2007 is the year of two jubilees: February and October, the two Russian revolutions, one of which has been canonized and the other anathemized by intellectuals. Together they have been called a failure of a great opportunity to attain freedom. Thinking in terms of lost opportunities is a weak point of Russian intellectuals. It has also been said that on the day Alexander II was to sign a new...

The author, a professor at UC Santa Cruz, used archival materials, biographies and memoirs of the White movement to write this history of the Russian Civil War.

Myths about the Middle East began to emerge not in the 1950s, and they have not stopped spreading until now. It seems that the turbulent events in this region are constantly accompanied by new and new distortions of facts about the Arab-Israeli conflict. The author, director of the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, offers the reader a guide to understanding the intricacies of the conflict.

History of scientific and specialized literature publishing in 1991-2001 in Russian Academy of Sciense (RAN). Pressrun: 500 copies.

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.

An air battle tactic first used in 1914 (by a Russian pilot), ramming the enemy's aircraft with your own was a last-ditch effort to stop a bombing raid. Russian pilots used this tactic over 1000 times during World War Two - often if their airplane was already damaged or out of ammunition. Unlike a kamikaze, these were not considered suicide missions, as the pilot might try to bail out after...

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