Volume 29 is dedicated to the Volga-Ural region and the small ethnic groups and small groups of ethnic Russians.

This volume in the series is dedicated to the theoretical and practical problems of racial studies and ethnographic anthropology.

The book examines the problems of the history of Belarus during the 19th and 20th centuries.

The author maintains that the USA has started a new 'world war' too ensure that its maintains control over the world's natural resources. He examines the countries helping and combatting these US efforts to spark a worldwide civil war between the rich and the poor.

Vladimir Putin's first invasion of Ukraine, in 2014, set off a global economic clash, as the West used its clout with international markets to deter and penalize the Kremlin. The battlelines of this 'war by other means' traversed a series of deep economic connections, built up during Russia's oil, gas and commodities boom: global equity and capital markets, and transnational kleptocracy.

The seminal work of the French Sociologist Roger Caillois, a translation of Les jeux et les hommes (1958). It is an influential book on the sociology of play and games, or rather in Caillois' terms sociology derived from play. Caillois sees many of the structures in society as elaborate forms of games and many behaviours as forms of play.

The author of many books, a famous collector of legends and myths about St. Petersburg, Naum Aleksandrovich Sindalovsky, presents a unique collection of St. Petersburg folklore, which, like a magic mirror, reflected 300 years of the reign of the Romanov dynasty. It began with the curse of Marina Mniszech. But this long journey was not only marked by tragedies; many sparkling witticisms, funny...

The editor of this book has brought together contributions designed to capture the essence of post-communist politics in East-Central Europe and Eurasia. Rather than on the surface structures of nominal democracies, the nineteen essays focus on the inform