From the description of the English edition: In Cambodia's recent, tragic past, no figure looms larger or more ominously than that of Pol Pot. Yet information about his life and career is largely inaccessible. In this first book-length study of the man, the historian David P. Chandler casts light on the shadowy figure of Pol Pot, illuminating the ideas and behavior of this enigmatic man and his...

The book contains materials on the repression of the Russian Orthodox Church in Tomsk oblast during the Soviet period.

The author examines the history and formation of modern Pakistan and the issue of the Pushtun tribal identity and geography.

The author, an active participant in the Russian revolution and Civil War, writes about events and people he met and knew, such as Lenin, Trotskii, Makhno and more.

' (Booker Prize in 2003). All the action of the novel is developed in one room of the Soviet House-boarding school for disabled, where two friends live. As helpless people they are fully isolated from the outer world and taken a bad care of. All they do is talking and playing chess. All life seems to them a chessboard on which each figure has the value. Both know that sooner or later when game...

Na materiale vystuplenii V V Putina i B N El'tsina. An analysis of the speeches of Putin and Eltsin.

The author, a professor of history, was an adviser to the President of the USSR during the stormy years of perestroika.