Kamil Galeev

1. The Marxist movement in Russia started as a primordial soup of socialist clubs, groups and factions, without any clea...

I was often asked, and even now I still am asked: “How could you lose power?” In most instances, the question covers a n...

The rulers of China who initiated economic reforms of the 1980s were Communist, and were thinking about economy in a ver...

In his “Clash of Civilizations” (1996) Samuel P. Huntington identified eight civilisations on this planet: Confucian, Ja...

Great Auks [1] America is the land of opportunity. To make a career, to make yourself, to play big, one needs to sail fr...

Here you see literacy figures for the Russian Empire (European part) based on the 1897 census. The average literacy rate...

and China succeeded “Without heavy industry, we will not be able to build any industry” Soviets tried to build the indus...

Every election in the United States attracts huge global attention, from all over the world. People in Pakistan, in Para...

There is hardly any other genre of literature more factual, more realistic and more inseparable from social commentary t...

I have a problem with how history is taught at school. And a major part of this problem is that the conventional curricu...

One striking feature of China is its ethnolinguistic diversity. Although it gradually decreases with time, various demog...

Having lived in China, studied in China, worked in China and travelled around China, I came to the conclusion that I don...

In the late 19th c. - early 20th c. Europe was bursting with people. From Sicily to the Shetlands, from Lisbon to Lithua...

As a person from a post-Soviet country, I could not but find the institutions of People’s Republic of China oddly famili...

On the Social Origins of Vladimir Lenin. Disraeli instructed us to read no history but biography [1]. I would modestly p...