What did Russia gain and what did Russia lose from three centuries of autocratic rule?

This monograph presents—for the first time in domestic scholarship—a systematic study of the inaugural addresses delivered by Russian presidents, as well as their addresses to the Federal Assembly. The analysis is conducted primarily from cognitive and rhetorical perspectives. The author focuses on elements of the schematic and thematic structure of discourse, as well as on linguistic phenomena...

The book is devoted to the student movement and the role of youth organizations in the socio-political process, which in August 1947 to the appearance of a new state on the world map. Press run 200 copies.

The author examines turbulent days of 1917 and the rise of the Bolsheviks and the power-cult and dictatorship of Lenin and Stalin.

The authors of this book examine the historic period of the late 1980s and early 1990s, which saw the Communist regimes of Central and SE Europe being overthrown.

The author examines the nuclear weapon crises in North Korea and Iran and the challenges the world faces in stopping proliferation.

The author examines the late period of Brezhnev era rule in the USSR, known often as the period of stagnation.

Nikita Khrushchev. 1964. The stenograms of the plenums of IsK KPSS and other documents. The provided unedited documents allow a researcher and a simple reader to recreate the picture of the struggle for the political power. These documents reflect the period of the displacement of Nikita Khrushchev. 2/3 of the documents are published for the first time.