The author of this book, twice Hero of the Soviet Union Kirill Alekseevich Evstigneev, made 296 combat sorties during the Great Patriotic War, achieving 53 victories personally and another 3 in a group (this is the fifth best result in Soviet aviation; only Kozhedub, Pokryshkin, Gulaev, and Rechkalov shot down more enemy aircraft).

A collection of over 100 texts with exercises for students who learn Russian. New lexicon is translated into English. For basic-intermediate level.

Verb in texts by Chekhov and Averchenko. Short stories (with parallel texts in Russian and English) followed by verb analysis, questions and exercises. Basic-intermediate level.

This is a great collection of short stories for learners of Russian. It is designed for intermediate/advanced level students and it introduces them to the famous and talented Russian authors, such as, Ivan Bunin, Nadezhda Teffi, Arkadii Averchenko, Vladimir Nabokov, Sergei Dovlatov, etc. Each text is provided with the words' stresses and translation of the difficult/colloquial words into...

Manual and reader for basic level includes short stories by famous Russian writers. Texts are accompanied by questions, and exercises. 24 lessons total.

The Commandant of the Kremlin is a unique position in the Armed Forces of the USSR and Russian Federation. The author, a military historian, examines the men who filled this position from 1918-1953 - from the rise to power of Lenin to the death of Stalin.

The book examines the role and place of the upper military elites in the politics of the Stalinist system.

Po itogam rossiisko-kanadskogo proekta Universitet Kalgari - Gorbachev Fond

The book offers a detailed examination of the little studied military traditions of medieval Vietnam. Of particular interest is the period of the 10th to the 18th centuries, which saw many conflicts, mostly in opposing the expansion of the Chinese Empire into Indochina. The author examines the development of strategy and tactics, force organization and weapons.