Andrii Kurkov's book 'War Diary 2' is a collection of essays written in the period from August 2022 to the end of October 2023 and arranged chronologically. The events that took place in Ukraine and the world in those days prompted the writer to consider them and, passing through the prism of personal vision, present them to the readers.

Killed by shrapnel as he served in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Olesya Khromeychuk’s brother Volodymyr died on the frontline in eastern Ukraine. As Olesya tries to come to terms with losing her brother, she also tries to process the Russian invasion of Ukraine: as an immigrant living far from the frontline, as a historian of war and how societies respond to them, and as a woman, a civilian, and...

Seriia: Blizkoe proshloe

‘Повороты судьбы и произвол’ - книга воспоминаний Григория Григорова, ровесника XX столетия, прожившего необычную, сложную и богатую событиями жизнь. Он был свидетелем и непосредственным участником событий первой половины века - революций, Гражданской войны; в двадцатые годы он принимал непосредственное участие в политической жизни, многие его свидетельства о внутренней жизни верхушки ВКП(б)...

Texts and letters of Gogol, all about spiritual growth and personal development.

Публикуемые документы из личного фонда Н.С. Хрущева, находящегося в Российском государственном архиве новейшей истории, представляют читателю возможность увидеть одного из самых колоритных и одновременно противоречивых советских лидеров не только как крупного политического деятеля, но одновременно как рядового гражданина общества, проанализировать деятельность Н.С. Хрущева на различных...

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...

The author of the new book is journalist Vladimir Fedorin, former deputy editor-in-chief of the Russian Forbes and editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian version of the magazine. Fedorin repeatedly met with businessman and politician Kakha Bendukidze, thanks to which the famous Georgian reforms took place, raising the country in the rating of ease of doing business and significantly reducing the...

In an innovative effort to situate Baltic testimonies to the Gulag in the broader international context of research on displacement and memory, scholars from the Baltic States, Western Europe, Canada, and the United States seek answers to the following qu

A career diplomat in the Hungarian Diplomatic Service from the age of 25, Antal Ullein-Reviczky served in Vienna, Paris, Istanbul, and Zagreb from 1919-1938, when he became head of the Press Department at the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs until Au

Whence Henry Miller's title for this, one of his most appealing books; first published in 1957, it tells the story of Miller's life on the Big Sur, a section of California coast where he lived for fifteen years. Big Sur is the portrait of a place 'one of the most colorful in the U.S. 'and of the extraordinary people Miller knew there: writers (& writers who didn't write), mystics seeking...