`It is unlikely that a clearer, more stimulating account of the Russians' extraordinary period of imperial history will be written.' Philip Marsden, Spectator
Trust: A History offers a new perspective on the ways in which trust and distrust have functioned in past society, providing an empirical and historical basis against which the present 'crisis of trust' can be examined, and suggesting ways in which the concept of trust can be used as a tool to understand our own and other societies.
The First Socialist Society is the compelling, often tragic history of the Soviet citizen experience from 1917 to 1993. In this second enlarged edition Hosking charts the remarkable events following the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall through the 1991 formation of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
A collection of papers presented at a conference organized by Keston College and the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, to mark the millennium of Christianity in Russia. The overall aim of this book is to correct the increasing neglect of the role of religion in Russian history.
Many westerners used to call the Soviet Union "Russia." In the end, in fact, Russia actually destroyed the Soviet Union. How did this happen, and what kind of Russia emerged? In this illuminating book, Hosking explores what the Soviet experience meant for Russians.
