There have been many biographies of Stalin, but the court that surrounded him is untravelled ground. Simon Sebag Montefiore, acclaimed biographer of Catherine the Great's lover, prime minister and general Potemkin, has unearthed the vast underpinning that sustained Stalin. Not only ministers such as Molotov or secret service chiefs such as Beria, but men and women whose loyalty...(展开全部)

*** A Granta Best of Young American Novelists 2017 *** The Tsar of Love and Techno begins in 1930s Leningrad, where a failed portrait artist employed by Soviet censors must erase political dissenters from official images and artworks. One day, he receives an antique painting of a dacha inside a box of images due to be altered. The mystery behind this painting threads together t...(展开全部)

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena—dazzling, poignant, and lyrical interwoven stories about family, sacrifice, the legacy of war, and the redemptive power of art. This stunning, exquisitely written collection introduces a cast of remarkable characters whose lives intersect in ways both life-affirming and heartbreaking. A 1930s Sovie...(展开全部)

*作者简介 [苏联]伊万·迈斯基，苏联外交官、历史学家和政治家。1884年生于俄罗斯帝国基里尔洛夫波兰犹太人家庭。1903年加入孟什维克。1921年加入布尔什维克，后进入外交领域工作。1932—1943年任苏联驻英国全权大使。1943—1946年任副外交人民委员，其间参 与雅尔塔会议和波茨坦会议。1953年2月被捕。1955年获释。1960年获平反。1975年在莫斯科去世。 *编注者简介 [英]加布里埃尔·戈罗德茨基，牛津大学万灵学院研究员，以色列特拉维夫大学荣休教授、卡明斯俄罗斯研究中心创始人兼主任，华盛顿伍德罗·威尔逊国际学者中心等机构访问学者，俄罗斯国立大学荣誉博士。专攻历史学和俄罗斯研究。发表了20世纪苏联外交政策史大量著作，包括《斯塔福德·克里普斯的莫斯科任务，1940—1942年》（Stafford Cripps’ Mission to...(展开全部)

Former New York Times Moscow bureau chief Steven Lee Myers has followed Vladimir Putin's path for many years, and gives us the fullest, most absorbing account we have of his rise to power. This gripping narrative elucidates a cool and calculating man with enormous ambition and few scruples. We see Putin, a former KGB agent, come to office in 2000 as a reformer, cutting taxes, e...(展开全部)

Former New York Times Moscow bureau chief Steven Lee Myers has followed Vladimir Putin's path for many years, and gives us the fullest, most absorbing account we have of his rise to power. This gripping narrative elucidates a cool and calculating man with enormous ambition and few scruples. We see Putin, a former KGB agent, come to office in 2000 as a reformer, cutting taxes, e...(展开全部)