Napoleon and The Shroud is the previously untold story of two of the most remarkable giants of the modern world. It is a......more

This book draws on the latest scholarship and archival research to examine the story of the Soviet Union and race. It lo......more

This book draws on the latest scholarship and archival research to examine the story of the Soviet Union and race. It lo......more

Russian dissident, former world chess champion and human rights activist Garry Kasparov argues that the invasion of Ukra......more

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The Armenian world was shattered by the 1915 genocide. Not only were thousands of lives lost but families were displaced......more

This accessible study examines the Holocaust’s "forgotten victims" - Jews and other victims who suicided from 1939 to 19......more

An accessible and expansive introduction to Ukraine that addresses the country’s relations with the West and Russia, as ......more

Beginning with the 1881 Itinerant Art Exhibition, this book examines the history of modern Russia through the paintings ......more

Charlotte Alston’s important new study explores the relationship between Russian anti-state activists and western public......more

From the acclaimed biographer of explorers Magellan, Columbus, and Francis Drake comes a unique exploration of life and ......more

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When She Remembered showcases an intertwined group of seven influential women, from well-known figures such as Simone Ve......more

When She Remembered showcases an intertwined group of seven influential women, from well-known figures such as Simone Ve......more

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Between 1970 and 1986, countries around the world expelled hundreds of Soviet officials and personnel for espionage or o......more

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A chronicle of the past and a warning for our nuclear future, Chernobyl Prayer shows what it is like to bear witness, an......more

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From the National Book Award-longlisted author of Finding Florida, a sparkling, sweeping chronicle of the author’s life ......more

Marseille is a thoroughly ambiguous place. France’s second city and its major sea-port, its impact on the national imagi......more

A deeply learned yet highly readable and entertaining history of Moscow, a city defined by its survival and reinvention,......more

A landmark anthology of Francesc Tosquelles’s intellectual, clinical, and political writings, many available in English ......more

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice "Absorbing [and] astute . . . Cohen-Solal captures a facet of Picasso’s cha......more

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Blowing up Ukraine is a first history of democracy in Ukraine since 1991 and the lethal methods Russia has used over a q......more

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An original and informative look at Russia’s thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin......more

Winner of the Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History, this dramatic new account of the dawn of modern East Asia p......more

A study of the changes in wealth and its distribution in nineteenth and twentieth-century Paris that maps the interplay ......more

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Explores the complex history of Soviet collaboration with the Axis powers during World War II, focusing on Andrei Vlasov......more

Examines and analyses how the Soviet tank forces that fought at Stalingrad were rejuvenated in the months leading up to ......more

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The Spanish Second Republic, 1931-1939, has been written about widely and remains mired in antifascist, anti-communist, ......more

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Counterpractice highlights a generation of women who used art to define a culture of experimental thought and practice d......more

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In early 2025 the Chinese and Russian fleets conducted the third in a series of trilateral naval exercises with Iran. Ju......more

Archiving the Past uncovers the story of the women in France who, from the 1920s to the 1970s, played critical roles in ......more

For decades before the internet existed, scientists, technologists, novelists, and enthusiasts of all descriptions dream......more

The Paris Commune as a world revolutionary event that crossed from Paris to Algeria and then New York and was the labora......more

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Orit Ouaknine-Yekutieli examines the life and deeds of Thami al-Glaoui (1879-1956), and the multiple ways in which his s......more

Winner of the Marshall Shulman Book Prize of the Harriman Institute of Columbia University Winner of the W. Bruce Lincol......more

The library of Étienne Gaudet has preoccupied scholars in the field of medieval history and philosophy. It arose the int......more

A compelling, concise biography of the sixteenth-century French king, whose patronage was central to Renaissance art. Fr......more

Bringing together an international cast of contributors, this book engages with popular responses to nationalising and s......more

The third part of the epic autobiography of Chateaubriand, the aristocratic Frenchman who lived through the beginning of......more

This is a remarkably comprehensive illustrated history of the Soviet and Russian armored branch. Readers will learn abou......more

An up-to-date analysis of cyberwarfare and hybrid warfare against the backdrop of the present conflict between Russia an......more

A study of the affects and effects of Russian narratives and their global dissemination. Disinformation, conspiracy narr......more

French Aircraft Carriers, 1910-2000 is the first comprehensive English-language study of France’s carrier development, c......more

The roots--and reach--of "Great Replacement" theory in France and beyond​ The Eurabia Myth delves into the origins and e......more

During the First World War, Russia relied on the mass mobilization of its peasant population. In the summer of 1914, app......more

ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2024 One of the London Times’s Nine Best Literary Nonfiction Books of the......more

A landmark biography of one of the most notorious and controversial protagonists of the French Revolution--Jean-Paul Mar......more

Little did newly-elected Russian President Vladimir Putin know that, as soon as he came to power, he would be sharing th......more

Little did newly-elected Russian President Vladimir Putin know that, as soon as he came to power, he would be sharing th......more

Unravelleing the mystery of philsopher Alexandre Kojève Boris Groys’s new book is an intellectual biography of the fasci......more

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Before Hungary’s transition from communism to democracy, local dissidents and like-minded intellectuals, activists, and ......more

A major new political history of the French Revolution In 1786, France’s ancien régime was functioning as usual. Its all......more

Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has cast a spotlight on Russia’s burgeoning partnership with Ira......more

This book is dedicated to the study of the Russian cavalry, and cavalry attacks, on the Eastern Front during the First W......more

This book tells the story of an epochal change in the human condition that was part of what is often thought of as ’mode......more

Pershing’s aim had always been to fight the Germans with an independent American Army (the AEF, the American Expeditiona......more

A horticultural tour of Marie-Antoinette’s domain, the lavishly constructed gardens at Versailles, accompanied by eighte......more

Founded in 1932, Thunder Cross (Pērkonkrusts) was the largest and most prominent right-wing political party in Latvia in......more

Sanitizing Moscow presents an environmental history of public health reforms in late imperial Moscow between 1870 and 19......more

This illustrated study tells the story of the Russian mercenary force led by business tycoon Yevgeny Prigozhin, and the ......more