Anna Reid

Borderland tells the story of Ukraine. A thousand years ago it was the center of the first great Slav civilization, Kievan Rus. In 1240, the Mongols invaded from the east, and for the next seven centuries, Ukraine was split between warring neighbors: Lithuanians, Poles, Russians, Austrians, and Tatars. Again and again, borderland turned into battlefield: during the Cossack risings of the seventeenth century, Russia's wars with Sweden in the eighteenth,...

A leading Russia historian presents the first comprehensive account of the failed Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War that brought the Bolsheviks to power and how it forever reshaped the West's relationship with Russia.

In Michael Kloft's astonishing documentary, British historian Anna Reid uses eyewitness accounts and files of the Soviet secret police to help bring to light what actually happened in Leningrad during the siege. Rarely seen film and photographic material, original diaries and documents from the time illustrate the tragedy.