Josef Stalin exercised supreme power in the Soviet Union from 1929 until his death in 1953. During that quarter-century, by Oleg Khlevniuk's estimate, he caused the imprisonment and execution of no fewer than a million Soviet citizens per year. Millions more were victims of famine directly resulting[...]

Why are Khanty shamans still active? What are the folklore collectives of Komi? Why are the rituals of Udmurts performed at cultural festivals? In their insightful ethnographic study Anna-Leena Siikala and Oleg Ulyashev attempt to answer such questions by analysing the recreation of religious tradit[...]

Almost 3,000 species of flowering plants are named or described and keyed in this, the third of Oleg Polunin's guides to the flowers of Europe. The author describes the 16 richest plant hunting areas from his own experience travelling in the area. The 461 colour photographs on 64 plates are suppleme[...]

The goal of The Reasoned Schemer is to help the functional programmer think logically and the logic programmer think functionally. The authors of The Reasoned Schemer believe that logic programming is a natural extension of functional programming, and they demonstrate this by extending the functiona[...]

This lively account of Soviet intelligence activity in Great Britain from the close of World War I to the late 1950s is based on newly released documents from KGB archives-documents so highly valued they were dubbed the "crown jewels." Adding richly to our understanding of Soviet intelligence, this [...]

Head of the secret police from 1937 to 1938, N. I. Yezhov was a foremost Soviet leader during these years, second in power only to Stalin himself. Under Yezhov's orders, millions of arrests, imprisonments, deportations, and executions were carried out. This book, based upon unprecedented access to C[...]

Now updated with new facts, and abridged for use in Soviet history courses, this gripping book assembles top secret Soviet documents, translated into English, from the era of Stalin's purges. The dossiers, police reports, private letters, secret transcripts, and other documents expose the hidden inn[...]

TRIPLEX reveals more clearly than ever before the precise nature and extent of the damage done to the much-vaunted British intelligence establishment during World War II by the notorious "Cambridge Five" spy ring--Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross. The code [...]

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 agencys shadowy methods. Revised and updated i[...]

The chemistry, physics, and electron energy structure of simple atoms, molecules, and ideal crystals are fairly well understood, predictable, and no longer considered overly complex. The linear and, in particular, nonlinear optical properties are more challenging.[...]

Presents a comprehensive summary of the results obtained in the field of the kinetics and mechanisms of organic and inorganic reactions catalyzed with metal complexes.[...]