) documents the artistic development of the Russian and Soviet cinema and traces its growth from 1896 to the death of Sergei Eisenstein in 1948. The new Postscript surveys the directions taken by Soviet cinema since the end of World War II. Beginning with the Lumiere filming of the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II, J...(展开全部)

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)

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》。

The Story of Film presents the history of the movies in a way never told before. Mark Cousins's chronological journey through the worldwide history of film is told from the point of view of filmmakers and moviegoers. Weaving personalities, film technology, and production with engaging descriptions of groundbreaking scenes, Cousins uses his experience as film historian, producer...(展开全部)

This book tells the story of the Soviet and Russian lunar programme, from its origins to the present-day federal Russian space programme. Brian Harvey describes the techniques devised by the USSR for lunar landing, from the LK lunar module to the LOK lunar orbiter and versions tested in Earth's orbit. He asks whether these systems would have worked and examines how well they we...(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)

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)

Dynasty Divided uses the story of a prominent Kievan family of journalists, scholars, and politicians to analyze the emergence of rivaling nationalisms in nineteenth-century Ukraine, the most pivotal borderland of the Russian Empire. The Shul'gins identified as Russians and defended the tsarist autocracy; the Shul'hyns identified as Ukrainians and supported peasant-oriented soc...(展开全部)