The author, a well known German academic and editor at the Frankfurter Allgemine Zeitung examines the fate of those in the Hitler Youth or suppressed by the Hitler Youth.

The book by the famous Russian orientalist Alexander Ignatenko examines theoretical and practical issues of the relationship and mutual influence of Islam and politics based on extensive factual material. The author analyzes the historical circumstances of the emergence, driving forces and ideology of religious and political movements appealing to Islam at the turn of the 20th and 21st...

Joachim Wieder's book is the most vivid and reliable account of the Wehrmacht's Stalingrad catastrophe. It consists of two parts. The first is a collection of direct personal impressions of a man who survived the tragedy, and the second is an attempt at a critical analysis of the role of German military commanders in the Stalingrad disaster – Field Marshals Paulus and Manstein, and General...

The book presents the results of a study of some aspects of the past century, and their representations in modern Russian historiography.

The author examines the link/attraction of contemporary terrorist/liberation movements to the ideology of Marxism/Leninism.

The book by historian A.V. Shubin is dedicated to the dramatic era of the 1930s and early 1940s – an era that began with the Great Depression and ended with the Second World War. This study tells about the social processes and figures that influenced the development of civilization, about tragic coincidences and missed opportunities, and about the debates that we still have about that time,...

Will Hutton calls for Britain and Europe to offer alternatives to the American Way. Under President Bush America has been forthright in its isolationism - until the attack on the World Trade Center - but whatever happens next, it is undoubtedly true that Bush will pursue a policy of America first. Hutton argues for a countervailing balance - economically and socially - to the American model....

This volume publishes the proceedings of the International Scientific Conference held in Kostroma from March 18 to 20, 2004. The sections of the collection include: 1. Plenary Session Papers (V.M. Mokienko, A.M. Melerovich, H. Walter, et al.); 2. Semantic and Pragmatic Aspects of Phraseology Studies (M.A. Alekseenko, B. Badamtsetseg, E.V. Blinova, et al.); 3. Phraseology and Context (L.N....

The author examines the causes behind the economic crises of Russia in the 1990s - which he terms the great post-Soviet depression.