Presented here is the first study in domestic historiography to examine one of the most dramatic episodes of the French Revolution: the civil war in the country's western regions (1793–1796). For Soviet historians, the powerful peasant protest against the policies of the new regime long remained a taboo subject. Drawing upon the insights of historical anthropology and agrarian history, as well...

This book, based on original investigative and judicial records, describes for the first time the most interesting and high-profile cases, held at the Moscow District Military Court on Arbat 37.

The book is dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the Battle of Lake Khasan, fought in 1938 between the Red Army and the Japanese Imperial Army. The Russian commander in the battle, Vasilly Blucher was later blamed for the loss and executed.

Evgeny Ivanovich Fokin served in a reconnaissance company from May 1943. He repeatedly participated in capturing enemy prisoners (‘languages’) at the front lines and in the enemy's rear. A special chapter in the author's military biography is his participation in a daring operation by a special detachment to save crucial facilities in Krivoy Rog in February 1944. E.I. Fokin vividly and...

The memoirs of O.G. Ivanovsky are one of the rare books written by officers of the Soviet military counterintelligence 'SMERSH'. The author frankly writes about the attitude in the troops towards the Chekists of SMERSH, about the methods of operational work of military counterintelligence at its initial level, and about the battles, campaigns, and raids of the cavalry regiment in which he was...

The book seeks to analyze international conflicts and offers theoretical and practical suggestions to regulate conflict.

The author, a historian and philosopher, after emigrating from Russia, lectured at Oxford University. He dedicated his life to researching and understanding the failed February Revolution in Russia.

A detailed, rich history of flight from ancient to modern times. The book also describes the development of aviation in Russia and includes discussion of powered and non-powered (ballon) flight.

The book by historian K.A.Pisarenko tells the story of complex opposition in the Politburo, which launched immediately after the death of Lenin. In this struggle faced two of the principle of leadership: individual, supported by Stalin, and collective, which believed in the efficacy of the other members of the Politburo. As the author convincingly argues, this conflict continued after Stalin...