Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, whose 185th birthday and 125th death anniversary are commemorated this year, is perhaps the most relevant classic of Russian literature today. This is true not only as a great novelist, but also as an outstanding thinker and publicist, whose articles addressed crucial questions of Russian national existence that continue to permeate Russian public consciousness....

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The President of Kazakhstan outlines his political vision for his country and people in the 21st century.

In this book, the authors define the peculiarities of the high-tech industries of the military-industrial complex, the basic organizational and economic mechanisms to ensure implementation of programs and plans for the creation and production of military products, outlined the conceptual framework for the assessment and management of risk in their validation and implementation, developed new...

The book traces in detail the history of the merchant class of six towns located in the Yenisei river basin, included in 1822 in the Yenisei province. In the author examines the number and social composition, commercial and economic activities, the way of life of the merchant class. All this is considered with the involvement of a large number of sources, mainly archival materials. Many of them...

Presented here is the first study in domestic historiography to examine one of the most dramatic episodes of the French Revolution: the civil war in the country's western regions (1793–1796). For Soviet historians, the powerful peasant protest against the policies of the new regime long remained a taboo subject. Drawing upon the insights of historical anthropology and agrarian history, as well...

This book, based on original investigative and judicial records, describes for the first time the most interesting and high-profile cases, held at the Moscow District Military Court on Arbat 37.

The book is dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the Battle of Lake Khasan, fought in 1938 between the Red Army and the Japanese Imperial Army. The Russian commander in the battle, Vasilly Blucher was later blamed for the loss and executed.

Evgeny Ivanovich Fokin served in a reconnaissance company from May 1943. He repeatedly participated in capturing enemy prisoners (‘languages’) at the front lines and in the enemy's rear. A special chapter in the author's military biography is his participation in a daring operation by a special detachment to save crucial facilities in Krivoy Rog in February 1944. E.I. Fokin vividly and...

Rare memoirs of an officer in the Soviet Military Counter-intelligence services. He describes tactics and operations in combat.