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The memoirs of the commander of the cavalry brigade Yakov Arkadievich Melkumov is the story of an active participant in the fight against Basmachism in the territory of the current socialist republics of Central Asia.
From 1920 to 1932, the author of the memoirs spent hiking in the mountains and deserts of Eastern Bukhara and Khorezm. Warmly and fondly remembers Melkumov of his comrades in the struggle - heroes-Turkestans. Some of them remained unknown to this day, others were undeservedly hammered.
Melkumov's memoirs are strictly documentary, and the reader will read with interest the pages that describe the collapse of the Bukhara Emirate, the fall of the Khiva Khanate, the fight against the international adventurer Enver Pasha and the leader of the Basmachi gangs of Eastern Bukhara Ibrahim Bey.

Alberto Moravia is a classic of world literature, the greatest Italian writer of the 20th century. His novels "Chochara", "The Roman Woman", "Contempt" and many others entered the golden fund of European prose and were repeatedly filmed by the most famous directors. Moravia is cruel and derisive, he never sympathizes with his heroes, but his brilliant knowledge of psychology gives his works a special depth.

A. E. Golovanov's book is undoubtedly included in the golden fund of Russian military memoiristics.

The education of will in children is one of the most important tasks of the school. But for the most part, teachers are still experiencing great difficulties in this educational work. Unfortunately, we still have few books that would provide the teacher with concrete methodological assistance in the formation of strong-willed character traits in students. This book is intended for the teacher, it covers the issues of educating the will of children from the point of view of the classic Soviet school of the 50s.

The reader will find answers to these and many other questions in the classic textbook for secondary schools, compiled by the prominent Soviet psychologist BM Teplov.

This collective work is devoted to little-studied issues of the ecology of forced labor used in the Gulag in the 1930s-1950s. The authors (historians from Russia, Great Britain, Germany and the Usa) base their research on large amounts of documents from the previously secret archival funds of soviet punitive agencies - the OGPU, the NKVD, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR. The first part deals with the general issues of forced labor in the USSR in the 1930s - 1950s, the scale and structure of the camp economy, the evolution of its management system. The special methods of combining coercion and stimulation of labor of the gulag prisoners are shown, the phenomenon of corruption in the system of camps is considered. In the second part of the book, the economics of the Gulag are explored in regional and sectoral dimensions. Here, the focus is on the use of forced labor in those areas of the country where the Gulag workforce played the most important role (in the Far East, in the Arctic, in Karelia, as well as in Siberia and the Urals). The authors examine the organization of forced labor, its productivity and the degree of efficiency on the archival material of the largest objects of the Gulag, including the White Sea Canal, the Norilsk Nickel Committee, Dalstroy (magadan's gold mines), as well as in the rural economy and logging operations. Archival data on the work of prisoners of war and special settlers are also involved.

This book is a reportage about what he saw and an interesting research involving historical documents and references.

Ian Bremmer, speaking about geopolitics, assures that already now on the planet "there is no global leadership." After World War II, there was a rather long period of globalization, "clearly under the leadership of the United States": the world was governed from the American point of view, by American priorities, capital and institutions. Bremmer calls the "Big Seven", the World Bank, the IMF and the UN Security Council.
But now the world is, according to Bremmer, in a "period of creative destruction." Moreover, in the future there will be no "global institutions led by the United States." The concept of the G20, Bremmer believes, is important, but it has not made "significant progress in terms of concluding global agreements on trade, financial and monetary regulation or on any other issues that the world needs answers to." We, the analyst concludes, are in "G-Zero".

The book by British journalist and documentary filmmaker Frances Stonor Saunders presents for the first time shocking evidence of the CIA's manipulation of cultural policy during the Cold War. On the basis of meticulously collected archival information, the author describes the activities of the CIA in financing and coordinating left-wing intellectuals and cultural figures in Western Europe and the United States in order to alienate the intelligentsia from left-wing ideas, persuade them to fight against the USSR and instill sympathy for the "American way." The CIA-sponsored Congress for Cultural Freedom with offices in 35 countries was the main mechanism and platform for this work, which involved such famous writers and philosophers as Raymond Aron, André Malraux, Arthur Koestler, George Orwell and many others.

The book of one of the most famous American political scientists, the editor-in-chief of the weekly Neesweek international Fareed Zakaria is an attempt to prepare the reader for a political structure of the world in which the United States of America will not be an unconditional hegemon. This is a world in which the "exaltation of the rest of humanity" takes place. Zakaria shows that such a world can be represented as the result of the development of modern society.

The author reflects on the rapid development of the "new economy" based on information technology, showing its strengths and weaknesses. Stiglitz reveals the reasons for the transition from the rise of the 90s to corporate scandals and recession. In parallel, he demonstrates the inadequacy in the new conditions of politics arising from standard neoclassical economic thought, applying his theory of information asymmetry to it. The latter is of considerable interest to Russia from the point of view of analyzing the mistakes of the reform period and developing a course for the future.

Alexander Lebedev continues the investigation of scams and embezzlement of trillions of dollars by the global offshore oligarchy, launched in the bestseller "The Hunt for a Banker". Each chapter is devoted to an intricate fraudulent scheme by which stolen billions end up in secret accounts, turning into villas, yachts and private jets of fugitives hiding in Europe and trying to impersonate "victims of the Kremlin's political repression."
The withdrawal of money and the bankruptcy of Russian banks, the deception of customers in the largest financial institutions of the West, their complicity in laundering corrupt kickbacks by thieving officials, the collapse of the Transaero airline, alchemy in nuclear energy and black holes in the universe of charity - all this you will find in the new book by Alexander Lebedev.
The author explores the phenomenon of the symbiosis of "dirty money" and the latest blockchain information technologies, threatening the global financial system with a cryptocurrency apocalypse. He describes the degradation of the befuddled biased media and "fake" information stuffing of political elites who are unable to resist parallel reality and neocolonialism.

This book is dedicated to the Grand Duke of Moscow, "the sovereign of all Russia" Ivan III. Already his contemporaries called him Ivan the Great. His political achievements are undeniable: he rallied the disunited Russian lands into a powerful Moscow state, rid the country of the oppressive power of the Horde, brought it out of the historical dead end. However, the still complex and tragic personality of Ivan III, whose biography vividly reflected all the drama of that turning point, remains essentially undisclosed and misunderstood. An in-depth reading of the surviving historical sources allowed the author of the book to discern the true face of one of the main figures of Russian history behind the usual monumental mask of the "sovereign of all Russia".

In the new book, Patrick Buchanan analyzes the current situation in the United States in foreign and domestic policy, in the economy, culture and social sphere, and comes to disappointing conclusions about the complete failure of the ideas of "multiculturalism" and liberalism, the crisis of Christianity and the slow decline in the number of whites. population gradually replaced by African American, Latin American and Asian.