The author re-examines the Northern War of 1700-1720 between Peter the Great and Karl the XII and its (mis)representation in Russian history.

The book examines the military art and arms of the Central Asian nomads, the Huns from their appearance and threat to the Chinese in the 3rd century BC (Xiongnu) to their final movement into Europe in the 4th century under Attila defeating the Ostrogoths and the Visigoths, which brought them to the frontier of the Roman Empire.

Russia has a long history of political police and investigators - from the III Department, Tsarist Okhrana, ChK, NKVD and the KGB.

About the Generals of 1812: Vorontsov, Davydov, Ermolaev, Zakrevskii and others.

The book examines the relations between Poland and Czechoslovakia in the Inter-war period (1933-1939).

Vasily Alekseyevich Maklakov, (1869 - 1957) was a Russian trial lawyer and liberal parliamentary orator, one of the leaders of the Constitutional Democratic Party and Russian Freemasonry, notable for his advocacy of a constitutional Russian state. His brother Nikolay Maklakov served as Russia's Interior Minister in 1912-15.

The 2003 edition of this scholarly yearbook is dedicated to historians in the Russian emigre community from the 1920s-1930s.