Reprint edition. Original was published in 1889

The author examines the spiritual life of Europe between 1630-1760 inthe areas of religion and scientific thought and the early sources of the French Revolution.

Literary research includes notes and discoveries collected during over 40 years of work as a literary critic. Most texts devoted to Turgenev, other subjects are Griboedov, Baratynsky, Goncharov, Nekrasov, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, and some others.

Third edition of the manual on Alexander Solzhenitsyn's creative work.

Dictionary provides explanations for all psycholocial states that are described in fiction, and philosophic literature.

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

The book reflects the following questions: who was the culprit of the war - Germany or the USSR; was the Soviet Union preparing a preemptive strike against Germany; what goals did Germany pursue with regard to the USSR - the destruction of statehood, dismemberment, occupation and annexation of its territory to the Third Reich or the liberation of the peoples inhabiting the USSR from Bolshevism;...