The end of the Cold War brought an end to the bipolar world order. This accelerated the processes of globalization and the formation of a multipolar world, which is manifested in the widespread exacerbation of ethnic, religious, and socio-economic contradictions at various levels, and in the emergence of numerous ‘small wars’ and low-intensity conflicts. All of this contributes to the emergence...

Bruce Hoffman, the director of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, has written a clear summary of some of the major historical trends in international terrorism. He makes careful distinctions between the motivations that drive political (or ethno-nationalist) terrorism and religious terrorism, and he also shows why the rise of religious terrorism, coupled with the...

Vitalii Dostenk professor Voenno-morskoi akademii, kapitan pervogo ranga.

Series: Rossiia zabytaia i neizvesntnaia. Beloe dvizhenie

The book by historian A.V. Shubin is dedicated to the dramatic era of the 1930s and early 1940s – an era that began with the Great Depression and ended with the Second World War. This study tells about the social processes and figures that influenced the development of civilization, about tragic coincidences and missed opportunities, and about the debates that we still have about that time,...

PQ 17 was the code name for an Allied World War II convoy in the Arctic Ocean. In July 1942, the Arctic convoys suffered a significant defeat when Convoy PQ 17 lost 24 of its 35 merchant ships during a series of heavy enemy daylight attacks which lasted a week.