This collection of articles, based on the materials presented at an international academic conference in 2002, examines the current problems of methodologym historiography and source studies for local history in the context of modern historical sciences. The participants included scholars from Russia, Switzerland and Germany.

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

Partiinoe rukovodstvo; gosudarstvennye organy upravleniia. Skhemy. This monograph is key for anyone researching the state sponsored/directed cultural development of life during the early Soviet period.

The memoirs of Marshal Kirill A Meretskov describes the most important military actions of the 20th century in the history of the USSR: starting with the Russian Civil War, service fighting the fascists in the Spanish Civil War, the Winter War with Finland and service during World War II, including the Japanese front.

The author examines the questions revolving around the development of a new ocean concept and program given the new changes in Russia's geopolitical position and the negative impacts on its navel potential. He examine the issues of trade and port infrastructure, bio-resources, the Russian continental shelf and the mineral resources under Russian jurisdiction and finally military/naval...

The history of New Russia began with shock therapy and the senseless imitation of the United States, which stunned the Russians and astounded the Americans with their oligarchic capitalism. The American experience is turned into a Russian version with Eltsin's flourishes. At the turn of the 20th century, Russia opened a new, still unwritten, chapter in its history.

The book is about one of the largest archaeological monuments of the Mountain Crimea, which is the cave city, Eski-Kermen. It was founded in the Middle Ages.

The Sino–Soviet border conflict refers to a series of armed border clashes between the Soviet Union and People's Republic of China at the height of the Sino–Soviet split in 1969. The most serious of these border clashes occurred in March 1969 in the vicinity of Zhenbao Island on the Ussuri River, also known as Damanskii Island in Russia.

The dictionary includes more than 15,000 words and set phrases related to different stylistic and social layers of living Russian colloquial speech. Many of them have not been included in general explanatory dictionaries or have been considered incompletely. All dictionary entries are richly illustrated with examples: oral statements, quotations from fiction, popular journalism, the Internet...