In this issue: Larissa Miller HomoLudens, Childhood in Post-War Moscow, Papa Misha, St.Petersburg-Leningrad, Muzyka - Music, Flitting and Gliding, the Black Sea, Virgin Lands, My Romance with English, My Land and Home, In Lieu of Conclusion. Larissa Miller's memoir recounts her childhood in postwar Moscow, with reminiscences of her mother, a major journalist under Stalin, and of her father...

In this issue: Irina Muravyova The Nomadic Soul. A Story of Modern Anna Karenina, Lala, Natasha, Toma, Philemon and Baucis. The Nomadic Soul traces the dramatic history of several generations of an upper-class family during the First World War and the Civil War in Russia. Historical events, providing a background for the narrative, are depicted not directly but rather as seismic shock waves...

In this issue: Vassili Grossman The Commissar, Leonid Latynin Stavr and Sarah, Nina Sadur Irons and Diamonds, Ludmila Ulitskaia March 1953, Barely Soup, Igor Pomerantsev Sobs in Corners, A Little About You, Yosip, Victor Beilis Breakfast Alfresco. Stories united under subtitle What It Means To Be A Jew In Russia: Lev Anninsky The Wandering Jew, Osip Mandelstam Mikhoels, Larissa Miller Home...

The book, written by Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali (1058-1111) is dedicated to the Elixir of Happiness and is one of al-Ghazali's later works. Unlike earlier writings, this was his first in Persian. The book contains scanned images of the Persian text and a parallel Russian translation.

An annual yearbook containing articles on archaeology, archival studies and historiography of Russian history. The 2000 edition has articles examining documents from the XV to the XVII centuries.

The short guidebook to the State Military-Historical Archives includes information on all materials (as of 1 Jan 2001) held by the archives. There is also information on the organization of the materials and how to search for documents. The guidebooks is essential for those wishing to work in the archives. Includes information on armies, corps and smaller units and formations (including...