The book details the development and history of jet aviation in the USSR. The author examines the aviation design bureaus, engineers and researchers working on these first designs. Lots of technical details and insights.

About the Generals of 1812: Vorontsov, Davydov, Ermolaev, Zakrevskii and others.

In 1943, the battles on the Soviet-German front were the most brutal. The German command sought to regain the strategic initiative. The Battle of Kursk was to solve this problem. Carrying out the tasks of the Supreme Command Headquarters, Soviet military intelligence conducted hundreds of secret operations, trying to promptly reveal the plans of Hitler and his generals. Some of the operations...

Russia has a long history of political police and investigators - from the III Department, Tsarist Okhrana, ChK, NKVD and the KGB.

Full title: Protsessy adaptatsii i evoliutsiia sotsial'nogo samochuvstviia rossiian na rubezhe. XX-XXI vekov

A detailed look at the archaeological excavations at a Homo erectus site in the Central Caucasus. Many detailed drawings and other materials. Includes an English language summary.

The book examines the military art and arms of the Central Asian nomads, the Huns from their appearance and threat to the Chinese in the 3rd century BC (Xiongnu) to their final movement into Europe in the 4th century under Attila defeating the Ostrogoths and the Visigoths, which brought them to the frontier of the Roman Empire.

The author writes that the end of the Cold War lead to hope of a more stable world. But the NATO bloc ignored Moscow's protest's, expanded eastward towards Russia's borders. Only with the rise of Putin did hope appear about Russia's resurgence.