Stalin Will Return: As a Boomerang of History and a Scourge of Justice
Who is Stalin and why is he important, both for our history and for world history, and for the present moment?...
Expedition to the Ancestors. Logs and an Axe
Log huts were built on the territory of Russia as early as the 2nd millennium BC, that is, even before the places where they were built came under the influence of the ancient Slavs. And already at the end of the 1st...
Defeat of Army Group North
80 years ago, the Red Army launched the eighth Stalinist strike against the enemy. On September 14, 1944, the Baltic operation began with the goal of liberating Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania....
Pausanias after the Battle of Plataea. The Sad Fate of a Commander
Pausanias after the victory at Plataea – the second, much sadder and more controversial stage in the life of the Spartan commander...
Expedition to the Ancestors. What it costs us to build a village for the Slavs
The largest buildings in Rus' were constructed from centuries-old tree trunks (three centuries or more), up to 18 meters long and more than half a meter in diameter...
How England, France and Türkiye Began the Invasion of Crimea
170 years ago, the landing of the expeditionary army of the anti-Russian coalition in Yevpatoria began. The invasion of the troops of England, France and Turkey into Crimea...
Economic Causes of the German Blitzkrieg
The strategy and tactics of the German blitzkrieg were born not so much from aggression as from acute need. But Hitler used it to his advantage...
"Catch, execute and hang"
250 years ago, Pugachev was defeated in the last major battle at Cherny Yar. "Peter III" managed to escape beyond the Volga, but was soon captured and handed over to the authorities by his own comrades...
Seimens – infantry of the Crimean Khanate
The army of the Crimean Khanate is usually represented as a horde of horsemen with steppe-style weapons: a bow with arrows and a sabre. Often there is (mostly from the novels of Henryk Sienkiewicz) an image of a completely...
How Kuropatkin's Order to Retreat Saved the Japanese Army from Defeat
"Liaoyang Week" ended with Kuropatkin, having all the opportunities for success, giving the victory at Liaoyang to the Japanese. If Bagration or Skobelev had been in his place, the Japanese would have been routed...
Saxony – an alternative for German unification?
Prussia gathered the German lands around itself "with iron and blood". That is why the story of the German army almost always revolves around the Prussians, Frederick the Great with his "oblique attack", Blucher at Waterloo...
"The Asian mode of production" and the denigration of Soviet civilization
Western ideologists and political scientists are solving a historical problem, classifying historical Rus' as "Asian". They say that even the slave system is more progressive than the Soviet "Asian mode of production"...
Pausanias, the "wrong" hero of Hellas and Sparta
Pausanias was a good commander, the victor over the Persians in the battle of Plataea, but he also has a “black” reputation as a traitor and betrayer...
Strange War: How the Allies Surrendered Poland
85 years ago, the Phony War began, when England and France stood still, letting Germany swallow Poland. The French and British played football and cards, drank wine, while the Germans prepared to strike...
If you want to be beautiful, join the hussars
As Kozma Prutkov said: "If you want to be beautiful, enlist in the hussars!" But initially, the appearance of the ancestors of the hussar units was supposed to cause horror...
“I will not leave Liaoyang, Liaoyang is my grave!”
120 years ago, the Russian Army, which had a numerical and positional advantage over the Japanese, lost the general battle at Liaoyang...
Medieval Fiction: Hero Poems
In the Middle Ages, there were generally many books, and of very different contents. The majority of them, however, were religious works. However, there were also books for purely entertaining...
"The Face of This War Is Determined by Automatism": The Image of World War I Through the Eyes of Frontline Soldiers
The First World War acquired an industrial, machine character and became a war of a new type, in which the soldier was a “war worker”...
Diebold Schilling the Younger – author of the Lucerne Schilling
The Lucerne Schilling is one of the best known and best illustrated Swiss chronicles....
Year 1940: Bessarabia was reunited in just three days
The reunification began with Ukraine and Belarus, and ended in Romania and Bessarabia...
"Springtime of Nations" in Austria and the Hungarian Revolution of 1848-1849
Revolutionary upheavals in the Austrian Empire, the Hungarian Revolution of 1848-1849, suppressed by order of Nicholas I...
How the British fleet plundered the Russian North
170 years ago, the British fleet attacked the Russian North. The British plundered and burned Russian ships, monasteries and villages. They fired at the Solovetsky Monastery, but disabled soldiers and volunteers defended the monastery,...
The sad end of Napoleon III's empire
Napoleon III's foreign policy became increasingly adventurous, the emperor lost touch with reality, and it all ended with a catastrophic defeat in the war with Prussia and the overthrow of the Bonaparte dynasty...
Charles X: A Forgotten Rite or the End of the Long Middle Ages
In 1830, France was shaken by another revolution, marked, however, not only by a change in political power, but also by the end of the long Middle Ages...