Bøker av Adam B. Ulam

In this magisterial and exciting book, Ulam offers a brilliant history of Russian political and intellectual life in those critical years from 1855 to 1884 and describes the successive conspiracies that shook the edifice of tsarist autocracy

Understanding the Cold War is the story of a man and an epoch. Its telling moves between detailed personal history and an Olympian assessment of the origins, significant events, and outcome of the Cold War.

This volume moves between detailed personal history and an assessment of the origins, events, and outcome of the Cold War. Professor Ulam describes his hometown, family, and early education, as well as his departure, with his brother, for the US just days before the Nazi invasion of Poland.

The rise of the Bolsheviks is an epic Russian story that now has a definitive end. The major historian of the subject, Adam Ulam, has enlarged his classic work with a new Preface that puts the revolutionary moment, and especially Lenin, in perspective for our modern age.

This text offers a history of Russian political and intellectual life from 1855 to 1884 and describes the conspiracies that shook the edifice of tsarist autocracy. It provides an insight into the lines between terrorism and crime, fanaticism and madness, utopian longings and real history.