Bøger om Sovjetunionen

1930 i nærheden af Kazan, Tatarstan: Zulejkha lever som sine formødre har gjort i århundreder. Hun arbejder hårdt fra morgen til aften på sin mands fædrene gård med at passe sin svigermor, røgte gårdens få dyr og gå til hånde. Familiens store skam er, at hun aldrig har født dem en søn, kun fire døtre, som alle er døde som små, og både mand og svigermor bebrejder Zulejkha.Men da den røde hær kommer for at indtage landsbyen, sætter Zulejkhas mand sig imod, hvilket koster ham livet, mens hun sendes på den umenneskelige, månedlange rejse mod Stalins Gulag-lejre i Sibirien. Således begynder en fortælling om overlevelse, sult og iskolde vintre, men også om frigørelse, fornyelse og menneskelig styrke – og om to sjæle, der finder hinanden på trods af nærmest umulige omstændigheder.

This journal of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine is a collection of Andrey Kurkov's writings and broadcasts from Kyiv.

A celebration of Ukraine's rich cultural heritage bringing to light the country's most important works of art and architectural monuments from prehistory to the present.

You may not be interested in Russia. But Russia is interested in you.Russia's 2022 attack on Ukraine saw confrontation between Moscow and the West spill over into open conflict once again. But Russia has also been waging a clandestine war against the West for decades. Hostile acts abroad, from poisoning dissidents to shooting down airliners, interfering in elections, spying, hacking and murdering, have long seemed to be the Kremlin's daily business. But what is it all for? Why does Russia consistently behave like this? And what does it achieve?In this book, Keir Giles explains how and why Russia pushes for more power and influence wherever it can reach, far beyond Ukraine - and what it means not just for governments, but for ordinary people. Bringing together stories from the military, politics, diplomacy, espionage, cyber power, organised crime and more, Giles describes how Moscow conducts its campaigns across the globe, and how nobody is too unimportant to be caught up in them. By lifting the lid on the daily struggle going on behind the scenes to protect governments, businesses, societies and people from Russian hostile activity, Russia's War On Everybody shows how Moscow's hostile intentions for the rest of the world are far broader and more ambitious, and the ways it tries to achieve them far more pervasive and damaging, than we realise.

Brutal, morsom og usentimental erindringsbog om at leve i Sovjetunionen, hvor partiet og KGB havde uindskrænket magt. Og om en piges drømme om at rejse til Mars og – næsten det samme – til Danmark.

Armenia travel guide. Expert holiday advice including Yerevan, monasteries, UNESCO World Heritage sites, national parks and the Transcaucasian Trail. Also covers hotels, walking, cycling, winter sports, wildlife, petroglyphs and ancient art, Orbelian's Caravanserai, Dilijan, Tavush, Debed Canyon, Noratus, Etchmiadzin, Tatev, Geghard, Vayots Dzor.

A searching and humane novel, THE WOLVES OF ETERNITY is an intimate journey into the experiences of a half-brother and half-sister in their two different, yet deeply connected lives. The second novel in Karl Ove Knausgaard's new series, it expands the universe of THE MORNING STAR in the decades before the blazing and mysterious star descends.

A comprehensive, illustrated account of the new generation of advanced tanks to emerge during the last 15 years of the Cold War, showcasing major improvements in armor protection, gunsights, and fire-control systems.Focusing on the technology of the period, author Steven J. Zaloga explains how the demands of a potential Cold War battlefield spurred the development of the 20th century's most advanced tanks. He considers the final versions of the Soviet T-72, T-64, and T-80 and assesses their strengths and weaknesses. He also explores how the failure of the US-German MBT-70 project led to America's development of the M1 Abrams tank, and to Germany's all-new Leopard II. The British development of the Challenger tank is also considered, as is the lesser-known Leclerc tank developed by France, the smallest and lightest of any of the western designs. Featuring superbly detailed new illustrations and many photos, this volume pinpoints the key technology of the era, including turbine engines, APFSDS ammunition, advanced armor and high-tech fire-control systems, and describes how the rival tanks compared in the final stretch of the Cold War arms race.

