What did Russia gain and what did Russia lose from three centuries of autocratic rule?

This study is devoted to the problems of ensuring security in the modern world. In the new conditions associated with the globalization of the world economy, which have both their positive and negative aspects, the constantly growing gap in the levels of development of individual countries, national and religious intolerance at the interstate level and within individual federal entities, etc.,...

This book, based on original investigative and judicial records, describes for the first time the most interesting and high-profile cases, held at the Moscow District Military Court on Arbat 37.

The book by historian K.A.Pisarenko tells the story of complex opposition in the Politburo, which launched immediately after the death of Lenin. In this struggle faced two of the principle of leadership: individual, supported by Stalin, and collective, which believed in the efficacy of the other members of the Politburo. As the author convincingly argues, this conflict continued after Stalin...

The book presents a diverse and extensive panorama of the confrontation between the German air force and the Soviet navy in the Baltic Sea, as well as on Lake Peipus and Lake Ladoga, during 1941-1945.

Central Asia on the way to integration: geopolitics, ethnicity and security.

The authors examine the problems of socio-economic development of the Caucasus (esp. Central) in the context of globalization. They develop points for making comparative analyses for the countries in region, their connections between each other and other international and political entities.

Reprint edition. Original was published in 1889

Historians Dominique and Janine Sourdel identify a classical period in Islamic civilization, beginning in 622 AD – with the preaching of Muhammad – and ending in the 13th century, the era of the disintegration of the great Islamic empire, which once stretched from Spain to India from west to east and from sub-Saharan Africa to the Black and Caspian Seas from south to north. This great empire is...

Literary research includes notes and discoveries collected during over 40 years of work as a literary critic. Most texts devoted to Turgenev, other subjects are Griboedov, Baratynsky, Goncharov, Nekrasov, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, and some others.