Cash in circulation under Stalin
The circulation of cash in the USSR under Stalin was also subject to a plan - a cash plan, which was part of the State Bank's credit plan, with the goal of having as little money in hand as possible....
"Warriors of God" on the warpath
The Treaty of Nanking marked the beginning of the "opening of China". Foreign trading posts appeared in ports open to European trade, and after the British, the Americans concluded unequal treaties with the Empire...
In the Name of Freedom: The American Revolution and the Origins of the Struggle for Southern Independence
How true is the interpretation of the American Civil War as a "second American revolution"? What values did the South stand for? Did the North's victory mean a renunciation of the American...
The Capture of Mitava
320 years ago, during the Great Northern War, Russian troops under the command of Tsar Peter I besieged and captured Mitava....
Count Nikolay Leontiev: the first Russian orchestra in Africa, or the fate of the first PMC
The life of Nikolai Stepanovich Leontiev will become a vivid embodiment of service to the Fatherland, the path of a Russian officer who fulfilled his international duty and, despite all the difficulties and intrigues of enemies,...
Model of flooding and reasons for the death of the squadron battleship "Oslyabi" in the Battle of Tsushima
We analyze the consequences of the battleship's damage with a calculator in hand...
China: Symbiosis with the Steppe?
Was there a symbiosis between the Chinese ethnic group and the nomads in China...
Chinese economic model?
The article talks about the features of the Chinese economic model, the reasons and ways of its creation....
Revolutions and Political Crises in the Interwar Period: Hungary from the Aster Revolution to the Horthy Regency
After the end of World War I, the peace terms for Hungary were extremely harsh. Like many countries in Europe during this period, Hungary was engulfed in revolutions and internal conflicts....
The First Opium War – the beginning of the “century of humiliation”
The English began to tear apart the Qing Empire from Guangzhou (Canton). It was one of the main ports through which all tea trade was conducted....
Kirsanov County in the Civil War. The End of Antonovshchina
Why can't we still believe that there were, in essence, no rights or wrongs in that distant fratricidal war...
Why weren't Soviet citizens afraid of viruses and germs?
Differences in perception of sanitation and health between people in Soviet times and today, especially in the context of the coronavirus pandemic. In the USSR, everyday life included the use of multiple...
Embassies in the rear: evacuated diplomatic missions to Kuibyshev during the Great Patriotic War. From Kuibyshev to Samara
The city of Kuibyshev will forever be inscribed in history as a reserve capital of the war years, which provided shelter to foreign embassies from 1941 to 1943. The fate of the buildings where they were located was uneven:...
Slovak invasion of Poland
In September 1939, Slovak troops, together with the Wehrmacht, invaded Polish territory and took part in the defeat of Poland....
Implementation of propaganda under the Barbarossa plan
Before the attack on the Soviet Union, the Supreme Command of the Wehrmacht issued a directive "On the use of propaganda according to the Barbarossa plan." This document gave basic directives on how to conduct...
Quiet Kirsanov in the Civil War
About Ataman Antonov, "Antonovshchina" and more. When the time came to tell about many things anew....
People in White Robes, or the Influence of Manichaeism on the Formation of Islam in Central Asia
The spread of Islam in Central Asia took place over a long period of time and within the framework of the influence of pre-Islamic beliefs and religious-ethical systems, in particular, Manichaeism....
Letters from Afghanistan
A description of the experiences of soldiers and officers serving in Afghanistan in the early 1980s, particularly in the first months after the Soviet invasion...
Chiang Kai-shek - Dictator of Taiwan
"Another China". The 1947 Uprising, Chiang Kai-shek's Reforms and the Transfer of Power to His Son. Taiwan Becomes a "Tiger", Its Relations with the PRC. The Kuomintang Gives in to the Democratic Progressive Party...
How Russia Ended Slavery in Central Asia
150 years ago, Russians conquered Kokand. Nowadays, Russians are commonly branded as "occupiers and colonizers." However, Russia abolished slavery in Central Asia and created statehood...
The Qing Empire - a colossus with feet of clay
Colonial wars are by definition unfair. But even against this background, the Opium Wars seem like something from the crime section of the chronicle......
Nikolay Leontyev: the traveler who created the PMC. The story of Count Abay
Fate gave him a short life - Nikolai Stepanovich did not live even 50 years, but his life could have served as a plot for an adventure film or a multi-part series....
military childhood
The war came to Velikiye Luki a week after the war began, the station and the city were bombed...
Why the Victory Parade in Berlin was forgotten
80 years since the Allied Victory Parade in Berlin. In addition to Soviet troops, the Victory Parade on September 7, 1945 also included American, British and French troops stationed in Berlin for...