How has political and social upheaval reflected on the fate and career of prominent Russian jurists? Their biographies - they are interesting and informative pages of history not only of Russian law, but also of the country's history from the 17th to the 20th centuries.

An examination of the controversial predictions of Nostradamus - did he predict 9/11? The end of the world?

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 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 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.

1956 - the middle of the Soviet era, the XXth Congress and Khruschev's denunciation of Stalin and his cult of personality, the beginning of the post-Stalin 'thaw.' An amazing look at this critical year in Soviet history.

Published in the series 'Unofficial History of Russia,' this book covers the period of Russian history from 1825-1870. The author weaves many different sources into a rich and original interpretation of Russia. The critical years in this book see both a consolidation of political power and the first real attempts at reform.