Military Issues (General)

Code: 019277
Kudashkin, A.V
Voennaia Suzhba v Rossiiskoi Federatsii
Teoriia i Praktika Pravovogo Regulirovaniia
[ Voennaia Suzhba v Rossiiskoi Federatsii : Teoriia i Praktika Pravovogo Regulirovaniia ]
St. Petersburg: Iuridicheskii Tsentr Press, 2003
Language: Russian

Price: $ 39.00

The military reform of the army that started several years ago under El`tsin has slipped and disappeared in the last four years. The opposite trend gains weight in Russian society: extending the army and increasing influence of militaries in making important political decisions.

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Code: 013097
Zhurnalisty na Chechenskoi Voine
Fakty. Dokumenty. Svidetel`stva: Noiabr` 1994 - Dekabr` 1995
[ A Journalist on the Chechen war : Facts. Documents. Witnesses: November 1994 - December 1995 ]
Moscow: Fond Zashchity Glasnosti, 1995
Language: Russian

Price: $ 29.00

This book is a collection of documents about violations of the rights of journalists and the mass media during the Russian Chechen military conflict in 1994-95. It is illustrated with pictures made in the war including journalists from around the world who were killed or disappeared during the war.

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Code: 018449
Grazhdanskii Prizyv

[ Alternative service : ]
Moscow: In-t Problem Grazhdanskogo Obshchestva, 2002
Language: Russian

Price: $ 12.00

This book is the fifth in the series about young people of Russia, their problems, potential and their role in Russian civil society. The current issue is about people who because of their convictions do not want to go into the army and became participants in an experiment of creating alternative service.

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Code: 011904
Iarov, M
Boevik

[ Guerilla : ]
Minsk: Sovremennaia Literatura, 1995
Language: Russian

Price: $ 18.00

This book is about the Chechen-Russian conflict and its causes. It represents various points of view: from drug dealers to soldiers and their military leaders.

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Code: 018571-2
Makarov, Vasilii
V General`nom Shtabe na Razlome Epokh
1990-2008
[ In the General Staff on the epoch fault : 1990-2008 ]
Moscow: Kuchkovo Pole, 2010
Language: Russian

Price: $ 43.00

This is the second volume of memoirs of Vasilii Makarov (b. 1926). He started his military career as a common soldier and finished as a high ranking officer in the center of strategic studies in the General Staff.

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Code: 018571
Makarov, Vasilii
V General`nom Shtabe Nakanune Griadushchikh Peremen
Avtobiograficheskie Zapiski Ofitsera General`nogo Shtaba
[ In the General Staff on the eve of coming changes : Autobiographical notes of an officer ]
Moscow: Kuchkovo Pole, 2004
Language: Russian

Price: $ 37.50

Vasilii Makarov (b. 1926) started his military career as a common soldier and finished as a high ranking officer in the center of strategic studies in the General Staff. His memoir covers all his 46 years of military service, but highlights his years in the General Staff, 1975-1989: methods of making strategic decisions; the story of the pilot Belenko and his flight to Japan; the fall of the Korean Boeing-747 over Sakhalin; the flight of Mateas Rust, internal disputes about the Afghan war, etc.

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Code: 011685
Pravovye Aspekty Chechenskogo Krizisa
Materialy Seminara
[ Legal aspects of the Chechnia crisis : Seminar materials ]
Moscow: Memorial, 1995
Language: Russian

Price: $ 14.00

This book. published in the time of the Chechen War discusses legal gaps and inconsistencies that the war made apparent. The seminar, necessitated by the inability of the Russian Constitutional Court to come to a single decision about the problems revealed by the war, included highly-qualified jurists who lectured on the nations’ right to self-determination, the right of a soldier to refuse to participate in a war, the prime responsibility of the Russian Federal Government for war measures, etc.

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Code: 030510
NATO: Mify i Real`nost`
Uroki dlia Rossii i Mira: Materialy Konferentsii
[ NATO: Myth and reality : Lessons for Russia and the world: Materials of the conference ]
Moscow: Kuchkovo pole, 2012
Language: Russian

Price: $ 15.00

This is a collection of materials of the conference "NATO: Myth and reality" (2012). The papers included present the view of Russian specialists on this organization, its practice and mission.

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Code: 028743
Chuikov, A.N
Reformy Rossiiskoi Armii ot Petra do Serdiukova

[ Reforms of the Russian army from Petr I to Serdiukov : ]
Moscow: EKSMO, 2012
Language: Russian

Price: $ 24.00

What is going on in the modern Russian army? What kind of reform, if any, is happening now? Why do the actions of the current minister of defense Serdiukov meet with resistance inside and outside the army? This book answers these and other related questions.

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Code: 020880
Slipchenko, V.N
Budushchaia Voina

[ The Coming war : ]
Moscow: O.G.I., 2005
Language: Russian

Price: $ 11.00

This book consists of two lectures on the same topic: what future war Russia should be prepared for, and against whom it will be fought. Makhmet Gareev is a former professional soldier and a professor in a Russian Military Academy.

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Code: 029555
Rommel`, Ervin
Pekhota Nastupaet: Sobytiia i Opyt

[ The infantry attacks: Events and experience : ]
Moscow: Printsipium, 2013
Language: Russian

Price: $ 39.00

This book is based on the memoirs of World War II German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (1891-1944) about his participation in the First World War. Even when the legend surrounding his invincibility was overturned at El Alamein, the aura surrounding Rommel himself remained unsullied.

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Code: 013108
Informatsionnaia Voina v Chech`ne

[ The Information war in Chechnia : ]
Moscow: Prava Cheloveka, 1997
Language: Russian

Price: $ 37.00

What is really happened in Chechnia? War? Civil war? Genocide? Or just fighting with bands of brigands? This book, which is a continuation of the book "Journalists on the Chechen War" (see 013097-1), tries to answer these questions.

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Code: 028156
Tsze Siuan`
Voennyi Kanon v Sta Glavakh

[ The military conon in 100 chapters : ]
Moscow: Evropa, 2011
Language: Russian

Price: $ 18.00

This is the first translation of a famous Chinese military treatise not only into Russian, but into any foreign language. This canon is a short encyclopedia of military art and military wisdom.

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Code: 023324
Rash, Kavad
Vremia Ofitserov
Pis`ma k Russkomu Ofitseru
[ Time of the officers : Letters to a Russian officer ]
Moscow: Rossiiskii Fond Kul`tury, 2007
Language: Russian

Price: $ 45.00

This book by a writer, war historian and publicist Kavad Rash (b. 1936) of Kurdish descent, contains the renowned outlines and war stories, which evoked a wide public response, as well as his latest interesting and relevant works.

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