The Ninth Circle is a story about punitive psychiatry that arose in the USSR at the initiative of F. Dzerzhinsky in the early 1920s. Decades passed, and thousands of completely innocent people sat in Soviet special hospitals and nothing changed. The journalist and human rights activist Viktor Davydov knows firsthand about the existence of special psychiatric hospitals: he himself was their...

The book is dedicated to examining the problems around the development of Soviet political culture in the after war years. The author looks at this development specifically through the MVD and the development of Soviet patriotism.

George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904 – March 17, 2005) was an American adviser, diplomat, political scientist, and historian, best known as 'the father of containment' and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War. He later wrote standard histories of the relations between Russia and the Western powers.

A history of the Russian Academy (1783 - 1841) and the development of culture and humanities.

Pamiatnye knizhki gubernii i oblastei Rossiiskoi imperii. Ukazatel' soderzhaniia. Tom 1. Evropeiskii sever ( Arkhangel'skaia, Vologodskaia i Olonetskaia gubernii). Memorial books of provinces and region. Russian Empire. Volume 1 European North. Arkhangelsk, Vologda and Olonets provinces

The book, which is one of the issues of the series ‘Classics of Russian Oriental Studies’, contains the main historical and geographical works of the outstanding Russian orientalist, academician V.V. Bartold. They were created in the first decades of the 20th century and are devoted to the historical geography of Central Asia, to which the scientist paid special attention throughout his...