Who was Peter the Great? was he God on Earth or the Antichrist? Why was Russia, after his death, faced with decades of court intrigues? What was the real goal of his Europeanization of Russia?

Controversial questions and unexpected answers about Russian history are offered by the author of this book.

Noted Russian military historian, Aleksandr Shirokorad, examines the history and operations of the Russian fleet in the Mediterranean Sea.

The author describes the current challenges faced by Putin's Russia - being squeezed by the expansion of Nato, a surging China and demographic/political challenge from Islam.

The book represents a study of the problems facing Russia: globalization, forming a civil society and the deep and wide transformative processes currently underway in the country.

The book contains a collection of articles dedicated to the memory of the well-known historian of agricultural Russia, A M Anfimov. He was known for his critical studies on the cardinal problems of development and character of agriculture in Russia.

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

Russia's economic development in the second half of XX century.

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...