The successes of conservative populism are usually associated with the triumph of affects over rational political behavior: after all, only an unenlightened individual subject to irrational fears can doubt that the modern world is developing in the right direction. Unexpectedly, the passive conservatism of moderation and reasonable compromise gave way to the pressure of the conservatism of...

This book includes memories of Odessa during the occupation, extracted from the Bakhmetev archive of Columbia University (New York) and emigre publications.

Rasputin - a simple monk from Siberia or the devil? The scandal surrounding him and the Tsar's family only further undermined the final years of Imperial Russia.

'It turns out that houses from the gases of the blast wave change color: this is how a person's face changes from shock.' The diary of the Russian poet and translator Vera Mikhailovna Inber tells about the hard days of the war in the period from 1941 to 1944 and fully conveys the tragedy of besieged Leningrad. Sagging legs are from fear when a bomb explodes nearby. Laughter and tears are from...

The Ninth Circle is a story about punitive psychiatry that arose in the USSR at the initiative of F. Dzerzhinsky in the early 1920s. Decades passed, and thousands of completely innocent people sat in Soviet special hospitals and nothing changed.