Product Description: The transition from one millennium to another is not just a calendar date, but rather a complex historical process of qualitative changes in the development of human civilization. Such an understanding of history is especially important when one would like to assess the "double step" (a new century and a new millennium) being made at the advent of a new era...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Post-Soviet period is of crucial importance to the remainder of the world. The military, political, economic and social changes unfolding in Russia and it's former republics carry significant meaning and opportunities, in many cases , for countries outside of Russia...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)