Despite repeated warnings from the White House, Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. Why did Putin start the war-and why has it unfolded in previously unimaginable ways? Ukrainians have resisted a superior military; the West has united, while Russia grows increasingly isolated.Serhii Plokhy, a leading historian of Ukraine and the Cold War, offers a definitive account of this conflict, its origins, course, and the already apparent and possible future consequences. Though the current war began eight years before the all-out assault-on February 27, 2014, when Russian armed forces seized the building of the Crimean parliament-the roots of this conflict can be traced back even earlier, to post-Soviet tensions and imperial collapse in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Providing a broad historical context and an examination of Ukraine and Russia's ideas and cultures, as well as domestic and international politics, Plokhy reveals that while this new Cold War was not inevitable, it was predictable.Ukraine, Plokhy argues, has remained central to Russia's idea of itself even as Ukrainians have followed a radically different path. In a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post-Cold War international order, and a resurgence of populist nationalism, Ukraine is now more than ever the most volatile fault line between authoritarianism and democratic Europe.

Featuring specially commissioned artwork and carefully chosen photographs, this study charts the SVD Dragunov rifle's development, combat use and lasting legacy, from Vietnam to Syria.Developed as a medium-range sniping rifle in the Soviet Union during the 1960s, the Dragunov stood out against most Western sniping rifle types by being semi-automatic, a configuration that marginally lowers accuracy compared to bolt-action sniping rifles, but which allows for faster follow-up shots. Even so, the SVD is still capable of taking precision killing shots out to 800m and beyond, making it a thoroughly practical combat weapon for marksmen and snipers.In this fully illustrated study, Chris McNab explores the Dragunov's development and performance in detail. But the story of this weapon really comes to life with its combat history. It is the world's most widespread sniping rifle, still in use in the former Soviet armies and sold to more than 40 countries worldwide. Its rugged design, dependable capabilities and relatively low cost mean that it has been used in every conceivable type of conflict, from Vietnam and Afghanistan to Iraq and Syria. Illustrated with cutaway artwork and battlescenes, plus technical and historical photographs, this study tells the story of this remarkable weapon, from design and development to tactical use in action.

“A beautifully written evocation of Ukraine's brutal past and its shaky efforts to construct a better future.”—Financial Times Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world’s energy policies and security architecture. As celebrated journalist Anna Reid shows in Borderland, this conflict is the latest of many. Ukraine has been a borderland, and a battlefield, for more than seven centuries, from the Mongol invasion of 1240 to the Maidan protests of 2014—and, of course, the devastating Russian invasion of 2022.  In this penetrating book, Reid combines research and her own experiences to chart Ukraine’s tragic past and uncertain future. Talking to peasants and politicians, rabbis and racketeers, dissidents and paramilitaries, survivors of Stalin’s famine and of Nazi labor camps, she reveals the layers of myth and propaganda that wrap this divided land. From the Polish churches of Lviv to the coal mines of the Donbass to the Tatar shantytowns of Crimea, the book explores Ukraine’s struggle to build itself a national identity. Updated to include firsthand material from the 2022 Russia-Ukraine war, Borderland is essential reading for anyone looking to understand Ukraine and how its history is shaping its destiny.

