In this compelling book, the renowned historian Karl Schlögel reconstructs with meticulous care the process through which, month by month, the terrorism of the Soviit regime in the late 1930s spiralled into the ‘Great Terror’ during which one and a half million human beings lost their lives within a single year. He shows how, in the shadow of the reign of terror, the regime around Stalin also...

Russian-born journalist Mikhail Zygar was ten years old when the Soviet Union collapsed. Now, after nearly ten years of research, he offers a timely and compelling new approach on Russian history—one that rewrites everything we thought we knew about the fall of the Soviet Union—and argues that its ending is yet to come. Starting with the historic launch of the first human into space in April...

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the German Democratic Republic presented a radically different Germany than what had come before and what exists today. Socialist solidarity, secret police, central planning, barbed wire: this was a Germany forged on...

Ezhegodnyi biograficheskii spravochnik. Around 1000 biographies of leading elites.

The end of the Cold War brought an end to the bipolar world order. This accelerated the processes of globalization and the formation of a multipolar world, which is manifested in the widespread exacerbation of ethnic, religious, and socio-economic contradictions at various levels, and in the emergence of numerous ‘small wars’ and low-intensity conflicts. All of this contributes to the emergence...

The book examines the philosophical and legal concept of war and the gight against international terrorism in different democracies. The crisis of democracies on issues of war and peace. The essence and nature of wars waged by democratic states. Methods of warfare employed by democratic states. Civilizations and wars: history and modernity. The humanization of military policy and military...

For twenty-five years, China has been transitioning from a planned to a market economic system with Chinese characteristics. Profound progressive changes in the economic and social spheres, brought about by gradual reforms in China, are taking place against the backdrop of dynamic development of social production and a consistent increase in the income and living standards of a significant...

The book you hold in your hands is a true gift for all sincere patriots of the USSR, from veterans to young people, who are still ready to joyfully and proudly raise a toast To our Victory! in World War II. This collection consists of thorough research by leading patriotic scholars who assess the leading role of the Soviet Union in defeating German fascism, Japanese militarism, and in...

This book, based on identified patterns of human perception of the world, provides an explanation of the religions and value systems of various peoples and civilizations, models the historical process, and examines possible scenarios for globalization and the future of Russia. It substantiates the need to form a new universal value paradigm to ensure the sustainable development of humanity.

The right of nations to self-determination is what formed the basis of the USSR and what ultimately led to its collapse. But what did the founder of the USSR think about the national question? This collection includes works by V.I. Lenin: ‘On the Right of Nations to Self-Determination,’ ‘Critical Remarks on the National Question,’ ‘On the National Pride of the Great Russians,’ and others.

Why did European, and later Euro-Atlantic, civilizations achieve the most spectacular successes in the history of mankind? Why was it Europe, first independently and later together with the United States of America, that created the world in which we live today? What predetermined the global hegemony of the European worldview – industry, military power, or something else? And what influence...