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Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 438 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A 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 in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, with seminal decisions made by heads of state that would profoundly change the old order. Whether it was the bombing of the King David...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st U. S. ed.
Physical Desc
xxi, 451 pages 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Documents the collapse of the Soviet Union's European empire (East Germany, Poland, Czechoslvakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria) and the transition of each to independent states, drawing on interviews and newly uncovered archival material to offer insight into 1989's rapid changes and the USSR's minimal resistance.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xxvii, 340 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Sebestyen, a journalist whose own family fled from Hungary, gives us a fresh account of this defining moment in the Cold War, incorporating newly released official Hungarian and Soviet documents, his family's diaries, and eyewitness testimony. Tracing the events that led to the rebellion, Sebestyen's narrative moves from the tumultuous streets of Budapest to the Kremlin and the White House, where we hear conversations of those who planned and took...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 569 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on new research, including the diaries, memoirs, and personal letters of both Lenin and his friends, Victor Sebestyen's biography--the first in English in nearly two decades--is not only a political examination of one of the most important historical figures of the twentieth century, but a portrait of Lenin the man."--