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...

A collection of articles on the history, archives, ethnography, culture and politics of the Caucasus.

Noted author Roy Medvedev examines the growth and development of Kazakhstan during the Post-Soviet years, from an area of instability to one of stability and growth, driven by its exploitation of its natural resources.

Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

Evgeny Ivanovich Fokin served in a reconnaissance company from May 1943. He repeatedly participated in capturing enemy prisoners (‘languages’) at the front lines and in the enemy's rear. A special chapter in the author's military biography is his participation in a daring operation by a special detachment to save crucial facilities in Krivoy Rog in February 1944. E.I. Fokin vividly and...

The work of journalist A. Alyabyev is not only a history of the Second World War, but also an excursion into the history of the development of military aviation during that period. The author draws on a vast amount of documentary material: official reports from governments, news agencies, radio and the press, providing the opportunity to compare the viewpoints of the warring parties on the same...

Illustrated with multiple black and white photographs this book reveals the history fo Petrograd's criminalily in 1917-1922. Author provides much of evidence to suggest that the Red Terror came as a result of fighting criminality.

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