Analysis of the development of China economically and politically.

The leader of the Russian Communist Party, Gennadii Ziuganov, describes how his party seeks to defend and strengthen the independence of Russia and its place in the world.

Original title: The Hydrogen Economy. The road to global security, writes Jeremy Rifkin, 'lies in lessening our dependence on Middle East oil and making sure that all people on Earth have access to the energy they need to sustain life. Weaning the world off oil and turning it toward hydrogen is a promissory note for a safer world.' Rifkin's international bestseller The Hydrogen Economy...

A review and analysis of Russia's relations with the new countries of Central Asia.

The author is a Professor of Philosophy at St Petersburg State University. In this book, the author examines the evolution of the understanding of politics in the new Russia. He explores the concepts of the state and human rights, nation and nationalism, class, morality and politics and more.

Russia's Decline and Uncertain Recovery. Thomas E. Graham is a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. From 1994-1997, he served as Head of the Political/Internal Unit and then Acting Political Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. In this book he examines the reasons for the collapse of the USSR and the erosion of government power in Russia in the 1990s. He...

How do Russians feel about private property? Private business? The book, based in empirical research conducted 2004-2005, seeks to provide insight and answers.

The book offers its analysis of the threats and dangers to the vital interests of the countries of the CIS in the geopolitical and geoeconomic conditions of today. Published by the Russian Academy of Government Service.

A publication of the Russian Institute of Strategic Studies. Press run 350 copies.

From Publishers Weekly. A lively, fact-packed account of China's spectacular, 30-year transformation from economic shambles following Mao's Cultural Revolution to burgeoning market superpower, this book offers a torrent of statistics, case studies and anecdotes to tell a by now familiar but still worrisome story succinctly.

In the early days after the collapse of the Soviet Union, people were bombarded by ads for a magic new company - MMM. In fact, it was just the first Ponzi scheme to rob naive Russians and give them a hard first lesson in unfettered capitalism and weak government. The book is written by someone with first hand-knowledge - Sergei Mavrodi, who organized the MMM scam.