Ergebnis für "Orlando" in Geschichte

Mitreißend, prägnant und menschlich berührend erzählt Orlando Figes die Geschichte Russlands. Dabei entfaltet er das große Panorama der russischen Seele: von unsterblichen Mythen über die großartigen kulturellen Leistungen bis zur Weltmachtpolitik des 20. Jahrhunderts und unserer Gegenwart. In einer packenden Reise durch die Zeit erzählt Orlando Figes, wie die Russen sich selbst erlebten und wie sie sich im Laufe ihrer Geschichte immer wieder neu erfanden: Er ergründet ihre Anfänge als Jäger und Sammler und schildert das Leben der Bauern Russlands im ersten nachchristlichen Jahrtausend.

Beginning in the 18th century with the building of St. Petersburg - a 'window on the West' - and culminating with the challenges posed to Russian identity by the Soviet regime, Figes examines how writers, artists, and musicians grappled with the idea of Russia itself - its character, spiritual essence and destiny. He skillfully interweaves the great works - by Dostoevsky, Stravinsky, and Chagall - with folk embroidery, peasant songs, religious icons and all the customs of daily life, from food and drink to bathing habits to beliefs about the spirit world.

Opening with a panorama of Russian society, from the cloistered world of the Tsar to the brutal life of the peasants, A People’s Tragedy follows workers, soldiers, intellectuals and villagers as their world is consumed by revolution and then degenerates into violence and dictatorship. Drawing on vast original research, Figes conveys above all the shocking experience of the revolution for those who lived it, while providing the clearest and most cogent account of how and why it unfolded.

The terrible conflict that dominated the mid-19th century, the Crimean War, killed at least 800,000 men and pitted Russia against a formidable coalition of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire. It was a war for territory, provoked by fear that if the Ottoman Empire were to collapse then Russia could control a huge swathe of land from the Balkans to the Persian Gulf. But it was also a war of religion, driven by a fervent, populist and ever more ferocious belief by the Tsar and his ministers that it was Russia's task to rule all Orthodox Christians and control the Holy Land.

Narración compacta de la historia de Colombia, desde la llegada de los primeros pobladores hasta la firma del acuerdo de paz de 2016. Además de presentar los hechos fundamentales del pasado, ofrece explicaciones e interpretaciones, que destacan, en el pasado, los elementos que pueden ayudar a...

Drawing on a huge range of sources - letters, memoirs, conversations - Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin. Those who shaped the political system became, very frequently, its victims. Those who were its victims were frequently quite blameless. The Whisperers recreates the sort of maze in which Russians found themselves, where an unwitting wrong turn could either destroy a family or, perversely, later save it: a society in which everyone spoke in whispers - whether to protect themselves, their families, neighbours or friends - or to inform on them.

La historia de Rusia se ha visto marcada como pocas por el empleo de mitos con fines políticos. Ningún otro país ha reinventado su propio relato con tanta frecuencia, en un esfuerzo perpetuo por adaptarse a los cambios de las ideologías dominantes, y esa tendencia es precisamente un aspecto vital de su cultura. Para comprender lo que depara el futuro del país—y lo que significa el régimen de Putin para Rusia y para el resto del mundo—debemos desentrañar las ideas y los significados de esa historia.

The Gallic War is Julius Caesar's autobiographical diary of the wars in what is now France, Belgium, and parts of Britain, Germany, and Switzerland, in which he describes the battles that took place from 58 to 51 BCE when he fought the Germanic and Celtic peoples that opposed Roman conquest. Modern-day Provence and Languedoc-Roussillon were already under Roman control, so Caesar’s Gaul referred to the regions that the Romans had not yet conquered. The book comprises seven parts and chronicles the wars against the Helvetii, Belgae, Britons, Eburones, Suebi, Veneti, and more.

