‘RUtopia’ explores the embodied utopia, which, according to the author, stands behind all fundamental socio-cultural transformations. However, if the embodiment of utopia is incomplete, it inevitably develops into its anti-utopian opposite. The book analyzes historical examples of such embodiment (USA, USSR, Third Reich) and new possibilities for embodiment in the conditions of the postmodern...

The author describes the military action of the Tsarist Russian army in the last two months of World War I and the time of revolutionary trouble in the Army in 1917. He describes Cossack forces, the preservation of their traditions and the Cossack uprising against the Bolsheviks.

The author is a well-known literary critic and his book represents a cycle of the sketches showing the dramatic nature of creative destiny of the largest Russian writers, whose peak creativity was during the Soviet era. The author includes examples of their best writings. He includes discussions of Mayakovsky, Babel, Mandelshtam, Akhmatova, Sholokov, Pasternak and others. The book is written...

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The subject of this book is the history, organization and structure of the army of the Eastern Roman Empire (or Early Byzantium). Of particular interest are the time of great conquests during the reign of Emperor Justinian I (527-565). During his reign, he attempted to reconquer the lost Western half of the Roman Empire: establishing control of the Visigoths in the Iberian Peninsula, the...

The history of INTERPOL, the organization that is active in over 179 countires.

The authors in this scholarly work, examine the history of village and two self-government in the Urals during the last century of Tsarist Russia.