This collection of articles, based on the materials presented at an international academic conference in 2002, examines the current problems of methodologym historiography and source studies for local history in the context of modern historical sciences. The participants included scholars from Russia, Switzerland and Germany.

What did Russia gain and what did Russia lose from three centuries of autocratic rule?

A concise reference work with biographical information on the leading military leaders and commanders of the modern period.

The author writes that the end of the Cold War lead to hope of a more stable world. But the NATO bloc ignored Moscow's protest's, expanded eastward towards Russia's borders. Only with the rise of Putin did hope appear about Russia's resurgence.

Vasily Alekseyevich Maklakov, (1869 - 1957) was a Russian trial lawyer and liberal parliamentary orator, one of the leaders of the Constitutional Democratic Party and Russian Freemasonry, notable for his advocacy of a constitutional Russian state. His brother Nikolay Maklakov served as Russia's Interior Minister in 1912-15.

Публикуемые в данной книге документы и материалы отражают события, связанные с депортацией ингушского народа в 1944 году. Шестьдесят лет прошло с того памятного трагического дня, когда по злому навету весь ингушский народ вместе с чеченским народом противозаконно и жестоко был депортирован в Казахстан и Среднюю Азию. Выросло несколько поколений, не познавших и не испытавших на себе...