The book is dedicated to examining the problems around the development of Soviet political culture in the after war years. The author looks at this development specifically through the MVD and the development of Soviet patriotism.

George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904 – March 17, 2005) was an American adviser, diplomat, political scientist, and historian, best known as 'the father of containment' and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War. He later wrote standard histories of the relations between Russia and the Western powers.

A history of the Russian Academy (1783 - 1841) and the development of culture and humanities.

Pamiatnye knizhki gubernii i oblastei Rossiiskoi imperii. Ukazatel' soderzhaniia. Tom 1. Evropeiskii sever ( Arkhangel'skaia, Vologodskaia i Olonetskaia gubernii )

The author was the leading Russian/Soviet historian of the Turkic world.

The author, using archival sources, examines the life of orphans and their caretakers during the Nazi blockade of Leningrad.