Auteur: Jan Claas Behrends

1917 was an important year in world history and not just because of the United States’ entry into the First World War and the Russian Revolution. It is rightly considered the turning point of the war …

1917 was an important year in world history and not just because of the United States’ entry into the First World War and the Russian Revolution. It is rightly considered the turning point of the war …

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The USSR’s dissolution resulted in the creation of not only fifteen recognized states but also of four non-recognized statelets: Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and Transnistria. Their pol …

Der Ruf des Maidan nach Recht und Freiheit rückte die Ukraine in das öffentliche Bewusstsein Deutschlands. Das Land, das in seiner Geschichte nur für einen Wimpernschlag seine nationale Eigenständigk …

This volume includes five case studies on war and the military in the USSR, Russia and Yugoslavia. It argues that the armed forces were at the core of socialist statehood and that their role and thei …

This volume includes five case studies on war and the military in the USSR, Russia and Yugoslavia. It argues that the armed forces were at the core of socialist statehood and that their role and thei …

Die DDR-Staatssicherheit hat nicht nur die Opposition bekämpft, sie war auch im Alltag der schweigenden Mehrheit präsent: als Überwachungsorgan, als verdeckte Entscheidungsinstanz, als tabuisierter M …

The 2013–2014 Euromaidan Revolution’s call for justice, dignity, and liberty brought Ukraine, which had ’disappeared ’ behind the Iron Curtain for decades after the horrors of World War II, into the …