The two-volume collection of documents from N.S. Khrushchev's personal archives provide one more opportunity to study one of the most remarkable and simultaneously most controlversial leader of the Soviet Union. Through his personal archives, we are able to get an image of Khrushchev not only as a great political figure, but also a private citizen and analyze his activities at various stages...

Kokkinaki was perhaps the leading Soviet test pilot setting many world and Soviet records. He worked for several design bureaus, including theIlyushin Design Bureau , where he served as its chief test pilot. He also established the shortest flight route between Europe and the United States. He died in 1985.

The book is dedicated to the legendary anti-terrorist unit Alfa and its heroes, who wear the order of the Gold Star. In 2009, the unit marked 35 years of service.

Blitzkrieg. Now this word is familiar, probably to everyone. Short, like a shot, ringing like a flick of a bullet through the armor, clanging like the tanks of tanks - at the beginning of World War II it terrified all of Europe. 'Lightning war!' Crushing blows of the German tank wedges, rapid tank raids on the enemy's rear, grandiose 'boilers', thousands of columns of prisoners. Burning Warsaw,...

Published by the Institute of Military History, MoD Russian Federation. Printed only in 1000 copies. The book takes a systematic look at the development of the Infantry Forces of Russia from the early beginnings to today. Richly illustrated, lots of maps and photos.

Submarine warfare on the Eastern front.

'War - it is a living , human gait - to meet the enemy , toward death , toward eternity. It is human blood on the snow ... It abandoned corpses of soldiers until the spring ... It's a constant hunger when to soldier comes to the company instead of salty food thicker than water , involved on a handful of flour in the form of pale gruel . this cold in the cold and snow in the stone cellars , when...

Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration served as a Russian general. He was an ethnic Georgian and descendant of the Georgian royal family of the Bagrations. In 1812 Bagration commanded the 2nd army of the West, and though defeated at Mogilev, rejoined the main army under Barclay de Tolly, and led the left wing at the Battle of Borodino, where he received a mortal wound.

The author is a veteran of the elite Russian airborne troops. In his book, he describes not only his own career, but the service of this elite group in the Afghan war.

The book, in the author's words, seeks to combat what revisionism in the teaching and understanding of the Second World War and a diminishment of the achievements of the Red Army.