The author examines the late period of Brezhnev era rule in the USSR, known often as the period of stagnation.

The author examines the little researched workers protests and strikes that occured during the first decades of the USSR up until the Stalinst industrialization efforts and the beginnings of World War Two.

The book is well-known British researcher Peter Smith devoted to the history of a dive bomber aircraft since the advent of this class and completing their application in the sky Vietnam. The author gives a detailed description of the tactics of air combat dive bombers and tells about the most famous pilots of aces of World War II.

A revisionist look at Khrushchev and his denunciation of Stalin and Stalin's terror.