The 2005 edition of this annual yearbook contains articles on the history of Russia from ancient times through the 21st century. A must for scholars.

An interdisciplinary analysis of changes and recent developments in the theory and strategy of integration processes in the strategic partnership between Russia and the European Union.

A calendar of daily events in the military history of the Russian Army.

Roads That We Choose, or Running Around in Circles. A collection of essays on Russian history. Yakov Gordin is a chief editor of the famous Russian 'thic' magazine 'Zvezda'.

Vospominaniia vypusknitsy tsentral'noi zhenskoi shkoly snaiperskoi podgotovki 1944-1945. Seriia na linii fronta. Julia Konstantinovna Zhukova went to the Red Army as a volunteer at the age of 18. In 1944 she graduated from the Central Women's School of Sniper Training. For several months of hard fighting in East Prussia, as an active sniper she had went through both an offensive action and...

The confrontation between the ‘Stalin's Falcons’ and the Luftwaffe in the early years of the Great Patriotic War is full of tragedy. What did the Soviet Air Force represent, and why did it find itself on the verge of defeat? How did they manage to turn the tide and gain air superiority? To what extent is the fame of German aces exaggerated and the fame of Soviet aces underestimated? The answers...

This book is dedicated to the people often called ‘heroes of the invisible front.’ It is based on the memoirs of participants in unique operations conducted by our intelligence services during the Civil War and the Great Patriotic War. As is known, intelligence officers had their own front line. They competed with the enemy in military cunning, fought behind enemy lines, obtaining prisoners and...