The book is the first ever of its kind in Russia, to research administration of North Eastern Russia during the 'thaw' during Khrushchev.

The author examines the history of power struggles within the Soviet leadership for supremacy.

The 1930s constitute one of the tragic periods of Soviet history. In fact, at that time the country was in a state of civil war. The confrontation between the ‘upper classes and the lower classes’ can be considered an indisputable fact, and the result of this confrontation were millions of people – arrested, shot, exiled. Numerous trials of wreckers, spies, saboteurs, i.e. ‘enemies of the...

The book examines Russia's failed attempts at creating an overseas Empire similar to Great Britain or France.

This book by noted military historian A Shirokorad, examines the relationship between Russia and the former republics of the USSR. Some of these new countries were territory that had been considered Russian for centuries before the creation and dissolution of the Soviet Union.