This collection of 22 essays analyses the Russian military in its social, political, economic, cultural and ideological contexts from 1450 to 1917.The essays are synthetic, and often based on new…

Is Russian history one big inevitable failure? The Soviet Union’s demise and Russia’s ensuing troubles have led many to wonder. But this is to look through a skewed prism indeed…

A History of Communications advances a theory of media that explains the origins and impact of different forms of communication - speech, writing, print, electronic devices and the Internet -…