Original title: Of Paradise and power. America and Europe in the New World Order. It is time to stop pretending that Europeans and Americans share a common view of the world, or even that they occupy the same world—Of Paradise and Power announces a new phase in the relationship between the United States and Europe. Robert Kagan begins this illuminating essay by laying out the general...

The author examines the history and formation of modern Pakistan and the issue of the Pushtun tribal identity and geography.

An ethographic study of the customs and holidays of the Tatars of the Urals and Volga regions.

Series 'Zagadka 37 goda'

1922 marked the beginning of the transition of Soviet Russia into a totalitarian society. The beginnings of NEP also brought with a crackdown on against those not sharing the new ideology: political opponents, the clergy, the intelligentsiia and more. This volume represents the first time that such an exhaustive array of documents have been published covering the critical years from the end...

This educational manual presents 20 biographical texts about well-known and talented people who were born in Russia, but for one reason or another lived outside of Russia. These are people who have achieved the highest results in their professional fields and captivated those around them in the fields of science, art, and sport. The manual is intended for learners at various levels of Russian....

'War - it is a living , human gait - to meet the enemy , toward death , toward eternity. It is human blood on the snow ... It abandoned corpses of soldiers until the spring ... It's a constant hunger when to soldier comes to the company instead of salty food thicker than water , involved on a handful of flour in the form of pale gruel . this cold in the cold and snow in the stone cellars , when...

About the Generals of 1812: Vorontsov, Davydov, Ermolaev, Zakrevskii and others.