Сборник материалов конференции, состоявшейся осенью 2008 г. в Институте славяноведения РАН, посвящен сорокалетию чехословацких событий 1968 г. и отражает современное состояние изучения "Пражской весны" - переломного рубежа в развитии социализма в Европе. На основе ранее не известных или не доступных исследователям документов анализируется ряд слабо изученных проблем системного кризиса и движения за реформирование социализма. Основное внимание уделено влиянию чехословацких событий на общество и сознание европейцев. Для историков и всех интересующихся политической историей XX столетия.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, conl ict in the former USSR has been a key concern in international security. This book i lls a gap in the literature on violent conl ict, evaluating a region that contains all the modern ingredients for instability and aggression. Bringing together leading experts on war and security, the book addresses current debates in international relations about power, interests, globalisation and the politics of identity as major drivers of contemporary war. Incidents such as the 2008 Russo-Georgian conl ict, the wars in Chechnya, and Russia’s struggles over national identity and resources with former communist states are all thoroughly examined. With new issues like energy security, terrorism and transnational crime, and older tensions between East and West threatening to deepen once more, this is an important contribution to the international security literature.

Oleg Kalugin oversaw the work of American spies, matched wits with the CIA, and became one of the youngest generals in KGB history. Even so, he grew increasingly disillusioned with the Soviet system. In 1990, he went public, exposing the intelligence agency's shadowy methods. Revised and updated in the light of the KGB's enduring presence in Russian politics, Spymaster is Kalugin's impressively illuminating memoir of the final years of the Soviet Union.

Словарь содержит более 65000 современных литературных слов русского и литовского языков. Идеально подойдет для переводчиков и всех изучающих литовский язык.

This intensively researched urban study dissects Russian Imperial and early Soviet rule in Islamic Central Asia from the diverse viewpoints of tsarist functionaries, Soviet bureaucrats, Russian workers, and lower-class women as well as Muslim notables and Central Asian traders. Jeff Sahadeo's stimulating analysis reveals how political, social, cultural, and demographic shifts altered the nature of this colonial community from the tsarist conquest of 1865 to 1923, when Bolshevik authorities subjected the region to strict Soviet rule. In addition to placing the building of empire in Tashkent within a broader European context, Sahadeo's account makes an important contribution to understanding the cultural impact of empire on Russia's periphery.

Is everyday life possible in a situation of total war, foreign occupation and subjection to a Nazi or Fascist political order? Europe, between 1939 and 1945, was in the grip of a war of ideology, extermination and genocide which resulted in as many casualties among civilians as among combatants. While combatants engaged in battles with immense fire-power from Stalingrad to Normandy, and over 3 million out of 5 million captured Russian soldiers died in German prisoner of war camps, civilians bore the brunt of bombing by Axis and Allied planes alike and the scorched-earth policy of both Soviets and Germans. Civilian populations were displaced in their millions, whether fleeing before invading armies, fearful of atrocities, evacuated from bombed cities, or moved by the Soviet authorities as unreliable ethnic minorities away from the front line. The economies and labour forces of occupied Europe were riveted to the needs of the German war machine, with over eight million people brought to work in Germany. In the absence of their menfolk, whether as soldiers or as deported workers, women were frequently the main breadwinners as well as heads of the family, and were liable to seduction or rape by invading or occupying forces. Occupying forces purged or exterminated target groups that were seen as a menace to their war effort, the Germans in occupied Poland getting rid first of intellectuals, then of Jews. In the heart of occupied Europe Nazi and fascist ideology was imposed by propaganda, schooling, youth movements and the persecution of churches. Food was generally in short supply, and famine stalked the land from Greece to Russia. Where civilians took up arms against the occupying forces as partisans or maquisards, regular armies having dwindled away, they found themselves fighting an unequal battle, sustaining heavy losses and subjected to torture to betray their comrades. Where resistance fighters struck, then the occupying forces resorted to collective reprisals against civilians suspected of harbouring them, from the execution of hostages to the torching of villages.

From 1741 until Alaska was sold to the United States in 1867, the Russian empire claimed territory and peoples in North America. In this book, Ilya Vinkovetsky examines how Russia governed its only overseas colony, illustrating how the colony fit into and diverged from the structures developed in the otherwise contiguous Russian empire. Russian America was effectively transformed from a remote extension of Russia's Siberian frontier penetrated mainly by Siberianized Russians into an ostensibly modern overseas colony operated by Europeanized Russians. Under the rule of the Russian-American Company, the colony was governed on different terms than the rest of the empire, a hybrid of elements carried over from Siberia and imported from rival colonial systems. Its economic, labor, and social organization reflected Russian hopes for Alaska, as well as the numerous limitations, such as its vast territory and pressures from its multiethnic residents, it imposed. This approach was particularly evident in Russian strategies to convert the indigenous peoples of Russian America into loyal subjects of the Russian Empire. Vinkovetsky looks closely at Russian efforts to acculturate the native peoples, including attempts to predispose them to be more open to the Russian political and cultural influence through trade and Russian Orthodox Christianity. Bringing together the history of Russia, the history of colonialism, and the history of contact between native peoples and Europeans on the American frontier, this work highlights how the overseas colony revealed the Russian Empire's adaptability to models of colonialism.

Книжка розповідає про походження й побутування українського національного інструменту — кобзи, про життя відомих кобзарів старих часів, про кобзаряькі братства та їх діяльність, а також про відродження й удосконалення кобзи. В кінці додається список літератури про кобзарські думи й кобзарів. Книжка рассказывает про происхождение и современность украинского национального инструмента - кобзы, про жизнь известных кобзарей старых времен, про кобзарскте братства и их деятельность, а так же про возрождение и усовершенствование кобзы. В конце приложен список литературы про кобзарские думы и кобзарей. Здавалося, що зі збільшенням рядів української національно свідомої інтелігенції становище сліпих кобзарів покращав, здавалося, що вона так люблячи кобзарів прийде Тм на поміч, бодай в найтящі хвилі їхнього життя, але, на великий жаль, за винятком окремих осіб загал інтелігенції був до того байдужний, принаймні так було в недалекім минулім. Найкраще се підтверджує отсей невеликий уривок про одного талановитого, не так давно померлого, молодого кобзаря.

Малося на думці випустити у світ одночасно два словники: Російсько- український й Українсько-російський, але з технічних причин нам не пощастило цього зробити, бо в Київських друкарнях не знайшлося відповідної кількости шрифтів і наголосів. Тому-то Українсько-російський словник вийде із запізненням.