Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals
20 hrs. 39 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Niall Ferguson
Author
Niall Ferguson
Narrator
Alexander Aravushkin
Narrator
Alexander Aravushkin
Description
What never happened.
History doesn’t know the subjunctive mood.
But if it did…
Captivating, shocking, and thought-provoking historical reconstructions.
What would our world be like if… If the American Revolution hadn’t happened? If Britain had not taken part in the First World War? If Ireland had received autonomy in 1912? If Charles I had avoided civil war and had not been executed? If Nazi Germany had defeated the Soviet Union? If Germany had invaded Britain in May 1940? If John F. Kennedy had survived? If it had been possible to avoid the Cold War? If communism had not collapsed? Nine leading modern scholars, nine turning points in world history, nine well-argued and thoroughly thought-out hypotheses about what might have happened if events had gone completely differently. Based on little-known documents, social and political programs, historical parallels, and logical models, outstanding contemporary scholars construct worlds—each of which could have been ours. If…
History doesn’t know the subjunctive mood.
But if it did…
Captivating, shocking, and thought-provoking historical reconstructions.
What would our world be like if… If the American Revolution hadn’t happened? If Britain had not taken part in the First World War? If Ireland had received autonomy in 1912? If Charles I had avoided civil war and had not been executed? If Nazi Germany had defeated the Soviet Union? If Germany had invaded Britain in May 1940? If John F. Kennedy had survived? If it had been possible to avoid the Cold War? If communism had not collapsed? Nine leading modern scholars, nine turning points in world history, nine well-argued and thoroughly thought-out hypotheses about what might have happened if events had gone completely differently. Based on little-known documents, social and political programs, historical parallels, and logical models, outstanding contemporary scholars construct worlds—each of which could have been ours. If…
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00_00_Vvedenie. Virtualnaya istoriya. Na puti k “haoticheskoy” teorii proshlogo
41:28
00_01_Virtualnaya istoriya. Na puti k “haoticheskoy” teorii proshlogo
1:46:28
00_02_Virtualnaya istoriya. Na puti k “haoticheskoy” teorii proshlogo
1:15:19
00_03_Virtualnaya istoriya. Na puti k “haoticheskoy” teorii proshlogo
1:38:19
01_Angliya bez Kromvelya. Chto, esli by Karl I izbezhal grazhdanskoy voyny Dzhon Adamson
2:23:32
02_Britanskaya Amerika. Chto, esli by ne sluchilos Amerikanskoy revolyutsii Dzhonatan Klark
2:32:11
03_Britanskaya irlandiya. Chto, esli by v 1912 godu byl vveden gomrul Elvin Dzhekson
2:25:51
04_Kayzerovskiy evropeyskiy soyuz. Chto, esli by Britaniya “ostalas v storone” v avguste 1914
1:53:48
05_Gitlerovskaya Angliya. Chto, esli by Germaniya vtorglas v Britaniyu v mae 1940 goda Endryu R
1:15:33
06_Natsistskaya evropa. Chto, esli by natsistskaya Germaniya pobedila Sovetskiy Soyuz Maykl Berli
53:53
07_Voyna ili mir Stalina. Chto, esli by udalos izbezhat holodnoy voyny Dzhonatan Heslem
1:09:20
08_Prodolzhenie Kamelota. Chto, esli by Dzhon Kennedi ostalsya zhiv Dayan Kunts
1:06:13
09_1989-y bez Gorbacheva. Chto, esli by kommunizm ne poterpel krah Mark Almond
1:09:42
10_Posleslovie. Virtualnaya istoriya, 1646–1996. Nial Fergyuson