Experience Virginia Woolfs audacious satire that explores the nuances of British culture, customs, literature, philosophy, and politics from the Elizabethan era to 1928, all through the eyes of her famously long-lived and genderfluid protagonist. Dive into a journey that challenges conventions and celebrates the fluidity of identity. - Summary by Nicole J. LeBoeuf

Just six weeks apart in the spring of 1981, Pope John Paul II and President ­Ronald Reagan took bullets from would-be assassins. Few realized at the time how close both men came to dying. Surviving these near-death experiences created a singular bond between the pope and the president that ­historians have failed to appreciate. When John Paul II and Reagan met only a year later, they confided to each other a shared conviction: that God had spared their lives for a ­reason. That reason? To defeat Communism. In private, Reagan had a name for this: “The DP” - the Divine Plan.

El siglo XIX europeo, un momento de logros artísticos sin precedentes, fue la primera era de la globalización cultural, una época en que las comunicaciones masivas y los viajes en tren de alta velocidad reunieron a Europa, superando las barreras del nacionalismo y facilitando el surgimiento de un verdadero canon europeo de obras artísticas, musicales y literarias. Llegado 1900, se leían los mismos libros, se reproducían las mismas obras artísticas, se representaban las mismas óperas y se interpretaba la misma música en los hogares.

When Orlando was first approached about making a documentary about the Shroud of Turin, he was skeptical of the project—and the Shroud itself. Then, he came across conflicting opinions in history and science. This, along with his desire to learn more about the life of Jesus and make sense of the final things, led him to investigate “a new crime scene.” This book was inspired by his new documentary with the same title.

"Días de sumisión recoge con mucha agudeza la infiltración comunista, desde La Habana, en Venezuela. También cómo Hugo Chávez se preparó minuciosamente para ser golpista. El libro es un triunfo. Una gran contribución intelectual y ética para Venezuela." (Jaime Bayly, periodista peruano)

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La serie de comportamientos y formas de pensar tan peculiares que trajo consigo el siglo XIX en México es el eje conductor de esta obra, así como su asimilación dentro de la sociedad. El autor evoca imágenes olvidadas en los rincones de México, lo cual se convierte en algo vital para comprender el trazo mexicano, el origen de sus mañas y de sus creencias más arraigadas. Además, cada capítulo de Diré adiós a los señores obsequia al oyente expresiones típicas de la época, como refranes o dichos.

General George S. Patton was America's antihero of the Second World War. Driven by an innate sense of duty, both to his family’s great military tradition and to his country, he was fixated on the notion of reaching the status of a military legend and driven by outdated notions of honor. Simultaneously brilliant and deeply flawed, he could be daring and noble and then petulant and cruel, lacking in the diplomatic grace and tact that defined many of his contemporaries.

In 1946, after five years as a prisoner - first as a Soviet POW in Nazi concentration camps, then as a deportee in the Arctic Gulag - 29-year-old Lev Mishchenko unexpectedly received a letter from Sveta, the sweetheart he had hardly dared hope was still alive. Amazingly, over the next eight years, the lovers managed to exchange more than 1,500 messages and even to smuggle Sveta herself into the camp for secret meetings. Their recently discovered correspondence is the only known real-time record of life in Stalin's Gulag.

La historia de Colombia ha estado marcada por varios períodos violentos: La Conquista, la Colonia, la Independencia, la consolidación de la República, la violencia bipartidista, el narcotráfico en los 80, las luchas guerrilleras del siglo XX y XXI.

This collection of narratives, all told by people who were actually part of the American Civil War, was first published in 1885 and was received very well by the public, who caused it to have a further five reprints during the next few years. You'll hear about a number of famous escapades that took place during the Civil War, from a civilian with Unionist sympathies but living in the South, through to the unparalleled locomotive chase that inspired Buster Keaton's all time classic silent movie The General.

Welcome to Orlando’s World of Diving! Following my 20 years as a professional cliff diver, I want to share the skills and life lessons I’ve taken from an extreme sports career into my day-to-day life. In each episode I am joined by influential people from my career in and outside the sport. From the divers I began my journey with, to the judges, coaches and physios on the team of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series. As well as other extreme sports athletes and high performers in various fields at the very top of their game. I promise you incredible stories that will leave you feeling ...