The author examines the nuclear weapon crises in North Korea and Iran and the challenges the world faces in stopping proliferation.

The author examines the late period of Brezhnev era rule in the USSR, known often as the period of stagnation.

Nikita Khrushchev. 1964. The stenograms of the plenums of IsK KPSS and other documents. The provided unedited documents allow a researcher and a simple reader to recreate the picture of the struggle for the political power. These documents reflect the period of the displacement of Nikita Khrushchev. 2/3 of the documents are published for the first time.

This book is about a thousand years of history of the Caspian region and talks about the naval campaigns of our glorious ancestors Russ, dashing ushkuynikov Novgorod, Don and Volga Cossacks, on the Persian campaign of Peter the Great, after which the Caspian Sea became a Russian lake. Particular attention is given to change the situation in the region associated with the discovery of vast oil...

The book offers a radically new view of Russian history and the current situation in the country.

Since his speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2004, Obama has captured attention as reporters, politicos, and ordinary citizens have wondered if he might be the nation's first black president. Chicago Tribune reporter Mendell argues that although Obama's rise to the national stage might seem unplanned, it is the outcome of a carefully calculated strategy by an ambitious man. Mendell...

A detailed collection of documents on the course and evolution of Perestroika related to its main architect, Alexander Iakovlev. One of the first Russians to come to the US on a Fulbright in the 1950s (together with Oleg Kalugin), Iakovlev became the leading thinker and architect of perestroika and glasnost under M S Gorbachev. Vital collection for anyone interested in contemporary Russian...

The star of this man did not shine for long on the political horizon of the Soviet era. It would seem that the personality of K. U. Chernenko left a very definite impression on the people's memory: he personified the last years of the 'stagnation' era. But everything was not as simple as it seems even after a quarter of a century after his death. What kind of person was he in reality? Viktor...

What is modern post-communist Hungary, one of the Central European states that were part of the so-called socialist bloc and burdened with the sad legacy of totalitarianism? What socio-political metamorphoses did its system have to undergo, how can the regime formed in the country be characterized and how does it differ from the regimes in neighboring countries focused on the model of Western...

An Orderly Mess is a timely diagnosis of the current dissolution of the modern order, while highlighting the opportunities of messiness. The essay focuses on the temporal and spatial dimensions in which messiness becomes apparent today: broken time lines and fragmented spaces. Messiness is framed by a blurring of the world orderings inherited from modernity. Against the backdrop of rapid...