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)

Book Description A powerful political novel based on the sudden, mysterious death of the man who had been handpicked to succeed the hated Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha.Did he commit suicide or was he murdered? That is the burning question. The man who died by his own hand, or another+s, was Mehmet Shehu, the presumed heir to the ailing dictator, Enver Hoxha. So sure was the wo...(展开全部)

伊斯梅尔•卡达莱，生于一九三六年，阿尔巴尼亚著名作家。作品在全世界传播，以讽刺和批判见长，其中一些出版之后曾一度遭禁。他的《石头城纪事》《错宴》《谁带回了杜伦迪娜》《亡军的将领》《破碎的四月》《梦幻宫殿》等作品已译成汉语。二〇〇五年，他从加西亚•马尔克斯、君特•格拉斯、索尔•贝娄、纳吉布•马哈福兹、大江健三郎五位诺贝尔文学奖得主中脱颖而出，获得首届布克国际文学奖，并成为诺贝尔文学奖的热门人选。 译者李玉民，首都师范大学教授，著名翻译家。从事法国文学翻译二十余年，译著六十多种。其编选主译的《缪塞精选集》获二〇〇〇年国家图书奖；翻译作品《忒修斯》获《世界文学》杂志二〇〇〇年度“思源”翻译奖二等奖，《上学的烦恼》获二〇一〇年第二届傅雷翻译出版奖。

Book Description A powerful political novel based on the sudden, mysterious death of the man who had been handpicked to succeed the hated Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha.Did he commit suicide or was he murdered? That is the burning question. The man who died by his own hand, or another+s, was Mehmet Shehu, the presumed heir to the ailing dictator, Enver Hoxha. So sure was the wo...(展开全部)

伊斯梅尔•卡达莱，生于一九三六年，阿尔巴尼亚著名作家。作品在全世界传播，以讽刺和批判见长，其中一些出版之后曾一度遭禁。他的《石头城纪事》《错宴》《谁带回了杜伦迪娜》《亡军的将领》《破碎的四月》《梦幻宫殿》等作品已译成汉语。二〇〇五年，他从加西亚•马尔克斯、君特•格拉斯、索尔•贝娄、纳吉布•马哈福兹、大江健三郎五位诺贝尔文学奖得主中脱颖而出，获得首届布克国际文学奖，并成为诺贝尔文学奖的热门人选。 译者李玉民，首都师范大学教授，著名翻译家。从事法国文学翻译二十余年，译著六十多种。其编选主译的《缪塞精选集》获二〇〇〇年国家图书奖；翻译作品《忒修斯》获《世界文学》杂志二〇〇〇年度“思源”翻译奖二等奖，《上学的烦恼》获二〇一〇年第二届傅雷翻译出版奖。

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.

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)

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

From Publishers Weekly Chang, historian at UC-Irvine, argues that U.S. policymakers from the Truman through the Johnson administrations never regarded the Sino-Soviet relationship as monolithic but recognized their conflicting interests early on, actively encouraged a rift and exploited their differences. Based on newly declassified documents, the study reveals that President E...(展开全部)