Roland Jacquard is President of the Paris-based International Observatory on Terrorism. A Strategic Expert and Consultant on Terrorism to the United Nations Security Council, Jacquard regularly testifies before the United Nations Security Council. He is quoted widely in the international press, particularly in France, Germany, and the UK.

The author, a professor at UC Santa Cruz, used archival materials, biographies and memoirs of the White movement to write this history of the Russian Civil War.

Before the advent of US military and political power in the Persian/Arabian Gulf region, this role was filled by England. In fact, many of these states were either under British protectorate status after WW I or were created by the British.

Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

All vocabulary concerning the topic 'at home' is presented in exercises and crossword puzzles.

2007 is the year of two jubilees: February and October, the two Russian revolutions, one of which has been canonized and the other anathemized by intellectuals. Together they have been called a failure of a great opportunity to attain freedom. Thinking in terms of lost opportunities is a weak point of Russian intellectuals. It has also been said that on the day Alexander II was to sign a new...

The 1930s and early 1940s were years of ideological agitation and propaganda inside the USSR, preparing the population for war. How effective was this campaign once war did break out?