The Argentinean tango…a dance of passion and sensuality? A dance of passion and danger! A dance, which led a young ballerina into the embrace of a mysterious man, and opened the door for her into the captivating, exotic world of Argentinean bohemia… But suddenly her loved one disappears without a trace, and she sets off on searches for him. Searches which become more and more dangerous….

What did Russia gain and what did Russia lose from three centuries of autocratic rule?

Institut Evropy RAN.

This book, based on original investigative and judicial records, describes for the first time the most interesting and high-profile cases, held at the Moscow District Military Court on Arbat 37.

The book by historian K.A.Pisarenko tells the story of complex opposition in the Politburo, which launched immediately after the death of Lenin. In this struggle faced two of the principle of leadership: individual, supported by Stalin, and collective, which believed in the efficacy of the other members of the Politburo. As the author convincingly argues, this conflict continued after Stalin...

Air War over the Baltic - anti-shipping operations.

Central Asia on the way to integration: geopolitics, ethnicity and security.

The authors examine the problems of socio-economic development of the Caucasus (esp. Central) in the context of globalization. They develop points for making comparative analyses for the countries in region, their connections between each other and other international and political entities.

Reprint edition. Original was published in 1889

Historians Dominique and Janine Sourdel identify a classical period in Islamic civilization, beginning in 622 AD – with the preaching of Muhammad – and ending in the 13th century, the era of the disintegration of the great Islamic empire, which once stretched from Spain to India from west to east and from sub-Saharan Africa to the Black and Caspian Seas from south to north. This great empire is...