A new illustrated study of the devastating, but little-known, Soviet armored blitzkrieg against the Japanese in the last weeks of World War II, and how it influenced Soviet tank doctrine as the Cold War dawned.Although long overshadowed in the West by the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the USSR's lightning strike into Manchuria in August 1945 was one of the most successful and unique campaigns of the era. Soviet forces, led by over 5,500 tanks and self-propelled guns, attacked across huge distances and deserts, marshes, and mountains to smash Japan's million-strong Kwantung Army in a matter of days.Japanese forces were short of training and equipment, but nevertheless fought fiercely, inflicting 32,000 casualties on the Soviets. Red Army operations were characterized by surprise, speed, and deep penetrations by tank-heavy forces born of the brutal lessons they had learned during years fighting the Wehrmacht. Lessons from the campaign directly shaped Soviet Cold War force structure and planning for mechanized operations against the West.Illustrated with contemporary artwork and rare photos from one of the best collections of Soviet military photos in the West, this fascinating book explains exactly how the last blitzkrieg of World War II was planned, fought, and won, and how it influenced the Red Army's plans for tank warfare against NATO in Europe.

Baseret på en sand historie, om heltemod, der er vokset ud af desperation, om en mor, der blev soldat, og om en kvinde, der fandt sin plads i verden og ændrede historiens gang for altid. Ljudmila Pavlitjenko, en nørdet og pligtopfyldende historiestuderende fra Kyiv, er ikke i tvivl. Hun vil kæmpe – kæmpe for sit lands, sit livs og sin søns fremtid. Da Hitler invaderer Sovjetunionen, tager Milas liv en helt ny drejning. Hun tager kampen op og forvandles fra flittig studine til livsfarlig snigskytte. 309 drab senere og nationalhelt, bliver hun hjemkaldt fra fronten for at blive sendt på charmetur til Amerika som det gode eksempel. Krigen har sat sine spor, og hun føler sig isoleret og ensom, indtil et uventet venskab med USA’s førstedamen Eleanor Roosevelt og et endnu mere uventet venskab med en tavs ligemand tænder lidt lys i et mørkt liv. Men da en gammel fjende dukker frem fra fortiden, er det ikke kun egne dæmoner, Mila tvinges til at tage kampen op imod.

Sovjetunionen er brudt sammen. Og en parentes (den sovjetiske epoke) er afsluttet. Udviklingen har radikalt ændret hele perspektivet på Ruslands nyere historie. Og det er denne blodige og destruktive parentes, indledt med bolsjevikkernes magterobring i 1917, der står i centrum for professor Bent Jensens Ruslandshistorie – fortalt i et let forståeligt og kontant sprog."Den ny Ruslandshistorie" beskriver den russiske histories anderledeshed før 1917. Men også udviklingen af de lovende reformer, som prægede Zarens Rusland i perioden op til første verdenskrig.Bogen fortæller både om implementeringen af marxismen i Sovjetunionen, om unionens fredelige sammenbrud og de kaotiske år, der fulgte, da det russiske demokratis hårde fødsel gik i gang.Bent Jensen (f. 1938) er dansk historiker og forfatter. Han er professor emeritus ved Syddansk Universitet og har været leder af Center for Koldkrigsforskning. Han er oprindeligt uddannet cand.mag. i historie og russisk og har udgivet en lang række bøger om russisk historie.

We all now live in a paranoid and polarized world of Putin's making, and the Russian leader, through guile and disruption, has resurrected Russia's status as a force to be reckoned with. From renowned foreign policy expert Angela Stent comes a must-read dissection of present-day Russian motives on the global stage.How did Russia manage to emerge resurgent on the world stage and play a weak hand so effectively? Is it because Putin is a brilliant strategist? Or has Russia stepped into a vacuum created by the West's distraction with its own domestic problems and US ambivalence about whether it still wants to act as a superpower? PUTIN'S WORLD examines the country's turbulent past, how it has influenced Putin, the Russians' understanding of their position on the global stage and their future ambitions -- and their conviction that the West has tried to deny them a seat at the table of great powers since the USSR collapsed.This book looks at Russia's key relationships -- its downward spiral with the United States, Europe, and NATO; its ties to China, Japan, the Middle East; and with its neighbors, particularly the fraught relationship with Ukraine. PUTIN'S WORLD will help Americans understand how and why the post-Cold War era has given way to a new, more dangerous world, one in which Russia poses a challenge to the United States in every corner of the globe -- and one in which Russia has become a toxic and divisive subject in US politics.

