From the description of the English edition: In Cambodia's recent, tragic past, no figure looms larger or more ominously than that of Pol Pot. Yet information about his life and career is largely inaccessible. In this first book-length study of the man, the historian David P. Chandler casts light on the shadowy figure of Pol Pot, illuminating the ideas and behavior of this enigmatic man and his...

Rasputin - a simple monk from Siberia or the devil? The scandal surrounding him and the Tsar's family only further undermined the final years of Imperial Russia.

A biography of the two boxing brothers Vitalii and Vladimir Klichko.

Officials of Pre-revolutionary Russia: Biographies (19 - beginning of 20th century). Reference list of literature on their life and work. This volume covers period from 1801-1855.

The first collected works of Academician Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (1921-1989) include 'Memories' (in three volumes), a collection of articles, letters, speeches and interviews 'Anxiety and Hope' (in two volumes), as well as the first published novel-document ' Diaries of Andrei Sakharov and Elena Bonner (in three volumes). The first volume publishes the beginning of the documentary novel by...