Племени осейджей повезло уцелеть, когда белые колонизовали Америку. И еще им повезло очутиться на богатых нефтью землях Оклахомы. На старте нефтяной лихорадки двадцатых пресса наперебой сообщала о сказочном обогащении ‘краснокожих миллионеров’. На этом везение индейцев закончилось, потому что их стали методично убивать: по одному и целыми семьями. Справиться с криминальным террором Эдгар Гувер,...

The Sino–Soviet border conflict refers to a series of armed border clashes between the Soviet Union and People's Republic of China at the height of the Sino–Soviet split in 1969. The most serious of these border clashes occurred in March 1969 in the vicinity of Zhenbao Island on the Ussuri River, also known as Damanskii Island in Russia.

Proshloe i budushchee rossiisko-iaponskikh otnoshenii: po sledam Katsura Taro, Goto Simpei, Nitobe Inadzo. Materialy Simpoziuma (Moskva 4 Okt 2004 g)

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

This meticulously researched and very personal volume recounts in detail the history of the internment, most often referred to as the internal deportation, in Hungary of Hungary's aristocracy, military and professional classes as well as the more wealthy

The book contains excerpts from several classic works on the Caucasus: articles on the war from the Entsiklopedicheskii slovar' Brokgauz i efron; chapters from V A Potto's 5 volume work on the Caucasus War and finally, Tbilisi in the 1830's, from the memoirs of F F Tornau.

In the darkness of the early morning of 3 March 1949, practically all of the Transylvanian aristocracy were arrested in their beds and loaded into lorries. That same day the Romanian WorkersÆ Party was pleased to announce the successful deportation and di

From the description of the English edition: In Cambodia's recent, tragic past, no figure looms larger or more ominously than that of Pol Pot. Yet information about his life and career is largely inaccessible. In this first book-length study of the man, the historian David P. Chandler casts light on the shadowy figure of Pol Pot, illuminating the ideas and behavior of this enigmatic man and his...

From Publishers Weekly. A lively, fact-packed account of China's spectacular, 30-year transformation from economic shambles following Mao's Cultural Revolution to burgeoning market superpower, this book offers a torrent of statistics, case studies and anecdotes to tell a by now familiar but still worrisome story succinctly.

The book is devoted to the contemporary internal and foreign policy problems of Afghanistan, which has been at war for over 20 years. The deformation of the country's economy, the almost complete stop of industry, the reorientation of agricultural production to drug-containing crops, and trade to smuggling import-export operations are shown. The role of the interethnic factor and Islamic...