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As much as anything, World War I turned on the fate of Ukraine. The decision to go to war in 1914 had catastrophic consequences for Russia. The result was revolution, civil war and famine in 1917-20, followed by decades of communist rule. Dominic......

Though much has been written about Napoleon\'s doomed invasion of Russia and the collapse of the French Empire that ensued, virtually all of it has been from the Western perspective....

Вашему вниманию предлагается книга «Россия Против Наполеона: Сражение за Европу, 1807 - 1814». In the summer of 1812 Napoleon, the master of Europe, marched into Russia with the largest army ever seen, confident that he would sweep everything before him. Yet less than two years later his empire lay in ruins, and Russia had triumphed....