Victor Sebestyen
autor
1989 - Pád sovietskeho impéria
Kniha 1989 – Pád sovietskeho impéria prináša strhujúci príbeh o roku, keď sa zrútila železná opona a celý východný blok sa vymanil spod sovietskeho vplyvu. Victor Sebestyen, uznávaný historik a novinár, približuje dramatické udalosti od pádu Berlínskeho múru cez pokojné revolúcie v Poľsku, Maďarsku či Československu až po pád komunistických režimov, ktoré sa ešte nedávno zdali neotrasiteľné.
Sebestyen sa opiera o dobové dokumenty a osobné svedectvá politikov, disidentov aj obyčajných občanov a odhaľuje, že diktatúry sa rúcali rýchlejšie, než si svet dokázal predstaviť. Táto kniha je nielen podrobnou kronikou historického prelomu, ale aj živým svedectvom o sile odvahy a túžby po slobode.
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1989
Kniha 1989 – Pád sovietskeho impéria prináša strhujúci príbeh o roku, keď sa zrútila železná opona a celý východný blok sa vymanil spod sovietskeho vplyvu. Victor Sebestyen, uznávaný historik a novinár, približuje dramatické udalosti od pádu Berlínskeho múru cez pokojné revolúcie v Poľsku, Maďarsku či Československu až po pád komunistických režimov, ktoré sa ešte nedávno zdali neotrasiteľné.
Sebestyen sa opiera o dobové dokumenty a osobné svedectvá politikov, disidentov aj obyčajných občanov a odhaľuje, že diktatúry sa rúcali rýchlejšie, než si svet dokázal predstaviť. Táto kniha je nielen podrobnou kronikou historického prelomu, ale aj živým svedectvom o sile odvahy a túžby po slobode.
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Příběh maďarského povstání 1956
Čtivá a působivá kniha o brutálně potlačeném maďarském povstání začíná rokem 1944 a podrobnou historii dvanácti revolučních dnů z října a listopadu 1956, v nichž spočívá těžiště knihy, dovádí až k dnešní době. Známá i neznámá fakta kombinuje autor tak, že četbu ocení každý zájemce o historii dané doby a oblasti. Kniha obsahuje rovněž nově vydané oficiální dokumenty a archivní materiály, rodinné deníky a svědectví očitých svědků.
O maďarských událostech kolem roku 1956 sice má česká veřejnost nějakou rámcovou představu, ale kniha britského publicisty a historika maďarského původu Victora Sebestyena představuje první ucelenou a do kontextu maďarských dějin a mezinárodní situace zasazenou monografií o maďarském povstání, která je přístupná v českém jazyce.
The Russian Revolution
An illustrated account of one of the most pivotal events in modern history - the Russian revolution of 1917. In the early years of the twentieth century, Imperial Russia was an ethnically diverse empire, stretching from Ukraine and Belarus in the west to the Bering Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk in the Far East.
At the head of this profoundly dysfunctional polity was Tsar Nicholas II, whose Romanov successors had ruled Russia since the start of the seventeenth century with a lethal mixture of domestic cruelty, expansionist energy and reactionary incompetence - interspersed with occasional reformist spasms.By early 1917, Russia was unreformable, and the tsar's authority irreparably damaged. In March of that year, Nicholas II abdicated and the tsarist system was overthrown.
The provisional government installed in its stead to organise democratic elections lasted just eight chaotic months before being ousted by Lenin's Bolsheviks in the October Revolution.Writing with crisp immediacy, Sebestyen narrates an unprecedented era of political and social convulsion. The Russian Revolutions changed the course of history, and, more than a century later, their backwash continues to be deeply felt across the world.
Budapest
Budapest has always been an important place. Almost at the centre of Europe, it is at the crossroads of geographical regions and of civilizations, at the intersection of ancient trade routes. Mountains that gradually slope into gentle hills converge on a great river, the Danube, and the regions of Buda and Pest sprang up on either side.
Throughout history the centre of gravity in Budapest and among Hungarians has shifted between this division of East and West - culturally, politically, emotionally. Invaders have come and gone, empires have conquered, occupied for centuries or decades, and left a few footprints behind: the remains of a Roman bath house complete with wonderfully preserved mosaics stand next to a Soviet-style 'five-year-plan' apartment block. The city bears the scars of the rise and fall of multiple empires, two world wars, fascism, Nazi German occupation, Soviet Communism.
It has been home to some of the world's greatest writers, artists and musicians. Hungary is a place of extremes, a small country that has often in history punched well above its weight. At many moments, events that began in Budapest have proved to be of world significance.
This is the story of that tumultuous, often divided, but always fascinating city.
Lenin. Osobnost, ideologie, teror
Sebestyenova kniha o Leninovi je vzorem politického životopisu pro široké publikum: historická přesnost se v textu vyváženě spojuje s beletristickou živostí a napínavostí, aniž by se autor musel uchylovat k psychologickým spekulacím nebo pompézním generalizacím. Výsostný homo politicus je v Sebestyenově portrétu předveden v úplnosti, včetně svých primitivních či monstrózních rysů, ale bez velkohubých ideologických soudů: Sebestyen rozhodně není Leninovým apologetou, má však k osobnosti portrétovaného dostatek respektu na to, aby výsledkem nebyl dvourozměrný žalovatelský plakát.
