Under this cover, various voices are united, at one time - from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s - in the USSR belonged to the social movement of nonconformists, which gave rise to the term dissidents. These are voices of different generations, different political convictions, different fates. Soviet dissidence has never been a monolithic political movement — it has always been a choir of...

Political police on the guard of morality. The monograph describes the work of political police during 1826-1866, the methods of police, and its ways of influencing the public.

The Green Armies were armed peasant groups which fought against all governments in the Russian Civil War of 1917–22. They fought to protect their communities from requisitions or reprisals carried out by third parties.

Monograph about peasant riots against Soviet state in Volga region in 1917-1922.

The work also reveals the socio-cultural aspect of the history of the medieval Russian North in XIII-XVII centuries: individual and collective practices of charity, feasts and brochings, as well as oral and written, urban and rural principles in the daily functioning of book culture and literacy.

American historian David Hoffmann does not agree with historians who view the USSR as an anomaly of historical development. The book represents the history of the Soviet state in the context of ideas and practices peculiar to many states of the modern period. The study shows that it is impossible to attribute all aspects of Soviet intervention in the life of society to the account of the...

The Polish American Congress is an umbrella organization that represents approximately ten million Americans of Polish descent. It was founded in 1944 with the aim of representing the interests of the Polish nation in the view of the Soviet plans to subjugate Poland and at the same time of promoting the Polish American ethnic group in the United States. It is the largest and longest-lasting...

The new book by Svetlana Arro is about the dynastic ties between Russia and Germany in the 19th century, when the two countries became related thanks to numerous marriages of grand dukes, princesses, princes, princesses, kings and kings. These relationships are based on mutual searches for brides and grooms, which did not always end in marriages, but created the friendliness of states. German...

Archive of modern Russian history. Volume III. The Sorrowful Path of the Romanovs 1917-1918.

Archive of modern Russian history. Series of Publications. Volume VIII Journals of meetings