In light of the current struggles in the Caucasus, the author reviews the wars of the 19th century, the struggles between the mountain tribes of the Northern Caucasus under the leadership of Imam Shamil and the forces of Tsarist Russia.

Originally published by the University of California Press in 1961, the author examines the appearance and development of mounted soldiers in Ancient Greece.

The author writes about the little-known Azerbaijani Democratic Republic and its relations with the new state of Soviet Russia. Both governments arose from the collapse of Imperial Russia in 1917.

The result of 12 years of research in the archives, this monograph presents statistical materials on the Chechens. The author has used the data to create original tables and creates a window on to the status and development of the Chechen in socio-economic terms, migration and demographic trends, taxes, land ownership and development and more.

Sinking in the Baltic Sea, at night, the Estonia took the lives of 852 passengers.

A major contribution to the historiography of twentieth century Russia, The Bolsheviks in Power shines a revealing spotlight on the fateful first year of Soviet rule in Petrograd. It examines events that profoundly shaped the Soviet political system that endured through generations.

A revisionist look at Khrushchev and his denunciation of Stalin and Stalin's terror.

1922 marked the beginning of the transition of Soviet Russia into a totalitarian society. The beginnings of NEP also brought with a crackdown on against those not sharing the new ideology: political opponents, the clergy, the intelligentsiia and more. This volume represents the first time that such an exhaustive array of documents have been published covering the critical years from the end...