Noted Russian military historian, Aleksandr Shirokorad, examines the history and operations of the Russian fleet in the Mediterranean Sea.

A publication of the Russian Institute of Strategic Studies. Press run 350 copies.

Russia's economic development in the second half of XX century.

The author writes that the end of the Cold War lead to hope of a more stable world. But the NATO bloc ignored Moscow's protest's, expanded eastward towards Russia's borders. Only with the rise of Putin did hope appear about Russia's resurgence.

Russia's Decline and Uncertain Recovery. Thomas E. Graham is a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. From 1994-1997, he served as Head of the Political/Internal Unit and then Acting Political Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. In this book he examines the reasons for the collapse of the USSR and the erosion of government power in Russia in the 1990s. He...

The author explores the fate of the Russian peasantry during the Russian civil war, 1917-1921.

Full title: Rossiiskoe obrazovanie mezhdu reformatorstvom i revoliutsionizmom. Fevral' 1917 - 1920 god.

The author, using Russian history as a guide, makes a scandalous proposal for understanding the formation of the present Russian government based on the development of the Russian (Tsarist) state.