Volume 29 is dedicated to the Volga-Ural region and the small ethnic groups and small groups of ethnic Russians.

A publication of the working group on economics and conflict in the Caucasus.

The monograph examines the history of relations between Poland and Czechoslovakia in 1933-1939. Both West Slavic states were part of the Versailles-Locarno system, objectively directed against Soviet Russia. The main task of the diplomatic departments of both countries during this period was to avoid the possible movement of the ‘German factor’ to the East. Czechoslovakia was a bourgeois...

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

The author examines the questions revolving around the development of a new ocean concept and program given the new changes in Russia's geopolitical position and the negative impacts on its navel potential. He examine the issues of trade and port infrastructure, bio-resources, the Russian continental shelf and the mineral resources under Russian jurisdiction and finally military/naval...

The author is a professor at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His book is based on research materials compiled on the current problems of Russia's international image within a historical and contemporary context.

The author examines the changing geopolitical centers of power and Russia's role in this new order.

Original title: Of Paradise and power. America and Europe in the New World Order. It is time to stop pretending that Europeans and Americans share a common view of the world, or even that they occupy the same world—Of Paradise and Power announces a new phase in the relationship between the United States and Europe. Robert Kagan begins this illuminating essay by laying out the general...

The author was the Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times from 1976-1982. His book is about the collapse of the USSR and highlights leaders from Brezhnev to Gorbachev.