The book investigates NKVD Order 00447 which began the violent process of 'dekulakization' and the system for its implementation across the USSR. The order included quotas for executions and arrests, which were personally reviewed by Stalin.

Realities of Sufism, the Shaykh's only book, takes readers on a journey to the heart of Islam. Expositing on the foundations of Islam's spiritual path, Sufism, Shaykh `Abd al-Qadir simultaneously describes the workings of the path of excellence-ihsan-and answers the doubts of the orientalists, modernists, and would be Islamic revivalists. Some of the topics in this book include: the history and...

The author explores the fate of the Russian peasantry during the Russian civil war, 1917-1921.

In Russian, includes short information on each oblast of the country. Ships rolled. Size: 84 x 113cm

In Russian. Ships rolled. Size: 84 x 116 cm. Includes information on mineral resources.

The book is the first scholarly attempt to research the ethnography of the Mari people.

Published for the first time, often from family archives, the book presents the memoirs of Generals F K Gershel'man and D I Gurko.

From Publishers Weekly: Its first half is a narrative and analysis of the military campaign that overthrew Saddam Hussein's government in three weeks during the spring of 2003. Clark, a highly visible commentator during the operation, describes the U.S. ability to synchronize firepower and maneuvers as decisive in crushing an Iraqi army whose fighting power had been significantly...

An ethnographic look, in a non-scholarly book, on the Itelmen people, the original inhabitants of the Kamchatka Peninsula.