This volume includes essays and prose about the key moments in Russian history in XIX-XXI century. The author remids us that history is just people, and there is no history without the people's deeds.

At the helm of the Russian government : Essay on the formation of government in the 14th-15th cent. The authors study the formation of the Russian state at the end of 15th-beginning 16th centuries as a process of creating administrative bodies: the offices of the Moscow Dukes and later of the Russian sovereign. The first Russian administrative officials were boyars, voivodes, and d`iaks...

Everyone in Georgia knows Levan Berdzenishvili. He is one of the founders of the Republican Party, the president of the non-governmental organization 'Republican Institute', an authoritative classical philologist, a former dissident and a prisoner of the notorious Mordovian Dubravlag JK 385/3-5, and now he is the author of this book, instantly sold out in his homeland, which brought him the...

Political police on the guard of morality. The monograph describes the work of political police during 1826-1866, the methods of police, and its ways of influencing the public.

Monograph about peasant riots against Soviet state in Volga region in 1917-1922.