The novel "Alamut" was written in 1938 as an allegory on the fascist state of Mussolini. In the 1960s, the book became a cult favorite in Tito's Yugoslavia, ...

Academician Vasily Vladimirovich Bartold (1869-1930) once noted that studying the history of the Turks from primary sources requires skills that are rarely c...

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In the famous novel by the postmodernist classic Donald Barthelme (1931–1989) “Snow White,” the fairy tales of our childhood wonderfully come to life. Snow W...

Bart van Loo's comprehensive book is the story of how France became France, and chanson became chanson. The story of French chanson is not limited to history...

Alamut was originally written in 1938 as an allegory to Mussolini’s fascist state. In the 1960s it became a cult favorite throughout Tito’s Yugoslavia, an...

The annual collections “The Year's Best”, published in the USA for more than fifteen years, publish stories, short stories, essays selected from around the w...

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One morning in 1887, Matilda discovers a Chinese gazebo in the yard, which was not there at all the day before. Actually, Matilda wants a fire truck, but the...

Mongol Empire. It covered almost all of Eurasia, and only on the territory of Hungary were the Mongols stopped, forcing them to turn back, but even then they...

Academician Vasily Vladimirovich Bartold (1869-1930) was a major historian of the East, in fact, the creator and founder of the Russian oriental historical s...