From the moment a transvestite murdered the Mad Monk, Rasputin, to the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks and the subsequent drift to dictatorship, this narrative recreates the drama of the 1917 communist revolution in Russia
The Russian Century brings to life a hundred years of Russian history. It takes us from a costume ball in old St Petersburg to the 1917 revolution; from Stalin's atrocities to the Cold War; from glasnost to the Second Revolution in 1993, and to the chaotic state of contemporary Russia. Surprising and intimate portraits of artists, writers and politicians - Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn and Shostakovitch, Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky - are set alongside the faces of unknown peasants, workers and soliders; the dramatic moments of history in the making alongside the details of ordinary life.
Leningrad: Siege and Symphony sets the composition of Shostakovich's most famous work against the tragic canvas of the siege itself and the years of repression and terror that preceded it.
Never before seen photographs give a photo-journalistic history of Britain from 1900, showing Britain's rise and fall through the last hundred years.
This volume looks at the major events, people and stories of the 1950s through photographs that reveal the essence of those times. The decade began with the scars of war still visible everywhere and rationing still in place. It ended with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan claiming that people had never had it so good.
Noch im Jahr 1900 herrschte Königin Victoria über ein Viertel der Menschheit, inzwischen hat Großbritannien mit Hongkong die letzte seiner Kolonien verloren. Dieser Band mit seinen zum großen Teil erstmals veröffentlichten Fotos aus dem gesamten Empire zeigt Glanz und Elend der ehemaligen Weltmacht.
Historie posledního století slovem a obrazem. Výpravná publikace mapující dějiny Velké Británie XX.století. Černobílé dobové fotografie vybrala Sarah Jackson + Annabel Merullo.
