The author examines the nuclear weapon crises in North Korea and Iran and the challenges the world faces in stopping proliferation.

The author examines the late period of Brezhnev era rule in the USSR, known often as the period of stagnation.

Nikita Khrushchev. 1964. The stenograms of the plenums of IsK KPSS and other documents. The provided unedited documents allow a researcher and a simple reader to recreate the picture of the struggle for the political power. These documents reflect the period of the displacement of Nikita Khrushchev. 2/3 of the documents are published for the first time.

This book is about a thousand years of history of the Caspian region and talks about the naval campaigns of our glorious ancestors Russ, dashing ushkuynikov Novgorod, Don and Volga Cossacks, on the Persian campaign of Peter the Great, after which the Caspian Sea became a Russian lake. Particular attention is given to change the situation in the region associated with the discovery of vast oil...

Since his speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2004, Obama has captured attention as reporters, politicos, and ordinary citizens have wondered if he might be the nation's first black president. Chicago Tribune reporter Mendell argues that although Obama's rise to the national stage might seem unplanned, it is the outcome of a carefully calculated strategy by an ambitious man. Mendell...

A detailed collection of documents on the course and evolution of Perestroika related to its main architect, Alexander Iakovlev. One of the first Russians to come to the US on a Fulbright in the 1950s (together with Oleg Kalugin), Iakovlev became the leading thinker and architect of perestroika and glasnost under M S Gorbachev. Vital collection for anyone interested in contemporary Russian...

An Orderly Mess is a timely diagnosis of the current dissolution of the modern order, while highlighting the opportunities of messiness. The essay focuses on the temporal and spatial dimensions in which messiness becomes apparent today: broken time lines

The collection of well-researched essays assesses the uses and misuses of history 25 years after the collapse of Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe. As opposed to the revival of national histories that seemed to be the prevailing historiographical approach

This volume examines the present-day situation of Hungarian as a minority language in Romania. It is an important addition to the study of the Hungarian language in the diaspora that should be of interest not only to linguists and sociologists also sociol

The genesis of the federalist thought that the book discusses is the project beginning in the fall of 1939 about the idea of combining PolandÆs and CzechoslovakiaÆs war efforts. It soon developed into federalist concepts, leading, in turn, to particular p