In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. One of her relatives was...

The Sino–Soviet border conflict refers to a series of armed border clashes between the Soviet Union and People's Republic of China at the height of the Sino–Soviet split in 1969. The most serious of these border clashes occurred in March 1969 in the vicinity of Zhenbao Island on the Ussuri River, also known as Damanskii Island in Russia.

Proshloe i budushchee rossiisko-iaponskikh otnoshenii: po sledam Katsura Taro, Goto Simpei, Nitobe Inadzo. Materialy Simpoziuma (Moskva 4 Okt 2004 g)

This monograph examines the development of relations between Persians and Arabs, as well as the genesis and current state of Iranian-Iraqi relations. The author traces the origins of Islamic civilization, the nature of Arab conquests, the historical destinies of Muslim peoples in the Middle Ages, and the course of modern and contemporary history in Iran and Iraq. The author analyzes the origins...

Central Asia on the way to integration: geopolitics, ethnicity and security.

This meticulously researched and very personal volume recounts in detail the history of the internment, most often referred to as the internal deportation, in Hungary of Hungary's aristocracy, military and professional classes as well as the more wealthy farmers, the 'kulaks,' during the era of Matyas Rakosi, 1947-1953. Hungarian history under Rakosi's leadership bore the hallmark of...

This book by the renowned political scientist and Americanist A.I. Utkin explores the secret geopolitical, economic, diplomatic, and mystical-religious forces behind the US war against Iraq and Afghanistan, and the situation in the Middle East that emerged after this war. The author analyzes the reasons for the noticeably increased American aggressiveness in the Middle East region and...

The book contains excerpts from several classic works on the Caucasus: articles on the war from the Entsiklopedicheskii slovar' Brokgauz i efron; chapters from V A Potto's 5 volume work on the Caucasus War and finally, Tbilisi in the 1830's, from the memoirs of F F Tornau.

In the darkness of the early morning of 3 March 1949, practically all of the Transylvanian aristocracy were arrested in their beds and loaded into lorries. That same day the Romanian Workers’ Party was pleased to announce the successful deportation and dispossession of all large landowners. Communism demanded the destruction of these ultimate class enemies. Under the terror of Gheorghiu-Dej and...

This monograph is dedicated to a timely yet insufficiently explored chapter in the history of British colonial policy. Drawing upon an analysis of a substantial body of scholarly works by both domestic and foreign authors—and utilizing unique, newly discovered documents from historical archives—the study thoroughly examines a complex array of issues. This examination serves to assess the...