The eight stories that make up Octaedro - a figure as geometric as it is mysterious, as perfect as it is reticent - mix certain social and political content that Cortázar had addressed in Libro de Manuel (1973) with his most recurrent themes: love, dreams, illness, death, the threshold between the everyday and the fantastic.

Fictionalized story of the Soviet-German espionage before the World War II.

This novel is about the tragic nature of the human life, about the loneliness of one person among people, about meaning and power of love. Asystole is a cardiac standstill. Ability to love gives sense and meaning to life. This book is a finalist of the National Big Book Award in 2010.

Polemic essays about Pushikn's persona in traditional literary criticism.

The book Between Day and Night. Contemplations about Gogol is a historical and philosophical research of life and art of Nikolay Gogol. The book is richly illustrated with photographs of the memorable places, related to Gogol's life. Big format, glossy paper.

The 'Explanatory Dictionary of Russian Word Formation' is a first in the history of Russian dictionaries: it is the first dictionary which has information on affixes in Russian. It includes 1,892 morphemes (the smallest unit of meaning in a language) which function as word-building units in four parts of speech: nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs. The dictionary contains semantic...

The textbook is designed for students who know Russian at the basic level (A2). It can be used in classroom or in independent study. The textbook can be used in preparation for and taking the 1st Level (B1) Certificate Test in Russian.

The author examines the many local conflicts of the Cold War, where not just Soviet military advisers served, but also secret special troops, engaged in direct conflict. The book is the first, complete encyclopedia of these secret wars of the USSR and is based on archival documents only recently released.

The memoirs of Soviet Marshall Eremenko.

The book examines the inter-war period of European history and raises the question, if the second world war was unavoidable.

A new look at Beria and his role in Soviet history.

Author, a political activist and nationalist, contemplates about Russian history, Russian people, and the future of this country.