Культурология

The second edition of the almanac “The Religious World of China” includes works on Buddhism, Taoism and Chinese folk beliefs. Within the framework of the rel...

The book by the famous Pakistani international journalist Ahmed Rashid is dedicated to the history of the Taliban movement, which almost managed to seize pow...

The Blue Stone, Alexandrova Mountain and Lake Pleshcheyevo have been surrounded by legends and traditions since at least the Middle Ages. Some of them are qu...

Cultural and literary historian Paul Fussell provides a fascinating account of social class in America. Although most Americans feel that much of their thoug...

The book by the famous French conductor and violinist Charles Munsch (Charles Münch; 09/26/1891, Strasbourg - 11/06/1968, Richmond, Virginia) about the profe...

The five-volume History of Private Life is a comprehensive study created in the 1980s by a group of French, British and American scholars led by the renowned...

For many centuries, Bulgarian gypsies made a living by entertaining people in the squares with dancing bears. One day it all ended: the animals were taken fr...

After World War II, talking about the Nordic race became indecent, even criminal. Therefore, Andrei Burovsky’s new book can never be published either in the ...

In his youth, Pyotr Gular fled to China from the October Revolution and lived in the countries of the East until the end of his days. As a traveler, he becam...

Leonid Gomberg’s book “The Road to Canaan” covers huge temporal and spatial tracts of human history reflected in the Bible - from the sites of the “Palestini...

Konstantin Fedorovich Nekrasov (1873–1940), nephew of the poet N. A. Nekrasov, in the history of Russian literature for many years remained in the shadow of ...

The term “postmodern” is one of the most complex and controversial in the social and human sciences. Over the course of several decades, various thinkers and...