Rolan Bykov began keeping diaries at the age of 15 and continued until his death. The reader will see the unfolding story of a nation, of theatre and film, but most of all, the story of a unique individual, ingenious director ('Aibolit-66,' 'Telegram') and actor (;The Overcoat,' 'Andrei Rublev,' ;The Dead Season'). This book is striking for its candor. 'Violent Rolan,' as his friends called...

The book contains documents highlighting the uprising in Iaroslavl the 6th - 21st of July, 1918 in one of the most dramatic events of the Russian Civil War. Most of the materials where previously classified and were not available to researchers before the 1990s. Many of these documents are published here for the first time.

THE LANGUAGE OF THE RUSSIAN EMIGRANT PRESS (1919-1939). The book reflects results of the research based on a material of the richest foreign archives. It is addressed to experts in the field of language of press, language and culture of Russian abroad and to everyone who is interested in history of the first wave of Russian emigration.

An air battle tactic first used in 1914 (by a Russian pilot), ramming the enemy's aircraft with your own was a last-ditch effort to stop a bombing raid. Russian pilots used this tactic over 1000 times during World War Two - often if their airplane was already damaged or out of ammunition. Unlike a kamikaze, these were not considered suicide missions, as the pilot might try to bail out after...

The seminal work of the French Sociologist Roger Caillois, a translation of Les jeux et les hommes (1958). It is an influential book on the sociology of play and games, or rather in Caillois' terms sociology derived from play. Caillois sees many of the structures in society as elaborate forms of games and many behaviours as forms of play.

Partiinoe rukovodstvo; gosudarstvennye organy upravleniia. Skhemy. This monograph is key for anyone researching the state sponsored/directed cultural development of life during the early Soviet period.