Автор: Kotkin, Stephen Название: Stalin, Vol. II ISBN: 0713999454 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780713999457 Издательство: Penguin Books Ltd Рейтинг: Цена: 2926 р. Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: Building and running a dictatorship, with power of life or death over hundreds of millions, in conditions of capitalist self-encirclement, made Stalin the person he became. This is the story of a political system shaping a personality.
Автор: Kotkin, Joel Название: New class conflict ISBN: 091438628X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780914386285 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3808 р. Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: In ways not seen since the Gilded Age of the late nineteenth century, America is becoming a nation of increasingly sharply divided classes.
Автор: Kotkin, Joel Название: The City ISBN: 0679603360 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780679603368 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 1407 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Humorist-writer-mammal Carlos Kotkin is lucky in love-if lucky in love means he's had enough horrible, pathetic, and downright bizarre dating experiences to write a book. His trouble with females usually begins upon opening his mouth.
Here, Carlos shares his ups and mostly downs of bachelorhood, including romantic conquests with a slew of childhood crushes, insane yogis, a Playboy vixen, a STD host, the flaky, the deaf, and the just plain dumb. His unique mating style is not to be duplicated, but it will definitely make readers laugh-and want to get tested ASAP.
Автор: Kotkin, Joel Название: The City ISBN: 0375756515 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375756511 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1154 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: If humankind can be said to have a single greatest creation, it would be those places that represent the most eloquent expression of our species's ingenuity, beliefs, and ideals: the city. In this authoritative and engagingly written account, the acclaimed urbanist and bestselling author examines the evolution of urban life over the millennia and, in doing so, attempts to answer the age-old question: What makes a city great? Despite their infinite variety, all cities essentially serve three purposes: spiritual, political, and economic. Kotkin follows the progression of the city from the early religious centers of Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, and China to the imperial centers of the Classical era, through the rise of the Islamic city and the European commercial capitals, ending with today's post-industrial suburban metropolis. Despite widespread optimistic claims that cities are "back in style," Kotkin warns that whatever their form, cities can thrive only if they remain sacred, safe, and busy-and this is true for both the increasingly urbanized developing world and the often self-possessed "global cities" of the West and East Asia. Looking at cities in the twenty-first century, Kotkin discusses the effects of developments such as shifting demographics and emerging technologies. He also considers the effects of terrorism-how the religious and cultural struggles of the present pose the greatest challenge to the urban future. Truly global in scope, The City is a timely narrative that will place Kotkin in the company of Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, and other preeminent urban scholars. From the Hardcover edition.
Автор: Kotkin, Joel Название: City ISBN: 0753820625 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780753820629 Издательство: Orion Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 752 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A compelling survey of mankind`s greatest creations
Автор: Stephen Kotkin Название: Stalin, Vol. I ISBN: 0713999446 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780713999440 Издательство: Penguin Books Ltd Цена: 1965 р. Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: FINANCIAL TIMES Books of the Year 2014
In January 1928 Stalin, the ruler of the largest country in the world, boarded a train bound for Siberia where he would embark upon the greatest gamble of his political life. He was about to begin the largest programme of social reengineering ever attempted: the root-and-branch uprooting and collectivization of agriculture and industry across the entire Soviet Union. Millions would die, and many more would suffer. How did Stalin get to this point? Where did such great, monstrous power come from?
The first of three volumes, the product of a decade of scrupulous and intrepid research, this landmark book offers the most convincing portrait and explanation yet of Stalin's power, and of Russian power in the world. The book is as much about the Russia that Stalin inherits and reshapes as about the man himself. It gives a brilliantly nuanced picture of the sequence of catastrophes that disposed of the social structures, armies, rivals and close colleagues that should have stood in Stalin's way, as he emerged from obscurity to shoulder the terrifying responsibility of upholding Russian power in the world.
Автор: Kotkin Stephen Название: Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 ISBN: 1594203792 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781594203794 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 2564 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history s most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. Gross, drawing upon two decades of reflection, revisit this crash. In a crisp, concise, unsentimental narrative, they employ three case studies East Germany, Romania, and Poland to illuminate what led Communist regimes to surrender, or to be swept away in political bank runs. This is less a story of dissidents, so-called civil society, than of the bankruptcy of a ruling class communism s establishment, or uncivil society. The Communists borrowed from the West like drunken sailors to buy mass consumer goods, then were unable to pay back the hard-currency debts and so borrowed even more. In Eastern Europe, communism came to resemble a Ponzi scheme, one whose implosion carries enduring lessons. From East Germany s pseudotechnocracy to Romania s megalomaniacal dystopia, from Communist Poland s cult of Mary to the Kremlin s surprise restraint, Kotkin and Gross pull back the curtain on the fraud and decadence that cashiered the would-be alternative to the market and democracy, an outcome that opened up to a deeper global integration that has proved destabilizing.
