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“[A] superb biography….Scholarly, refreshing, commonsensical, and compelling, vividly portraying the charismatic Empress and her times.”—Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Sash …

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The Great British Entrepreneur’s Handbook shares the secrets of experienced entrepreneurs on everything from coming up with great business ideas to the value of old-fashioned networking and how to ra …

Neither a comprehensive ‚life and times‘ nor a conventional biography, this is an engaging and accessible exploration of rulership and monarchial authority in eighteenth century Russia. Its purpose i …

Neither a comprehensive ‚life and times‘ nor a conventional biography, this is an engaging and accessible exploration of rulership and monarchial authority in eighteenth century Russia. Its purpose i …

When Catherine II died in St Petersburg in 1796 the world sensed the loss of the most celebrated monarch of Europe – something no one would have predicted at the birth sixty-seven years before of an …

Marx held that the progression of society from capitalism to communism was ‚historically inevitable‘. In Russia in 1917, it seemed that Marx’s theory was being born out in reality. But was the Russia …