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Lenin the Dictator
The cold, one-dimensional figure of Lenin the political fanatic is only a partial truth. Drawing on extensive material that has only recently become available, Sebestyen's gripping biography casts an intriguing new light on the character behind the politics.
In reality, Lenin was a man who loved nature as much as he loved making revolution, and his closest relationships were with women. He built a state based on terror. But he was a highly emotional man given to furious rages and deep passions. While never ignoring the politics, Sebestyen examines Lenin's inner life, his relationship with his wife and his long love affair with Inessa Armand, the most romantic and beguiling of Bolsheviks. These two women were as significant as the men - Stalin or Trotsky - who created the world's first Communist state with him.
Lenin the Dictator
Victor 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 political is the personal', and while in no way ignoring his political life, Sebestyen's focus will be on Lenin the man - a man who loved nature almost as much as he loved making revolution, and whose closest ties and friendships were with women. The long-suppressed story of his menage a trois with his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, and his mistress and comrade, Inessa Armand, reveals a different character to the coldly one-dimensional figure of legend. Told through the prism of Lenin's key relationships, Sebestyen's lively biography casts a new light the Russian Revolution, one of the great turning points of modern history
1946
Nineteen forty-sixis 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 year s events 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 forever. The map of Eastern Europe would be redrawn, Chinese communists would gain decisive victories in their fight for power, and the world would witness the birth of Israel. 1946 was a year of seismic and dramatic events.
Drawing on personal testimonies and new archival research, Sebestyen has written a vivid and compelling narrative that brilliantly evokes the beginning of the Cold War set against a devastated landscape of dystopian horrors.
(With 16 pages of black-and-white photographs.)"
1946: The Making of the Modern World
With the end of the Second World War, a new world was born. The peace agreements that brought the conflict to an end implemented decisions that not only shaped the second half of the twentieth century, but continue to affect our world today and impact on its future. In 1946 the Cold War began, the state of Israel was conceived, the independence of India was all but confirmed and Chinese Communists gained a decisive upper hand in their fight for power. It was a pivotal year in modern history in which countries were reborn and created, national and ideological boundaries were redrawn and people across the globe began to rebuild their lives. In this remarkable history, the foreign correspondent and historian Victor Sebestyen draws on contemporary documents from around the world - including Stalin's personal notes from the Potsdam peace conference - to examine what lay behind the political decision-making. Sebestyen uses a vast array of archival material and personal testimonies to explore how the lives of generations of people across continents were shaped by the events of 1946. Taking readers from Berlin to London, from Paris to Moscow, from Washington to Jerusalem and from Delhi to Shanghai, this is a vivid and wide-ranging account of both powerbrokers and ordinary men and women from an acclaimed author.
Revolution 1989
For 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 1989, ten European nations were still Soviet vassal states. By the end of the year, one after another, they had thrown off communism, declared national independence, and embarked on the road to democracy. One of history's most brutal empires was on its knees. Poets who had been languishing in jails became vice presidents. When the Berlin Wall fell on a chilly November night it seemed as though the open wounds of the cruel twentieth century would at last begin to heal. The Year of Revolutions appeared as a beacon of hope for oppressed people elsewhere wh o dared to dream that they too could free themselves. In a dizzying few months of almost entirely peaceful revolutions the people's will triumphed over tyranny. An entire way of life was swept away. Now, twenty years on, Victor Sebestyen reassesses this decisive moment in modern history.
Weimar Germany
'Sebestyen reminds us once again why he is one of the best historians writing today' ANDREW ROBERTS'As gripping as a novel . . . what canny insight this book offers into the insecurity of our own times' ANNE SEBBA'Could not be more timely' TIM BOUVERIE'All our politicians should read it' CLARE MULLEYIn the years after the First World War, Berlin was - as Vladimir Nabokov described it - a place 'of dangerous glamour and worldliness, of tawdry cynicism, where art and riot flourished side by side.'The Weimar Republic was Germany's postwar experiment with democracy, and a time of unprecedented cultural, intellectual and artistic freedom. Berlin was at the cutting edge of quantum physics and psychoanalysis; its nightlife showcased grand opera and dissolute cabaret. Bauhaus architecture and modernist painting flourished, and it rivalled Hollywood as a capital of film. But beneath the glamour was a deeply polarised society of extremes plagued by economic disasters, populist leaders fuelling culture wars, and an uneasy political settlement that would soon spawn the horrors of Nazism. Covering fifteen years from the end of the First World War to Hitler's appointment as Chancellor in 1933, Weimar Germany tells the definitive story of Germany's interwar republic and descent into fascism. Featuring an extraordinary cast of characters including Vladimir Nabokov, Albert Einstein, Marlene Dietrich, Adolf Hitler, Billy Wilder, Thomas Mann, Joseph Goebbels, Christopher Isherwood and Rosa Luxemburg, Weimar Germany is a gripping and evocative account of how the fledgling German democracy died.
