Hedrick Smith has done what we all wish we could do: he has gone to Russia and spoken to the people. Over steaming samovars， in cramped flats， and on dirt-floors， he has spoken to peasants and bureaucrats， artists and officials. He has studied their customs and their governments and shares his fascinating insights and fresh perspectives with us.

作者曾于1971——1974年任《纽约时报》驻莫斯科分社社长，现任《纽约时报》国内版副编辑。作者利用新闻记者的身份，到过苏联城乡很多地方采访，同各阶层人士有过广泛接触，《俄国人》就是根据他在苏联耳闻目睹的亲身经历写成的。

作者曾于1971——1974年任《纽约时报》驻莫斯科分社社长，现任《纽约时报》国内版副编辑。作者利用新闻记者的身份，到过苏联城乡很多地方采访，同各阶层人士有过广泛接触，《俄国人》就是根据他在苏联耳闻目睹的亲身经历写成的。

An Undisputed Classic, November 20, 2000 By Maximillian Ben Hanan (Sacramento, California, USA) - See all my reviews It's really difficult to find a better book as an introduction to contemporary history. Now that the Berlin Wall has fallen, it's difficult for current generations of American university students to understand what Communism was like. Even current generations of...(展开全部)

In 1945, when the Red Army marched in, eastern Germany was not occupied but liberated. This, until the collapse of the Soviet Bloc, is what passed for history in the German Democratic Republic. Now, making use of newly opened archives in Russia and Germany, Norman Naimark reveals what happened during the Soviet occupation of eastern Germany. Adopting a comparative approach to t...(展开全部)

In the second half of the eighteenth century, the Russian Empire-already the largest on earth-expanded its dominion onto the ocean. Through a series of government-sponsored voyages of discovery and the establishment of a private fur trade, Russians crossed and re-crossed the Bering Strait and the North Pacific Ocean, establishing colonies in Kamchatka and Alaska and exporting m...(展开全部)

This book presents two extraordinary texts - The Shining of Swords by Al-Qarakhi and a new translation for a contemporary readership of Leo Tolstoy's Hadji Murat - illuminating the mountain war between the Muslim peoples of the Caucasus and the imperial Russian army from 1830 to 1859. The authors offer a complete commentary on the various intellectual and religious contexts th...(展开全部)

From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today. For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In ...(展开全部)

From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today. For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In ...(展开全部)

きっ和、それらはぜんぶここにあるべきも的たち。完璧なバランス、そしてすぐにこわされるも的。