The 2003 edition of this scholarly yearbook is dedicated to historians in the Russian emigre community from the 1920s-1930s.

The new work by Moscow historian S.A. Shumov is the first complete documentary description of the main monastic orders of Western Europe from the 5th to the beginning of the 21st century, both male and female, constructed as a systematic and most complete collection of testimonies of contemporaries, as well as research by leading Western and Russian historians of religion and monasticism. The...

The author was born in 1932 and survved the Blokade of Leningrad during World War II.

‘Twists of Fate and Arbitrariness’ is a book of memoirs by Grigory Grigorov, a contemporary of the 20th century, who lived an unusual, complex and eventful life. He was a witness and direct participant in the events of the first half of the century – revolutions, the Civil War; in the twenties he took a direct part in political life, many of his testimonies about the inner life of the top of...

Based on archival materials, the book illuminates the history of the destruction of the Tomsk diocese. The authors have collected information about all the churches in the Tomsk region before the revolution and their destruction or closure, as well as about bishops who served exile in the Narym region, were imprisoned in Tomsk prisons and shot in Tomsk, about priests, church workers and active...

The book, a collection of scholarly articles, examines the following areas of Russian history: Russian society in the second half of the 19th centry, beginning of the 20th, revolution and civil war in Russia, Soviet society 1920-1980, historians and history.

A history of the Ingush peoples of the North Caucasus during the period of 1944 - 2004. The book covers their deporation during World War Two under Stalin's orders, their political rehabilitation and eventual return to the Caucasus. Includes archival documents.

Controversial questions and unexpected answers about Russian history are offered by the author of this book.

Originally published in 1915 on the 50th anniversary of the Russian conquest of Turkestan and the taking of Tashkent. The author sought to inform Russian citizens about the customs and practices of their Muslim subjects - about how one should behave in order to avoid insulting the native population. The author was a high-ranking member of the Tsarist administration in Central Asia.