An interesting series exploring the history of Russian/Soviet special services. The authors are often working with archival materials never before published.

The monograph tells about the main stages of the path taken by Tatar women in the struggle for secular education, freedom and equality in the late 19th – early 20th centuries.

The administration of General Denikin represents a second 'Time of Troubles' in Russian history.

This book contains essays devoted to the formation of Russian historiosophy and ideas about the special historical path of Russia. The origins of such ideas are the idea of competition between Russia and the West, adopted back in the Petrine era. The author traces competitive overtones in the works of P.Ya.Chaadaev, S.S.Uvarov, I.V.Kireevsky, A.S.Khomyakov, K.S.Aksakov, S.P.Shevyrev,...

The book is dedicated to the most mysterious city connecting Europe and Asia — Istanbul. The heir of ancient Byzantium, the city became the successor of the great Constantinople — the capital of the largest Orthodox empire of the Middle Ages, turning into the center of the Ottoman Empire and an attraction for Muslims from all over the world. The everyday life of Istanbul in its brilliant era,...

Weekday feat: Blockade life 'in Leningrad in diaries, drawings, documents. A look at the historic and tragic Leningrad blockade from the 8th of September 1941 - 27 January 1944.

The book contains documents highlighting the uprising in Iaroslavl the 6th - 21st of July, 1918 in one of the most dramatic events of the Russian Civil War. Most of the materials where previously classified and were not available to researchers before the 1990s. Many of these documents are published here for the first time.

The book, a collection of scholarly articles, edited by Russia's leading demographer, is the first major demographic history of Russia in the 20th century. The articles are based on a vast statistical database and the books offers many tables and graphs.

The authors of this book examine the historic period of the late 1980s and early 1990s, which saw the Communist regimes of Central and SE Europe being overthrown.