Mark Talov (1892-1969) was a poet and a translator of European poetry into Russian. He grew up in Parise and his friends were K.Balmont, A.Modigliani, Merezhkovsky, Mandel'shtam, Akhmatova, M.Gorky, Breton, and many others. Book contains rare photographs and documents.

This two volume book examines the problems of source studies in the study of Eastern Europe in ancient and medieval times. Published by the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The authors examine the rise of Islam and history of the Middle East, examing the socio-political factors that helped enable the spread of its influence.

In the early days after the collapse of the Soviet Union, people were bombarded by ads for a magic new company - MMM. In fact, it was just the first Ponzi scheme to rob naive Russians and give them a hard first lesson in unfettered capitalism and weak government. The book is written by someone with first hand-knowledge - Sergei Mavrodi, who organized the MMM scam.

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