Around 500 years ago some Polish authors, writing from the midst of early modern European history, started noticing that there was something odd and deeply concerning about their Eastern aggressive ...

Established in 1961, Penguin’s Modern Classics series has featured a huge array of titles and authors – everyone from Carson McCullers and Vladimir Nabokov through to James Joyce and Virginia Woolf.

An exploration of Russia's medieval origins through to its bloody expansion to become the biggest country in the world. It's a tale that set the scene for one of the world's most enigmatic figures ...

This revisionist history of succession to the throne in early modern Russia, from the Moscow princes of the fifteenth century to Peter the Great, argues that legal primogeniture never existed: the ...

Jäkel, Tim and Borshchevskiy, George Alexander 2021. Leadership Discourses on Bureaucracy: Continuity over a Century. NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy, Vol. 14, Issue. 2, p. 111.

The Russia and Eurasia Program offers analysis of rapid economic change in Russia and the consequences for U.S. policy There is no aspect of contemporary Russia that has changed more rapidly and ...

VOSTOCHNY COSMODROME /Amur Region/, August 11. /TASS/. The landing of Luna-25, the first moon mission in the history of modern Russia, is expected to touch the lunar surface on August 21 ...

Solving the puzzle of why penguins never stay soggy for long could help researchers develop the ultimate waterproof fabric. If you’re a fan of nature documentaries you’ve probably seen plenty of ...

Burgess Meredith's Penguin was the most malevolent and intelligent of Batman's villains in the 1960s series. Meredith's portrayal set the precedent for a more intense and chaotic version of Batman ...

MOSCOW, June 30. /TASS/. It has not been determined yet where the new historical article by Russian President Vladimir Putin will be published, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TASS on Wednesday.

Historical timeline of the development of modern weapons starting at 1364 with the first recorded use of a firearm and ending in 1892 with the introduction of automatic handguns. 1364 - First ...