Shimon Naveh offers a scientific interpretation of the field of military knowlege siguated between strategy and tactics, better known as operational art, and traces the evolution of operational awareness and its culmination in a full-fledged theory. The author clarifies the substance of operational art and constructs a cognitive framework for its critical analysis.

This work is a study of the responses of the Soviet Union to the various European crises of the 1930s that led to World War II. It is based on research into the substantial body of political and diplomatic documents that has become accessible to scholars since the opening of the former Soviet archives in 1992.

This book sums up one of the most profound educational reforms in modern Russian history. Rejecting the Soviet system of schooling, this reform engendered an array of new strategies of education. At the same time, the very fact of radically rejecting of the past, the attempt to start from the beginning, might be seen as a revitalization of an approach typical of previous generations of Russian educational reformers. The essays included in the volume compare current educational reform to the past, analyze it in the broader cultural, political and social context, and study the shifts that...

A country gentleman, Sir Stafford Cripps - ascetic, vegetarian, and a devout Christian with a lucrative career at the bar - cut an incongruous figure in British politics of the 1930s. By the time war broke out, his position among Labour's most radical backbenchers had made him an outcast. It was his fortuitous appointment as ambassador to Moscow in 1940 which secured for him a prominent position in the War Cabinet and later on a key role in Attlee's Labour government. His diary, which he meticulously kept while in Moscow, describes the metamorphosis in his political fortune. As significant is...

This is the unknown story of how Zionists imprisoned by Soviet authorities were allowed to choose sentences of permanent departure to Palestine, where they helped build Jewish society, the backbone of left-wing parties, and the powerful trade union movement.

These leading authors bring to light undiscovered documents from archives opened after the collapse of the Soviet Union and go on to revise fundamental assumptions about these events. They examine the means by which internal power struggles and personal interventions in the uppermost echelons of the Soviet leadership...

In the post-Soviet era, Russia has witnessed profound educational reform. This volume offers an assessment of the changes & how they have been implemented.