The author is a veteran of the elite Russian airborne troops. In his book, he describes not only his own career, but the service of this elite group in the Afghan war.

The book is a collection of articles dedicated to the current problems of studying memory (of recent history) as a sociocultural phenomenon.

The author examines the causes behind the economic crises of Russia in the 1990s - which he terms the great post-Soviet depression.

The author examines new theories about the start of World War Two for the Soviet Union.

Great love stories of the famous people we all know, what they did for love, what happened with them and what is their true story. As always, an intellectual Boris Burda finds a story behind textbook history and tells us what truly happened.

The book examines the inter-war period of European history and raises the question, if the second world war was unavoidable.

Seriia Rossiia zabytaia i neizvestnaia. Beloe dvizhenie

Werewolf was the name given to a Nazi plan, which began development in 1944, to create a commando force which would operate behind enemy lines as the Allies advanced through Germany itself. Werwolf remained entirely ineffectual as a combat force, however, and in practical terms, its value as propaganda far outweighed its actual achievements. It did cause the Allies to overestimate the threat of...