After the release of the Russian movie 'Svolochi', many veteran-chekisty were upset with the way history of these units had been portrayed. This book attempts to set the record straight, about the role these Young Pioneers and Komsomol members played behind and on the front lines.

The author examines possible paths for the development of Russia and Russian society.

The book is dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the Battle of Lake Khasan, fought in 1938 between the Red Army and the Japanese Imperial Army. The Russian commander in the battle, Vasilly Blucher was later blamed for the loss and executed.

In this edition, a brief essay presents the history of the South of Russia, as well as modern (at the beginning of XX century) life by the different peoples inhabiting the region. The book is excerpted from what was a fundamental source - a multivolume work on the geography and history of Russia: 'Russian. Full geographical description of our fatherland.' It was compiled and printed for many...

The author writes about the little-known Azerbaijani Democratic Republic and its relations with the new state of Soviet Russia. Both governments arose from the collapse of Imperial Russia in 1917.

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.

In this book, he examines the training of the Red Army in the prewar period to the 'future battles with the imperialists.' What were the people who led the armed forces of the USSR, what weapons they ordered the designers looked like the Soviet military doctrine, what methods to prepare for war officer corps, rank and file soldiers and reservists, how it turned out in the fields v1941-1942 years.

A biography of the two boxing brothers Vitalii and Vladimir Klichko.

The author of this book, Hero of the Soviet Union, Honored Military Pilot of the USSR Vasily Vasilyevich Reshetnikov, during the Great Patriotic War, made 307 combat sorties, bombed Konigsberg, was shot down twice - by anti-aircraft fire and enemy fighters (and the second time, having jumped from a burning plane with a parachute, landed on a minefield and miraculously remained alive), but...