Autor Martin Sixsmith, Daniel Sixsmith
Vladimir Putin came to power by destroying the Russian oligarchs, the entrepreneurs who grew rich during Russia's chaotic transition from communism and exercised unseemly influence over the government of Boris Yeltsin. Putin confiscated their companies…
After the collapse of Soviet communism, the West convinced itself that liberal democracy would be the dominant system of governance. However, in February 2022, Vladimir Putin proved it is unwise to make such predictions. In the early years of Putin’s…
Vladimir Putin s invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. In the decades after the collapse of Soviet communism, the West convinced itself that liberal democracy would henceforth be the dominant, ultimately unique, system of governance. An outburst…
'I'm a fairly calm fellow; I don't usually get het up about things. But I was, let's say, concerned when I tuned into the Moscow Echo radio station and heard that the Kremlin had put a price on my head. The announcement didn't quite say 'dead or alive'.But…
More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And, nearly thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, its legacy still endures - not only in our politics, but in our own thoughts, and fears. Drawing…
A major new history of the Cold War: exploring the conflict through the minds of the people who lived it.
Pravdivý příběh matky a syna, které osud rozdělil, když byly malému Anthonymu tři roky. Neměli o sobě žádné informace, nesměli po sobě pátrat, Anthonymu vzali i jeho jméno. Přesto na sebe nikdy nezapomněli. Anthony (teď už pod jménem Milke) vyrůstá v…
Philomena is now a major film starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan, directed by Stephen Frears When she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to the convent at Roscrea in Co. Tipperary to be looked after as a fallen woman.…