Romanen er baseret på forfatterens egen families historie gennem flere generationer. En slægtshistorie, med start i slutningen af attenhundredetallet, om livet i den bedrestillede dommerfamilie i Budapest, og hvorledes de kommer til at opleve ikke blot Første og Anden Verdenskrigs uhyggelige skæbnespil, men også Depressionen, Sovjetunionens besættelse af landet, revolutionen og den totale splittelse af familien, efterhånden som Østblokken rejser sine mure. Mellem faldne soldater, årenes udmagrende sult og bombede ruiner spirer det ukuelige håb om en ny morgendag, og selv i ulykkens skygge overlever en stille glæde – ved den mindre lykke og ikke mindst kærligheden. Den stiller spørgsmålstegn ved, om overlevelse skal ske for enhver pris, eller om det medmenneskelige ansvar skal veje tungest, og er et vidnesbyrd om den knusende afmagt og tingsliggørelse, der overtager livet, når det enkelte menneske ikke har indflydelse på sin egen fremtid. Et stykke af evigheden: **** ”Bogen er en slags dokumentarisk roman og forfatteren har held til at anvende denne vanskelige genre, så fortællingen bliver rask og troværdig … Romanen er også en vellykket skildring af unge flygtningeskæbner.” – Berlingske Uddrag af bogen Angrebet kom ganske uventet. En øredøvende larm, der fik ladens lette vægge og taget til at give efter. De var uden varsel blevet fanget i et flammehav og blev kastet rundt af trykket. Lugten af krudt og røg lukkede øjne og næsebor, straks da det første nedslag ramte … Vinduesglassene splintrede … Dørene blev flået op … Det lød som jernplader, der blev flænset. – Vi er omringet, det er M91-30, råbte Boglár, der stod József nærmest. De kunne genkende lyden af en Mosin-Nagant, russernes repetergevær med en salve på fem skud. De greb efter deres våben for at forsvare sig, men skuddene væltede ned over dem, afløst af eder og bønner om hjælp. József havde mærket en jagende smerte i den arm, han havde sit gevær i. Han tabte det og faldt … Kuglerne hvinede overalt. Om forfatteren Emese Jehrbo er født i 1943 i Ungarn. Flygtede efter revolutionen i 1956. Efter ophold i forskellige flygtningelejre kom hun til Danmark i 1957 og har boet her siden. Hendes første bog, Et stykke af evigheden, udkom i 2006. I 2011 udkom Tilfældighedernes år.

In a fascinating analysis of critical themes in Feodor Dostoevsky's work, Ren Girard explores the implications of the Russian author's "e;underground,"e; a site of isolation, alienation, and resentment. Brilliantly translated, this book is a testament to Girard's remarkable engagement with Dostoevsky's work, through which he discusses numerous aspects of the human condition, including desire, which Girard argues is "e;triangular"e; or "e;mimetic"e;-copied from models or mediators whose objects of desire become our own. Girard's interdisciplinary approach allows him to shed new light on religion, spirituality, and redemption in Dostoevsky's writing, culminating in a revelatory discussion of the author's spiritual understanding and personal integration. Resurrection is an essential and thought-provoking companion to Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground.

""Artillerist i Stalingrad"" er den unge Løjtnant Wigand Wüsters enestående personlige øjenvidneberetning om historiens mest brutale militære slag, nemlig slaget om byen Stalingrad i det sydlige Sovjetunionen, som varede fra august 1942 til februar 1943. Stalingrad blev vendepunktet i den anden verdenskrig. Wüster oplevede sammen med godt 300.000 omringede tyske soldater bykampens brutalitet, den bidende kulde, sulten og senere nederlaget og fangenskabet. Sammen med 90.000 kammerater gik han i fangeskab, og han var en af de få tusinde, der overlevede og senere i 1950erne fik lov til at vende hjem til Tyskland. Wüster havde altid sit fotoapparat hos sig ved fronten og tog talrige billeder. De sort/hvide billeder i bogen er hans egne. Akvarellerne i bogen har han også malet selv ud fra sin erindring om begivenheder, som han ikke kunne fotografere.

