Victor Sebestyen (4 knihy)
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Victor Sebestyen 1946 ENFrom the author of Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution andRevolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire comes a powerful, revelatory book about the year that would signal the beginning of the Cold War, the end of the British Empire, and the beginning of the rivalry between the United States and the USSR. Victor Sebestyen reveals the events of 1946 by chronologically framing what was taking place…
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Victor Sebestyen 1989 CZV roce 1989 došlo ve východní Evropě k vyvrcholení dlouhodobého procesu, který ve svém důsledku vedl k odtržení satelitních států od Sovětského svazu a k pádu východního bloku. Autor ve své rozsáhlé práci detailně rozebírá události, které tomuto předcházely, a to nejen v jednotlivých zemích východní Evropy (od polské Solidarity až po proces s Ceauşescem), ale i v jiných částech studenou válkou rozděleného světa.
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Victor Sebestyen Lenin the Dictator ENVictor Sebestyen's intimate biography is the first major work in English for nearly two decades on one of the most significant figures of the twentieth century. In Russia to this day Lenin inspires adulation. Everywhere, he continues to fascinate as a man who made history, and who created a new kind of state that would later be imitated by nearly half the countries in the world. Lenin believed that the 'the…
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Victor Sebestyen Revolution 1989 ENFor more than 40 years after the Second World War the Iron Curtain divided Europe physically, with 300 km of walls and barbed wire fences; ideologically, between communism and capitalism; psychologically, between people imprisoned under totalitarian dictatorships and their neighbours enjoying democratic freedoms; and militarily, by two mighty, distrustful power blocs, still fighting the cold war. At the start of…
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