Before you is the only foreign study on the Great Patriotic War in the sea and river theaters that has appeared in the 60 post-war years. In it, the author, based on combat documents of the former enemies of the USSR and Soviet military-historical literature available to him, described and analyzed the actions of the opposing fleets, showed the successes and miscalculations of the parties, and...

A history of the Ingush peoples of the North Caucasus during the period of 1944 - 2004. The book covers their deporation during World War Two under Stalin's orders, their political rehabilitation and eventual return to the Caucasus.

The author believes that the end of the Cold War resulted in a continued effort by the US/West to control Russia and its natural resources. The orange revolutions in the former Soviet republics are attempts to destabilize the Russian Federation.....

The fourth edition, contains 50,000 words.

From the description of the English edition: In Cambodia's recent, tragic past, no figure looms larger or more ominously than that of Pol Pot. Yet information about his life and career is largely inaccessible. In this first book-length study of the man, the historian David P. Chandler casts light on the shadowy figure of Pol Pot, illuminating the ideas and behavior of this enigmatic man and his...

The book contains materials on the repression of the Russian Orthodox Church in Tomsk oblast during the Soviet period.

The author examines the history and formation of modern Pakistan and the issue of the Pushtun tribal identity and geography.