The book by historian A.V. Shubin is dedicated to the dramatic era of the 1930s and early 1940s – an era that began with the Great Depression and ended with the Second World War. This study tells about the social processes and figures that influenced the development of civilization, about tragic coincidences and missed opportunities, and about the debates that we still have about that time,...

The 2003 yearbook contains many publications on ancient and medieval Western philosophy.

Historians Dominique and Janine Sourdel identify a classical period in Islamic civilization, beginning in 622 AD – with the preaching of Muhammad – and ending in the 13th century, the era of the disintegration of the great Islamic empire, which once stretched from Spain to India from west to east and from sub-Saharan Africa to the Black and Caspian Seas from south to north. This great empire is...

This is a collection of selected works by a leading specialist in the history and philosophy of Ismailism – one of the most secretive branches of Shia Islam.

Stefan Zweig was enchanted with Mary Stuart, whose life he perceived as immensely paradoxical and from whom he perceived a ‘inexhaustible attraction of mystery.’ Thus, he investigated the queen of Scotland and Elizabeth I's fierce rival through the lens of a novelistic biography. Zweig is the undisputed master of this genre: he meticulously details the tumultuous life of this amazing woman, who...

The author of this book, V.V. Galin, is well-known to readers for his books ‘Forbidden Political Economy,’ ‘The Political Economy of War,’ etc. This book shows how the triumph of liberal ideas in the world inevitably leads to war. This was the case at the beginning of the 20th century and in the 1930s, and the same is happening now. Why is the triumph of ‘democracy’ a dead end in the...

In 1960, Adolf Eichmann took to the defendant’s box in Jerusalem and insisted that he was no ‘manager of the Holocaust,’ as his accusers claimed, just a smalltime bureaucrat following orders. Like countless others, Hannah Arendt—covering the trials for The New Yorker—believed him. Eichmann Before Jerusalem challenges this history for the first time, completely reassessing Eichmann’s story and...

Traveling across four continents, from the ruins of Iraq to the savannahs of Kenya, Witold Szablowski tracked down the personal chefs of five dictators known for the oppression and massacre of their own citizens—Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, Uganda’s Idi Amin, Albania’s Enver Hoxha, Cuba’s Fidel Castro, and Cambodia’s Pol Pot—and listened to their stories over sweet-and-sour soup, goat-meat pilaf,...