The monograph examines the challenges and problems in the modernization of the post-Soviet economic sphere on three different levels: national, regional and global.

The book examines the difficult process for forming an integrated community within the CIS and Russia's role in its development and failures along the way, overcoming the disintegration processes in the post-Soviet sphere.

The author, an active participant in the Russian revolution and Civil War, writes about events and people he met and knew, such as Lenin, Trotskii, Makhno and more.

The book is dedicated to the most mysterious city connecting Europe and Asia — Istanbul. The heir of ancient Byzantium, the city became the successor of the great Constantinople — the capital of the largest Orthodox empire of the Middle Ages, turning into the center of the Ottoman Empire and an attraction for Muslims from all over the world. The everyday life of Istanbul in its brilliant era,...

The book is the published version of a lecture given by Garri Kasparov, Chess Master and passionate politician, who attempted to run for president in Russia. He discusses the challenges facing Russia and Russian society under the corrupt non-democratic regime of Putin & Co.

The book examines the SMERSH (Death to Spies) organization during World War Two.

The author examines the recent US led war in Iraq and how this fits the pattern of US led military interventions in Afghanistan, Haiti, Serbia and more.