SLXErik Kulavig (f. 1953) er cand.mag. i russisk og dansk fra Odense Universitet. Han har flere gange været på studie- og forskningsophold i Sovjetunionen/Rusland og har endvidere været gæsteforsker ved Stanford University i USA og ved Det Europæiske Universitets Institut i Firenze. Ved siden af sit arbejde som forsker og underviser har Erik Kulavig skrevet en lang række bøger om Rusland, kommunisme og Sovjetunionen.

”Hvem er russerne?” giver en indgående beskrivelse af Rusland, som det så ud i det første årti efter Sovjetunionens sammenbrud i 1991. Bogen fortæller blandt andet om de nye samfundsproblemer som stigende hjemløshed, kortere gennemsnitslevealder, krigsinvalider og en hær, der var ved at gå i opløsning. Samtidig beskriver den de forandrede kønsroller, den nye åbenhed og ytringsfrihed, der prægede Rusland i 1990’erne og den optimistiske forventning om, at fremtiden så lysere ud.”Hvem er russerne?” forsøger også at afdække, hvad der ligger i begrebet ’den russiske folkesjæl’, den særegne russiske kultur og landets dramatiske historie. Bogen udkom første gang i 2000.Peter Dalhoff-Nielsen (1924-2008) var en dansk journalist, forfatter og redaktør. Han var uddannet i slavisk filologi fra Københavns Universitet og blev i 1962 korrespondent for Danmarks Radio i Sovjetunionen og Østeuropa, hvilket han blev ved med at være helt til i 1992, da Jerntæppet var faldet. Peter Dalhoff-Nielsen har skrevet en lang række bøger om russisk, sovjetisk og østeuropæisk historie.

A poignant and deeply researched history of gay oppression in the USSR. In 1934, Joseph Stalin enacted sodomy laws, unleashing a wave of brutal detentions of homosexual men in large Soviet cities. Red closet recounts the compelling stories of people whose lives were affected by those laws, including a naïve Scottish journalist who dared to write to Stalin in an attempt to save his lover from prosecution and a homosexual theatre student who came to Moscow in pursuit of a career amid Stalin's harsh repressions and mass arrests. We also meet a fearless doctor in Siberia who provided medical treatment for gay men at his own peril and a much-loved Soviet singer who hid his homosexuality from the secret police. Each story helps paint the hitherto unknown picture of how Soviet oppression of gay people originated and was perpetuated from Stalin's rule until the demise of the USSR. This book comes at a time when homophobia is again rearing its ugly head under Putin's rule.

'History is made up of myths,' writes the renowned Russian dissident journalist Mikhail Zygar. 'Alas, our myths led us to the fascism of 2022. It is time to expose them.' Drawing from his perilous career investigating the frontiers of the Russian empire, Zygar reveals how 350 years of propaganda, bad historical scholarship, folk tales and fantasy spurred his nation into war with Ukraine.A noted expert on the Kremlin with unparalleled access to hundreds of players in the current conflict - from politicians to oligarchs, gangsters to comedians (not least Zelensky himself) - Zygar chronicles the power struggles from which today's politics grew, and digs out the essential truths from behind layers of seductive legend. By surveying the strange, complex record of Russo-Ukrainian relations, WAR AND PUNISHMENT reveals exactly how the largest nation on Earth lost its senses. A work of history can't undo the past or transform the present, but sometimes it can shape the future.

Rudin: A Novel, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and redesigned. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work, and hence their text is clear and readable. This remarkable book falls within the genres of Language and Literatures, Slavic (including Russian), Languages and Literature