Series: Velikaia Otechestvennaia: Neizvestnaia voina. The author examines several controversial questions about World War Two on the Russian front. The major question that has been debated, could the USSR have stopped the Germans before they reached Moscow and Stalingrad?

Originally published by the University of California Press in 1961, the author examines the appearance and development of mounted soldiers in Ancient Greece.

The author writes about the little-known Azerbaijani Democratic Republic and its relations with the new state of Soviet Russia. Both governments arose from the collapse of Imperial Russia in 1917.

The result of 12 years of research in the archives, this monograph presents statistical materials on the Chechens. The author has used the data to create original tables and creates a window on to the status and development of the Chechen in socio-economic terms, migration and demographic trends, taxes, land ownership and development and more.

Golden cut, bookmark, excellent gift edition! Published in 1919 and based on a Burgundian tale, this book was also the inspiration for the opera by Dmitry Kabalevsky.

Stefan Zweig was enchanted with Mary Stuart, whose life he perceived as immensely paradoxical and from whom he perceived a ‘inexhaustible attraction of mystery.’ Thus, he investigated the queen of Scotland and Elizabeth I's fierce rival through the lens of a novelistic biography. Zweig is the undisputed master of this genre: he meticulously details the tumultuous life of this amazing woman, who...

A classic of Russian theater, the play, based on an actual event, highlights the tragic tale of a woman, scorned by her lover decided to marry someone else. Her new fiance proves to be an embarassment and she returns to her old lover, hoping to wed. He's turns her down, as he is already engaged to someone else. Feeling dejected she contemplates suicide, only to be murdered by her drunk, jealous...

Seriia Stalinskie sokoly

The book examines the siege and destruction of Tikhvin, an important trading city, by Swedish forces during their invasion of the Novgorod region. Townspeople, sheltering in the fortress, were able to break the siege and expel the Swedish/Polish forces. A key event in Russia's push to reach the Baltic Sea.