Category: Sovietology
-
Storm in the Caucasus, edited by Ruslan Pukhov; translated by James Griffin
Inexplicably in retrospect, both the war itself and its defeat came as a surprise to Armenian experts, politicians and the general public. And this is despite the fact that Azerbaijan had been preparing for this war for at least a decade and a half, not hiding it at all, but, on the contrary, constantly threatening…
-
Sirajuddin Haqqani: A Man Out of History
How does the son of the man who pushed Osama Bin Laden into perpetrating the 9/11 attacks, who’s killed hundreds of Americans and tens of thousands of Afghans in his own war efforts, and has a $10,000,000 bounty on his head get paid $6 million by the United States’ government to run security for it?
-
The Costs of Armament Production and the Profitability Of Armament Exports in COMECON Countries by Dr. Michael Checinski
Dr. Checinski’s grossly under-recognized analytical tour de main provided inarguably the most in depth examination of the Soviet and Polish defense industrial bases and their perverse economic proclivities to come out of the “West” during the Cold War. A trained and brilliant economist, paints an almost Dostoevskyian portrait of a military industrial complex most aptly…