恩维尔·霍查(Enver Hoxha，1908年10月16日—1985年4月11日)，阿尔巴尼亚的政治家、社会主义者及国家领导人，曾任阿尔巴尼亚劳动党第一书记与总理，掌权达四十年之久。

A memoir by the former vice president of Yugoslavia describing three visits to Moscow and his encounters there with Stalin. Index. Translated by Michael B. Petrovich.

密洛凡·德热拉斯（一译吉拉斯）（1912-）南斯拉夫著名政治活动家，早年追随铁托革命，密切共事，一起领导南斯拉夫人民的反法西斯武装斗争。他曾担任过南联盟副总统、南共政治局委员、中央书记等重要职务，是南共主要领导人之一。1953年以后，吉拉斯主张在南斯拉夫实行多党派竞争的民主制，成为党内异见人士，与铁托决裂；因为他坚持不可妥协的“人类个人精神的自由，批评南斯拉夫党内的斯大林思想，被撤销所有职务，于1956年11月被捕，判刑三年。吉拉斯身陷囹圄期间，他在入狱前写的《新阶级》一书从南斯拉夫神秘地偷带到西方出版，“罪加一等”，延长了十年刑期。1961年1月，南当局提前释放了吉拉斯。 作为党内反对派和著名政论家，吉拉斯以言获罪，亦因此而名世。《新阶级》在西方出版后，半年之内就再版了十次；中译本也在1963年由世界知识出版社出版，内部发行。1981年5月，中共中...(展开全部)

Thomas Pakenham's beautifully illustrated, bestselling book of tree portraits. With this astonishing collection, Thomas Pakenham produced a new kind of tree book. The arrangement owes little to conventional botany. The sixty trees are grouped according to their own strong personalities: Natives, Travellers, Shrines, Fantasies and Survivors. From the ancient native trees, many o...(展开全部)

With this astonishong collection of tree portraits, Thomas Packenham has produced a new kind of tree book. The trees are grouped according to their characteristics; roughly half are ancient native trees in the UK, while the rest are exotic newcomers from Europe.

This is a book about why medieval manuscripts matter. Coming face to face with an important illuminated manuscript in the original is like meeting a very famous person. We may all pretend that a well-known celebrity is no different from anyone else, and yet there is an undeniable thrill in actually meeting and talking to a person of world stature. The idea for the book, which i...(展开全部)

Stalin remains one of the creators of our world - like Hitler, the personification of evil. Yet Stalin hid his past and remains mysterious. This enthralling biography that reads like a thriller finally unveils the secret but extraordinary journey of the Georgian cobbler's son who became the Red Tsar. What forms such a merciless psychopath and consummate politician? Was he illeg...(展开全部)

维克多·弗拉基米罗维奇·叶罗菲耶夫（Виктор Владимирович Ерофеев, Viktor Vladimirovich Yerofeyev，1947.9.19~ ）苏联、俄罗斯作家、文学评论家、广播和电视节目主持人。 生于莫斯科一个外交官家庭。1955~1959年父亲在苏联大使馆担任参赞期间与父母住在巴黎。1970年莫斯科大学语言文学系毕业，1973年在苏联科学院世界文学研究所攻读研究生，1975年获语言文学副博士学位，论文题目是《陀思妥耶夫斯基和法国的存在主义》。1973年在苏联《文学问题》杂志上发表随笔评论法国作家萨德侯爵的创作，在文坛上崭露头角。1979年因参与未经审查的“文学年鉴”《大都会》而被开除出苏联作家协会。2022年俄罗斯入侵乌克兰后和家人逃离俄罗斯赴德国定居。 作品有《亚德雷娜·芬亚》[Ядрёна Феня，收入...(展开全部)

The novel Good Stalin is inspired by Erofeev's experience growing up amidst the Soviet political hierarchy. His father, a staunch Stalinist who has dedicated his life and soul to the party, begins as Stalin's personal interpreter, and rises rapidly to the top of the political ladder and into the leader's inner circle. The book reflects the family's prestigious - and yet precari...(展开全部)

A revelatory account that finally unveils the shadowy journey from obscurity to power of the Georgian cobbler’s son who became the Red Tsar—the man who, along with Hitler, remains the modern personification of evil. What makes a Stalin? What formed this merciless psychopath who was, as well, a consummate politician, the dynamic world statesman who helped create and industriali...(展开全部)