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33,49 €
Budapest: Between East and West
Budapest has always been an important place. Almost at the centre of Europe, it is at the crossroads of geographical regions and of civilizations, at the intersection of ancient trade routes. Mountains that gradually slope into gentle hills converge on a great river, the Danube, and the regions of Buda and Pest sprang up on either side.
Throughout history the centre of gravity in Budapest and among Hungarians has shifted between this division of East and West - culturally, politically, emotionally. Invaders have come and gone, empires have conquered, occupied for centuries or decades, and left a few footprints behind: the remains of a Roman bath house complete with wonderfully preserved mosaics stand next to a Soviet-style 'five-year-plan' apartment block. The city bears the scars of the rise and fall of multiple empires, two world wars, fascism, Nazi German occupation, Soviet Communism. It has been home to some of the world's greatest writers, artists and musicians. Hungary is a place of extremes, a small country that has often in history punched well above its weight. At many moments, events that began in Budapest have proved to be of world significance. This is the story of that tumultuous, often divided, but always fascinating city.
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21,95 €
Lacná kniha 1946: The Making of the Modern World (-50%)
With the end of the Second World War, a new world was born. The peace agreements that brought the conflict to an end implemented decisions that not only shaped the second half of the twentieth century, but continue to affect our world today and impact on its future. In 1946 the Cold War began, the state of Israel was conceived, the independence of India was all but confirmed and Chinese Communists gained a decisive upper hand in their fight for power. It was a pivotal year in modern history in which countries were reborn and created, national and ideological boundaries were redrawn and people across the globe began to rebuild their lives. In this remarkable history, the foreign correspondent and historian Victor Sebestyen draws on contemporary documents from around the world - including Stalin's personal notes from the Potsdam peace conference - to examine what lay behind the political decision-making. Sebestyen uses a vast array of archival material and personal testimonies to explore how the lives of generations of people across continents were shaped by the events of 1946. Taking readers from Berlin to London, from Paris to Moscow, from Washington to Jerusalem and from Delhi to Shanghai, this is a vivid and wide-ranging account of both powerbrokers and ordinary men and women from an acclaimed author.
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12,50€
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Lacná kniha 1989 (-70%)
„Jedná se o komplexní příběh zahrnující celou řadu zemí, toto úžasné, současně však také badatelsky pečlivě zpracované dílo jej probouzí k životu skutečně působivým způsobem… Neodolatelné.“
The Observer
„Popis událostí, který si nelze nechat ujít… Sebestyenovo skvěle napsané podání se odvíjí v krátkých a živých epizodách.“
Newsweek
„Záživné a barvitě pojaté dějiny tohoto podivuhodného roku.“
The Economist
Ještě na počátku roku 1989 spadalo šest evropských států pevně do sféry vlivu Sovětského svazu. Na jeho konci už všechny deklarovaly svou nezávislost a vydaly se na cestu k demokracii. Jak došlo k tak rychlé změně? Victor Sebestyen ve své knize detailně rozebírá jednotlivé události i dlouhodobé procesy, které tomuto předcházely, a to nejen v samotných zemích střední a východní Evropy, ale i v dalších částech studenou válkou rozděleného světa. Opírá se o desítky rozhovorů se svědky a účastníky těchto dějů i o nově odkryté archivní materiály. Vypráví příběhy obyčejných lidí i o strategických rozhodnutích světových velmocí, které nakonec vedly k pádu železné opony a posléze celého sovětského impéria.
Vypredané
1,80 €
5,99€
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1989
„Jedná se o komplexní příběh zahrnující celou řadu zemí, toto úžasné, současně však také badatelsky pečlivě zpracované dílo jej probouzí k životu skutečně působivým způsobem… Neodolatelné.“
The Observer
„Popis událostí, který si nelze nechat ujít… Sebestyenovo skvěle napsané podání se odvíjí v krátkých a živých epizodách.“
Newsweek
„Záživné a barvitě pojaté dějiny tohoto podivuhodného roku.“
The Economist
Ještě na počátku roku 1989 spadalo šest evropských států pevně do sféry vlivu Sovětského svazu. Na jeho konci už všechny deklarovaly svou nezávislost a vydaly se na cestu k demokracii. Jak došlo k tak rychlé změně? Victor Sebestyen ve své knize detailně rozebírá jednotlivé události i dlouhodobé procesy, které tomuto předcházely, a to nejen v samotných zemích střední a východní Evropy, ale i v dalších částech studenou válkou rozděleného světa. Opírá se o desítky rozhovorů se svědky a účastníky těchto dějů i o nově odkryté archivní materiály. Vypráví příběhy obyčejných lidí i o strategických rozhodnutích světových velmocí, které nakonec vedly k pádu železné opony a posléze celého sovětského impéria.
Vypredané
5,99 €
