讲述前苏联的一个工业城市Magnitogorsk 在戈尔巴乔夫时期的改革经历、镇痛。作者是美国人，主要以他几次访问苏联的经历为主要线索

AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS One of the Top 20 Books for Understanding China, China Economic Quarterly For half a century the Soviet economy was inefficient but stable. In the late 1980s, to the surprise of nearly everyone, it suddenly collapsed. Why did this happen? And what role did Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's economic reforms play in the country's dissolution? In this groundb...(展开全部)

Chris Miller is assistant professor of international history at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and co-director of the school's Russia and Eurasia Program. He is also Eurasia Director at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

本书是近年颇富新意和好评的冷战史著作。 作者大量利用了苏联解体后解密的机密录音，文件等新资料，尝试从苏联领导人的角度，审视，解读冷战的形成，激化，僵持和结局。作者发现，尽管国防安全和苏联的国家利益是斯大林及其后继者主要的政策目标，但苏联的冷战政策深受其意识形态及国内政治需要的左右。 不同于传统英文学界的主流观点，作者认为美国的在五十年代和八十年代采取的”遏制战略“加剧了苏联一方的好战性。而戈尔巴乔夫的错误判断和失误决策，则是导致苏联解体的主要原因。

Western interpretations of the Cold War--both realist and neoconservative--have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin's pragmatism or its aggressiveness, argues Vladislav Zubok. Explaining the interests, aspirations, illusions, fears, and misperceptions of the Kremlin leaders and Soviet elites, Zubok offers a Soviet perspective on the greatest standoff of the twentieth centu...(展开全部)

During the Second World War, as the Soviet Red Army was locked in brutal combat against the Nazis, Joseph Stalin ended the state's violent, decades-long persecution of religion. In a stunning reversal, priests, imams, rabbis, and other religious elites—many of them newly-released from the Gulag—were tasked with rallying Soviet citizens to a "Holy War" against Hitler. To the del...(展开全部)

林恩·亨特是美国加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校杰出的研究型教授，曾任美国历史学会主席。她著作等身，包括《人权的发明》《历史的真相》等。目前她定居于洛杉矶。

Whether it's a faulty memory, a tendency to multitask, or difficulty managing our time, every one of us has limitations conspiring to keep us from being organized. But, as organizational guru and former Google CIO Douglas C. Merrill points out, it isn't our fault. Our brains simply aren't designed to deal with the pressures and competing demands on our attention in today's fast...(展开全部)

Leading historian Lynn Hunt rethinks why history matters in today’s global world and how it should be written. George Orwell wrote that “history is written by the winners.” Even if that seems a bit too cut-and-dried, we can say that history is always written from a viewpoint but that viewpoints change, sometimes radically. The history of workers, women, and minorities challenge...(展开全部)

The twentieth century has been a century of nationalism in China, beginning with the nationalist revolution of 1911. Drawing on the explosion of writings about nationalism in the Chinese speaking world, this new book highlights the main themes of the Chinese nationalist tradition and shows how they are central to the discourse of Chinese politics and foreign policy today. The s...(展开全部)