This is a four-volume publication about the spiritual, intellectual and cultural life of Terezin (Teresienstadt). This town 60 km from Prague was turned into a concentration camp/ghetto for Jews; for most the next stop was the camp of Auschwitz (Oswiecim) or other death camps. Terezin was a show camp for commissions from the Red Cross to demonstrate the happy life of the Jews, an eerie place in...

The author, Doctor of Historical Sciences, a leading researcher of the Central State Archive of St. Petersburg,M.V.Shkarovskii examines a complex and poorly understood topic: the Russian Orthodox Church in the occupied territories during World War II. As evidenced by numerous archival documents, no parts of the Russian Church collaborated with the Nazis . Nazi authorities did not even manage to...

Pyotr Alekseevich Kropotkin (1842-1921) is an amazing, but in some ways very typical figure in Russian history: a prince from an old family who became a revolutionary, a scholar and encyclopedist immersed in politics, an anarchist who sharply criticized violence and the ‘Red Terror’. He became famous as a geographer and explorer of the North, a historian and philosopher, a literary critic and...

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

A biographical dictionary of the main figures in Russian history.

The assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo started a chain of events that led to the beginning of World War One. It lis less clear, in the eyes of the author, as to why security was minimal for the Archduke, how dangerous was the 'Black Hand' organization and who stood to benefit from the destruction of the old man of Europe?

The author examines the fate of the Kurds and the tensions over the strategically valuable territory they inhabit in the Middle East.