A sad novel full of humor. A guard at a prison camp is writing about his everyday life. The prison camp seems to be a little model of the 'freedom': there's also love, hatred, happiness, sadness - just mixed in a different way, but in the same proportions. After a moment the 'Zone' starts to remind the Soviet state...

1884. Partial Contents: Origin of the general Opinions respecting Demonology among Mankind; Belief in the Immortality of the Soul; Situations of excited passion in humanity which teach men to wish or apprehend Supernatural Apparitions; Story of Somnambulism; Witches and the Bible; Creed of Zoroaster; Law of the Romans against Witchcraft; Roman customs survive the fall of their Religion;...

The author is a well known specialist on the history of Albania and international relations in the Balkans. The volume is the first academic investigation at the problems of Albania in the 20th century. The author makes great use of archives in Albania, Bulgaria, Italy, the USSR/Russia and Yugoslavia.

This massive work by the German historian Johann Droysen is still, after 150 years, one of the standard works on the rise and fall of Hellenism. Beginning with the campaigns and conquests of Alexander the Great and ending with the collapse of the Hellenistic outposts, such as Ptolemaic Egypt and the rise of the new Roman empire.

Series: Rossiia zabytaia i neizvesntnaia. Beloe dvizhenie

The book is dedicated to little-studied, but extremely dramatic pages of the history of the Civil War and partisan struggle in Siberia and the East with the participation of the Siberian Cossack army. This story is quite comparable to what happened on the 'quiet Don' or the 'free Kuban'. The author describes mainly the military side of events, relying on documents from the Cossack funds of a...

This is a four-volume publication about the spiritual, intellectual and cultural life of Terezin (Teresienstadt). This town 60 km from Prague was turned into a concentration camp/ghetto for Jews; for most the next stop was the camp of Auschwitz (Oswiecim) or other death camps. Terezin was a show camp for commissions from the Red Cross to demonstrate the happy life of the Jews, an eerie place in...

One of the first books to examine the history of Iran in the 20th century. The author especially examines the relations between Iran and Russia and other European and Arab states.

The book contains reprints of the 6 issues of the weekly publication of the VChK and the journal Krasnyi Terror, both of which are extremely rare now. These publications give a unique insight into the situation inside of Revolutionary Russia in 1918.