Before you is the only foreign study on the Great Patriotic War in the sea and river theaters that has appeared in the 60 post-war years. In it, the author, based on combat documents of the former enemies of the USSR and Soviet military-historical literature available to him, described and analyzed the actions of the opposing fleets, showed the successes and miscalculations of the parties, and...

A history of the Ingush peoples of the North Caucasus during the period of 1944 - 2004. The book covers their deporation during World War Two under Stalin's orders, their political rehabilitation and eventual return to the Caucasus. Includes archival documents.

The West responded to the growing influence of the people's democracies with the Cold War, which led to the defeat of the Soviet superpower and the collapse of the socialist camp. But this is not enough: the only superpower is striving for a total revision of the results of World War II and control over the planet's natural resources. The famous Americanist scholar A. I. Utkin convincingly...

The fourth edition, contains 50,000 words.

From the description of the English edition: In Cambodia's recent, tragic past, no figure looms larger or more ominously than that of Pol Pot. Yet information about his life and career is largely inaccessible. In this first book-length study of the man, the historian David P. Chandler casts light on the shadowy figure of Pol Pot, illuminating the ideas and behavior of this enigmatic man and his...

Based on archival materials, the book illuminates the history of the destruction of the Tomsk diocese. The authors have collected information about all the churches in the Tomsk region before the revolution and their destruction or closure, as well as about bishops who served exile in the Narym region, were imprisoned in Tomsk prisons and shot in Tomsk, about priests, church workers and active...