Volume 5 of a multi-volume series on Russian foreign intelligence services. Covers the immediate post-war period through 1965.

All that is told in this amazing, fascinating history - the absolute truth from the beginning to the end, moreover, confirmed by a number of documents and evidence. Life itself, scorched by war, brought so tightly knotted, heart-breaking story. Here, in one story, intertwined and invisible fatal bout of special services fighting against the backdrop of the grand battles of the Great Patriotic...

Series: Rossiia zabytaia i neizvesntnaia. A victory in 1853 of the Russian Navy over the Ottoman fleet in Sinope, in the Black Sea .

A critical volume for anyone specializing in the postwar period in occupied Germany and the development of the GDR. Covers the period from 1945 through 1953 and the death of Stalin and worker's uprisings in the GDR. The NKVD/MGB was responsible for carrying out political repression and suppression of any potential political opposition.

Vasilii Chapaev was one of the most active participants in Russia's Civil War; in our time, he is known as the hero of many jokes. The real story of his life is interwoven with fabrications from the well-known movie about his life. Before the fall of the USSR, the name Chapaev was surrounded by an aura of heroism and whole-hearted devotion to the Revolution. This book is based on archival...

The author is a retired Russian navy Captain (1ogo ranga) who served in the Northern Fleet on atomic submarines.

In 1961, the Soviet nuclear powered submarine K-19 suffered from a near melt-down of its reactor. This book examines the event, using archival materials that have now been made public. The events on the sub were the basis for the Harrison Ford movie, K-19 Widowmaker.

The book by the famous military historian I.B. Moshchansky is dedicated to three rather dramatic episodes of the Second World War: the defense of the city of Odessa in the fall of 1941, the breaking of the blockade of Leningrad in January 1943 and the storming of Budapest - the capital of the last ally.

As the Americans say, freedom is not for free. So sooner or later the enemy, who for centuries pretended to be a ‘brother’ and a ‘liberator’, had to shed the blood of Ukrainians. And we will pay the ‘bill’. Therefore, this war became one of the phases of the formation of Ukraine, because you have to fight both with the occupier and with prejudices. She showed how much we still have to do and...