In this rapidly paced book, a former CIA chief of counter intelligence breaks open the mysterious case of KGB officer Yuri Nosenko's 1964 defection to the United States. Still a highly controversial chapter in the history of Cold War espionage, the N...

This book examines local attempts at sustainable development in post-socialist Eastern Europe. Eniko Baga focuses on the small Romanian town of Timisoara as its residents respond to major national and international changes, including the dismantling...

Bukharin's "Prison Manuscripts" were written in Moscow's Lubyanka prison during 1937-1938 while awaiting his inevitable liquidation. Like Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks, Bukharin's Manuscripts too have their central emphasis on issues such as cul...

With the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia launched itself on a fitful transition to Western-style democracy and a market economy. But a decade later, Boris Yeltsin's handpicked successor – Vladimir Putin, a self-described childhood hooligan...

The only country in the world with a line in its national anthem as desperate as "this people has already suffered for its past and its future", Hungary is a nation defined by poverty, despair, and conflict. Its history, of course, took an even darke...

"Horst Biesold's 'Crying Hands' treats a neglected aspect of the Holocaust: the fate of the deaf in Nazi Germany. His book covers a story that has remained almost unknown. In the United States, even in Germany, few are aware that during the Nazi era...